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Human Oddities
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Back before Jerry Springer and other talk shows, people went to sideshows to be shocked and amazed. Who are some of the folks who were stars of the bygone era?
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Circuses & Fairs
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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ubermom
Jan 20 04
5490 plays
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'Keeping Up Appearances': The Basics
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Nothing tough here, if you've watched the show. It's just a quick check of the characters and their relationships!
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Keeping Up Appearances
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Very Easy
10 Q
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ubermom
Jan 28 05
5397 plays
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Three Ages
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Buster Keaton's first feature film, released in 1923, was a spoof on D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916). "Three Ages" was set up in three parallel parts so that if necessary, it could be cut into three shorts.
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Tg - Tm Movies
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Tough
15 Q
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ubermom
Mar 01 10
117 plays
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The Gist of Galatians
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This quiz focuses on the concepts Paul addresses in Galatians, not in minutia. Quotes are taken from the Revised Standard Version.
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Galatians
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Mar 31 05
1356 plays
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Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
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The Boomtown Rats song and the real-life events that inspired it.
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Boomtown Rats
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Jul 04 09
417 plays
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The Mysterious Platypus
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These critters are tough to see outside their native land. Take this quiz and learn about these amazing animals.
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Marsupials and Monotremes
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Average
20 Q
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ubermom
Aug 18 05
1857 plays
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Q Sans U
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Stuck playing Scrabble with a Q but no U? A little word play and some memory tricks will provide you with 10 words from the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary.
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Scrabble
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Jul 06 12
165 plays
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The Scarecrow
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This 1920 two-reeler featured Buster Keaton, Big Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, and Buster's father, Joe Keaton.
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Sa - Sf Movies
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Average
15 Q
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ubermom
Feb 07 10
105 plays
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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How much do you know about Howard Pyle's classic?
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P
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Difficult
25 Q
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ubermom
Jan 26 04
282 plays
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Seven Chances
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This 1925 classic is one Buster didn't want to make, but his producer, Joe Schenck, had spent $25,000 on rights to a play. Buster took it and made it entirely his own. The quiz is based on the Kino DVD.
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Sa - Sf Movies
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Tough
15 Q
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ubermom
Feb 19 10
111 plays
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Freaks
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Tod Browning's 1932 horror classic was banned in the UK for 30 years. How much do you know about this controversial work?
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Freaks
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Dec 08 03
663 plays
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Literary Characters Online
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What if famous characters from literature had social networking accounts? Guess who these folks are in litspace from the usernames and profiles they post in cyberspace.
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Literary Characters
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Oct 14 11
456 plays
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Twisted Puns
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Each clue provides at least two hints to the answer: Ex: Long John Silver learned the hard way not to use a fish as a shoe bottom. Answer: Sole. A sole is a fish, and a sole is a shoe bottom.
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Words in Common
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Tough
10 Q
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ubermom
Sep 23 08
750 plays
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What Do You Remember From "Alive"?
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These are the details that stuck with me. Do you remember them?
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Alive
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Tough
15 Q
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ubermom
Jan 30 06
786 plays
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Eastern State Penitentiary
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Eastern State Penitentiary was groundbreaking in many ways. I'll try to give you clues so that if you have a good general knowledge, you should be able to guess most answers.
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U.S. History
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Difficult
10 Q
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ubermom
Oct 19 08
621 plays
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It Must've Been Love
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Find the poetic lyrics of this song, sung by Roxette.
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Roxette
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Easy
10 Q
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ubermom
Aug 20 05
807 plays
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The General
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Buster Keaton considered his 1926 film, "The General", to be his best. Many critics and fans agree. Let's have a look!
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Ga - Gm Movies
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Tough
15 Q
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ubermom
Jan 12 10
138 plays
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The Comique Films
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From 1917 to 1920, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle made films at his Comique studio with Buster Keaton, Al St. John, and Luke the Dog. Can you identify the movies from the clues?
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Classic Movies
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Tough
15 Q
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ubermom
Dec 23 09
294 plays
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"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" -- Chapter 5
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Number 4 in a long-overdue series on this delightful book.
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Dirk Gently
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Aug 21 05
294 plays
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"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" -- Chapter 2
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The second installment of a long-overdue series of quizzes on the delightful Douglas Adams book.
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Dirk Gently
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Tough
10 Q
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ubermom
Feb 23 05
357 plays
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The Balloonatic
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This 1923 short, written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, features Phyllis Haver.
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Ba - Bd Movies
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Tough
10 Q
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ubermom
Feb 21 10
96 plays
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Silas Marner: The Basics
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Check your knowledge of the basic plot and characters of this classic story of an unlikely love.
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Eliot, George
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Average
15 Q
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ubermom
Mar 31 05
504 plays
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"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" -- Ch. 3 & 4
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The third installment in a long-overdue series of quizzes.
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Dirk Gently
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Average
15 Q
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ubermom
Mar 01 05
351 plays
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Mooching Through Georgia
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This 1939 Columbia short partnered the onscreen Buster Keaton with writer Clyde Bruckman, who had worked with Keaton on his classic, "The General" in 1926.
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Mi - Mo Movies
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Average
15 Q
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ubermom
Dec 16 09
114 plays
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More Sounds the Same
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More fun with homophones -- words that sound the same but are spelled differently. No punctuation -- just the words, please!
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Rhymes
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Apr 04 10
612 plays
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Go West
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This 1925 silent classic features Buster Keaton and a bovine leading lady named Brown Eyes.
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Gn - Gz Movies
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Tough
10 Q
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ubermom
Feb 04 10
108 plays
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Bridge Wives
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This 1932 short features Al St. John directed by his uncle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (as William Goodrich).
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Br - Bz Movies
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Jan 07 10
111 plays
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"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" -- Chapter 1
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It's about time there was a quiz devoted entirely to "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". This book is so pithy it's worth a quiz a chapter. Here's the first!
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Dirk Gently
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Feb 22 05
375 plays
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Basic Korean Vocabulary
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So you, the English speaker, are thinking of going to Korea! Can you communicate with the locals?
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Korean
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Jan 12 05
1224 plays
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Konglish 101
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Welcome to Korea! If you don't speak the language, you'll find yourself picking up Konglish -- English words used in the Korean way. Can you understand the locals, and make yourself understood?
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Varieties of English
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Average
10 Q
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ubermom
Jul 15 05
489 plays
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