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Chessart's Fourth Millionaire Quiz

A variety of questions, starting easy and growing harder.

A multiple-choice quiz by chessart. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
chessart

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
59,272

Updated
Aug 15 24

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
8 / 15

Plays
8076

Last 3 plays: Guest 97 (9/15), Guest 101 (8/15), Guest 172 (0/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. Which actor starred in 'Five Easy Pieces', 'Chinatown', 'Prizzi's Honor', and 'As Good As It Gets'? Hint

Jimmy Stewart

Tom Cruise

Jack Nicholson

George C. Scott

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Question 2 of 15

2. Which U.S. President had a sign on his desk saying, 'The Buck Stops Here'? Hint

Harry Truman

John F. Kennedy

Teddy Roosevelt

John Quincy Adams

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which Beatle was known as 'The Quiet Beatle'? Hint

John Lennon

George Harrison

Paul McCartney

Ringo Starr

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Question 4 of 15

4. Which playwright wrote 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'The Glass Menagerie', and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'? Hint

Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

Eugene O'Neil

Oscar Wilde

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Question 5 of 15

5. In what part of the body would one find the femur? Hint

abdomen

leg

arm

skull

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Question 6 of 15

6. Which attorney's high-profile clients include Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Boston Strangler, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson? Hint

Alan Dershowitz

F. Lee Bailey

Clarence Darrow

Thurgood Marshall

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Question 7 of 15

7. The Pritzker Prize is given for excellence in which field? Hint

science fiction writing

astronomy

architecture

journalism

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Question 8 of 15

8. The Galapagos Islands are named after which animal? Hint

penguin

tortoise

snake

whale

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Question 9 of 15

9. Which of the following groups of numbers are perfect numbers? Hint

8, 27, 64

4, 9, 16

6, 28, 496

10, 100, 1000

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Question 10 of 15

10. Which singer-songwriter wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night', 'Me and Bobby McGee', 'Loving Her Was Easier', and 'Why Me'? Hint

Kris Kristofferson

Johnny Cash

Willie Nelson

Waylon Jennings

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Question 11 of 15

11. Which film director is known for his films depicting life in his childhood hometown of Baltimore? Hint

Mike Nichols

Ron Howard

Barry Levinson

Sidney Lumet

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Question 12 of 15

12. What is the highest number on a standard backgammon doubling cube? Hint

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Question 13 of 15

13. Which city's teams won the coach (or manager) of the year award in all four major professional sports in 2001? Hint

New York

Philadephia

Los Angeles

Chicago

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Question 14 of 15

14. Which flag has an outline of its country on it? Hint

Greece

Italy

Monaco

Cyprus

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Question 15 of 15

15. What is the inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality? Hint

palinoia

oneirataxia

allotriophagy

misology

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which actor starred in 'Five Easy Pieces', 'Chinatown', 'Prizzi's Honor', and 'As Good As It Gets'?

Answer: Jack Nicholson

As of 2001 Nicholson has received eleven Oscar nominations, winning three times.

2. Which U.S. President had a sign on his desk saying, 'The Buck Stops Here'?

Answer: Harry Truman

The famous sign can now be seen on display at the Truman Museum in Independence, Missouri.

3. Which Beatle was known as 'The Quiet Beatle'?

Answer: George Harrison

Not as prominent as Lennon or McCartney, but his contributions were just as important. He wrote the beautiful song 'Something' and his memorable use of the sitar on 'Norwegian Wood' was said to be responsible for introducing the Indian instrument to British pop. RIP George Harrison, 1943-2001.

4. Which playwright wrote 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'The Glass Menagerie', and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?

Answer: Tennessee Williams

One of America's greatest playwrights, Williams won Pulitzer Prizes for both "A Streetcar Named Desire" and for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

5. In what part of the body would one find the femur?

Answer: leg

The femur is the thighbone.

6. Which attorney's high-profile clients include Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Boston Strangler, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson?

Answer: F. Lee Bailey

Bailey became famous while still in his 20's. Barely out of law school, he won a new trial for Dr. Sam Sheppard and then won his acquittal when the case was re-tried. It is now known that Dr. Sheppard was in fact innocent, and a neighborhood handyman has confessed to the murder of Dr.

Sheppard's wife. The pre-trial publicity which prejudiced the first trial against Dr. Sheppard included a huge headline in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, saying 'Why Isn't Sam Sheppard In Jail?'. Bailey was less successful in his defense of Patty Heasrt to bank robbery charges.

Despite what many felt was a legitimate brain-washing defense, she was convicted and served a number of years in prison.

7. The Pritzker Prize is given for excellence in which field?

Answer: architecture

Sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture, the Pritzker Prize was established in 1979 by the Hyatt Foundation. Each year it honors an architect whose work has made a significant contribution to humanity.

8. The Galapagos Islands are named after which animal?

Answer: tortoise

The Galapagos Islands had become part of the world map by 1570. Map makers baptized the archipelago as the 'Insulae de los Galopagos' or 'The Islands of the Tortoises'.

9. Which of the following groups of numbers are perfect numbers?

Answer: 6, 28, 496

A perfect number is one whose factors (other than itself) add up to the number. Perfect numbers were studied as far back as the time of Euclid (300 B.C.). The next smallest perfect number, after 496, is 8,128.

10. Which singer-songwriter wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night', 'Me and Bobby McGee', 'Loving Her Was Easier', and 'Why Me'?

Answer: Kris Kristofferson

Kristofferson has been a Golden Gloves boxer, a Rhodes Scholar, and a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army. Eventually his songs became known and as of 2001 he has won two Grammy's for his songwriting.

11. Which film director is known for his films depicting life in his childhood hometown of Baltimore?

Answer: Barry Levinson

Levinson has made at least four such films, all poignant tales of life as he knew it growing up in Baltimore. The four are 'Diner', 'Avalon', 'Tin Men' , and 'Liberty Heights'. Levinson has also directed 'The Natural' and 'Rain Man', winning a Best Director Oscar for the latter. He has been nominated for three Best Screenplay Oscars.

12. What is the highest number on a standard backgammon doubling cube?

Answer: 64

The numbers start with 2 and double from there, so the six sides are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64. At the start of a game when the cube is on one, it is customary to show this as '64', since there is no cube face showing a 'one'.

13. Which city's teams won the coach (or manager) of the year award in all four major professional sports in 2001?

Answer: Philadephia

The four include Larry Bowa of the Phillies in baseball, Andy Reid of the Eagles in football, Bill Barber of the Flyers in hockey, and Larry Brown of the 76ers in basketball.

14. Which flag has an outline of its country on it?

Answer: Cyprus

15. What is the inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality?

Answer: oneirataxia

Source: Author chessart

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