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Tough Wild Card Quiz

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Introduction:
"Here are some fun general questions for you."


1. How many acts are there in Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'?
    3
    6
    5
    4


2. How many months away from 1960 was 117-year-old Walter Williams, the last Civil War vet, when he passed on?
    2 months
    1 month
    3 months
    4 months


3. What Humphrey Bogart wartime hit almost had a new title because publicity men thought the original sounded like a beer name?
    Answer: (Think Sam)


4. What did Beeman Chemical Company once advertise as 'A Delicious Remedy for Indigestion and Seasickness'?
    Answer: (Think Breath)


5. How many points did Pop Warner suggest a football team get for a first down in 1928?
    1
    0
    5
    3


6. What was 'Life' magazine originally slated to be called?
    'Life'
    'Life's Great'
    'Look Of Life'
    'Look'


7. What fictional detective's L. A. office is found in the Cahuenga Building?
    Miss Marple
    Sam Spade
    Philip Marlowe
    Hercule Periot


8. What writer of mysteries penned Evil Under the Sun?
    Answer: (Two Words)


9. What piece was featured on a Philadelphia Orchestra LP whose cover pictured an apple and a bow and arrow?
    'The William Tell Overture'
    'Apple Dandy'
    'Apple Of My Eye'
    'The Apple Dumpling Gang'


10. What did 'human fly' D. D. Roland carry on his shoulders while walking on building ledges blindfolded?
    His dog
    His daughter
    His wife
    His cat


11. Who crashed his FX-11 plane in Beverly Hills breaking his skull, nose and nine ribs, and getting third-degree burns?
    Richard Burton
    David Meyer
    Edward Kennedy
    Howard Hughes


12. What comic strip characters yielded eggs, butter and milk, and turned into different meats depending on how they were cooked?
    Smurfs
    Schmoos
    Skabbles
    Starrights


13. What comic strip was inspired by the Haverhill Massachusetts High School Class of 1940?
    Josey and The Pussycats
    Archie
    Rex Morgan, M.D.
    Felix The Cat


14. What dance did William and Mary College ban in the '20s because it didn't emphasize 'grace and beauty'?
    The Hustle
    The Waltz
    The Charleston
    The Twist


15. What ancient book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1931?
    Answer: (Think God)


16. What president's portrait did Norman Rockwell paint for the cover of the October 11, 1952 'Saturday Evening Post'?
    William Howard Taft
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    Harry S. Truman


17. What did a 'hard ankle' mine?
    Diamonds
    Coal
    Gold
    Silver


18. What eastern state made it illegal to greet someone by placing your thumb on your nose and wiggling your fingers?
    New York
    Vermont
    Rhode Island
    New Hampshire


19. What American composer, when told his new piece of didn't sound like music, retorted 'What does sound have to do with music'?
    Elvis Pressley
    Charles Ives
    Mickey Dolenz
    Karen Carpenter


20. What Ivy League University awarded an honorary degree to Davy Crockett?
    Columbia
    Harvard
    Northeastern
    William and Mary


21. What Shakespeare play's lead role did a Capetown, South Africa production omit?
    'Romeo and Juliet'
    'Othello'
    'Hamlet'
    'Henry V'


22. What beauty magazine for teenagers was founded by Helen Valentine in 1944?
    YM
    Seventeen
    Sixteen
    Young Miss


23. What Hungarian dish served 'Roaring '20s' mobsters as slang for phoney information?
    Answer: (Think Meat and Noodles)


24. How many of every five predictions in the 'Old Farmer's Almanac are accurate?
    1
    3
    4
    2


25. What in mobster parlance is a 'heater'?
    A trick
    A bullet
    A gun
    A fellow mobster


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