Mystery Theme by SorensonG

Champion(s):

PerryS


Runner(s)-Up:

BanksL


Quiz Description

Roll up, roll up for the magical Mystery Theme. Step right this way! (NOTE: Not the Beatles)

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Questions:

This 1964 NOVEL, about the Stamper logging family in Oregon, is Ken Kesey's second work.

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Sometimes a Great Notion

This 2011 photograph was taken in the aftermath of a loss by what sports TEAM?

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Vancouver Canucks

Shown here is a snippet from a controversial leaked 1989 memo by what TELEVISION PERSONALITY?

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Bryant Gumbel

Initially a radio star sponsored by Ovaltine, THIS PILOT is the leader of the Secret Squadron. On TV, he flew the Silver Dart, and later comic-book incarnations introduce a suit that lets him fly without a plane.

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Captain Midnight

Bluescreen and greenscreen are common methods of achieving this two-word film/TV SPECIAL EFFECT, in which moving and static objects are combined into a single shot.

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Traveling Matte

WHOSE ROUTE is depicted in this map?

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Terry Fox

Poodle Springs, completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker 30 years after the original author's death, is the final novel featuring WHAT HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE?

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Philip Marlowe

Who is the PERFORMER shown here, some years before a radical image makeover?

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George Carlin

WHAT PERSON sent Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney, and John Marshall to negotiate with France, where they would then be asked for bribes in the XYZ Affair?

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John Adams

In 2014, toy company GoldieBlox settled a lawsuit with the Beastie Boys over its unauthorized commercial use of what 1987 SONG?

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Girls

In gin rummy, cards which are not part of your meld, and which your opponent can then undercut, are known by WHAT TERM?

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Deadwood

What is the common link in the answers to the previous 11 questions?

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HBO (Home Box Office) (Q1 - first broadcast; Q2-first sporting event (vs. Rangers); Q4-1986 hacking incident; Q5-character on Fraggle Rock. All others are titles of, or titular people on, HBO original programming past & present)