Chessart's Second Millionaire-style Quiz

Answer: Clark

Asked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the land obtained from France the year before in the Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark started up the Missouri River on May 14, 1804. They reached the Pacific Ocean on November 7, 1805, and spent the winter on the shore of the Pacific, near the mouth of the Columbia River.

They finally arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806.

Answer: teachers

Starring, in the order given, Sandy Dennis, Richard Dreyfuss and Robin Williams.

Answer: John Steinbeck

Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He died in 1968 at age 66. His novels 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men' are considered literary masterpieces, and are still discussed in classrooms today.

Answer: Neptune

Because of the eccentricity of its orbit, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune from 1979 to 1999. It will now be in its normal spot as the fartherest from the sun for about the next 300 years. Mercury also has a highly eccentric orbit, while the orbits of the other seven planets are very nearly circles. Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, but heavenly body is still called Pluto.

Answer: arctic tern

The arctic tern migrates from the Arctic to the Antarctic each year, a round trip of about 20,000 miles!

Answer: Rob Reiner

Reiner became famous as Archie Bunker's liberal son-on-law on 'All in the Family' in the 1970s. His first film as a director was 'This Is Spinal Tap' in 1984.

Answer: Sir James Chadwick

Ernest Rutherford had speculated about the existence of a subatomic particle with no charge, but it was Chadwick whose experiments proved the existence of the neutron, an accomplishment which earned Chadwick the Nobel Prize in physics in 1935.

Answer: Jim Rome

Jim Rome has a popular nationwide three-hour daily sports talk show. His motto for callers is 'Have a take and don't suck'. Rome also has a daily TV interview show on FoxSports called 'The Last Word'.

Answer: Sammy Cahn

Cahn was nominated for an Academy Award an amazing thirty times!

Answer: Arachibutyrophobia

Answer: Dave Winfield

Winfield was a three-sport star at the University of Minnesota and was drafted by pro teams in three different sports. However, he settled on baseball and never played football or basketball professionally. Thorpe and Sanders played both baseball and football professionally. Perhaps the most unusual two-sport star is Too Tall Jones, who left the Dallas Cowboys after five years to pursue a professioal boxing career.

His boxing career fizzled and he returned to football for another ten seasons with the Cowboys.

However, boxing remains Jones' favorite sport and he is currently (2001) still involved in boxing as the manager of a group of boxers.

Answer: U Thant

U Thant took over in 1961 after Hammarskjold died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo. Waldheim took over from Thant in 1972 and served ten years. Lie was the first Secretary-General, serving 1946-1953, and Boutros-Ghali served 1992-1997.

Answer: parcheesi

Pachisi origiated in India, probably during the sixth century. The name is derived from the Indian word for 'twenty-five', the highest throw of the cowrie-shell dice. Dominoes and go originated in ancient China, whle checkers originated in Europe around the beginning of the twelth century.

Answer: Khartoum

Khartoum is the capital of Sudan. After forming in Khartoum, the Nile then flows north through the rest of Sudan and into Egypt, eventually emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer: epigamic

From the Greek epigamos, for marriageable, consisting of 'epi', meaning 'for', and 'gamos', meaning 'marriage'. The term is usually used to refer to the coloration of animals during the breeding season.