Weekly Game

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What female journalist participated on D-Day landings in 1944 as a stretcher-bearer and was among the first to meet survivors from Dachau's concentration camp? Answer: (One Word - Last Name)

2. What is the code name given to flights that carry personnel to Area 51? Answer: (One Word)

3. What 'praying' crustaceans, equipped with two razor-sharp claws, snatch prey by thrusting their barbed claws forward with lighting speed, no easy task underwater? Answer: (Two Words)

4. What was the name of the martial art taught by Bruce Lee, it is also known as 'the way of the intercepting fist'? Answer: (Three Words)

5. What famous author of western novels was born in North Dakota and worked as a professional boxer, lumberjack, elephant handler, gold prospector, and a tank officer in WWII? Answer: (One Word - Last Name)

6. What sport originated in 12th century France as the 'game of the palm'? Answer: (One Word)

7. What is one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain; the full DNA sequence of an organism known as? Answer: (One Word)

8. What was the name of the U.S. Navy ship captured by the North Koreans in January 1968? Answer: (One Word)

9. What occurs twice a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator marking the longest and shortest days of the year? Answer: (One Word)

10. What is the chemical in marijuana that produces the hallucinogenic effect? Answer: (One Word or Three Letter Abbreviation)

11. What is the common name for the furcula? Answer: (One Word)

12. The Second Punic War ended in 203BC when Roman armies of Scipio defeated Hannibal's Carthaginians in the Battle of _____? Answer: (One Word)

13. The tusks of what marine animal were prized in medieval times as the fabled horn of the unicorn? Answer: (One Word)

14. Where did Abraham Lincoln write the Emancipation Proclamation? Answer: (Two Words)

15. What colorful US city is home to a Theater for the performing arts named after Frances Ann Lutcher? Answer: (One Word)

16. What breed of dog from Tibet is called abso seng kye, the bark lion sentinel dog? Answer: (Two Words)

17. A single four-bladed propeller is all that remains of the eight H.P. 42 biplanes that served a luxary airliners for Imperial Airways. Where is it on display? Answer: (Three Words)

18. Where did the Campbells massacre the MacDonalds in 1692? Answer: (Two Words)

19. What was the name of the site where Robert Oppenheimer and his 'galaxy of luminaries' tested the gadget called the atomic bomb? Answer: (One Word)

20. What son of a cotton sharecropper, played baseball in the Negro American League, served in the Army and unsuccessfully tried out for the California Angels before starting a country music career? Answer: (One Word - Last Name)