Quizmaster John James Maloney has a few tricky questions this week.
QUESTIONS
1 Born 100 years ago on September 17, 1923, Hank Williams was well known as what?
2 What happened to the folks attending the recent Burning Man festival in Nevada?
3 If you have been diddled what has occurred?
4 NaCl is the chemical symbol for what common substance?
5 What is a gazetteer?
6 Is ochlophobia a fear of crowds or wide open empty spaces?
7 Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by twins?
8 Who is the William Manchester book The Death of a President about?
9 Who was actor Anne Bancroft’s second husband?
10 Who sang the 1976 hit Turn the Beat Around?
ANSWERS
1 Country music icon, singer/songwriter and recording star.
2 They were flooded in – in a sea of mud.
3 Cheated, tricked or swindled out of money or just shortchanged.
4 Salt.
5 A geographical dictionary or directory often used with a map or atlas. It may have a range of information about a place, country, region or continent.
6 Fear of crowds.
7 Gemini.
8 John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
9 Actor, comedian, and filmmaker Mel Brooks.
10 Vicki Sue Robinson.
