2019 American Thinker Holiday Quiz 

2019 American Thinker Holiday Quiz

By Lee DeCovnick

If you enjoy literature, history, movies and your cosmology includes Messier objects and Klingons, then this is your quiz. And this quiz is not just for guys. If you're a bright, sassy and sophisticated woman of any age, you will also like this quiz.
However, this quiz contains quite difficult and often-obscure questions, so to all the progressive liberal snowflakes, quiz whiners, and the politically correct, stop reading and click this link.
Write down your answers.
Post your scores and my errors in the comments section.

1. “Heck, these are sort of like crossword clues.”  (2 points for each word, spelled correctly)

1. Krispy  __ __ __ __ __
2. Jean-Luc __ __ __ __ __ __  and Counselor __ __ __ __
3. Slingin’ Sammy  __ __ __ __ __
4. Mercury barometer scientist Evangelista __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
5. Sci-Fi author Robert __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6. Armin __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ portrayed a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ bartender named __ __ __ __ __
7. Bears Hall of Fame linebacker __ __ __ __     __ __ __ __ __ __
8. Singer Pink real last name __ __ __ __ __ 
9. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   early photographic process made on a light sensitive silver coated plate. (3 points for this answer!)
10. The unsharpened section of a knife blade next to the hilt is called the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .
11. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __  , the Boy Pharaoh of Egypt.
12. __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __ sells more dry cake mix than             __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __  or __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
13. __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ portrayed Spock’s mother, __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
14. Han and Napoleon  __ __ __ __ ‘s  sidekicks, __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __  __ and   __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .
15. __ __   __ __ __ __  __h__ __ __  __ __ __ __ __   __ __   __ __   __ __ l __ - __ __ __ d __ __ __, __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __                        __ __ __ a __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ , __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ d __ __ __ __    __ __    __ __ __ __ r   __ __ __ __ __ o __   __ __ t __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ l __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ , __ __ __ __    __ m __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __ __,           __ __ __ __ __ __ __     __ __ __   __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __   __ __ p __ __ __ __ __ __. (7 points total for this entire answer!)
16. __ __ __ __ is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of              __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 's wife __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .

2. “Who’s dat?”  Identify the person or character by the quote. (3 points for each correct answer)

1. “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
2. “I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.”
3. "I'll have what she's having."
4. “After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.”
5. “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
6. “If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humor was vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!”
7. “Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
8. “But we in it shall be rememberèd—
   We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
   For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
   Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
   This day shall gentle his condition;
   And gentlemen in England now a-bed
   Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
   And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
   That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.”
9. "On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."
10. “I'd be unworthy of the high trust that's been placed in me if I didn't do everything in my power to keep our beloved Freedonia in peace with the world.” 
11. “I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something.” 
12. ‘Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
13.  ”If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
14. “You, your race, invented murder. Invented for sport, greed, envy. It’s man’s one true art form”
15. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.”
16. “I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?”
17. “Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
18. “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”
19. “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That's funny”...”
20. “Simplify, simplify.”
21. “ No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”
22. "But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before."
23. “Double, Double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

3. “What new fresh hell is this?” Is this factoid true or false?  (3 points for each correct answer)

1. Mount Elbert is the highest mountain in Colorado.
2. Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan
3. Ringo, John, Paul, George
4. Beethoven 5^th, Waterloo, Franz Liszt born, Daniel Boone dies, Beethoven 9^th
5. Hamlet was written before Drake defeated the Spanish Armada.
6. Walter Payton rushed for more yards than Barry Sanders.
7. The 1956 movie, “The Ten Commandments,” ran 3 hours and 40 minutes.
8. Mays, Clemente, Cepeda, Gibson, McCovey, Bench
9. The first KFC opened after Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt. Everest.
10. Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
11. SFO to NRT is farther than SYD to NRT
12. In selenography, Tycho is older than Copernicus (4 Points)
13. Lindbergh flies to Paris, Ruth hits his 60^th home run, first Laurel and Hardy film, first Model A Ford sold for $385.
14. The Mississippi –Missouri river system is the third longest in the world, behind the Nile and Amazon.
15. McCormack – 5, Albert - 3, O’Neil – 5, Wright -2
16. M V E M J S N U P
17. IWC Schaffhausen, Montblanc, Glashütte Original, Bell & Powell, Roger Dubuis, Seiko
18. Cey, Russell, Lopes, Garvey – 1974 to 1983
19. Bright Angel, Angels Landing, Happy Isles, Queens/Navajo Combination Loop, Mystic Falls
20. Cassegrain, Maksutov, Apochromatic, Dall-Kirkham, Schiefspiegler
21. Species, Genus, System, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom

4. “Please, sir, I want some more.”  (4 point questions.)

1. Identify this person or character by the quote.

2. Add the missing name.

Nelson, Shumard, Stiborik, Duzenberry, Caron, Jeppson, Beser, Parsons, Van Kirk, Ferebee, Lewis, _____________.

3. What did Beser do, that no human in history has ever done?

        d) Fission or fusion?  

     D + T --> He + n + 17.59 MeV

4. True or false?

       M57, M97, M27, M31, M76  (7 point question.)

e) Worf’s wife name (2 points) and the actress who portrayed her. (2 points)

Answers:

1. a) Kreme, b) Picard, Troi, c) Baugh, d) Torricelli, e) Heinlein, f) Shimerman, Ferengi, Quark, g) Dick Butkus, h) Moore, i) Daguerreotype, j) ricasso, k) Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen-both are correct, l) Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, m) Jane Wyatt, Amanda Grayson, n) Solo, Chewbacca, Illya Kuryakin, o) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (Caps’ are not needed for correct spelling) p) Iago, Othello, Desdemona

2. a) Patrick Henry, b) HAL, c) Woman (Rob Reiner's mother) reacting to Sally's faked orgasm, d) Melania Trump, e) Douglas MacArthur, f) Kate Beckinsale. g) Abraham Lincoln, h) Henry V, i) Ishmael, j) Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx, 1 point), k) Arthur Miller, l) Ben Stein, m) Martin L. King, n) Number Six, o) Number Six, p) Sam Baldwin, q) Mel Brooks, r) Walt Disney, s) Isaac Asimov, t) Henry David Thoreau, u) Auric Goldfinger, v) Huck Finn, w) All witches or all three witches.

3. a) T, b) F, c) T, d) F, e) F, f) T, g) T, h) T, i) F, j) T, k) T, l) F, m) T, n) F, o) T  (Speakers of the House and their number of terms), p) F, q) F, r) F, s) T, t) F(“Are you kidding me?” No, but having have a strong background in optical design and engineering helps.), u) F

4. a) Calvin Coolidge, b) Paul Tibbets, c) Lt. Jacob Beser was the only man to fly on both nuclear bombing aircraft, d) Fusion, e) False (M31 is not a planetary nebula), f) K’Ehleyr, Suzie Plakson

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