Plant operator at Hoover Dam
Baltimore, Md.
$500
According to Brides magazine’s most recent American Wedding Study, 36% of grooms choose to wear a suit on their wedding day, while 54% wear what?
A: Bermuda shorts B: Overalls
C: Tuxedo D: Naughty nurse costume
Spoiler
C: Tuxedo
$1,000
Due to some of Earth’s mass moving closer to its axis, making it spin faster, what world-rocking 2010 event may have shortened the length of a day by 1.26 microseconds?
A: The Chilean earthquake B: The ScarJo/Ryan Reynolds divorce
C: The launch of Instagram D: Lady Gaga wearing that meat dress
Spoiler
A: The Chilean earthquake
$2,000
“Position your liquid assets in your oral cavity” is another way of expressing the suggestion contained in which common idiom?
A: Don’t count your chickens until they hatch B: Look before you leap
C: Go back to the drawing board D: Put your money where your mouth is
Spoiler
D: Put your money where your mouth is
$3,000
Arguably the best in the world at the beginning of WWII, which country’s air force was known as the Luftwaffe?
A: Japan B: Germany
C: Italy D: France
Spoiler
B: Germany
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Mike served in the Navy for 12 years. He was a nuclear reactor operator on the USS Truman, and was also on the USS Enterprise.
$5,000
The orange has not cornered the market on being orange. In nature, which of these other fruits is also typically orange?
A: Kumquat B: Pomegranate
C: Guava D: Boysenberry
Spoiler
Mike feels like a kumquat is orange.
A: 79% B:3% C: 17% D: 1%
A: 79% B:3% C: 17% D: 1%
Spoiler
A: Kumquat
$7,000
Expanding on the original’s theme, “Out of the Maze” is the 2018 posthumously-published sequel to what 1998 self-help classic by Spencer Johnson?
A: The Secret B: Awaken the Giant Within
C: Who Moved My Cheese? D: Blink
Spoiler
C: Who Moved My Cheese?
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QotD (read by anchor Frank Mickens from WTTV in Indianapolis)
By definition, a “doula” provides assistance during which of these events?
A: Childbirth B: Bar mitzvah ceremony
C: Exorcism D: Acupuncture session
Spoiler
A: Childbirth
$10,000
As he approached 50 in 2017, what band’s lead singer who’s usually known by the first name Billy released an album as William Patrick Corgan?
A: Smashing Pumpkins B: Nine Inch Nails
C: Weezer D: Rage Against the Machine
Spoiler
A: Smashing Pumpkins
$20,000
Perhaps a bit too delicious, what dish was partly responsible for making its namesake ingredient extinct in 1914?
A: Mourning dove soup B: Turkey vulture stew
C: Roast Arctic tern D: Passenger pigeon pie
Spoiler
D: Passenger pigeon pie
The horn
Mike will be back on Thursday.