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BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. December 17, 2019 http://www.scaratings.com/newScaratings/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3930 |
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Author: | REACH [ Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. December 17, 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. 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 ] I will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks, so anyone else is welcome to post the Q&A in this spot. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!! |
Author: | GONE D [ Fri Dec 20, 2019 2:16 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. December 17, 2019 |
REACH wrote: I will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks, so anyone else is welcome to post the Q&A in this spot. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!! I plan to play on New Year's Eve, but lack the tech savvy - not to mention the energy - to emulate the excellent REACH. Nobody shall rise to the occasion. But it's sweet to suggest that someone might. |
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