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| BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. Sept. 10, 2019 http://www.scaratings.com/newScaratings/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3873 |
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| Author: | REACH [ Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. Sept. 10, 2019 |
15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues: 1. Port Moresby is the capital of this island nation:_____________________________. [Choices: Tasmania, Madagascar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Reunion ] 2. In English nobility, the wife of an earl is a:____________________. [Choices: Countess, Princess, Dame, Earless, Baroness ] 3. Which classic heroine did Greta Garbo play twice on screen?_____________________________ [Choices: Marie Antoinette, Marguerite Gautier, Mata Hari, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina ] 4. The curlew is a large:_______________________. [Choices: Freshwater turtle, Placental mammal, Marine lizard, Wading bird, Bivalve mollusc ] 5. This word for luck or good fortune was coined circa 1754 by Horace Walpole:_____________________. [Choices: Pandemonium, Serendipity, Misanthropy, Palinode, Armageddon ] 6. In music, an arpeggio is performed when the notes of a chord are played:_______________________. [Choices: Softly and muted, In succession, By the entire orchestra, In minor key, With passion and feeling ] 7. 6, 28, and 496 are the only _____________________ numbers under 500. [Choices: Integer, Irrational, Prime, Perfect, Polynomial ] 8. Pentheraphobia is the fear of:_________________________. [Choices: Five-sided objects, Your mother-in-law, Hearing your own voice, Misspelled words, Flashing lights ] 9. He is described by his creator as "some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield":_______________________. [Choices: Ishmael, Natty Bumpo, Ichabod Crane, Bartleby the Scrivener, Ebenezer Scrooge ] 10. Who was the first admiral of the U.S. Navy?____________________________ [Choices: William Bainbridge, John Paul Jones, David Farragut, Horatio Nelson, John Hawkins ] 11. The Jarvik-7 is an artificial:_____________________. [Choices: Limb, Heart, Liver, Lung, Eye ] 12. Wilhelm Wundt is called the father of this discipline:______________________. [Choices: Oceanography, Sociology, Historiography, Psychology, Geology ] 13. What nation was rocked in 1933 and 1934 by the Stavisky Affair?_______________________ [Choices: Germany, United States, France, Tibet, Great Britain ] 14. This popular novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquival was made into a movie in 1993:_________________________. [Choices: Rain of Gold, Like Water for Chocolate, 100 Years of Solitude, Lost in Yonkers, El Mariachi ] 15. In 1905, Bertha von Suttner became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in what category?________________________ [Choices: Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Peace, Physics, Economics ] Answers: 1. Papua New Guinea [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moresby ] 2. Countess [see the section "Summary" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesy_ ... ed_Kingdom ] 3. Anna Karenina [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(1927_American_film) - a silent film, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_(1935_film) - a talkie ] 4. Wading bird [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlew ] 5. Serendipity [see the section "Etymology" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ] 6. In succession [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio ] 7. Perfect [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number ] 8. Your mother-in-law [see https://common-phobias.com/Penthera/phobia.htm ] 9. Ichabod Crane [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod_Crane ] 10. David Farragut [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut ] 11. Heart [see the section "First clinical applications...." at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart ] 12. Psychology [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt ] 13. France [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavisky_Affair ] 14. Like Water for Chocolate [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Water_for_Chocolate ] 15. Peace [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner (1905) ] |
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| Author: | GONE D [ Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. Sept. 10, 2019 |
REACH wrote: 8. Pentheraphobia is the fear of:_________________________. [Choices: Five-sided objects, Your mother-in-law, Hearing your own voice, Misspelled words, Flashing lights ] 8. Your mother-in-law [see https://common-phobias.com/Penthera/phobia.htm ] This question, more than any other, made me glad that nobody collected a 14K on this quiz. |
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