I wasn't able to do everything the way I wanted, so this week, the Qs and As are indented, but the asterisk isn't hidden. Grr.
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Round 1
1 The English country estate of Manderley is the setting for which novel?
1 Pride and Prejudice
2 Little Women
3 Rebecca*
4 Wuthering Heights
5 Jane Eyre
Not high up
Not what we breathe
Sunnybrook farm girl
This Daphne du Maurier story about Maxim de Winter's first wife is told by his second
2 In chemistry, the corrosion-resistant metals of the platinum group are called:
1 Valence elements
2 Inert metals
3 Mendeleevium elements
4 Salt-free metals
5 Noble metals*
No sodium chloride
Not opposite of women
Synonym of honorable
This group includes precious metals such gold [sic], silver and palladium.
3 Which river does not stretch 2,000 miles or more?
1 Elbe*
2 Amur
3 Congo
4 Volga
5 Niger
Not opposite of pro
Not opposite of P.M.
Common tennis injury?
The Elbe River in Germany stretches 724 miles and flows into the North Sea.
4 The word 'cathedral' traces its roots back to 'kathedra,' which is Greek for:
1 Heaven
2 Cross
3 Worship
4 Throne*
5 Tower
No crucifix
No skyscraper
Fancy place to sit
In Episcopal churches, the cathedral contains the bishop's throne.
5 Which country gained independence from Great Britain in 1974?
1 Algeria
2 Grenada*
3 New Zealand
4 Pakistan
5 Senegal
Wellington not capital
Wasn't India before
A weapon soldiers throw
Grenada's first prime minister was Eric Gairy, who was overthrown in 1979.
Round 2
6 Homer called her 'lady of all wild things' and 'a lion unto women'
1 Jocasta
2 Hecate
3 Medusa
4 Artemis*
5 Electra
No mother of Oedipus
Doesn't have snake hair
Goddess of the forest
The twin sister of Apollo, she is also the goddess of childbirth.
7 Edward VII was the first and only member of this royal house to reign in Britain:
1 Hanover
2 Normandy
3 Lancaster
4 Stuart
5 Saxe-Coburg and [sic] Gotha*
No French coastal area
Not actor Burt
It has a hyphen
During World War I, The house's name was changed to Windsor.
8 Which famed detective writer published a romance novel titled 'Absent in the Spring'?
1 Arthur Conan Doyle
2 Mickey Spillane
3 Raymond Chandler
4 Agatha Christie*
5 Ross MacDonald
No barbarian
Not an old farmer
Woman among men
Christie wrote it under the pen name of Mary Westmacott.
9 What region forms the heel of Italy's 'boot'?
1 San Marino
2 Sardinia
3 Osiniria
4 Catania
5 Apulia* [sic]
Not a dog opponent
Not packed in cans
Six letters
The Battle of Cannae, in the Second Punic War, was fought in Apulia.
10 Who was U.S. President when Arizona became a state?
1 Calvin Coolidge
2 Warren Harding
3 Teddy Roosevelt
4 William Taft*
5 Woodrow Wilson
No Teapot Dome scandal
Not on Mt. Rushmore
Big guy from Ohio
Arizona achieved statehood in 1912.
Round 3
11 'Ice Nine' figures in this Kurt Vonnegut book:
1 The Sirens of Titan
2 Slaughterhouse-Five
3 Cat's Cradle*
4 Slapstick
5 Breakfast of Champions
Not eaten before noon
No comedic genre
What babies rock in
In this 1963 novel, Ice Nine causes whatever it touches to freeze -- the whole world, eventually.
12 Of these philosophers, which would best be described as a pantheist?
1 Albert Camus
2 Jean-Paul Sartre
3 Baruch Spinoza*
4 Soren Kierkegaard
5 Friedrich Nietzsche
No Zarathustra writer
Not a Parisian
Born in Amsterdam
A pantheist believes God and Nature are one.
13 Which term refers to a theory that living matter can develop from nonliving material?
1 Anthropomorphic
2 Induration
3 Adiabetic
4 Entropy
5 Abiogenesis*
Don't need insulin
No picnic pest
First book in the Bible
The acceptance of abiogenesis disproved the theory of spontaneous generation.
14 In literature, Moloch, Belial, Mammon and Mulciber are recognized as:
1 Various names for Jesus
2 Hills of ancient Rome
3 Fallen angels*
4 Styles of verse
5 Heroes of Celtic myth
No rhythmic recitals
No Boston NBA stars
Bostock, Adenhart, Moore
Now Satan's officers, the ex-angels plot to corrupt man in Milton's 'Paradise Lost.'
15 John Baskerville was one of England's greatest _____ of the 18th century.
1 Actors
2 Printers*
3 Naval admirals
4 Literary critics
5 Politicians
Anchors not aweigh
No thespians allowed
Put it in type
He produced a famous folio Bible with large, wide margins.
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Top 20 sites
Rank Site City Sta Score
1 DANNY K'S ORANGE CA 13076
2 BUFWLDWNGS BOWLING GR KY 12889
3 SANDY MONK MURRELLS I SC 12855
4 STADIUM CA DALLAS TX 12425
5 GRAND SLAM WASHINGTON DC 12264
6 HEROES WICHITA KS 12013
7 WEST PARK CLEVELAND OH 11919
8 TAILGATE MINNEAPOLI MN 11825
9 JILLYS ELLICOTT C MD 11791
10 HENRY HUDS OKLAHOMA C OK 11709
11 DAMONS GRI TWINSBURG OH 11588
12 INTHE ZONE TAMPA FL 11567
13 NEW EDIN. OTTAWA ON 11503
14 SRO OT HOUSTON TX 11497
15 COACHS SPO ALBUQUERQU NM 11439
16 MAD RIVER NEW YORK NY 11362
17 SOONER LEG NORMAN OK 11350
18 BUFFALO WI LEWISVILLE TX 11341
19 JOHNNY'S OVERLAND P KS 11286
20 MAEVES RES STUDIO CIT CA 11265
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Top 20 players
Rank Handle Site Score
1 HHHHH DANNY K'S 13770
2 ATHENA BUFWLDWNGS 13452
3 BETH TAILGATE 13106
4 POOKA STADIUM CA 13070
5 TEE SANDY MONK 12950
6 MIKE BUFWLDWNGS 12939
7 COWBOY SOONER LEG 12918
8 TIMUR GRAND SLAM 12822
9 BTTHED MAEVES RES 12503
10 JENANE WEST PARK 12452
11 OULALA HEROES 12295
12 FAUST2 BOSTONPIZZ 12283
13 EQUUS JOHNNY'S 12281
14 PHRED FLETCHERS 12233
15 NOLES JILLYS 12190
16 ANNIE BUFFALO WI 12181
17 IKEB DAMONS GRI 12172
18 DUFF COACHS SPO 12168
19 PALACE SPECTATORS 12103
20 COOGS SRO OT 12098
In case anyone is wondering about my occasional [sic], I'll explain a couple of them.
The answer to Q7 should be written Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
In Q9, the 'heel' of Italy is spelled Puglia in Italian. Apulia is the Latin name from which it is derived.
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