Games World of Puzzles – October 2019

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17. What city will host the next World’s Fair, known
    as Expo 2020?
    a. Buenos Aires, Argentina
    b. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    c. Osaka, Japan


18. “On the Great Alkali Plain” and “The Flower of Utah”
    are chapter titles in which Sherlock Holmes novel?
    a. A Study in Scarlet
    b. The Hound of the Baskervilles
    c. The Valley of Fear
    19. The rock musical Rent is loosely
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    a. La Bohème
    b. Madama Butterfly
    c. Tosca
    20. What is the last line of James Joyce’s
    novel Finnegans Wake?
    a. A way a lone a last a loved a long the
    b. Bussoftlhee, mememormee!
    c. Finn, again!

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21. Who was Billboard’s 2018 Woman of the Year?
    a. Ariana Grande
    b. Lady Gaga
    c. Madonna
    d. Selena Gomez


22. Which face card in a standard deck is not a
    “one-eyed” card (i.e., does not have its subject
    shown in profile)?
    a. jack of hearts
    b. jack of spades
    c. king of clubs
    d. king of diamonds


23. What is an Eastern hellbender?
    a. Maryland’s state fish
    b. Ohio’s state bird
    c. Pennsylvania’s state amphibian
    d. West Virginia’s state reptile


24. What school won the 2019 NCAA women’s
    basketball championship?
    a. Baylor
    b. Connecticut
    c. Notre Dame
    d. Oregon


25. What school won the 2019 NCAA
    men’s lacrosse championship?
    a. Duke
    b. Penn State
    c. Virginia
    d. Yale
    26. Which U.S. president established the Presidential
    Medal of Freedom?
    a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
    b. John F. Kennedy
    c. Lyndon B. Johnson
    d. Richard M. Nixon
    27. What was the first television show ever to be watched by
    more than 50,000,000 households in the U.S.?
    a. Part VIII of Roots in 1977
    b. the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas in 1980
    c. the MAS*H special final episode in 1983
    d. Super Bowl XX in 1986
    28. On the Chinese calendar, the year that began
    February 5, 2019, is the Year of the what?
    a. Dog
    b. Pig
    c. Rat
    d. Tiger
    29. What was the first National Monument
    established in the United States?
    a. Devils Tower
    b. Dinosaur
    c. Natural Bridges
    d. Statue of Liberty
    30. Which of the following people wrote scripts for some of
    the Flash Gordon comic strips that appeared in Europe
    during World War II?
    a. Buster Crabbe
    b. Charles de Gaulle
    c. Federico Fellini
    d. Hermann Hesse

BELOW 0: Worst guesser ever. 0–14: You get an A for effort. 15–20: Not bad. 21–30: Quite good. 31–40: Really excellent.

41–50: No one plays Trivial Pursuit with you anymore, do they? 51–60: Admit it, you used Wikipedia!