SCIENCE QUIZ
BEFORE & AFTER
DOING TIME TOGETHER
MOVIES SET IN THE 1920s
IT'S BORDERLINE
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Despite a popular slander, these fish, Carassius auratus, actually have excellent memories

What is goldfish?

2

Seat for tickling the ivories while lifting a weight bar upward over your supine body

What is a piano bench press?

2

In 1950 Robert Stroud & Machine Gun Kelly (not that one) could be found at this location

What is Alcatraz?

2

Leonardo DiCaprio says, "I'm afraid I haven't been a very good host, old sport" as the title fella in this '20s-set piece

What is The Great Gatsby?

2

This country borders every South American nation except Chile & Ecuador

What is Brazil?

4

Atoms of this metallic element bond weakly with others of their kind, so it's a liquid as low as 72 degrees

What is mercury?

4

Spurs' home in the "Lone Star State" that played Armand the vampire on film

What is San Antonio Banderas?

4

The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville Prison with Billy McFarland, busted for organizing this Bahamas disaster

What is Fyre Festival?


4

In 1926, this magizoologist & Hogwarts alum arrived in New York & set about recapturing a Niffler

Who is Newt Scamander?

4

Austria takes up some but not all of this country's 48 miles of borders

What is Liechtenstein?

6

The main asteroid belt is bounded by the orbits of these 2 planets

What are Mars & Jupiter?

6

Healthy grain with only its outermost layer removed so it can teach 4,000 undergraduates in Houston

What is brown Rice University?

6

The situation? That "Jersey Shore" guy was in Otisville prison with this man, Trump's ex-fixer

Who is Michael Cohen? 

6

Daily Double

In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures

What is Singin' in the Rain

6

Daily Double

This Mexican state between Sonora & Coahuila has all 3 of the border crossings from Mexico to New Mexico

What is Chihuahua?

8

It's the Greek-derived name for the process of identical cell duplication

What is mitosis?

8

The first book in Patrick Rothfuss' "The Kingkiller Chronicle" used as a facility to test the aerodynamics of planes

What is The Name of the Wind tunnel?

8

Too real, housewife! Jen Shah of "Salt Lake City" became federal prison pals with this woman, founder of Theranos

Who is Elizabeth Holmes?

8

This 1981 Best Picture winner is about two British runners ahead of the 1924 Olympics 

What is Chariots of Fire

8

Thailand has a long, skinny section on the Malay Peninsula, just south of this country that borders most of Thailand on the west

What is Myanmar?

10

Sometimes mistaken for diamond, topaz is not just beautiful but hard, making it a solid 8 on this scale

What is Mohs?

10

'70s sitcom about a Black family in Chicago in a font created by typographer Stanley Morison

What is Good Times New Roman? 

10

In 1987 Sean Penn was in L.A. County Jail near Richard Ramirez, known by this Frosted Flakes unaliver name, who asked for an autograph

Who is the Night Stalker?

10

Gregory Hines starred as Delbert "Sandman" Williams in this Harlem-set Francis Ford Coppola movie that begins in 1928

What is The Cotton Club

10

1,000 miles from top to bottom, this "directional" Aussie area has Queensland on its east

What is the Northern Territory?