Yet Another Mystery Theme by VaccaD

Champion(s):

CraneN


Runner(s)-Up:

PerryS


Quiz Description

Something links all the questions below. You know how this goes.

Some questions are designated bonus questions. These questions are not worth extra points.

Full Results:

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1 CraneN 527 98 15
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2 PerryS 469 95 15
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3 HealyT 444 92 15
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4 UllspergerA 430 90 15
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5 Tablesaw 426 87 15
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6 PlotkinD 425 84 15
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7 FryedBetaKappa 387 81 15
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8 HorwitzJ 378 78 15
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9 LuskT 375 75 15
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10 RichmondJ 364 72 15
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11 Projectyl 339 70 15
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12 WangA 321 67 00
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13 KonkelT 316 64 15
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14 Matto 312 61 15
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15 LairdM 309 58 15
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16 MoyseyC 288 55 00
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17 SorensonG 281 52 15
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18 CooperJ 263 50 15
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19 minarik15 262 47 00
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20 LaLondeM 254 44 15
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21 HessJa 246 41 15
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22 LinB 224 38 00
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24 JordanG 174 32 00
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Questions:

WHAT BOXER, who won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics shortly after graduating from high school, now owns a majority of boxing promoter Golden Boy Promotions and through it a 25% stake in MLS's Houston Dynamos?

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OSCAR DE LA HOYA

WHAT COUNTRY's largest cities include Bo and Kenema, the latter of which was in the news in 2014 when ebola expert Sheikh Umar Khan contracted the disease and died at his clinic there?

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SIERRA LEONE

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, WHAT MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE was cursed by Juno for concealing Jupiter's affairs, helping doom her infatuation with Narcissus?

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ECHO

WHAT POLITICAL PARTY was Canada's official opposition party after the 1993 federal elections, but is now reduced to just two seats in the House of Commons?

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BLOC QUEBECOIS

WHAT CONFLICT, inspired in part by the demands of the radical Mingo Creek Association, saw the only time a sitting American president led troops in the field?

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WHISKEY REBELLION

WHAT RULER has defeated an usurpation by his heir Kristoff Vernard and an attempt to establish a democratic regime under Lucia von Bardas, as well as an attempted restoration of the Fortunov dynasty by Zorba Fortunov?

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VICTOR VON DOOM

WHAT 17-LETTER WORD, coined by William Whewell in a review of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and also associated with the earlier work of James Hutton, is defined by Wikipedia as "the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe"?

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UNIFORMITARIANISM

Jolly Joes, Tropical Typhoon, and Berry Blast are varieties of WHAT CANDY made by Just Born, Inc.?

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MIKE AND IKE

In WHAT NOVEL does an incident in the Marabar Caves eventually lead to magistrate Ronny Heaslop calling off his engagement to schoolteacher Adela Quested?

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A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Citizens of WHAT COUNTRY voted it out of existence on October 2, 1870, although its government continued to operate in internal exile until becoming the government of a smaller successor country in 1929?

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PAPAL STATES

Bonus Question:

WHAT MOVIE, a 1996 comedy adaptation of a classic play by a notoriously schlocky studio, starred Will Keenan and Jane Jensen in the title roles and was narrated by Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead?

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TROMEO AND JULIET

Special Double Bonus Question:

WHAT ALBUM, officially released April 23, 2002 after being available for free online streaming for several months, ranked #3 on Rolling Stone's list of best albums of the decade and takes its name from an unauthorized sample from The Conet Project box set that appears in the song "Poor Places"?

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YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT