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Super quiz

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Take this Super Quiz to a PH.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the freshman level, 2 points on the graduate level and 3 points on the PH.D. level.

Subject: AMERICANA

(e.g., Who said, "All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people."? Answer: Al Capone.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Which "Al" created "Li'l Abner" in 1934? Answer________

2. Who married Jill Jacobs in 1977?

Answer________

3. What word transforme­d Billy Batson into Captain Marvel? Answer________

4. Complete the song title: "Bury Me Not on the ____." Answer________

5. What character did Carroll O'connor play on TV'S "All in the Family"?

Answer________

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. What were the first names of the comedy team Burns and Allen?

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7. President Calvin Coolidge said, "The chief business of the American people is ____."

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8. What song begins, "No one here can love or understand me"? Answer________

9. What "Captain" was played on TV by Bob Keeshan? Answer________

10. What type of currency is a C-note? Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

11. The belief of some Christians that every word in the Bible is exactly true.

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12. This steamboat was described as "Fulton's Folly." Answer________

13. What congressma­n was known as the "Great Pacificato­r"? Answer________

14. Who was the star of TV'S "Your Show of Shows" (1950-54)? Answer________

15. For what did the letters originally stand in the post-wwii CARE packages?

Answer________

1. Al Capp. 2. Joe Biden. 3. Shazam. 4. Lone Prairie. 5. Archie Bunker.

6. George and Gracie. 7. Business. 8. "Bye Bye Blackbird." 9. Captain Kangaroo. 10. A $100 bill. 11. Fundamenta­lism. 12. Clermont. 13. Henry Clay. 14. Sid Caesar. 15. Cooperativ­e for American Remittance­s to Europe.

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