High school teacher
Marion, Ark.
$500
According to the job search site Glassdoor.com, the top 15 highest-paying companies in the U.S. are in all but which of these fields?
A: Legal B: Tech
C: Consulting D: Puppetry
Answer
D: Puppetry
If you see a light on your dashboard panel depicting a dripping container, it means you need to do what?
A: Check your oil B: Turn on your headlights
C: Rotate your tires D: Remember to buy milk
Answer
A: Check your oil
Sally J. Priesand likely got a few mazel tovs in 1972 when she broke gender barriers and became the first American female what?
A: Imam B: Rabbi
C: Lama D: Priest
Spoiler
“Mazel tov … I think that is Arabic, so I’m gonna go with B, rabbi.”
Answer
B: Rabbi
With 124 million residents - or about 10% of its population - knowing the language, which country has more than twice as many English speakers as England?
A: Turkey B: Poland
C: India D: South Korea
Answer
C: India
A continuation of an 80s sitcom, what 2016 Netflix show will follow D.J. Tanner as she raises her children with the help of her sister and best friend?
A: More Growing Pains B: Fuller House
C: Who’s the Boss Now? D: Even Diff’renter Strokes
Answer
B: Fuller House
$7,000
If a sniper took aim at a common snipe, he’d be trying to shoot a what?
A: Reptile B: Primate
C: Rodent D: Bird
Answer
D: Bird
To portray jazz legend Miles Davis in a biopic, Don Cheadle went so far as to learn to play Davis’ signature instrument, which was what?
A: Drums B: Piano
C: Guitar D: Trumpet
Spoiler
“I’m seeing an album … I hope I’m right … Miles Davis … not playing drums, not on piano, not playing the guitar … oh, crap … D, trumpet, final.”
Answer
D: Trumpet
“What?”
“I thought I could get the money right now and just walk.”
“You can.”
“I can?”
“You can walk away at any time.”
“I don’t want to do that yet.”
We should just … might as well take a look at the $20,000.”
“Let’s take a look.”
“And you have three lifelines. So let’s just keep playing. See what happens.”
“I agree with you, sir. Very smart.”
“I’ll do the thinking here.”
$20,000
Derived from the Greek word meaning “to hide away,” which of these refers to the books that were purposely excluded from the accepted canon of the Bible?
A: Apocrypha B: Epistles
C: Pentateuch D: Catechesis
50/50
50/50 leaves Apocrypha and Catechesis.
ATA
A: 68% D: 32%
Answer
A: Apocrypha
$30,000
If a gambler plays their favorite numbers 3, 7 and 18 on a standard roulette wheel, what color are they betting on with all three?
A: Red B: Green
C: Black D: Blue
Answer
A: Red
Long before Barack Obama publicly struggled to end his cigarette habit, who posed for his official White House portrait holding a pipe?
A: Richard Nixon B: Gerald Ford
C: Jimmy Carter D: Ronald Reagan
+1
Kenneth’s +1 is his girlfriend Michelle.
Michelle knows Ronald Reagan did an anti-smoking campaign. But she puts her foot down and tells Kenneth he has to walk away with $30,000.
If he had answered, he would have used the “Nixon rule.”
Michelle knows Ronald Reagan did an anti-smoking campaign. But she puts her foot down and tells Kenneth he has to walk away with $30,000.
If he had answered, he would have used the “Nixon rule.”
Answer
B: Gerald Ford
QotD
Despite its name, what large dog was actually first developed by Germans to hunt wild boar?
A: Irish Setter B: Siberian Husky
C: Afghan Hound D: Great Dane
Answer
D: Great Dane
