Quiz #24 answers

1. Three: Cain, Abel, and Seth

2. Wall•E [EVE stood for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator]; Bette Davis

3. Ryan Seacrest; 1972

4. (a) the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (b) “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” [Loesser also wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” among others]

5. The hypothesis is that every human now on earth is descended through a maternal line to a particular African woman who lived less than 200,000 years ago.

6. A day represents the time it takes for a planet to rotate on its axis or with respect to its star; Mars has a day only slightly longer than one on Earth

7. (a) Billie Holiday; (b) Adrian Peterson

8. Armistice Day (originally commemorating the end of the first World War); Decoration Day (originally commemorating the dead of the Civil War)

9. June 6, 1944; December 7, 1941

10. (a) someone who routinely buys and sells stocks or other securities on the basis of small short-term price movements, often in the same trading day (b) a time of youthful innocence (typically recalled with fondness, though not so as Shakespeare first used the term in Antony and Cleopatra )

Quiz #23 answers

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)

2. salmon

3. Howard Johnson’s

4. London; the New York SoHo is a contraction of South of Houston (Street).

5. They are made of chocolate cake with creamy filling; Hostess (owned by Interstate Bakeries Corporation) makes them.

6. He was a Taiwanese-born American scientist who was indicted on charges of stealing nuclear secrets on behalf of China while working at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He pleaded guilty only to improperly handling restricted data—the government dropped 58 other counts—and successfully sued the federal government for having leaked his name before filing charges.

7. Ho Chi Minh City

8. Hobart

9. Tahoe

10. Ivanhoe; Robin Hood

11. Don Ho

12. homeopathy

13. Bob Hope, who hosted or cohosted 18 times between 1940 and 1978

14. Horatio Alger Jr.

15. a cry of praise or adoration

16. The Ramones

Quiz #22 answers

1. two; the prohibitions against killing and stealing
2. surfing
3. 8
4. Bo Derek; Dudley Moore
5. John Reed; the October (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia
6. for being the residence and office of the British prime minister
7. They were screenwriters and /or directors who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, and were subsequently blacklisted (although Dmytryk eventually cooperated after being jailed). [Score half a point for referring only to the blacklisting.]
8. ten lords a-leaping
9. location
10. 4 1/8 by 9 1/2 inches [Score half a point for getting one dimension exactly and the other within a quarter inch.]

Quiz #21 answers

1. “snips [or snaps, or snakes] and snails and puppy dog tails”
2. Brazil
3. New Orleans; the Louisiana Superdome
4. glucose; dextrose
5. William Cowper
6. Posh, Ginger, Baby, Scary, and Sporty
7. a) cinnamon; b) turmeric; c) saffron; d) anise
8. a sailing ship or sailboat
9. Dune, by Frank Herbert

Quiz #20 answers

1. cleanser [the company’s full name is Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Company]; good friend
2. monosodium glutamate (MSG)
3. curing
4. a popular aquarium fish
5. origami
6. straw mats used as flooring in Japan
7. swami
8. Florida; Ohio
9. Indian Ocean; Indonesia
10. writing, primarily novels and short stories
[bonus question] painting [if you missed this, see top of quiz]