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This quiz has been taken 154 times
The average score is 19 of 60

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS	$400	Your weight on this now-dwarf planet would be just .07 of your weight on Earth; that's quite a demotion	Pluto	92%
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS	$200	On this least massive planet, you'd be .38 of your earth weight, & very hot	Mercury	90%
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS	$800	If you could stand on the surface of this giant gas giant, you'd weigh 2.53 times as much as you do on Earth	Jupiter	88%
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS	$600	On this planet we have a friend we call Oppy, who weighed 384 pounds on Earth but is 146 up there	Mars	83%
HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES	$200	Adjective for a job of less than a standard number of hours a week	part-time	82%
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS	$1000	An object's weight on Venus is almost the same as it would be on the surface of this much larger planet discovered in 1781	Uranus	82%
IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME	$800	In 2013 this country stripped birthright citizenship from thousands: the resident children of migrants from neighboring Haiti	the Dominican Republic	70%
IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME	$1200	In 2020 all 10 seasons of this show will not "be there for you" on Netflix, when WarnerMedia pulls it from the service	Friends	69%
HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES	$400	It describes a man's smooth face with all its whiskers removed	clean-shaven	67%
THE NEW SCHOOL	$400	BSU for short, this Idaho school has a blue artificial turf field, much to the displeasure of football purists	Boise State	62%
IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME	$400	In 2019 this shipping company ended its U.S. air & ground delivery contracts with Amazon	FedEx	62%
THE NEW SCHOOL	$200	In the 1960s Marist College in Poughkeepsie began admitting them, just as nearby Vassar stopped admitting only them	women	58%
& THEN THERE WERE NUNS	$400	Letters published after her 1997 death revealed her years of spiritual torment & belief that she was reliving Christ's passion	Mother Teresa	51%
"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET	$200	This flat hat is the Basque equivalent of the Scottish tam-o'-shanter	a beret	50%
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES	$1600	The Greeks use the motto "Eleftheria i thanatos", "freedom or" this	death	49%
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES	$800	Title of Charles Berlitz' 1974 bestseller about the ships & planes that have vanished in an area, of the Atlantic	The Bermuda Triangle	49%
1980s POP LYRICS	$200	The Police: "Oh, can't you see you belong to me"	"Every Breath You Take""	47%
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES	$800	"Oro y plata" is a Spanish motto mentioning these 2 elements	gold & silver	42%
"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET	$600	Oddjob in "Goldfinger" wore this type of hat	a bowler	39%
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES	$400	Written by Elliott Roosevelt, "Murder in" this room features his mom, Eleanor, solving a homicide in the White House	the Oval Office	39%
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES	$400	A German motto states, "alles mit der zeit", "everything comes in" this	time	39%
1980s POP LYRICS	$400	Madonna: " 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. right"	"Material Girl""	38%
THE NEW SCHOOL	$800	Alumni of The New School in NYC include this actor, just a few years before he memorably called for Stella	Marlon Brando	31%
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES	$1200	Burundi's motto is "Unité, Travail, Progrès", meaning "unity," this,"progress"	work	31%
1980s POP LYRICS	$600	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: "I saw him dancin' there by the record machine"	"I Love Rock \'N Roll""	29%
SURINAME	$400	It's Suriname's colonial heritage & came before "Guiana" in the country's old name	Dutch	28%
BEST DIRECTOR TWICE	$400	"Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi", this man seen here	Ang Lee	27%
"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET	$800	These guardians of the Tower of London AKA Yeoman Warders wear a Tudor-period uniform that includes a black hat	Beefeaters	26%
HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES	$800	Hyphenated adjective for "gains" made criminally or unfairly	ill-gotten	26%
HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES	$1000	Adjective for one who always seems to have a greater than average number of mishaps	accident-prone	25%
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES	$2000	The French faithful know "Tout pour l'église", "All for" this	the church	24%
"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET	$400	The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that break-dancers often wear these "sideways or backward"	baseball caps	22%
FIRST NAME	$800	Socialist candidate Debs, middle initial V.	Eugene	21%
1980s POP LYRICS	$800	Bruce Springsteen: "I'm ten years burning down the road"	"Born In The U.S.A.""	19%
HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES	$600	There's no "-proof" in this adjective often seen on kids' PJs & meaning designed to fend off flames	fire-resistant	19%
FIRST NAME	$200	Steamboat whiz Fulton	Robert	19%
SURINAME	$800	After winning independence in 1975, Suriname endured these internal military takeovers in 1980 & 1990	coups	17%
FIRST NAME	$400	19th century "Pathfinder" & politician Fremont	John	17%
SURINAME	$1600	Like the U.S. in the 1970s, Suriname in the 1980s battled militants called the SLA, the Suriname this	Liberation Army	17%
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES	$2000	In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location	Times Square	17%
& THEN THERE WERE NUNS	$1200	A follower of St. Francis, St. Clare of this Italian town took her vows in 1212, founding a new order	Assisi	14%
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES	$1600	It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever	the Child Star	14%
RANKS & TITLES	N/A	Canada, Belgium & the U.S. are among nations that bestow this artistic title that dates to the Greeks & a tree sacred to Apollo	(Poet) Laureate	13%
THE NEW SCHOOL	$1000	Established in Fairfax to fill a need for higher ed in Northern Va., it's named for a man who helped shape the Constitution	George Mason	12%
BEST DIRECTOR TWICE	$800	"Gravity" & "Roma"	Alfonso Cuarón	11%
1980s POP LYRICS	$1000	Janet Jackson: "No, my first name ain't baby, it's Janet"	"Nasty""	11%
FIRST NAME	$1000	Lorenzo de Medici's paternal grandfather	Cosimo	10%
THE NEW SCHOOL	$600	Florida International U. was planned in an old air control tower now called this type of "tower", a symbol of academic life	ivory tower	10%
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES	$1200	This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film	(The) Circle	10%
"PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET	$1000	This men's hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning "two-horned"	a bicorne	9%
BEST DIRECTOR TWICE	$2000	"The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment"	Billy Wilder	7%
BEST DIRECTOR TWICE	$1600	"The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia"	David Lean	7%
SURINAME	$1200	Suriname is rich in shorebirds like a 1-ounce species of this one with "sand" in its name that migrates from the Arctic	sandpiper	7%
SURINAME	$2000	Alcoa began mining this aluminum ore in Suriname in 1916 but began pulling out in 2017	bauxite	4%
BEST DIRECTOR TWICE	$1200	"Gentleman's Agreement" & "On the Waterfront"	Elia Kazan	4%
IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME	$1600	VP Richard Johnson lived openly with a female slave--one reason this party dropped him from the 1840 ticket with Martin Van Buren	the Democratic Party	4%
& THEN THERE WERE NUNS	$1600	This art nun, who became an unlikely BBC and PBS star with TV series like her "Story of Painting", passed away in 2018 at the age of 88	Sister Wendy	3%
FIRST NAME	$600	Novelist & sometime Iowa resident	Jane	1%
& THEN THERE WERE NUNS	$2000	Her books include "Dead Man Walking" & "River of Fire", a 2019 memoir about becoming an activist	Sister Helen Prejean	1%
IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME	$2000	Only 1.17% of this new African country's population voted to stay with the old country in 2011	Southern (South) Sudan	0%