15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:1. Seeing St. Vitus Cathedral is one of the highlights of visiting this city:_____________________.
[Choices: Prague, London, Vienna, Brussels, Rouen ]
2. The first four laws of the "Intolerable Acts" were in response to the:__________________________.
[Choices: Splitting of the Union, Bay of Pigs uprising, Bombing of the "Maine", Boston Tea Party, Sinking of Lusitania ]
3. Which African country has more than 350 granite and sandstone pyramids?_______________________
[Choices: Zimbabwe, Somalia, Cameroon, Sudan, Libya ]
4. Author Richard Hack's "Clash of the Titans" is a book about:______________________.
[Choices: Norse mythology, Gourmet cooking, Professional golf, 17th-Century astronomers, Big business ]
5. On what part of your body is your gonion?______________________
[Choices: Hip, Elbow, Jaw, Knee, Shin ]
6. Hogmanay is a New Year's celebration that takes place in:_________________________.
[Choices: The Netherlands, Scotland, Norway, Hungary, France ]
7. Trestle and Credence are two types of:___________________________.
[Choices: Tables, Rugs, Barns, Books, Hats ]
8. The prophet Jonah was punished for shirking an assignment that would have taken him to:_______________________.
[Choices: Rome, Alexandria, Nineveh, Carthage, Corinth ]
9. "The Young Man from Atlanta" earned this playwright the 1995 Pulitzer Prize:___________________________.
[Choices: Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Robert Schenkkan, Neil Simon, Horton Foote ]
10. In mathematics, what does the lowercase "I" signify?__________________________
[Choices: Pi, Square root of -1, Fractional integer, Infinity, Unknown value ]
11. The state of Maryland shares its northern border with:____________________________.
[Choices: New York, Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ]
12. Ruth Reichl was the last editor of this magazine:______________________________.
[Choices: The New Yorker, Popular Mechanics, Gourmet, Newsweek, Vanity Fair ]
13. Serum ___________________ makes up about two-thirds of the protein in blood plasma.
[Choices: Parlay, Pagri, Albumin, Canthusa, Anubis ]
14. She took her husband's job as Director of Pepsi-Cola after his death in 1959:________________________.
[Choices: Joan Crawford, Nancy Truman, June Iaccocca [
sic], Phoenix McCarthy, Helen Wills Moody ]
15. Dave the Dude, Harry the Horse and Little Miss Marker are characters created by:__________________________.
[Choices: Damon Runyon, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, Bret Harte, Langston Hughes ]
Answers: 1. Prague [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_Cathedral ]
2. Boston Tea Party [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts ]
3. Sudan [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_pyramids ; this article says at least 35 (not 350) pyramids ]
4. Big Business [see
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/510 ... the_Titans about Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner ]
5. Jaw [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_the_mandible ; after the Answer was revealed, Dai (BLADOR) at Whispers, Ottawa ON noted that a goniometer is used to measure angles - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goniometer ]
6. Scotland [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay ]
7. Tables [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle_table and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credence_table ]
8. Nineveh [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah ]
9. Horton Foote [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Foote ]
10. Square root of -1 [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number ]
11. Pennsylvania [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason-Dixon_line ]
12. Gourmet [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Reichl ]
13. Albumin [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_serum_albumin ]
14. Joan Crawford [see the section "Al Steele and Pepsi-Cola Company" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Crawford ]
15. Damon Runyon [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon ]