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. The constellation Orion reaches its highest point in the evening sky in what month?________________________
[Choices: August, October, June, January, April ]

2. Costaguana is a fictional South American country created by:______________________.
[Choices: Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Jules Verne ]

3. In the annals of U.S. crime, Elizabeth Short is more commonly known as:_________________________.
[Choices: Starr Faithfull, Bonnie Lee Bakely, Bloody Babs, The Black Dahlia, Baby Jane Hudson ]

4. Nopal is the name of more than one variety of:_______________________.
[Choices: Rose, Shrimp, Cactus, Chicken, Diamond ]

5. Matthew Henson is known for his expeditions with which famed explorer?__________________________
[Choices: Robert E. Peary, Meriwether Lewis, Roald Amundsen, Jacques Cousteau, Thor Heyerdahl ]

6. Which mythological god or goddess is *NOT* Egyptian in origin?________________________
[Choices: Ra, Shu, Horus, Sigi, Set ]

7. Serology is the scientific study of:_________________________.
[Choices: Sediment, Mountains, Bodily fluids, Insects, Asteroids ]

8. In 1971, he became the first to refuse a Best Actor Academy Award:______________________.
[Choices: Boris Karloff, John Gielgud, Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Marlon Brando ]

9. The maxilla is the:________________________.
[Choices: Legbone, Backbone, Skull, Upper jawbone, Belly button ]

10. Assam is a state in Northeastern:___________________________.
[Choices: Paraguay, China, New Guinea, Thailand, India ]

11. This movement began with the publication in 1614 of a text called "Fama Fraternitatis":____________________________.
[Choices: Order of Freemasons, Knights of Columbus, Elks Lodge, Rosicrucians, Scientologists ]

12. Although less famous, Alexsey Pisemsky could be ranked with this famous name:_______________________.
[Choices: Grigory Potemkin, Igor Stravinsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Stalin, Peter the Great ]

13. Who said, "The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it"?__________________________
[Choices: John Marshall, Winston Churchill, Ronald Weasley, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln ]

14. When this university was chartered in 1794, it was known as Blount College:______________________.
[Choices: St. John's, Tennessee, Connecticut, Princeton, Nebraska ]

15. Which play made its Broadway debut on November 18, 1942?_________________________
[Choices: Desire Under the Elms, Oklahoma!, Rent, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth ]






Answers:

1. January [see the section "Characteristics" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation) ]

2. Joseph Conrad [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo ]

3. Black Dahlia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia ]

4. Cactus [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopal ]

5. Robert Peary [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Henson ]

6. Sigi [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigi ]

7. Bodily fluids [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serology ]

8. George C. Scott [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Scott ]

9. Upper jawbone [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxilla ]

10. India [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam ]

11. Rosicrucians [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism ]

12. Dostoevsky [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Pisemsky ]

13. John Marshall [see https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Marshall and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall ]

14. Tennessee [see https://www.utk.edu/history/blount-college-founding and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tennessee ]

15. The Skin of Our Teeth [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth ]

15. Which play made its Broadway debut on November 18, 1942?_________________________
[Choices: Desire Under the Elms, Oklahoma!, Rent, Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth ]

Was unable to play Tuesday, but does anybody else think that Oklahoma is a pretty crappy distractor seeing as it debuted less than a year later? Or do we just need to suck it up and memorize the Broadway debuts of 100 plays?

Yeah, we bit hard on Oklahoma, unfortunately at my prompting.

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."