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 ]