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 ]