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Chessart's Seventh Millionaire Quiz

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Introduction:
"As always, the questions start easy and get harder as you go along."


1. Who is the author of the classics 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'?
    Mark Twain
    Walt Whitman
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Henry David Thoreau


2. Which eighteenth-century American patriot said 'I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.'?
    Nathan Hale
    Benedict Arnold
    Thomas Jefferson
    Patrick Henry


3. Which comedian stars in the movies 'Meatballs', 'Groundhog Day', 'What about Bob', and Stripes'?
    Chevy Chase
    Bill Murray
    Steve Martin
    Robin Williams


4. Who is the Nobel Prize winning playwright who wrote 'The Iceman Cometh' and 'A Long Day's Journey into Night'?
    Arthur Miller
    Edward Albee
    Tennessee Williams
    Eugene O'Neill


5. Where in the body would you find the ulna?
    leg
    arm
    skull
    abdomen


6. Hg is the chemical symbol for which element?
    mercury
    silver
    lead
    gold


7. What is a 'sawbuck'?
    a twenty-dollar bill
    a ten-dollar bill
    a type of car
    wise advice passed on from father to son


8. What is a period of play in polo called?
    an episode
    a chukka
    an inning
    a scrummage


9. At what age did Helen Keller lose her sight and hearing?
    three months
    nineteen months
    three years
    five years


10. The Newberry Medal is awarded annually for excellence in which field?
    science fiction wriitng
    investigative journalism
    astronomy
    children's writing


11. Who is the American songwriter whose many songs include 'Anything Goes', 'Night and Day', 'I Get a Kick out of You', and 'In the Still of the Night'?
    Cole Porter
    Sammy Cahn
    George Gershwin
    Irving Berlin


12. Which is the only time in history that the heavyweight boxing title was won on a foul?
    Sharkey-Schmeling, 1930
    Tunney-Dempsey, 1926
    Ali-Liston, 1964
    Marciano-Walcott, 1952


13. How did Will Rogers die?
    He finally met a man he didn't like, and that man shot him.
    In a motorcycle accident.
    Reporting from a World War II battlefield.
    In a plane crash with Wiley Post.


14. Fraunces Tavern in New York is associated with which historical figure?
    Wild Bill Hickok
    Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    George Washington


15. The movie 'It Happened One Night', which won all the top Oscar categories in 1934, was based on what?
    a short story
    a play
    a novel
    a song


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