Round 1
1 Which famous author wrote the play 'An Enemy of the People'?
1 George Bernard Shaw
2 Anton Chekhov
3 Karl Marx
4 Henrik Ibsen
* 5 Langston Hughes
No Harlem renaissance
No communist philosopher
Norwegian playwright
Ibsen expressed his view of 19th-century society in this play about a corrupt small town.
2 In theatrical history, Maude Adams is closely associated with this legendary role:
1 Maid Marion
2 Peter Pan
* 3 Molly Brown
4 Becky Sharp
5 Little Eva
No locomotion singer
Not unsinkable
Captain Hook
Adams palyed the role for millions of fans in the early 20th century.
3 Which country has regions named Lappi, Oulu and Vaasa?
1 Finland
* 2 South Korea
3 The Philippines
4 Thailand
5 Sweden
Not where Bangkok is
No Marcos regime
Neighbor of Russia
Finnish is a Uralic language related closely to Estonian and remotely to Hungarian.
4 In the 'Epic of Gilgamesh', what must the main character do to achieve eternal life?
1 Be silent for 20 years
2 Touch no wine or women
3 Stay awake for 7 nights
* 4 Scalp 200 of his enemies
5 Travel to hell and back
No dandruff cure
Don't bite your tongue
Unnatural insomnia
Gilgamesh succumbs to sleep, but upon waking is reconciled with man's mortality.
5 What results from crossbreeding a male donkey and a female horse?
1 Gelding
2 Mule
* 3 Zebra
4 Ox
5 Ass
No slang for posterior
No two-letter word
Stubborn as a _____
Mules are more temperamental than horses, but have much greater endurance.
Round 2
6 Which country claimed Bolivia's Pacific coast territory in the War of the Pacific?
1 Ecuador
2 Chile
* 3 Argentine
4 Colombia
5 Peru
Not where Incas ruled
Not earth's middle line
Red hot _____ pepper
Bolivia also lost land to Paraguay and Brazil
7 An electron in 'ground state':
1 has full positive charge
2 is paired with a double
3 is immobile
4 has the lowest energy
* 5 is unatttached
Not a bachelor
No doppelganger
Opposite of highest
Having the least energy, it occupies the orbit closest to the nucleus.
8 This city used to be home to an infamous gateway called Temple Bar:
1 Rome
2 Paris
3 Philadelphia
4 London
* 5 Montreal
No Eiffel Tower
No Colosseum
Big Ben
The heads of executed traitors and criminals were exhibited on it.
9 As a mature artist, he thought it unnecessary and inappropriate to sign his own work:
1 Van Gogh
2 Monet
3 Michelangelo
* 4 El Greco
5 Andy Warhol
Didn't do a soup can
No French impressionist
His Sistine Chapel
Of all the works he created, he signed only one sculpture, the 'Pieta' in St. Peter's.
10 He was Secretary of the Treasury under three different Presidents:
1 William Levitt
2 Henry Flagler
3 Jay Cooke
4 Andrew Mellon
* 5 John C. Calhoun
Not Bill, for short
No middle initial
Casaba
He served under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
Round 3
11 This style of drama was a choral performance recounting tales of gods and heroes:
1 Kabuki
2 Pageant
3 Masque
4 Miracle Play
5 Dithyramb
* Not a Halloween costume
Not the work of a god
Morse code signal
An ancient Greek drama, it evolved from the first festivals honoring Dionysus
12 Pentelic, Carerra [sic] and Yule are all types of:
1 Ferns
2 Automobile engines
3 Batteries
4 Marble
* 5 Shorebirds
No flying creatures
No green plants
Make a statue
Pentelic marble comes from Mount Pentelikos in Greece.
13 This man of letters did not start out as an astronomer, but rather a musician and composer:
1 Alexander Fleming
2 Galileo Galilei
3 William Herschel
* 4 Isaac Newton
5 Johannes Kepler
Not a fig cookie
Not a great Macedonian
Opposite of his
Study of music theory led to optics, then to astronomy and his famous home-ground telescopes
14 Which woman was a central symbol in the poetry of William Butler Yeats?
1 Helen of Troy
2 Lady Macbeth
3 Maud Gonne
* 4 Annabel Lee
5 Beatrice
Not worth fighting over
Not one word only
Bea Arthur away?
Gonne, an Irish patriot, inspired the poet's intense Celtic nationalism.
15 The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium has to do with:
1 Interplanetary orbits
2 Economical [sic] cycles
3 Meteorological changes
4 Atomic fusion
5 Population genetics
* Not Mars and Venus
No hot and cold
DNA
The concept is named after two eggheads named Hardy and Weinberg.
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Top 20 sites
Rank Site City St Score
1 Sooner Lega Norman OK 12635
2 Tailgaters Minneapolis MN 12536
3 Buffalo Wil Lewisville TX 12053
4 Parkway Gri Wichita Fal TX 12029
5 Houlihans Westbury NY 12023
6 Mad River New York NY 11987
7 Buffalo Wil Tallahassee FL 11985
8 In the Zone Tampa FL 11865
9 Heroes Wichita KS 11851
10 New Edinbur Ottawa ON 11789
11 Houlihans Brick NJ 11731
12 SRO OT Houston TX 11686
13 Jillys Ellicott Ci MD 11565
14 Coachs Spor Albuquerque NM 11552
15 Jax Fillin Oshawa ON 11408
16 8th Street Minneapolis MN 11110
17 Danny K's Orange CA 11070
18 Fletchers Kalamazoo MI 11055
19 Toucans Palm Spring CA 11017
20 Stadium Caf Dallas TX 10962
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Top 20 players
Rank Handle Site Score
1 HENWAY Tailgaters 13845
2 LE2 Buffalo Wil 13273
3 ERICB Sooner Lega 13022
4 YOKO Parkway Gri 12807
5 ZAPTEK Mad River 12649
6 MIKET Buffalo Wil 12648
7 LETHE New Edinbur 12625
8 ENYGMA Houlihans 12435
9 COOGS SRO OT 12412
9 ULOOZE Heroes 12412
11 CAILIN Holiday Inn 12393
12 EDVARD O'Malleys P 12319
13 NEY In the Zone 12287
14 ROKDOC Buffalo Wil 12222
15 STEVE Greveys 12129
16 ROOSTR Coachs Spor 12068
17 UMBWA Buffalo Wil 12061
18 CROW 8th Street 12006
19 PHRED Fletchers 11952
20 SUEZQ Houlihans 11925