Sunday Special - $1,000,000 Questions
Sometimes, contestants actually make it to the Million Dollar Question on
the TV quiz show. “Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?”...
Here’s ten questions off the program that were worth a million bucks if
answered correctly. How would you have done ?
1. Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic
painting "American Gothic"?
a. - Traveling salesman
b. - Local Sheriff
c. - His Dentist
d. - His Butcher
2. Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists
during the Boston Tea Party?
a. - Eleanor
b. - Dartmouth
c. - Beaver
d. - William
3. The U.S. icon "Uncle Sam" was based on Samuel Wilson who, during the War
of 1812, was a what?
a. - Meatpacker
b. - Postmaster General
c. - Historian
d. - Weapons Manufacturer
4. Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of
a district of what world capital?
a.- Baghdad
b. - New Delhi
c. - Cairo
d. - Moscow
5. In addition to his work as an astrologer and prophet, Nostradamus wrote a
1555 treatise that included a section on what?
a. - Training Parrots to Talk
b. - Cheating at Card Games
c. - Digging Graves
d. - Making Jams and Jellies
6. Compiled by Benjamin Franklin in 1737, "The Drinker's Dictionary"
included all but which of these synonyms for "drunkenness"?
a. - Nimptopsical
b. - Buzzey
c. - Pifflicated
d. - Staggerish
7. Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what?
a. - Finding Shapes in Clouds
b. - Sleeping with your Eyes Open
c. - Breaking Glass With Your Voice
8. Who delivered the two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's
two-minute Gettysburg Address?
a. - Wendell Phillips
b. - Daniel Webster
c. - Robert G. Ingersoll
d. - Edward Everett
9. A rare example of a word that rhymes with "orange," the Blorenge is a
what?
a. - A River in Ireland
b. - A Forest in Scotland
c. - A Mountain in Wales
d. - A Desert in Australia
10. According to the Population Reference Bureau, about how many people have
ever lived on earth?
a. - 50 Billion
b. - 100 Billion
c. - 1 Trillion
d. - 5 Trillion
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1. - c
2. - c
3. - a
4. - a
5. - d
6. - c
7. - a
8. - d
9. - c
10. - b
Sometimes, contestants actually make it to the Million Dollar Question on
the TV quiz show. “Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?”...
Here’s ten questions off the program that were worth a million bucks if
answered correctly. How would you have done ?
1. Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic
painting "American Gothic"?
a. - Traveling salesman
b. - Local Sheriff
c. - His Dentist
d. - His Butcher
2. Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists
during the Boston Tea Party?
a. - Eleanor
b. - Dartmouth
c. - Beaver
d. - William
3. The U.S. icon "Uncle Sam" was based on Samuel Wilson who, during the War
of 1812, was a what?
a. - Meatpacker
b. - Postmaster General
c. - Historian
d. - Weapons Manufacturer
4. Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of
a district of what world capital?
a.- Baghdad
b. - New Delhi
c. - Cairo
d. - Moscow
5. In addition to his work as an astrologer and prophet, Nostradamus wrote a
1555 treatise that included a section on what?
a. - Training Parrots to Talk
b. - Cheating at Card Games
c. - Digging Graves
d. - Making Jams and Jellies
6. Compiled by Benjamin Franklin in 1737, "The Drinker's Dictionary"
included all but which of these synonyms for "drunkenness"?
a. - Nimptopsical
b. - Buzzey
c. - Pifflicated
d. - Staggerish
7. Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what?
a. - Finding Shapes in Clouds
b. - Sleeping with your Eyes Open
c. - Breaking Glass With Your Voice
8. Who delivered the two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's
two-minute Gettysburg Address?
a. - Wendell Phillips
b. - Daniel Webster
c. - Robert G. Ingersoll
d. - Edward Everett
9. A rare example of a word that rhymes with "orange," the Blorenge is a
what?
a. - A River in Ireland
b. - A Forest in Scotland
c. - A Mountain in Wales
d. - A Desert in Australia
10. According to the Population Reference Bureau, about how many people have
ever lived on earth?
a. - 50 Billion
b. - 100 Billion
c. - 1 Trillion
d. - 5 Trillion
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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1. - c
2. - c
3. - a
4. - a
5. - d
6. - c
7. - a
8. - d
9. - c
10. - b
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