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Chessart's Fifth Millionaire Quiz


A variety of questions, starting easy and getting harder.

A multiple-choice quiz by chessart. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
chessart
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
59,340
Updated
Aug 27 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
15464
Last 3 plays: Guest 76 (0/15), Guest 175 (8/15), Guest 50 (9/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. One of the giants of the cinema during the 1940s, he starred in 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Casablanca', 'To Have and Have Not', and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. The songwriting duo of Rodgers and ________________ dominated Broadway during the 1940s and 1950s with a series of smash hits. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Who is the author of 'Treasure Island', and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Which city is known as the 'City of Light'? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What do the films 'Hurricane', 'The Thin Blue Line', 'Cry in the Dark', and 'Breaker Morant' have in common? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Which architect invented the geodesic dome? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. In what part of the body would one's mandible be found? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Which well-known lawyer defended labor activists Eugene Debs and Bill Haywood, thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and biology teacher John Scopes? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Valery Brumel and Dick Fosbury won Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968, respectively, in which event? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. Pb is the chemical symbol for which element? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What is the largest moon in our solar system? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What is 5 factorial (usually written as 5!)? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Which animal has been known by the nicknames 'devil's darning needle', 'horse stinger', and 'devil's steelyard'? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. What is the oldest sport in North America? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Sinclair Lewis' book 'Main Street', a caustic look at small town life, was based on his childhood in what Minnesota town? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. One of the giants of the cinema during the 1940s, he starred in 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Casablanca', 'To Have and Have Not', and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Bogart finally won an Oscar in 1952 for 'The African Queen'.
2. The songwriting duo of Rodgers and ________________ dominated Broadway during the 1940s and 1950s with a series of smash hits.

Answer: Hammerstein

Their many hits include 'Oklahoma', 'Carousel', 'South Pacific', 'The King and I', and 'The Sound of Music', all later made into films. All told, Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals won a total of 34 Tony Awards and 13 Oscars.
3. Who is the author of 'Treasure Island', and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'?

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Which city is known as the 'City of Light'?

Answer: Paris

5. What do the films 'Hurricane', 'The Thin Blue Line', 'Cry in the Dark', and 'Breaker Morant' have in common?

Answer: Innocent people accused of a crime

6. Which architect invented the geodesic dome?

Answer: Buckminster Fuller

A true Renaissance man, Fuller was also an inventor, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. The originator of the term 'Spaceship Earth', he devoted his life's work to finding ways to use technology to make better use of the world's resources.

For example, he was one of the earliest proponents of renewable energy sources. His geodesic dome remains the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised.
7. In what part of the body would one's mandible be found?

Answer: Head

The mandible is your lower jawbone, said to be the hardest bone in the body.
8. Which well-known lawyer defended labor activists Eugene Debs and Bill Haywood, thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and biology teacher John Scopes?

Answer: Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was counsel for the Chicago and North Western Railway, but sympathized with the plight of the worker and became the nation's most outspoken Labor advocate. In 1924 he defended Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who had killed a young boy for sport, and saved them from the death penalty. Perhaps his most famous case was the 1925 'Scopes Monkey Trial', in which he challenged the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution.

The film 'Inherit the Wind' incorporates some of the actual trial transcript, showing Darrow making William Jennings Bryan look foolish and inept in Bryan's attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible.
9. Valery Brumel and Dick Fosbury won Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968, respectively, in which event?

Answer: High jump

Brumel and Fosbury are two of the most famous names in the history of the high jump. The Soviet Brumel held the world record from 1961 to 1971. He broke his leg in a 1965 motorcycle accident and was never the same after that, though he did start jumping again in 1969 after 27 operations. Dick Fosbury is the inventor of the 'Fosbury flop', a new technique of going over the bar headfirst and backwards which he began experimenting with while still in high school.

Although his coach predicted imitators of the technique would wind up with broken necks, 12 years later 13 of the 16 Olympic finalists were using the Fosbury flop, with no broken necks resulting.
10. Pb is the chemical symbol for which element?

Answer: Lead

From 'plumbum', the Latin name for lead.
11. What is the largest moon in our solar system?

Answer: Ganymede

With a diameter of 3,280 miles, Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than two planets, Mercury and Pluto. The others listed are the next three largest satellites in our solar system. Titan is a moon of Saturn, and the other two are moons of Jupiter.
12. What is 5 factorial (usually written as 5!)?

Answer: 120

The factorial of an integer is the product of all the integers from one up to, and including, that integer. So 5!=1x2x3x4x5=120. 720, then would be 6!
13. Which animal has been known by the nicknames 'devil's darning needle', 'horse stinger', and 'devil's steelyard'?

Answer: Dragonfly

14. What is the oldest sport in North America?

Answer: Lacrosse

Native Americans played lacrosse as early as the 1400s, sometimes playing it with hundreds or even thousands of players, as training for battle. A Jesuit missionary observed the Huron Indians playing it in the 1600s, and out of that evolved the French name 'lacrosse'.
15. Sinclair Lewis' book 'Main Street', a caustic look at small town life, was based on his childhood in what Minnesota town?

Answer: Sauk Centre

Sauk Centre now advertises itself as the boyhood home of Sinclair Lewis, although in the years immediately following the publication of 'Main Street', the town resented the unflattering portrait of small town life contained in the book. Walnut Grove is one of the childhood homes of the Ingalls family, popularized in Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House on the Prairie' series.
Source: Author chessart

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