$50K: While widely believed by many Christians, which of the following was NEVER actually stated anywhere in the King James Bible?
A: Pilate sentenced Jesus to death
B: Mary Magdalene was a prostitute
C: Jesus walked on water
D: There was NO room at the inn
FA: O&D (A: Mary Magdalene was a prostitute)
Elizabeth Zapler (Santa Monica)
$500: A snare, tom-tom & bass are ALL things you can find in what?
A: Drum set
B: Marmoset
C: Percocet
D: John Larroquette
Drum set– $
$1K: Whose Pyrex measuring cup’s displayed at the National Museum of American History?
A: Henry Ford
B: Neil Armstrong
C: Julia Child
D: George Washington
Julia Child– $
$2K: Named GlassDoor.com’s “Best Place to Work in 2016”, what room rental website gives employees a yearly $2K travel stipend to stay w/ its many “local hosts”?
A: Zappos
B: airbnb
C: ebay
D: LinkedIn
airbnb– $
$3K: Before a law was repealed recently, Parisian boulangeries had to notify the government when closing for vacation, for fear of denying citizens fresh what?
A: Grapes
B: Beer
C: Water
D: Bread
Bread– $
$5K: In MARVEL’s irreverent ’16 hit “Deadpool”, Ryan Reynolds made shy references to his previous role as what ring-wearing DC superhero?
A: Green Lantern
B: Green Arrow
C: Green Hornet
D: THE HULK
AtA
A: 84%
B: 2%
C: 11%
D: 3%
Green Lantern– $
$7K: An American flag from the boat that dropped the first U.S. troops on Utah Beach on D-Day recently sold at auction for $514K. How many stars did it have?
A: 46
B: 47
C: 48
D: 49
50:50– 46 & 48
48– $
$10K: Allowing people to travel from Punta Paloma to Malabata by rail, there are plans to build an undersea tunnel that will connect what two continents?
A: Africa & Asia
B: Asia & Australia
C: Europe & Africa
D: Europe & Asia
Europe & Africa– $
$20K: In 1969, about 40M people, or 85% of the total TV audience, watched a wedding between a woman & a what on “The Tonight Show”?
A: Roller-skating clown
B: Fire juggler
C: Ukulele player
D: Abraham Lincoln lookalike
Ukulele player (Tiny Tim)– $ (her boyfriend has Tiny Tim’s biography)
$30K: Played at the end of the day BOTH on military bases & at Boy Scouts retreats, the bugle call “Taps” consists of only how many different notes?
A: Two
B: Four
C: Six
D: Seven
LCLS (Steve- NOT her boyfriend)
Four– $
QotD: In 1953, artist Robert Rauschenberg created a new work by taking an existing Willem de Kooning drawing & doing what to it?
A: Drawing over it
B: Erasing it
C: Renaming it
D: Burning it
$50K: My cat Mrs. Tibbles has unusually long vibrissae. That means she has very long what?
A: Ears
B: Whiskers
C: Claws
D: Teeth
Whiskers– $
$100K: In 1974, long before they became billionaires, Bill Gates & Paul Allen attempted to sell municipalities a service called what?
A: U-Vote ’74
B: Traf-O-Data
C: QuikBudget
D: Electro/Switch
FA: QuikBudget (A: Traf-O-Data)
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