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Questions on Turning Thirty-Three by KlionskyG

Champion(s):

KonkelT
Kai gwa!

Runner(s)-Up:

KaufmanK

Quiz Description

Hebrew calendar leap years lead to some funny results; since both 5749 and 5782 are leap years, I will have just my 12th 8 Adar I on the evening of February 8th this year, whereas my 33rd February 12 comes a few days later (counting the ones in 1989 as #0). However you want to write it, here are 12 questions that tie in to the number 33 ٣٣ 100001 XXXIII ל"ג

Full Results:

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1 KonkelT 652 98 33
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2 KaufmanK 579 95 33
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3 KashyapN 540 91 33
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4 NathanL 539 88 33
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5 ecpekkle 514 85 33
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6 HortonR 504 80 33
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6 CoenM 504 80 33
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8 DouglasLovesVixey 473 75 33
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9 LanceJ 444 71 33
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10 KPope 437 68 00
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11 LynchT 423 65 33
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12 MellitsJ 417 61 33
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13 Bup 396 58 33
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14 MoskowitzJim 383 55 00
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15 SokolM 380 51 33
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16 Vintsanity 370 48 33
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17 randalleng 367 45 33
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18 garrybl 360 41 33
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19 JoeM 347 38 00
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20 PollakO 283 33 00
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20 Zippy 283 33 00
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22 HoH 247 28 00
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23 melvillean 239 25 33
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24 AGRK 224 21 33
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25 zoe 223 18 00
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26 Susan 220 15 00
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28 DavidL 147 8 00
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Questions:

Question 1

The 33rd US president did not get any of the six Electoral College votes from the 33rd US state in his election bid. Who defeated this president in that state (but not overall)?

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Thomas DEWEY [DEFEATS TRUMAN]

Question 2

P. I. Tchaikovsky never wrote a full cello concerto, but his Op. 33, a set of variations, features a solo cello playing with the orchestra. By what artistic adjective is the theme of these variations described? The melody does not actually come from the period in question but is rather, as befits its name, full of movement and highly ornamented.

The second half of the theme is played in this 1969 recording by Msistlav Rostropovich and the Berlin Philharmonic.

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Click to Reveal Answer
Rococo (Variations on a Rococo Theme)

Question 3

What word fills in the blank below?

[...] If you'd have been there, if you'd have heard it
I betcha you would have done the same

I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two years ago, and he told me he was single, and we hit it off right away. So, we started living together. He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, we'd have dinner.
And then I found out: 'single' he told me? 'Single', my ass! Not only was he married, oh no! He had six wives; one of those Mormons, you know? So that night, when he came home from work, I fixed him his drink as usual.

You know, some guys just can't hold their _________!

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Arsenic

Question 4

What Ohio-born New Jerseyite is most closely associated with the numbers 78, 45, and 33, despite not being directly responsible for what any of them represent?

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Thomas Edison

Question 5

Instead of retiring after winning Super Bowl XXXII as many suspected he might, who returned to lead his team to victory -- and was named MVP of the game for his efforts -- in Super Bowl XXXIII, the final NFL game of his playing career?

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John Elway

Question 6

On September 22 in the year that Frodo Baggins turned 33, what was the sum in years of his age and that of his double-cousin Bilbo?

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144 (a gross)

Question 7

Which U.S. constitutional amendment was proposed and ratified entirely within 1933 (though Montana ultimately ratified it as well in August 1934)? Give the amendment number or the final word in the text of Section I.

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21st Amendment (XXI) ("Repealed")

Question 8

Who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2020 and had his uniform number 33 retired in September 2021 by the team whose cap he wears on his HOF plaque (the first plaque to feature this cap)?

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Larry Walker

Question 9

Mini-theme: I Kings

According to the Book of Kings, King David ruled over Israel for 7 years from Hebron and for an additional 33 from what city?

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Jerusalem

Question 10

Mini-theme: II Kings

Who was King of Norway from September 1957 until his death in January 1991, a term of slightly more than 33 years? Name and regnal number required.

And note that while precisely correct spelling is not required, his regnal name does differ by just one letter from that of a different, current, world leader.

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King Olav V

Question 11

Including Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet but excluding Taiwan, there are 33 administrative divisions in China. Name any of the five most-populous such divisions as of 2020.

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Guangdong (fka Canton, 126M), Shandong (102M), Henan (99M), Jiangsu (fka Kiangsu, 85M), Sichuan (aka Szechuan, 84M)

Question 12

Primarily, what is special about this sentence, which has likely never been spoken aloud before this quiz was published?

Hypercomplex philosophizers tranquillizing Jabberwockies quixotically mischaracterize excommunicative microtechniques.

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Every word has a base score of 33 points in English Scrabble