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Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Trivia Quiz

Pick up on each line in questions 1-9 to get a correct answer and then correlate those answers into a technological response in question 10. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
shvdotr

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
377,029

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
615

Question 1 of 10

1. Thanks to the great offensive line of the Miami Dolphins, Eugene Morris helped contribute to Super Bowl wins in 1972 and 1973, sharing backfield running duties with Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. He was born Eugene Edward, but you might know him by his nickname. Which of these was it? Hint

Lightning

Mercury

The Juice

Marvelous

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Question 2 of 10

2. In a 1963 country hit, Bobby Bare sings these lines: "I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother..." and has a chorus which ends with the line, "Ohh how I wanna go home." Name the title of the song, where the lyrics say, "Last night I went to sleep in __________". Hint

Memphis, Tennessee

Kansas City

Abilene

Detroit City

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Question 3 of 10

3. What type of line produced the greatest efficiency for the success of the Industrial Revolution? Hint

phone line

clothesline

breadline

assembly line

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Question 4 of 10

4. Two lines spoken by Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" include "There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun" and "Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart." In the role of which brilliant mathematician does Crowe voice these lines? Hint

John Forbes Nash

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Rene Descartes

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Mount Rushmore visage would be associated with the line, "...that government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth."? Hint

Lincoln

Jefferson

Washington

Roosevelt

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Question 6 of 10

6. George Yardley helped lead the Fort Wayne franchise to the NBA finals in both 1955 and 1956 after winning divisional titles both years. The following year he became the first player in the NBA to score 2000 points. He also set an NBA season record for shots from the free-throw line, and joined the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996. What was the nickname of the Fort Wayne franchise? Hint

Celtics

Lakers

Pistons

Royals

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Question 7 of 10

7. While probably technically not large enough to qualify as a "ship of the line," this class of warship, according to Wikipedia, was the smallest class to be considered a "rated" warship. One type of this ship is the "flower class," with individual vessels being named after flowers. Which class is this, the next size smaller than a frigate? Hint

corvette

submarine

war sloop

cruiser

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Question 8 of 10

8. Tales of this legendary creature of Native American cultures run on parallel lines to those of the Roc from cultures around the Indian Ocean. It appears in native cultures from the Pacific Northwest to the Southwest, Plains, and Northeast Woodland. Its characteristics and strengths include not only personal power for those who encounter it, but also the power to affect weather. Which great spirit is this? Hint

Thunderbird

Quetzalcoatl

Coyote trickster

Cyclops

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which future U.S. president anchored the offensive line of two undefeated National Champions at the University of Michigan as a center for the Wolverines in 1932 and 1933? Hint

Gerald Ford

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon

Jimmy Carter

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Question 10 of 10

10. To ace this quiz now, all you have to do is line up the 9 clues and determine what industry comes to mind. What do you think it is?

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Mercury

Although he did not lead the Dolphins in rushing in their two Super Bowl victories, he was the leading rusher in several playoff games in those two seasons. Mercury Morris was a three-time Pro Bowl performer and ended his NFL career with 4,133 rushing yards in eight seasons.

Answer: Detroit City

Written by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, "Detroit City" was also covered by such singers as Tom Jones, Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jan & Dean. It won a 1963 Grammy for Bare for Best Country & Western Recording.

3. What type of line produced the greatest efficiency for the success of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer: assembly line

Development of the assembly line greatly increased factory production, which was the basis of the Industrial Revolution. Although the Industrial Revolution began in the textile industry in Great Britain and quickly spread to the U.S. and Germany, the use of machines also expanded into many other industries.

Answer: John Forbes Nash

"A Beautiful Mind" starred Crowe as Nash, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The film was based on a biography of Nash by Sylvia Nasar.

Nash's contributions to mathematics were also included in areas such as game theory, artificial intelligence, computer science, economics, and military theory.

5. Which Mount Rushmore visage would be associated with the line, "...that government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth."?

Answer: Lincoln

The line quoted in the question is the concluding phrase of Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania during the Civil War.

Answer: Pistons

Yardley led the NBA in scoring in 1957 when the Pistons moved from Fort Wayne to Detroit. An alumnus of Stanford, George started his career in 1953 with the Pistons and played with them until finishing his NBA career with one season with the Syracuse Nationals in 1959-60.

Answer: corvette

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, corvettes were three-masted ships like frigates and ships of the line, but carried only 20 guns on the top deck.

Corvettes were used to great effect by the U.S. in the War of 1812, and were especially effective on Lake Erie.

Answer: Thunderbird

In general, the Thunderbird represents the natural forces of storms, thunder, and lightning and also is believed to help protect man from evil forces. Like Greece's classical god Zeus, the Thunderbird is a god of the sky.

The Thunderbird also appears in cryptozoology as a creature like the extinct pteranodon, in the same sense that Scotland's Lake Ness Monster is represented as a plesiosaur.

9. Which future U.S. president anchored the offensive line of two undefeated National Champions at the University of Michigan as a center for the Wolverines in 1932 and 1933?

Answer: Gerald Ford

Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913 and was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr. He was the first President to have been an Eagle Scout and, as a linebacker, was also the first future President to tackle a future Heisman Trophy winner, when he played against Jay Berwanger in a game between the Wolverines and the University of Chicago in 1934.

10. To ace this quiz now, all you have to do is line up the 9 clues and determine what industry comes to mind. What do you think it is?

Answer: auto

I hope this was easy for you. Here are the clues: 1) Mercury is a car model. 2) Detroit is the traditional center of the auto industry. 3) The first assembly line is most closely associated with Henry Ford and his auto company. 4) Nash is another car model. 5) Lincoln is another car model. 6) Pistons are a component of automotive engines. 7) Corvette is another car model. 8) Thunderbird is another car model.

Source: Author shvdotr

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