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Chessart's Sixth Millionaire Quiz

The questions start easy, and get harder as you go along.

A multiple-choice quiz by chessart. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
chessart

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
59,607

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
8975

Last 3 plays: Guest 136 (12/15), Hayes1953 (10/15), alanspencer202 (8/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. Which group did the rock opera 'Tommy'? Hint

The Rolling Stones

Queen

The Yardbirds

The Who

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Question 2 of 15

2. Ernest Thayer's classic poem 'Casey at the Bat' takes place in which mythical town? Hint

Smallville

Beantown

Whoville

Mudville

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which city is known as the 'Eternal City'? Hint

Paris

Rome

Cairo

Baghdad

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Question 4 of 15

4. Which American songwriter wrote 'Cheek to Cheek', 'White Christmas', 'Blue Skies', and 'God Bless America'? Hint

George Gershwin

Irving Berlin

Cole Porter

Harold Arlen

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Question 5 of 15

5. The term 'yuppie' is short for what phrase? Hint

yogurt, puppies, and pies

young urban professionals

young party programmers

young people partying

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Question 6 of 15

6. Au is the chemical symbol for which element? Hint

gold

oxygen

silver

mercury

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Question 7 of 15

7. The Bosphorus Strait lies between which two continents? Hint

Europe and Asia

North and South America

Africa and Asia

North America and Asia

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Question 8 of 15

8. The films 'City Lights', 'The Miracle Woman', 'Butterflies are Free', and 'Wait until Dark' each has a main character who is_________. Hint

blind

deaf

crippled

aged

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Question 9 of 15

9. 'After all the highways, and the trains, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive,' is a quote from which of the following plays? Hint

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Picinic

A Streetcar Named Desire

Death of a Salesman

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Question 10 of 15

10. Jim Thorpe won the decathlon at the 1912 Olympics but was denied the gold medal. Why? Hint

He bumped another runner in the 1500-meter run.

He refused to participate in the award ceremony, in protest of the treatment of Native Americans.

He tested positive for an illegal substance.

He had played professional baseball.

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Question 11 of 15

11. What is Wiley Post's claim to fame? Hint

He invented Post Toasties.

He was the first to fly solo around the world.

He won more cinematography Oscars than anyone else.

He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize.

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Question 12 of 15

12. Which architect designed the Sydney Opera House? Hint

I. M. Pei

Maya Lin

Frank Lloyd Wright

Joern Utzon

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Question 13 of 15

13. What is the sum of all the integers from one up to, and including, 100? Hint

10101

7500

2525

5050

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Question 14 of 15

14. Which of the following radio shows was on TV before it began on radio? Hint

Our Miss Brooks

Gunsmoke

Have Gun, Will Travel

Amos 'n' Andy

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Question 15 of 15

15. Which country won four out of the five gold medals in badminton at the 2000 Sydney Olympics? Hint

Denmark

Indonesia

China

South Korea

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which group did the rock opera 'Tommy'?

Answer: The Who

2. Ernest Thayer's classic poem 'Casey at the Bat' takes place in which mythical town?

Answer: Mudville

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out!

3. Which city is known as the 'Eternal City'?

Answer: Rome

4. Which American songwriter wrote 'Cheek to Cheek', 'White Christmas', 'Blue Skies', and 'God Bless America'?

Answer: Irving Berlin

The son of poor Jewish immigrants, Berlin became famous at age 23 with 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'. He died in his New York town house in 1989 at the age of 101.

5. The term 'yuppie' is short for what phrase?

Answer: young urban professionals

6. Au is the chemical symbol for which element?

Answer: gold

From 'aurum', the Latin name for gold.

7. The Bosphorus Strait lies between which two continents?

Answer: Europe and Asia

The Bosphorus Strait flows through Istanbul, the Turkish city which lies partly in Europe and partly in Asia.

8. The films 'City Lights', 'The Miracle Woman', 'Butterflies are Free', and 'Wait until Dark' each has a main character who is_________.

Answer: blind

9. 'After all the highways, and the trains, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive,' is a quote from which of the following plays?

Answer: Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller's poignant portrayal of an aging salesman.

10. Jim Thorpe won the decathlon at the 1912 Olympics but was denied the gold medal. Why?

Answer: He had played professional baseball.

The archaic Olympic rules have been relaxed now. The idea that all Olympic athletes were amateurs always was somewhat of a myth, as substantial 'expense' money was sometimes paid to the athletes to finance their training and participation.

11. What is Wiley Post's claim to fame?

Answer: He was the first to fly solo around the world.

He accomplished this in 1933. Post died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935.

12. Which architect designed the Sydney Opera House?

Answer: Joern Utzon

Utzon won the 1955 design competition after his drawing was rescued from the reject pile by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen. However, Utzon quit the project in disgust in 1966 and returned to his native Denmark, after disputes broke out during the building of the opera house.

The project took 14 years to complete, with a final price tag of $102 million, a far cry from the original estimate of $7 million. As of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Utzon had still not returned to Australia to see the finished work. Utzon was finally awarded architecture's Pritzker Prize in 2003.

13. What is the sum of all the integers from one up to, and including, 100?

Answer: 5050

There is an easy forumla for this: the sum of all the numbers up to, and including, n is equal to n(n+1) divided by 2. The easiest way to do this is to divide the even number by 2 (either n or n+1 will be even), and then multiply that by the odd number. So the answer is 100 divided by 2, or 50, times 101, which is 5050.

14. Which of the following radio shows was on TV before it began on radio?

Answer: Have Gun, Will Travel

'Have Gun, Will Travel' began on TV in 1957 and on radio the following year. 'Our Miss Brooks' began on radio in 1948, and on TV in 1952. 'Gunsmoke' began on radio in 1952 and on TV in 1955. Amos 'n' Andy premiered on radio way back in 1928; it lasted almost 30 years and was the most popular radio program ever. It had its TV run from 1951 to 1953.

15. Which country won four out of the five gold medals in badminton at the 2000 Sydney Olympics?

Answer: China

Although Indonesia has traditionally been the badminton powerhouse, China's performance in Sydney demonstrates that it has taken over as number one.

Source: Author chessart

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