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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 ]

Most if not all of the questions posted on these quizzes in November were also posted in October, when Buzztime was promoting Movie Night and Pop Culture quizzes - fifteen minute quizzes oddly matched to the Showdown demographic. Through two weeks of November Brainbuster, I've averaged about 14K, and been crushed both times. Some of those who have surpassed me have seen the material before, as I have, but others are just that brilliant.

If the scores have seemed disproportionately high, more than a dozen sites with playmakers forewent the dubious money games. And there's plenty enough talent at a dozen more sites to render the question of repeat content inconsequential.

For the record, we had the money games, so all of the questions have been new to us. I did not realize that they were running BB games at all in October—I thought the money games were system-wide. Thanks for letting us know.

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."

Congratulations to the Red Fox Fellowship for their wonderful performance in Brainbuster.

Jaded players such as myself are excusably surprised by the intuitive genius of virgins.