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Author:	REACH [ Fri Nov 22, 2019 2:58 am ]
Post subject:	BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. November 19, 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. [I missed this Question & Choices due to setting up my camcorder too late. I did record the right Answer, so the Question might have been something like "Which of the following is a plant?"______________________ ] 2. This Ottawa chief led a native American uprising against the British in 1763:___________________________. [Choices: Sitting Bull, Pontiac, Crazy Horse, Cochise, Red Cloud ] 3. This double-decker bridge in New York City is also known as the 59th Street Bridge:_____________________________. [Choices: Holland, Verrazzano-Narrows, Brooklyn, Golden Gate, Queensboro ] 4. GPSS, SNOBOL, Ada and Lisp are all:_______________________. [Choices: Celestial bodies, National security forces, Computer languages, Enemies of James Bond, Artificial colors ] 5. Enrique Bolanos Geyer became President of this country in 2002:____________________. [Choices: Portugal, Uruguay, Slovakia, Cameroon, Nicaragua ] 6. To cozen is to:_________________________. [Choices: Crowd, Destroy, Comfort, Shock or surprise, Cheat or deceive ] 7. The world's largest concentration of orangutans is here:_______________________. [Choices: New Zealand, Singapore, Tasmania, Hong Kong, Borneo ] 8. All of these U.S. states have an eagle on their state flag except:__________________________. [Choices: Alaska, North Dakota, Utah, Michigan, Illinois ] 9. The inorganic salt known as Epsom Salt is actually ____________________ sulfate. [Choices: Barium, Magnesium, Lithium, Francium, Radium ] 10. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was known as _____________________ between 1971 and 1997. [Choices: French Somaliland, Burma, Zaire, British Guiana, Tanganika ] 11. This 20th-Century writer was a champion of "Objectivism":______________________. [Choices: Joseph Conrad, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer ] 12. "Thumbing the spool" is an activity of a:_____________________________. [Choices: Plumber, Gardener, Chef, Farmer, Fisherman ] 13. "Venus of Urbino" is a 16th-Century masterpiece by:_______________________. [Choices: El Greco, Titian, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya ] 14. As the last of his 12 Labors for Eurystheus, Hercules had to get _________________________ from the Hesperides. [Choices: Golden apples, The girdle of snakes, A first-born son, Cupid's bow, The Minotaur ] 15. The Willa Cather novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is set in what part of the world?______________________ [Choices: American Southwest, New England, Italy, Wales, France ] Answers: 1. Loofah [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa ] 2. Pontiac [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_War ] 3. Queensboro [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensboro_Bridge ] 4. Computer languages [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... _languages ] 5. Nicaragua [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Bolanos ] 6. Cheat or deceive [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cozen ] 7. Borneo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan ] 8. Alaska [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_ ... erritories ] 9. Magnesium [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_sulfate ] 10. Zaire [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire ] 11. Ayn Rand [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand) ] 12. Fisherman [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUDfRDCOnQ ] 13. Titian [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Urbino ] 14. Golden apples [see the section "The Eleventh Labour of Heracles" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides ] 15. American Southwest [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Com ... Archbishop ]

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