By Fifi Rodriguez
1. MOVIES: What horror actor starred in the 1958 version of “The Fly”?
2. LANGUAGE: “Draw, O Caesar, erase a coward” is an example of what?
3. COMICS: What was the name of Caspar the Friendly Ghost’s ghost horse friend?
4. LAW: What did the 21st Amendment to the Constitution do — or rather, undo?
5. TELEVISION: What was the name of the evil group that battled the good guys on “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
6. CHEMISTRY: What is the symbol for the element gold?
7. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with inventing the bicycle pedal?
8. LITERATURE: Who wrote the autobiographical novel “Empire of the Sun”?
9. ART: For what subject matter was painter John Singer Sargent best known?
10. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Who said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”?
Answers
1. Vincent Price
2. A palindrome (reads the same forward and backward)
3. Nightmare
4. It repealed Prohibition
5. THRUSH
6. Au (from the Latin word “aurum”)
7. Pierre and Ernest Michaux
8. J.G. Ballard
9. Portraits
10. Socrates
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