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1. In December 1993, just six years after its prime-time launch, Fox stunned the television industry by outbidding CBS for a package of broadcast rights to what, a move that helped establish Fox as a major network? It fills the blank in [BLANK] on Fox, branding the network has used since the beginning.
Correct Answer: NFL
Your Answer: NFL
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: NFL
Your Answer: NFL
Points Assigned: 1
It was the only thing that came to mind. I remember making fun of the stupid robots playing football.
2. What author, reportedly the best-selling novelist of all time with estimated sales of over 2 billion copies, famously disappeared for 11 days in 1926, prompting a nationwide search before turning up in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under the false name Mrs Teresa Neele?
Correct Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE
Your Answer: Agatha Christie
Points Assigned: 2
2. What author, reportedly the best-selling novelist of all time with estimated sales of over 2 billion copies, famously disappeared for 11 days in 1926, prompting a nationwide search before turning up in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under the false name Mrs Teresa Neele?
Correct Answer: AGATHA CHRISTIE
Your Answer: Agatha Christie
Points Assigned: 2
I didn't realize she was the best-selling novelist of all time, but it was the only female author I could think of from that time period.
3. The 150-mile-long and 84-mile-wide arm of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Skagerrak and the adjoining, similarly sized waterway called the Kattegat link what two seas?
Correct Answer: NORTH SEA, BALTIC SEA
Your Answer: Baltic and North
Points Assigned: 3
3. The 150-mile-long and 84-mile-wide arm of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Skagerrak and the adjoining, similarly sized waterway called the Kattegat link what two seas?
Correct Answer: NORTH SEA, BALTIC SEA
Your Answer: Baltic and North
Points Assigned: 3
I wasn't positive, but again, best guess.
4. The medieval miniatures game Chainmail, co-designed by Gary Gygax in 1971, was a precursor to what seminal game, published three years later, that contributed significantly to an increase in the purchase of icosahedrons?
Correct Answer: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Your Answer: Dungeons and Dragons
Points Assigned: 1
4. The medieval miniatures game Chainmail, co-designed by Gary Gygax in 1971, was a precursor to what seminal game, published three years later, that contributed significantly to an increase in the purchase of icosahedrons?
Correct Answer: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Your Answer: Dungeons and Dragons
Points Assigned: 1
Gimmie for me as I know who Gygax is.
5. What element, the heaviest found naturally on Earth in significant quantities, is closely associated with French physicist Henri Becquerel and is named after an unrelated object discovered by William Herschel in 1781, eight years prior to the element's own discovery?
Correct Answer: URANIUM
Your Answer: Plutonium
Points Assigned: 2
5. What element, the heaviest found naturally on Earth in significant quantities, is closely associated with French physicist Henri Becquerel and is named after an unrelated object discovered by William Herschel in 1781, eight years prior to the element's own discovery?
Correct Answer: URANIUM
Your Answer: Plutonium
Points Assigned: 2
Ugh, stupid miss. Pluto wasn't discovered until the 20th century.
6. What ancient city in present-day southwest Jordan was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom until its annexation by Rome in the early 2nd century CE?
Correct Answer: PETRA
Your Answer: Petra
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie? I was just there in September.
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