New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. Which major city is located on the River Clyde?__________________
[Choices: Toronto, Pretoria, Kingston, Calais, Glasgow ]

2. Which fruit is native to China's Yangtze valley?_________________
[Choices: Kiwi, Blackberry, Banana, Breadfruit, Pineapple ]

3. Frequently listed as one of the greatest of films, "The Battleship Potemkin" was made by:____________________.
[Choices: Sternberg, Stroheim, Wilder, Lang, Eisenstein ]

4. Where would klieg lights most likely be found?_______________
[Choices: Front of a car, Interrogation cell, Over the North Pole, Operating room, Movie studio ]

5. Which river crosses the Equator twice?___________________
[Choices: Zambezi, Yangtze, Danube, Congo, Nile ]

6. Which colonel is a main character in "My Fair Lady"?__________________
[Choices: Pickering, Hartman, Trautmann, Kurtz, Mustard ]

7. Jann Wenner co-founded this magazine in 1967:____________________.
[Choices: Field & Stream, Vibe, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Wired ]

8. The Vikram Samvat is the official ____________ of Nepal.
[Choices: Calendar, Prayer, Roadway, Symbol, Anthem ]

9. Mons Piton is an isolated _______________ mountain.
[Choices: Lunar, Venusian, Arctic, Himalayan, Martian ]

10. The federal Pell grants for needy college students are named after a:_________________.
[Choices: U.S. Vice President, Governor of New York, Supreme Court Justice, U.N. Ambassador, U.S. Senator ]

11. "The Adventures of Augie March" is a novel by:__________________.
[Choices: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Henry James, Jack London, Norman Mailer ]

12. Guiseppe Verdi based operas on Shakespeare's "Othello" and:________________.
[Choices: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Twelfth Night ]

13. Part of the Seder or Passover meal is the consumption of four:________________.
[Choices: Pieces of fish, Bitter herbs, Hard-boiled eggs, Slices of lamb, Cups of wine ]

14. What is the first name of literary character Doctor Zhivago?_________________
[Choices: Nikolay, Yury, Ivan, Anton, Boris ]

15. George Steinmetz specializes in __________________ photography.
[Choices: Abstract, Fashion, Indoor, Aerial, Industrial ]






Answers:

1. Glasgow [I(REACH, LESTER) pre-called this at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow ]

2. Kiwi [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) got 1000 Points on both his tablets; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit ]

3. Eisenstein [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin (1925). For the complete film (1:11:37), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Qfuzn25sI , and for the Odessa Steps Scene (7:27), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec ]

4. Movie studio [I pre-called this; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg_light (note the correct spelling of "Klieg"; in German, "ie" is pronounced "E" while "ei" is pronounced "I".]

5. Congo [I called this one, but stupidly switched as REACH at the last clue due to confusion; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River ]

6. Pickering [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady ]

7. Rolling Stone [YELDOR got 1000 Points, LESTER 800, others much less (we had only 3 Players with 6 tablets total); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner ]

8. Calendar [We missed this one, getting less than 226 Points; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat ]

9. Lunar [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_Piton ]

10. U.S. Senator [We missed this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne_Pell ]

11. Saul Bellow [I guessed this for 1000 Points as REACH, others got less than 209; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adven ... ugie_March ]

12. Macbeth [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(opera) ]

13. Cups of wine [We totally missed this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder ]

14. Yury [For Yuri, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(novel) ]

15. Aerial [We missed most of the Points on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steinmetz ]