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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. England's Black Pudding and Spain's Morcilla are two types of European:__________________________.
[Choices: Cheesecake, Meringue, Blood sausage, Custard, Tenderloin ]

2. What Commissioner banned the eight "Black Sox" players from baseball in 1920.
[Choices: Clarence Darrow, Henry Chadwick, Pete Rozelle, Happy Chandler, Kenesaw Mountain Landis ]

3. "The Color Purple", "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Clarissa" are all _______________________ novels.
[Choices: Historical, Picaresque, Autobiographical, Experimental, Epistolary ]

4. In the 1890's, inventor Edward G. Acheson discovered carborundum, a highly effective:________________________.
[Choices: Abrasive, Cold medicine, Hepatitis B vaccine, Glue, Anesthetic ]

5. The term "Theta Rhythm" specifically describes a:________________________.
[Choices: Painting with blue lines, Beat from a tambourine, Repetitive ballet jump, Short rhyming poem, Human brainwave pattern ]

6. Which is a synonym for the word "pernicious"? _____________________________
[Choices: Beautiful, Dull, Deadly, Sweet, Trusting ]

7. These people formed the first major Malagasy Kingdom:________________________.
[Choices: Zurutuvu, Tepesere, Sakalava, Rikitiki, Bolonoko ]

8. Where would you most likely locate Aerenchyma tissue?_______________________
[Choices: Aquatic plant, Human hair follicle, Horse's hoof, Volcanic rock, Bird's feather ]

9. Eugene O'Neill's 1931 play "Mourning Becomes Electra" takes place during the times of:_________________________.
[Choices: Washington's Presidency, The Great Depression, The U.S. Civil War, Marie-Antoinette, English King Henry VIII ]

10. American scientist Theodore Maiman developed the first:_______________________.
[Choices: Artificial element, Silicon chip, Microprocessor, Laser, Electron microscope ]

11. This legend is the subject of a 1991 film documentary titled "Chuck Amuck":_________________________.
[Choices: Chuck Connors, Charlton Heston, Chuck Berry, Charlie Chaplin, Chuck Jones ]

12. Which animal would belong to the Phylum Cnidaria?___________________________
[Choices: Rabbit, Jellyfish, Squid, Lobster, Hedgehog ]

13. Pierre Auguste Renoir's painting "Two __________________ (On the Terrace)" is from 1881.
[Choices: Ducks, Chairs, Sisters, Dogs, Fat Gentlemen ]

14. In the ancient Near East, the Amorites, mentioned in the Old Testament, were:_________________________.
[Choices: Fierce nomads, Mariners, Fisherfolk, Pygmies, Mercenaries ]

15. Which writer was never awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?__________________________
[Choices: William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder ]






Answers:

1. Blood sausage [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage ]

2. Kenesaw Mountain Landis [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis ]

3. Epistolary [see https://literarydevices.net/epistolary/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel ]

4. Abrasive [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide ]

5. Human brainwave pattern [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_wave ]

6. Deadly [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pernicious ]

7. Sakalava [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakalava_people and https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities ... s/sakalava ]

8. Aquatic plant [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerenchyma ]

9. U.S. Civil War [see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039636/plotsummary ]

10. Laser [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Maiman ]

11. Chuck Jones [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Amuck:_The_Movie and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Jones ]

12. Jellyfish [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria ]

13. Sisters [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Siste ... he_Terrace) ]

14. Fierce nomads [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorites ]

15. Thornton Wilder [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder which lists his Pulitzer Prizes, not to be confused with the Nobel Prize ]


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