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Valid : y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
Quest1: What William Styron book is about a black preacher who leads
Quest2: a slave revolt?
Answer: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Answer: Confessions of Nat Turner
Answer:
valid : Y
points: 1
Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
quest1: What is the most commonly used punctuation mark?
quest2:
answer: The comma
answer: Comma
answer: ,
valid : Y
points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
quest1: What 1932 novel won Pearl Buck a Pulitzer Prize?
quest2:
answer: The Good Earth
answer: Good Earth
answer:
valid : Y
points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
quest1: How many lines are there in a limerick?
quest2:
answer: Five
answer: 5
answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 2
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is the magic phrase in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"?
Quest2:
Answer: Open Sesame
Answer: Open Sesamee
Answer: Open Seasme
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What Homerian epic chronicles events toward the end of the
Quest2: Trojan Wars?
Answer: The Iliad
Answer: Iliad
Answer: Ilyad
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What was William Tell's nationality?
Quest2:
Answer: Swiss
Answer: Swis
Answer: Switzerland
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who was the editor of The Daily Planet?
Quest2:
Answer: Perry White
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who wrote 'Women in Love'?
Quest2:
Answer: D.H. Lawrence
Answer: Lawrence
Answer: D. H. Lawrence
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who is known as "The Father of Western Philosophy"?
Quest2:
Answer: Plato
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What Hans Christian Andersen story has a monarch bamboozled by
Quest2: a tailor?
Answer: The Emperor's New Clothes
Answer: Emperor's New Clothes
Answer: The Emperors New Clothes
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What English mystery writer said: "Give me a decent bottle of poison
Quest2: and I'll construct the perfect crime"?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Answer: Agatha Christy
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What war is the background to George Orwell's
Quest2: "Homage to Catalonia"?
Answer: Spanish Civil War
Answer: The Spanish Civil War
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Who created detective Travis McGee?
Quest2:
Answer: John D. MacDonald
Answer: John MacDonald
Answer: John D. McDonald
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Who created "L'il Abner"?
Quest2:
Answer: Al Capp
Answer: Al Cap
Answer: Capp
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Whose biography is titled "Eleanor: The Lonely Years"?
Quest2:
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer: Roosevelt
Answer: Eleanor Rosevelt
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What was the pupil of Dickens's Fagan?
Quest2:
Answer: Oliver Twist
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What horse race is "National Velvet" centered on?
Quest2:
Answer: The Grand National
Answer: Grand National
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What was Pinocchio's father's name?
Quest2:
Answer: Geppetto
Answer: Gepetto
Answer: Gapetto
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What creature is Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom,
Quest2: associated with?
Answer: Owl
Answer: The Owl
Answer: An Owl
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for "Tales of the
Quest2: South Pacific"?
Answer: James Michener
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What's the best-known artificial international language?
Quest2:
Answer: Esperanto
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Whose biography by Nancy Mitford is titled "Zelda"?
Quest2:
Answer: Zelda Fitzgerald
Answer: Fitzgerald
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What type of humorous verse might begin: "There once was a main
Quest2: from Nantucket"?
Answer: Limerick
Answer: A Limerick
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What Peter Shaffer play is about a boy who blinds six horses?
Quest2:
Answer: Equus
Answer: Equs
Answer:
valid : y
points: 3
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What U.S. state is George Washington's Mount Vernon in?
quest2:
answer: Virginia
answer: VA
answer:
valid : Y
points: 3
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What continent does Lake Titicaca beautify?
quest2:
answer: South America
answer:
answer:
valid : Y
points: 3
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What island is Pearl Harbor on?
quest2:
answer: Oahu
answer:
answer:
valid : Y
points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What two cities are at the ends of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
quest2: (ie: Dallas AND Houston)
answer: Moscow and Vladivostok
answer: Vladivostok and Moscow
answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What country contains the greater lengths of the Tigris and Euphrates
Quest2: rivers?
Answer: Iraq
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What African city is built on gold?
Quest2:
Answer: Johannesburg
Answer: Johanesburg
Answer: Johannesberg
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What continent pushes up the Atlas Mountains?
Quest2:
Answer: Africa
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is the United States' biggest trading partner?
Quest2:
Answer: Canada
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What famed London criminal court was once a feudal castle?
Quest2:
Answer: The Old Bailey
Answer: The Olde Bailey
Answer: Old Bailey
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is the highest mountain in the United States?
Quest2:
Answer: Mount McKinley
Answer: McKinley
Answer: Mt. McKinley
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is the second largest city in Illinois? (Hint 90 miles NW of
Quest2: Chicago)
Answer: Rockford
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What Rocky Mountain ridge separates North America's eastward and
Quest2: westward flowing rivers?
Answer: The Continental Divide
Answer: Continental Divide
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: Where is the bulk of the Pampas?
Quest2:
Answer: Argentina
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What major city is on an island in the St. Lawrence River?
Quest2:
Answer: Montreal
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What desert has been called "The Garden of Allah"?
Quest2:
Answer: The Sahara
Answer: Sahara
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What square is the geographical center of London?
Quest2:
Answer: Trafalgar Square
Answer: Trafalgar
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What South American city does an 82-foot statue of
Quest2: Christ overlook?
Answer: Rio De Janeiro
Answer: Rio De Janero
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What country is home to the Bank of Alexandria?
Quest2:
Answer: Egypt
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What nationality is a Breton?
Quest2:
Answer: French
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What Russian city boasts the Hermitage Musuem?
Quest2:
Answer: Leningrad
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What country would you be in if you wiled away the time
Quest2: playing a didjeridoo in Wagga Wagga?
Answer: Australia
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What are the residents of the island of Lesbos called?
Quest2:
Answer: Lesbosians
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What continent contains Queen Maud Land, Wilkes Land,
Quest2: and Bird Land?
Answer: Antarctica
Answer: Antartica
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What river is spanned by the Rainbow Bridge?
Quest2:
Answer: The Niagara
Answer: Niagara
Answer: The Niagra
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What extends more than 600 miles from northwestern
Quest2: California to the Gulf of California?
Answer: The San Andreas Fault
Answer: San Andreas Fault
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What's the third-largest state in the U.S.?
Quest2:
Answer: California
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
Quest1: What's the largest country entirely within the
Quest2: Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Australia
Answer:
Answer:
valid : y
points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What terrorist group was headed by Donald DeFreeze?
quest2:
answer: Symbionese Liberation Army
answer: SLA
answer:
valid : Y
points: 4
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What country was the victim of a Russian invasion in 1956?
quest2:
answer: Hungary
answer:
answer:
valid : Y
points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe?
quest2:
answer: Arthur Miller
answer:
answer:
valid : Y
points: 5
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: How many states did Richard Nixon carry in 1972?
quest2:
answer: Forty-nine
answer: Forty nine
answer: 49
valid : Y
points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What did Winston Churchill describe as
quest2 "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?
answer: Russia
answer: Soviet Union
answer: USSR
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What peace treaty ended World War I?
Quest2:
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
Answer: Versailles
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What gold rush was started by Skookum Jim, Tagish Charlie, and
Quest2: George Carmacks?
Answer: The Klondike Gold Rush
Answer: Klondike
Answer: Klondike Gold Rush
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What major North Vietnamese port was mined by the United States?
Quest2:
Answer: Haiphong
Answer: Haipong
Answer: Haifong
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What English explorer discovered and named Virginia?
Quest2:
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Answer: Walter Raleigh
Answer: Sir Walter Raliegh
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What was Bella Abzug's sartorical trademark?
Quest2:
Answer: A hat
Answer: Hat
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What was the first railroad to cross the United States?
Quest2:
Answer: The Union Pacific
Answer: Union Pacific
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: Who addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a gun in
Quest2: his belt?
Answer: Yasser Arafat
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 2
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What started in 1849 when gold was discovered
Quest2: at Sutter's Mill?
Answer: The California Gold Rush
Answer: California Gold Rush
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What's the usual age for a Jewish boy to celebrate
Quest2: his bar mitzvah?
Answer: 13
Answer: Thirteen
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What opera singer said: "First I lost my weight.
Quest2: Then I lost my voice. Now I've lost Onassis"?
Answer: Maria Callas
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: How many died at Kent State?
Quest2:
Answer: 4
Answer: Four
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What are adherents to the Society of Friends called?
Quest2:
Answer: Quakers
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What organization was founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell?
Quest2:
Answer: Moral Majority
Answer: The Moral Majority
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who was secretary-general of the United Nations
Quest2: during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: U Thant
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who made Chinese film actress Chiang Chin his
Quest2: fourth wife?
Answer: Mao Tse-Tung
Answer: Mao Tse Tung
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What civil war was fought between 1936 and 1939?
Quest2:
Answer: Spanish Civil War
Answer: The Spanish Civil War
Answer: Spanish
Valid : Y
Points: 2
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What rifle accessory originated in Bayonne,
Quest2: France in 1641?
Answer: Bayonet
Answer: Bayonette
Answer: Bayonnett
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: Who founded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Quest2:
Answer: William Penn
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What mayor welcomed John F. Kennedy to West Berlin?
Quest2:
Answer: Willy Brandt
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What country did Germany invade on Sept. 1, 1939?
Quest2:
Answer: Poland
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What U.S. president's new conferences were called
Quest2: the best matinee in town?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
Answer: John Kennedy
Answer: JFK
valid : y
points: 3
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What airline operates the tours at the Kennedy Space Center?
quest2:
answer: Trans World Airlines
answer: TransWorld Airlines
answer: TWA
valid : Y
points: 7
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: Who invented the box that psychologists use to shock rats?
quest2:
answer: B.F. Skinner
answer: B. F. Skinner
answer: B F Skinner
valid : Y
points: 4
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What term describes an animal with a constant blood temperature?
quest2:
answer: warm-blooded
answer: warm blooded
answer:
valid : Y
points: 3
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: What is the largest artery in the human body?
quest2:
answer: Aorta
answer: The aorta
answer:
valid : Y
points: 6
Author: SYSOP*Keith
quest1: How many bones are there in the human body?
quest2:
answer: 206
answer: Two hundred and six
answer: Two hundred six
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is a newly hatched swan called?
Quest2:
Answer: cygnet
Answer: A cygnet
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What is your zodiacal sign if you're born on July 15th?
Quest2:
Answer: Cancer
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What animal has been called the poor mn's cow?
Quest2:
Answer: The goat
Answer: Goat
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What drug was named for Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams?
Quest2:
Answer: Morphine
Answer: Morophine
Answer: Moraphine
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What weed's name derives from the French for 'tooth of the lion'?
Quest2:
Answer: The Dandelion
Answer: Dandelion
Answer: The Dandelion's
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Sysop*Tom
Quest1: What does an autophobe avoid referring to?
Quest2:
Answer: Himself
Answer: Self
Answer: Herself
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What's the favorite food of dragonflies?
Quest2:
Answer: Mosquitoes
Answer: Mosquitos
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What Italian astronomer wrote "The Starry Messenger"?
Quest2:
Answer: Galileo
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What's the common term for the tympanic membrane?
Quest2:
Answer: Eardrum
Answer: Ear drum
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What's a woofer?
Quest2:
Answer: A speaker
Answer: Speaker
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What gives beer is distinctive bitter flavor?
Quest2:
Answer: Hops
Answer: The hops
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What falls out when you suffer from phalacrosis?
Quest2:
Answer: Your hair
Answer: hair
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What non-working, stingless bee mates with the queen?
Quest2:
Answer: Drone
Answer: A Drone
Answer: The Drone
Valid : Y
Points: 2
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: How many daily tides are there?
Quest2:
Answer: Two
Answer: 2
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What's a second full moon in a month called?
Quest2:
Answer: Blue Moon
Answer: A Blue Moon
Answer: Blue
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What's the fruit of the "Ananas comosus"?
Quest2:
Answer: Pineapple
Answer: A Pineapple
Answer: The Pineapple
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What Russian physiologist went to the dogs to write
Quest2: "Conditioned Reflexes"?
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
Answer: Pavlov
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What fabric are Harris, Lewis and Donegal the leading
Quest2: examples of?
Answer: Tweed
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: How many wisdom teeth are there in a normal set of teeth?
Quest2:
Answer: Four
Answer: 4
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What is the fruit of a rosebush called?
Quest2:
Answer: The hip
Answer: Hip
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Joe S. Smith
Quest1: What does an androphobic maiden fear?
Quest2:
Answer: Men
Answer: Man
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who is the sysop of Compu-erotica BBS, 312-425-6061 ?
Quest2:
Answer: KOLONEL KINK
Answer: KINK
Answer: POLLY PUREPUSSY
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What's long and hard for a man?
Quest2:
Answer: MARRIAGE
Answer:
Answer: