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1. Dick Tracy is returning to the city by train with Mamma under guard in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. He is bumped by a lady and spills his lemonade on her dress. The woman and her husband, a one-eyed turban wearing Yogee Yamma, claim the dress is an exclusive model and ruined. They demand one hundred dollars. The ever suspicious Tracy reluctantly pays and later has a porter let him into their room while they are having dinner. What is the first thing he sees after entering the room?
2. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip Tracy and Pat Patton go to arrest Yogee Yamma and his wife after having discovered Yogee is wanted in several states. A strange aroma which seems to come from Yogee's watch case drifts around the room. As they try to cuff him, Yogee suggests they just sit and relax and put their guns away. What do Tracy and Patton do?
3. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Tracy is talking with the chained professor in his underground lab when Yogee Yamma is heard coming down the steps. Tracy hides and watches as Yogee prepares to kill the professor, whom he had promised to set free. Dick Tracy shoots the gun out of Yogee's hand, but the bullet ricochets and hits something necessary for survival in the dungeon. What does Tracy's bullet hit?
4. The writer of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Chester Gould, had a trademark way of naming some of his characters starting with Frank Redrum in 1936. The professor had been kept underground out of the sunlight presumably for years. Based on that clue, what is the professor's real name?
5. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Yogee Yamma now walks into a bank with his nerve gas and is given $500,000 by the bank president. Gloating over his theft he now gets a room in a cheap hotel and a few bottles of wine which he becomes very drunk on. Passed out on his bed surrounded by his ill-gotten money, what is the fate of Yogee Yamma?
6. Pat Patton discovers and dismantles a bomb in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. The shrapnel inside was discovered to be linotype written in a foreign language. This leads the detectives to the only foreign language newspaper in town. The editor knows exactly who is responsible, a woman whom he fired earlier. They are informed that this woman is no ordinary woman. Using your knowledge of Chester Gould's way of naming his criminals, what woman would DARE to send a bomb in the mail?
7. Black Pearl shows Dick Tracy and Pat Patton a model of a war weapon she is working on in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. Keeping in mind World War II had started and many weapons were believed to be impossible before then, what was the (still) impossible weapon Black Pearl was testing?
8. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Dick and Pat are testing an underwater tank in Black Pearl's hidden proving ground. As they crawl along the lake bottom, they cross a steel water line. Tracy gets a hammer and begins pounding on the tank. Some distance away in a water treatment plant one of the workers hears "them dot-dash things". What was he hearing?
9. Black Pearl's machine had passed nearly every test. There was one last test she wasn't sure about. Actually she planned to rid herself of Tracy and Patton during the test. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, what was the last test she was so hot on for her tank/sub/airplane?
10. During the last test of her tank, Tracy and Patton went underwater to escape the flames. The police burst through the gate and a battle ensued. The foreign dignitary with the whiskers chuckled at the whole affair and followed Black Pearl and Horace to their underground hangar as they made their getaway. Upon being told that he couldn't go with them, he pulled a gun and took off his disguise. Who was this G-Man whom had been used by Chester Gould in a few stories years before?
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