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Chessart's Fifth Millionaire Quiz

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Introduction:
"A variety of questions, starting easy and getting harder."


1. $100: One of the giants of the cinema during the 1940's, he starred in 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Casablanca', 'To Have and Have Not', and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'.
    Humphrey Bogart
    Edmund O'Brien
    Clark Gable
    Dick Powell


2. $200: The songwriting duo of Rodgers and ________________ dominated Broadway during the 1940's and 1950's with a series of smash hits.
    Lowenstein
    Goldstein
    Hammerstein
    Bernstein


3. $300: Who is the author of 'Treasure Island', and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'?
    James Fenimore Cooper
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    MarkTwain


4. $500: Which city is known as the 'City of Lights'?
    Oslo
    Rome
    Paris
    Madrid


5. $1,000: What do the films 'Hurricane', 'The Thin Blue Line', 'I Want to Live', 'Cry in the Dark', and 'Breaker Morant' have in common?
    Alcoholism
    Innocent people accused of a crime
    Blind characters
    Teachers


6. $2,000: Which architect invented the geodesic dome?
    Buckminster Fuller
    Gutzon Borglum
    I. M. Pei
    Uzton


7. $4,000: In what part of the body would one's mandible be found?
    Hand
    Abdomen
    Head
    Foot


8. $8,000: Which well-known lawyer defended labor activists Eugene Debs and Bill Haywood, thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and biology teacher John Scopes?
    F. Lee Bailey
    Clarence Darrow
    Melvin Belli
    William Jennings Bryan


9. $16,000: Valery Brumel and Dick Fosbury won Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968, respectively, in which event?
    Heavyweight boxing
    1500-meter run
    High jump
    Shot put


10. $32,000: Pb is the chemical symbol for which element?
    Lead
    Potassium
    Gold
    Mercury


11. $64,000: What is the largest moon in our solar system?
    Titan
    Ganymede
    Callisto
    Io


12. $125,000: What is 5 factorial (usually written as 5!)?
    120
    25
    15
    720


13. $250,000: Which animal has been known by the nicknames 'devil's darning needle', 'horse stinger', and 'devil's steelyard'?
    Mosquito
    Spider
    Hummingbird
    Dragonfly


14. $500,000: What is the oldest sport in North America?
    Bowling
    Lacrosse
    Rugby
    Baseball


15. $1,000,000: Sinclair Lewis' book 'Main Street', a caustic look at small town life, was based on his childhood in what Minnesota town?
    Walnut Grove
    Worthington
    Sauk Centre
    Ely


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