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BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. January 21, 2020 http://www.scaratings.com/newScaratings/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3950 |
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Author: | REACH [ Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:26 am ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. January 21, 2020 |
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 ] |
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