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Correct Answer: PIPPIN
Your Answer: Bird
Points Assigned: 1
Damn, I wrote out a list 40 something players that would have made the list by 1950 and Pippen was on it.
2. What last name fills in the blank in this chronological (and partial) list? Petrosian, Spassky, [BLANK], Karpov, Kasparov.
Correct Answer: FISCHER
Your Answer: Fisher
Points Assigned: 0
2. What last name fills in the blank in this chronological (and partial) list? Petrosian, Spassky, [BLANK], Karpov, Kasparov.
Correct Answer: FISCHER
Your Answer: Fisher
Points Assigned: 0
Feels like a gimmie.
3. Hard to Swallow was the name of a heavy-metal album (and, in the view of some reviewers and listeners, an accurate description of the album) released in 1998 by what artist? He was attempting a change of direction after his extremely successful 1990 hip hop debut, To the Extreme, which remains one of the bestselling hip hop albums of all time (though it was also mostly critically derided).
Correct Answer: VANILLA ICE
Your Answer: Vanilla Ice
Points Assigned: 1
3. Hard to Swallow was the name of a heavy-metal album (and, in the view of some reviewers and listeners, an accurate description of the album) released in 1998 by what artist? He was attempting a change of direction after his extremely successful 1990 hip hop debut, To the Extreme, which remains one of the bestselling hip hop albums of all time (though it was also mostly critically derided).
Correct Answer: VANILLA ICE
Your Answer: Vanilla Ice
Points Assigned: 1
I sort of remembered him putting out a heavy metal album.
4. A nationalist political party devoted to the causes of Welsh independence and the recognition of Welsh language, culture, and economy is commonly known by a two-word name. That first word is "Plaid" (Welsh for "Party"); what is the second word?
Correct Answer: CYMRU
Your Answer: Welsh
Points Assigned: 2
4. A nationalist political party devoted to the causes of Welsh independence and the recognition of Welsh language, culture, and economy is commonly known by a two-word name. That first word is "Plaid" (Welsh for "Party"); what is the second word?
Correct Answer: CYMRU
Your Answer: Welsh
Points Assigned: 2
I knew it was a word for Wales in Welsh, but could not remember that word.
5. A simple and rough grid of made-up objects (chent, tiv, enker, hackeb, etc.) comprises the 1978 cartoon "Little Things", which was the first piece published in The New Yorker by what cartoonist? She would go on to publish more than 800 additional cartoons in the magazine over the next 45 years (and counting)—including, in 1986, her first cover, which pictured a man in a lab coat presenting an ice cream chart.
Correct Answer: ROZ CHAST
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 3
5. A simple and rough grid of made-up objects (chent, tiv, enker, hackeb, etc.) comprises the 1978 cartoon "Little Things", which was the first piece published in The New Yorker by what cartoonist? She would go on to publish more than 800 additional cartoons in the magazine over the next 45 years (and counting)—including, in 1986, her first cover, which pictured a man in a lab coat presenting an ice cream chart.
Correct Answer: ROZ CHAST
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 3
Never heard of her.
6. Gary Ewing, Karen Fairgate McKenzie, Valene Ewing Gibson Valeska, and Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner were among the longtime characters on an eventful drama series that ran from 1979 to 1993 and was set, in large part, on a cul-de-sac in a quiet Southern California community with what name?
Correct Answer: KNOTS LANDING
Your Answer: Santa Barbara
Points Assigned: 2
6. Gary Ewing, Karen Fairgate McKenzie, Valene Ewing Gibson Valeska, and Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner were among the longtime characters on an eventful drama series that ran from 1979 to 1993 and was set, in large part, on a cul-de-sac in a quiet Southern California community with what name?
Correct Answer: KNOTS LANDING
Your Answer: Santa Barbara
Points Assigned: 2
Nope!
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