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Chessart's Eighth Millionaire Quiz

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Introduction:
"A variety of questions, hopefully something for everyone."


1. Brown, black, grizzly, and polar are all types of:
    bears
    whales
    penguins
    lions


2. In Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem, 'The Raven', what does the raven repeatedly say?
    'Go away.'
    'This house is haunted.'
    'I'm hungry.'
    'Nevermore.'


3. Who is the American patriot who ended his life with the words, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.'?
    Patrick Henry
    Nathan Hale
    Ethan Allen
    Paul Revere


4. Julius Caesar's three word report to the Senate, 'Veni, Vidi, Vici', means what?
    I am your new dictator for life.
    I left, I traveled far, I returned.
    The Roman Empire is now complete.
    I came, I saw, I conquered.


5. The movies 'Body Heat', 'Hook', 'My Cousin Vinny' and 'Liar, Liar' all have a main character who is a:
    journalist
    lawyer
    teacher
    father


6. Fe is the chemical symbol for which element?
    iron
    potassium
    sodium
    silver


7. Which bandleader wrote and performed 'Mood Indigo', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Take the A Train', and the score for the 1959 film 'Anatomy of a Murder'?
    Count Basie
    Duke Ellington
    Benny Goodman
    Les Brown


8. The court-martial depicted in the film 'A Few Good Men' concerns an incident that occurred where?
    West Point Military Academy
    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
    Wolf Creek nuclear power plant
    on a nuclear submarine


9. Which newspaperman once ran for U.S. President as the nominee of the Democratic party?
    William Randolph Hearst
    Horace Greeley
    William Allen White
    Henry Luce


10. Nobel Prize winning author Pearl Buck spent the first forty years of her life in what country?
    India
    New Zealand
    Japan
    China


11. Who closed his weekly radio broadcasts with the line "Glad we could get together", and also appeared for many years in Timex commercials, claiming that the Timex watches could 'take a licking and keep on ticking'?
    John Cameron Swayze
    Paul Harvey
    Edward R. Murrow
    John Charles Daly


12. Which was the first year in which more people crossed the Atlantic by plane than by boat?
    1958
    1938
    1948
    1968


13. The two great heavyweight title fights between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey in 1926 and 1927 both went the distance. Each fight consisted of how many rounds?
    twelve
    twenty
    fifteen
    ten


14. At what age did actor Sydney Greenstreet appear in his first movie?
    8
    38
    73
    61


15. When do the swallows traditionally return each year to the mission of San Juan Capistrano?
    March 19th
    April 15th
    September 21st
    February 2nd


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