Quiz #19 answers

1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

2. Ankara

3. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

4. bourbon whiskey [half point for saying “whiskey”]

5. three consecutive strikes

6. to quitting an undesirable behavior suddenly and completely, not gradually

7. to speak bluntly and honestly; to get to the heart of the matter

8. Benjamin Franklin

9. WKRP in Cincinnati

10. the wattle (The thing that protrudes above the beak is called as snood. Both become enlarged when the bird is aroused.)

11. the internal organs (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), generally

12. “Turkey in the Straw”

Quiz #19 answers

1. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

2. Ankara

3. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

4. bourbon whiskey [half point for saying “whiskey”]

5. three consecutive strikes

6. to quitting an undesirable behavior suddenly and completely, not gradually

7. to speak bluntly and honestly; to get to the heart of the matter

8. Benjamin Franklin

9. WKRP in Cincinnati

10. the wattle (The thing that protrudes above the beak is called as snood. Both become enlarged when the bird is aroused.)

11. the internal organs (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), generally

12. “Turkey in the Straw”

Quiz #18 answers

1. Cabaret

2. 200,000,000

3. Pelé

4. AT&T, also known as the Bell System

5. Francisco Franco; Spain

6. The Day After; Lawrence

7. Microsoft Windows (version 1.0)

8. Czechoslovakia

9. Michael Jackson

10. 1942; Henry Wallace [President Franklin Roosevelt replaced Wallace with Harry Truman on the 1944 ticket]

Quiz #17 answers

1. chocolate syrup

2. Geller claims the ability to bend spoons with his mind (and sometimes other psychic abilities), though he has recently been ambiguous about whether his “powers” are supernatural.

3. cubic zirconium

4. a collection of musical lead sheets (sheet music with melody, lyrics, and harmony)

5. Piltdown Man

6. They faked journalistic feature stories they wrote for, respectively, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The New York Times; Cooke was forced to return her Pulitzer Prize.

7. The Onion

8. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Henry Ford

9. Milli Vanilli; Rob [Pilatus] and Fab [Morvan]

10. a slug

Quiz #16 answers

1. the 1960s (1964)
2. 25; 625 sportswriters
3. a vote with nonbinding results
4. a political tool in the form of a poll whose primary purpose is to persuade, often by spreading rumors, rather than to gather data
5. horns
6. Family Feud; 100
7. Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, in that order. In 2007, Clinton was named by 18% of Americans and Winfrey by 16%. Incidentally, George W. Bush was the most-named man each of those years, but had fallen from 29% support in 2003 to 10% in 2007, just beating out Bill Clinton at 8%.
8. Doctor-assisted suicide had the most support, 56%, while banning handguns had the least, 29%. (Legalizing gay marriage had 40% support.)
9. Creationism was believed by 45%; astrology, by 25% (haunted houses, 37%). Fully 73% believed in some sort of paranormal phenomenon, most commonly ESP (41%).
10. Choice c) only received 39% support; the same percent said immigration should be kept at present levels, while 18% thought levels should be increased.

(For questions where I cross checked, Pew Research Center poll results were similar to Gallup.)