Alpaca Farm (beta)

Mystery Theme #6 by PolinskyL

Champion(s):

ChernicoffS
Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. —Bob Dylan

WeikleB
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More, I cannot say.

Runner(s)-Up:

Quiz Description

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Questions:

Question 1

Picking up from my previous Mystery Theme, two significant flaws of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are its small number of constituents and the fact that it is price-weighted. Because of this, those in the industry tend to gravitate to a different index of large-cap stocks as the primary indicator of the health of 'the market'. This index is capitalization-weighted and contains HOW MANY companies? (Coincidentally, the same joint venture, co-owned by McGraw-Hill Financial, CME Group, and News Corp, determines the makeup of both this index and the DJIA.)

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500 (S&P 500)

Question 2

Edgar Kaiser, Jr., a grandson of the WWII shipbuilder and industrialist Henry Kaiser, was a onetime owner of WHAT FOOTBALL TEAM? For some years after selling his stake, he was embroiled in a lawsuit with the team's current majority owner, related to that owner's later resale of a smaller stake in the team to a former QB and current car dealer.

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Denver BRONCOs

Question 3

An MIT team recently announced the latest breakthrough - this time, an allegedly Affordable, Robust, Compact, or ARC, reactor - in the decades-long search for a practical way to harness what type of reaction?

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Nuclear FUSION

Question 4

What Manchester-based independent broadcaster, founded in 1954 now part of ITV, would identify itself as "from the North"? It was named for a Spanish city and its US production arm would shower our market with such riches as Nanny 911.

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GRANADA

Question 5

What speckled bean is often the primary ingredient in refried beans?

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PINTO

Question 6

What same-named TV series and movie, separated by a scant 30+ years, featured James Garner? He was the title character in the former but not in the latter.

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MAVERICK

Question 7

Sunkist, IBM, and most recently Vizio have been some of the sponsors of what College Football Bowl Game?

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FIESTA Bowl

Question 8

The Crab Nebula is in what constellation?

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TAURUS

Question 9

What Southwest US "Global School of Management" derives its name from the former military airfield on which its campus is located?

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THUNDERBIRD Global School of Management

Question 10

Captain Geoffrey T Spaulding was the main character in Animal Crackers. By what two-word (three-word if you count 'the') epithet was he known? In his trademark song it was memorably rhymed with the Yiddish word for 'beggar'.

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The African EXPLORER

Question 11

What Colorado Springs-based organization was founded in 1977 by James Dobson?

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FOCUS on the Family

Question 12

What is the common link uniting the above?

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FORD (All were models manufactured by Ford)