Mystery Theme #1 by PolinskyL

Champion(s):

MassogliaB


Runner(s)-Up:

HealyT
What the heck is that?


Quiz Description

Working out the mystery theme will be key. As a hint, I'll say that the answers do not represent an exclusive or exhaustive set of 12, and this 1DS breaks with canonical tradition by not making you guess the theme in the final question.

Full Results:

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1 MassogliaB 497 98 15
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2 HealyT 432 96 00
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3 VaccaD 425 94 15
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4 RickEmpty 386 91 15
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5 LuskT 385 89 15
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6 wrightk 381 86 15
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7 Tablesaw 364 84 15
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8 FryedBetaKappa 353 82 00
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9 Matto 352 79 15
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10 BennettT2 350 77 15
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11 MolinariR 342 75 15
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12 RichmondJ 332 72 15
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13 BoulierJ 306 70 00
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14 JordanG 303 67 15
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15 SchroederS 300 65 15
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16 SheikoS 292 63 15
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17 BanksL 291 60 15
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18 PlotkinD 289 57 15
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18 Projectyl 289 57 15
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20 UllspergerA 281 53 15
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21 MeyerS 274 50 15
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21 parenthetical-k 274 50 15
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23 HulkaE 271 45 15
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23 LairdM 271 45 15
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25 KonkelT 270 41 15
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30 CooperJ 249 29 15
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31 LipinskiB 248 27 00
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32 RossS 238 25 15
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33 MaddyE 232 22 00
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34 WoodJ 216 20 15
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39 MoyseyC 149 8 15
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40 wilsona 136 5 15
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42 GrahamJ 77 1 00
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Questions:

What safety feature, introduced for planes in the late 1920s and cars in the early 1970s (and recently made mandatory for cars in Europe and the US) also significantly decreases (by as much as a third) the incidence of deadly motorcycle crashes?

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Anti-Lock Brakes

The RAF's 4000-lb "Cookie" was also known by what alliterative 2-WORD NAME? In a show business context, the two words are antonyms.

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Blockbuster Bomb

Usage of the word sunwise has declined precipitously since the invention and near-universal adoption of WHAT DEVICE?

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Clock

In game theory, it is a game, somewhat in contrast with the Prisoner's dilemma, where the mutually beneficial solution is the dominant solution. In computer programming, it is an error where two processes each wait for the other to finish. What is it?

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Deadlock

A country which has been in the news recently has a tendency (when its name is mispronounced) to bring to mind a certain early-80s song, the biggest hit released by WHAT BAND?

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A Flock of Seagulls

What Austrian MANUFACTURER was an early innovator in the use of non-metal materials in pistols?

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Glock

Before it changed its name to "End of Life Choices", the US organization seeking to expand the legal status of physician-assisted suicide was known by WHAT NAME?

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Hemlock Society

Calisto and Caliban are among the mutants referred to by WHAT COLLECTIVE NAME in the X-Men universe, as a tribute to the subterranean race in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine?

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Morlocks

What FISH, often used in imitation crabmeat, is also used most often in McDonalds' Filet-O-Fish sandwiches?

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Pollock

On the Amazing Race, this is a task that only one team member may perform.

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Roadblock

What CHARACTER says "If you prick us, do we not bleed?"

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Shylock

Perhaps appropriate for a dead language, WHAT AUTHOR'S name features prominently on the cover of many commonly-used Latin textbooks, even though he's been dead since 1987?

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Wheelock