2013 Christmas Quiz
This year's challenging quiz is designed
for the entire family. Split everyone into two teams, the bigger the better. No
fair using computers, iPhones, tablets, or any other digital devices.
Hopefully these mental gymnastics will evoke
some wonderful memories, lively discussions, peals of laughter and a short
respite from the icy winds of change sweeping our country.
"May the Force be with you!"
1. Letter Lottery - (4
points for each correct answer)
(Example: KFC = Kentucky
Fried Chicken)
a. GELND
b. TABPSSLCPOOASSB
(hint: the first "S" is for special)
c.
FSASYAOFBFOTCANNCILADTTPTAMACE
d.
IPATTFOTUSOAATTRFWISONUGIWLAJFA
e.
TTNBCAATTHNACWSNEAM
2. Name the author (2
points) and decade (3 points) when this work was first published.
a. "The Widow
Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was
rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and
decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer
I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and
satisfied."
b. "Harry scanned
the moving photograph, and a grin spread across his face as he saw all nine of
the Weasleys waving furiously at him...Right in the middle of the picture was
Ron, tall and gangling, with his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder..."
c. "Lawyers
can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and
masks." - Don Vito Corleone
d.
"A huge head, bristling with red hair; between his shoulders an enormous
hump, a counterpart perceptible in front; a system of thighs and legs so
strangely astray that they could touch each other only at the knees, and,
viewed from the front, resembled the crescents of two scythes joined by the
handles; large feet, monstrous hands; and, with all this deformity, an
indescribable and redoubtable air of vigor, agility, and courage,--strange
exception to the eternal rule which wills that force as well as beauty shall be
the result of harmony. Such was the pope whom the fools had just chosen for
themselves."
e. I remember him
as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest
following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man,
his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands
ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one
cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and
whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song
that he sang so often afterwards:
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
3. Name the player (2
points), team (1 point), and the year (3 points) of the NFL record.
a. Most Touchdown
Passes Thrown, Single Season
b. Most Touchdown Passes
Received, Single Season
c. Most Touchdowns
Rushing, Single Season
4. Name the player (3
points) and year of the event (3 points) - MLB
a. The pitcher
that gave up George Brett's "Pine Tar" home run
b. The pitcher that gave
up Kirk Gibson's immortal "World Series Game 1" home run
c. The pitcher
that gave up Willie Mays's first home run
5. What product do all
these companies manufacture? (7 points)
a. SBIG, QSI, AIS,
Starlight Xpress, FLI
6. Medical
Mysteries (3 points for each correct answer)
a. From a global
perspective and on an annual basis, which non-viral infectious disease causes
the greatest number of human deaths?
b. How many bones are
present in the normal adult human skeleton?
c. Humans have
three color vision pigments; how many does the mantis shrimp have?
d. What is the most
common cause of non-scarring madarosis in humans living on the Indian
subcontinent?
e. French
impressionist Claude Monet, especially with his renditions of water lilies,
showed the reversible vision loss of what condition?
7. Where in the
world? (3 points for each correct answer)
a. What is farther
north, Denver, Co or Columbus, Ohio?
b. What is father west,
Tokyo, Japan or Darwin, Australia?
c. What is farther
south, Juneau, Alaska or Oslo, Norway?
d. What is farther east,
Berlin, Germany, or Naples, Italy?
8. Name the actor (3
points), the movie character's name (4 points), and the year of the
movies' release (3 points)
a. "Close
your mouth please, Michael. We are not a codfish. Well, don't stand there
staring. Best foot forward. Spit spot!"
b. "You and I have
a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and
phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?"
c. "What
hump?"
d. "We sat and
drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have
been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all
creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange
little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer."
e. "Never
mind, Houston, never mind the story! Ah. It's starting to get hot in here. The
way I see it, there are only two possible outcomes. Either I make it down there
in one piece and I have one hell of a story to tell! Or I burn up in the next
ten minutes. Either way, whichever way... no harm, no foul! Because either way,
it's going to be one hell of a ride! I'm ready."
f. Double Points:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off
the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the
Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in
rain... Time to die."
g. Double Points:
"Where are his boots?" "Put his boots on, Clute. And his
gun belt, and his spurs."
9. What is noteworthy
about these Americans? (3 points for each correct answer)
a. John Basilone
b. John Singer Sargent
c. Theodore Malman
and Gordon Gould
d. George Hincapie
e. John Enders and
Thomas Peebles
f. Edwin Hubble
g. Double Points: Irma
S. Rombauer
h. Double Points: Sam
Rayburn
10. Fill in this famous sentence (7
points)
__ ____ _____ _____ __ __ ____-_______, ____ ___
___ are ______ _____, ____ ____ ___ ______ __ _____ ______ ____ ______
__________ _______, ____ _____ ____ ___ ___, _____, ___ the ______ __
_________.
11. Cooking Fun: (3 points for
each correct definition.)
a. aiguillette
b. jaccart
c. fond
d. quadrille
e. morel
f. spatchcocking
12. Lightening Round: (3 points for
each correct answer)
a. Name the three
authors of the Federalist Papers (3 point each)
b. Who wrote
"Goodnight Moon?
c. What was the
first name of Freud's daughter?
d. What mental illness
was portrayed in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind"?
e. Who said,
"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the
strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."?
f. Claymores often
featured a ricasso. What's a claymore? (3 points) What's a ricasso? (3 points)
g. True or false. John
Madden coached at San Jose State for three years.
h. What is this organic
chemical compound? C6H6
13. Bonus Question (10 points!)
What do theses men have in common?
Archimedes, Galileo, Leo Szilard, Omar Khayam,
Tyco Brahe, Aristotle, George Hale, Gregor Mendel, Marco Polo, Julius Casear,
and Nikola Tesla.
Answers here.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/assets/The%202013%20Christmas%20Quiz%20Answers.pdf
A special thanks to Dr. Janice, Dr. Bob, IMDB and Dr. Thomas Parker
from the University of Arizona. Dr. Parker, you made ancient history so vibrant
and alive for me, forty-two years ago.
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