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15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly with time and 3 Clues:
1. The blockage of an artery in the lungs is called a pulmonary:________________.
[Choices: Nephritis, Atresia, Micromelic, Embolism, Transverse]
2. Which philosopher founded the Peripatetic School?_______________.
[Choices: Karl Marx, B.F. Skinner, Rene Descartes, John Stuart Mill, Aristotle]
3. All of these words are synonyms of "secretive" or "private" except:________________.
[Choices: Surreptitious, Clandestine, Propitious, Stealthy, Covert]
4. This alkali metal is represented by the letter "K":______________.
[Choices: Tungsten, Calcium, Silver, Potassium, Silicon]
5. Tenerife, La Palma and La Gomera are among Spain's:_______________.
[Choices: Cape Verde Islands, Balearic Islands, Galician Islands, Las Malvinas, Canary Islands]
6. He ruled the Roman Empire from A.D. 98 until his death in A.D. 117:________________.
[Choices: Gabriel, Trajan, Hadrian, Nero, Caligula]
7. Who wrote "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"?______________.
[Choices: George Bernard Shaw, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, Robert Frost, James Thurber]
8. In the 1860's, this group was led by Nathan Bedford Forrest:______________.
[Choices: Black Panthers, Hell's Angels, Green Berets, Ku Klux Klan, Texas Rangers]
9. His "An American Dictionary of the English Language" first appeared in 1828:________________.
[Choices: Francis Bacon, Ralph W. Emerson, Noah Webster, Henry D. Thoreau, Bronson Alcott]
10. The first practical electric ________________ was patented by Hubert Booth in 1901.
[Choices: Washing machine, Razor, Air conditioner, Typewriter, Vacuum cleaner]
11. It was the last film Alfred Hitchcock made in England until he returned in 1950:_____________.
[Choices: Rear Window, The Lady Vanishes, The Searchers, Some Like It Hot, Notorious]
12. Which person was involved in the scandalous "Diamond Necklace Affair"?_______________.
[Choices: Marie Antoinette, Rosalynn Carter, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Zsa-Zsa Gabor]
13. The sequin, now used for ornamentation on clothing, got its name from an old:______________.
[Choices: Fragrant flower, Gold coin, Roman philosopher, Gemstone, Fashion school]
14. The Biblical site Golgotha is the same as:______________.
[Choices: Calvary, Babylon, Damascus, Mount Zion, Tyre]
15. "Harrier" is the name of both a type of dog and a type of:_______________.
[Choices: Bird, Weasel, Fish, Lizard, Amphibian]

Answers:
1. Embolism [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embolism ]
2. Aristotle [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school ]
3. Propitious [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/propitious ]
4. Potassium [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium (from the Latin "kalium")]
5. Canary Islands [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands ]
6. Trajan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan . Although I called this, I split with Hadrian on my second board (as LESTER) as I was not sure of the exact dates. Hadrian followed Trajan, from 117 to 138 AD; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian .]
7. Charles Schulz [see https://www.goodreads.com/books/show/82 ... Warm_Puppy ]
8. KKK [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest . Someone at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON asked where the name KKK came from: the section "Creation and naming" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan says it comes from the Greek word kyklos (circle) + clan (ku klus clan). I mentioned that the 1905 novel and play "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon Jr. was the basis for the landmark 1915 silent movie "The Birth of a Nation"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation , and the fictional character Forrest Gump was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump_(character) .]
9. Noah Webster [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster ]
10. Vacuum cleaner [we missed most of the points on this one, going with "washing machine"; see the section "Powered vacuum cleaners" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner ]
11. The Lady Vanishes [It was between "Notorious" and "The Lady Vanishes", and I split my votes, going with "The Lady Vanishes" as REACH. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Vanishes (1938 in Britain) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notorious_(1946_film) in the USA.]
12. Marie Antoinette [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of ... d_Necklace , for one of the events that gained undeserved hatred for Marie Antoinette from Austria-Hungary.]
13. Gold coin [Myfanwy (SPRAJO, DICKIE) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequin_(coin) .]
14. Calvary [Chris (CEEZED, KAYZED) called this one first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary ]
15. Bird [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_(bird) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_(dog) .]