Also a place in the District of Columbia by VaccaD

Champion(s):

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:

HightB
Watch this space.


Quiz Description

People who live in larger states probably have an easier time coming up with these, don't they?

WARNING: FIRST AND LAST NAMES REQUIRED, UNLESS NOTED. I know it's arbitrary, but so am I.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 04 13 42 73 15 17 13 55 40 71 64 51
1 WeikleB 481 99 15
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2 HightB 452 97 15
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71
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3 KreitzerJ 425 95 15
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71
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64
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4 PeskinK 412 93 15
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42
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64
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5 JWright 397 91 15
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73
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64
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6 gregariouschinchilla 387 90 15
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51
7 GoodmanDL 376 88 15
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42
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73
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55
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71
00
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8 BeanA 373 86 15
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42
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71
00
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9 BeningoS 371 84 15
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42
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13
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40
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71
00
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10 grimesr 365 82 15
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42
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13
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40
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71
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64
00
11 randalleng 364 80 15
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42
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64
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12 Okrent 360 79 15
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73
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71
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13 CoenM 353 77 15
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42
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40
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64
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14 RobinJRichards 333 75 15
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73
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15 ChernicoffS 327 73 15
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16 BoyerA 322 71 15
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17 PruettC 314 70 15
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64
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18 HallR 311 68 15
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19 EtebariM 310 66 15
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71
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64
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20 GorowaraR 309 64 15
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64
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21 ElendilPickle 307 62 15
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64
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22 SheikoS 301 60 15
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71
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23 KashyapN 298 59 15
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24 BoulierJ 297 57 00
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25 Matto 294 55 15
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26 MatherV 289 53 15
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27 LuskT 280 51 15
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28 jefe 278 50 15
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29 MercureT 272 48 15
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51
30 HessJa 263 46 15
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13
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31 creedofhubris 256 43 15
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31 JordanG 256 43 15
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33 AllenJ 243 40 15
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51
34 WendellA 232 39 15
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35 JonesRW 224 37 15
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36 usuiw 218 35 15
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37 chc 215 32 15
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37 WolfischL 215 32 15
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39 FeitelD 213 30 15
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40 CarterBurke 206 28 15
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41 BatchelderD 192 25 15
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41 quarterrican 192 25 15
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43 GrahamJ 187 22 00
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44 CorlissM 181 20 15
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45 PolinskyL 178 19 15
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46 Vintsanity 177 17 15
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47 ConnorA 168 15 15
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48 elfm 164 13 15
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49 MoyseyC 137 10 15
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49 MangaserA 137 10 15
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49 NathanL 137 10 15
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52 Commodore 133 6 15
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53 PotatoD 120 4 15
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54 HoH 77 2 15
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55 FrostL 74 1 15
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Questions:

WHAT ACTOR won the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards? He's won Academy Awards for his portrayals of Silas Trip and Alonzo Harris, while other famous roles have included Steve Biko, Rubin Carter, and Herman Boone.

REMEMBER: First and last names required for every question in this quiz unless noted, because I'm sadistic like that.

Click to Reveal Answer
DENZEL WASHINGTON

WHAT AUTHOR wrote and published the satirical journal Salmagundi but is best-known for short stories set in upstate New York, many of which were collected in Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, and The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent?

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WASHINGTON IRVING

WHAT FORWARD, who in a 15 year NBA career with the Lakers, Celtics, Clippers, Trail Blazers, and Warriors managed one All-Star appearance and two All-Defensive second team awards, is most famous for his role in a December 9, 1977, on-court brawl? In the fight, he knocked out Rudy Tomjanovich with a single punch, leaving Tomjanovich with multiple life-threating skull fractures.

Click to Reveal Answer
KERMIT WASHINGTON

WHAT INDUSTRIALIST donated $100,000 to Trinity College, a Methodist college, in 1896 on the condition that the school become co-educational? the school not only accepted, but changed its name to honor him after his death.

Just the last name is acceptable here.

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G. WASHINGTON DUKE

WHAT ACTRESS played Broomhilda von Schaft in Django Unchained, but is best known for playing crisis management consultant Olivia Pope on Scandal?

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KERRY WASHINGTON

WHAT EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR wrote The Man Furthest Down and My Larger Education, but is best known for the autobiographical Up From Slavery?

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.

This epitaph appears on the grave of WHAT SCIENTIST, who is buried next to the man in Question 6?

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

WHAT ENGINEER became the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge after the death of the bridge's designer, who was also his father John?

Just the last name is acceptable here.

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WASHINGTON ROEBLING

WHAT MAN followed Jane Byrne, the first female mayor of Chicago, to become the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983?

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HAROLD WASHINGTON

On the subject of mayors, WHAT MAN was both the last appointed mayor of the District of Columbia and its first elected one?

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WALTER WASHINGTON

WHAT JAZZ SAXOPHONIST, considered one of the founders of the "Smooth Jazz" genre, recorded "Mister Magic," "Inner City Blues" and "The Best is Yet to Come"? He's probably best known for his collaboration with Bill Withers, "Just the Two of Us".

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GROVER WASHINGTON, JR.

WHAT GENERAL was given the epithet "Conotocaurious" ("Town Destroyer") by his ally Tanacharison the Half-King? Unfortunately for Tanacharison's successors Sayenqueraghta and Gyantwachia, the general commanded the other side during the next war.

Just the last name is acceptable here.

Click to Reveal Answer
GEORGE WASHINGTON