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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: QUOTATIONS FROM LITERATURE
(e.g., In this Kenneth Grahame classic the Rat
says, “It’s not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”
Answer: “The Wind in the Willows.”)
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SUDOKU is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9
grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the
numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each
column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only
once. King Features
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PUZZLE BY RICKY CRUZ
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Itch
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Venus lacks
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Affected
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“Let me tell
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Tofu source
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Like Solomon
among all
biblical kings
Popular juice
brand
Creature on
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Neighbor of a
Pakistani
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(ice cream
topping)
Press (into)
“Ghostbusters”
force, for short
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Frigid suffix
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on Me” group
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than 20 of them
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. In which L. Frank Baum novel is the line
“I’m really a very good man, but I’m a very bad
wizard”?
2. In this Robert Louis Stevenson book a parrot
named Captain Flint squawks, “Pieces of eight!”
3. What J.M. Barrie book opens with the line
“All Children, except one, grow up”?
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. In this Louisa May Alcott work, Meg says,
“It’s so dreadful to be poor!”
5. In which Hans Christian Andersen tale is the
line “I was lying on something hard.”?
6. In this Edgar Allan Poe story, the narrator
says, “I was sick — sick unto death with that
long agony.”
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does
Jessica say, “But love is blind”?
8. In which poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley are the
words “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
9. Richard Lovelace poem containing “Stone
walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a
cage.”
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2019 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
SUPER QUIZ
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Framed Roger
Rabbit”
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Blue Bell
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figs.
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a footnote
11 2008 Beijing
Olympics
stadium, with
“the”
12 Cheese that
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apples
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Constantinople
25 Rating that may
signify profanity
or violence
27 Jane of British
lit
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ANSWERS: 1. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” 2. “Treasure Island.” 3. “Peter Pan.” 4. “Little Women.” 5. “The Princess and the Pea.” 6. “The Pit and the
Pendulum.” 7. “The Merchant of Venice.” 8. “Ozymandias.” 9. “To Althea, from Prison.”
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Sci-fi anthology
series on Netflix
Upsides
Contemporary
of Vivaldi
Unit of
prevention
Defect in a can
Seeks help
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funeral date
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17 London tabloid
that Piers
Morgan once
headed
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operas?
20 Bug in “A Bug’s
Life”
21 “Off” time
22 Lead-tin alloy
24 In case
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28 Christmas carol
contraction
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staple
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to tomatoes
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Product with a
milk splash on
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2010 Denzel
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title role
Constraint of
some diets
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Highway agcy.
Word with stage
or storm
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Interrogation
room fixture
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No. 1003
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Edited by Will Shortz