New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. What was the name of the first line of U.S. manned spacecraft?_____________________
[Choices: Apollo, Mercury, Voyager, Viking, Gemini ]

2. What does the Krebs Cycle deal with?______________________
[Choices: Epic Greek poems, U.S. labor history, Weather patterns, Chemical reactions, Cotton harvesting ]

3. Gerry Goffin was the songwriting partner of:________________________.
[Choices: Valerie Simpson, Carole King, Carly Simon, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell ]

4. Which word means the same as "bamboozle"?________________________
[Choices: Hector, Haulm, Hucaback, Holderbat, Hornswoggle ]

5. Kalimantan is a part of _____________________ that lies on the island of Borneo.
[Choices: Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore ]

6. Once a benevolent dictator, he was deposed by his army in 1974 and died in captivity:________________________.
[Choices: Papa Doc, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Anastasio Somoza, Juan Peron, Haile Selassie ]

7. What characterized the paintings of the late 19th-Century Expressionists?_______________________
[Choices: Bright, natural colors; Wide, flat brush strokes; Distortion of reality; Religious scenes; Landscapes ]

8. Where in the universe would you most likely find stratified squamous epithelium?_____________________
[Choices: Volcanic crater, On the planet Mars, Ocean floor, In your body, Gemstone ]

9. This American poet won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1973 work entitled "The Dolphin":__________________________.
[Choices: Richard Wright, Russell Edson, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Jim Morrison ]

10. Belshazzar was a _____________________ King of the Sixth Century B.C.
[Choices: Swedish, Turkish, Egyptian, Babylonian, Nubian ]

11. Who starred in the 1943 Academy Award-winning film "Der Fuhrer's Face"?___________________________
[Choices: Charlie Chaplin, A clay model, Donald Duck, The Marx Brothers, Orson Welles ]

12. Whose famous expedition was completed by Juan Sebastian del Cano on the "Victoria" in 1522?_____________________
[Choices: Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus ]

13. If you saw a Dabbawala in Mumbai, India, he would typically be:_________________________.
[Choices: Directing a movie, Delivering lunch, Making women's sarees, Washing elephants, Building a house ]

14. James L. Plimpton created the forerunner of this recreational item back in 1863:________________________.
[Choices: Roller skate, Tennis racket, Trampoline, Hot air balloon, Bowling ball ]

15. George Lillo's "The London Merchant" is one of the theater's first plays of this genre:________________________.
[Choices: Low farce, Bourgeois tragedy, Romantic comedy, High comedy, Puppet drama ]






Answers:

1. Mercury [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury ]

2. Chemical reactions [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle ]

3. Carole King [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Goffin ]

4. Hornswoggle [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hornswoggle ]

5. Indonesia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimantan ]

6. Haile Selassie [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie ]

7. Distortion of reality [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism ]

8. In your body [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_sq ... epithelium ]

9. Robert Lowell [see https://poets.org/poem/dolphin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowell ]

10. Babylonian [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_feast ]

11. Donald Duck [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTLMPcyprg ]

12. Ferdinand Magellan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan' ... navigation ]

13. Delivering lunch [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala ]

14. Roller skate [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leonard_Plimpton ]

15. Bourgeois tragedy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Merchant and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_tragedy ]