By Dave Green
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: TYPES
Each question begins with “A type of ...”
(e.g., ... large sofa usually convertible into
a bed. Answer: Davenport.)
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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 MICHAEL SCHLOSSBERG
30 Spoil
31 ’Fore
35 Sustenance from
heaven
36 Smooth-talking
38 Comfy boot
39 Leaves before
paying the check?
40 Half-___ (order
for a barista)
41 Key to get out of
full-screen video
45 Pasture
47 One might be
dropped in a
to-go bag
48 Yankees great
Howard
49 Frost
50 What might help
you make your
goal?
51 Bucks
52 “I’m not a ___”
(captcha phrase)
53 Popular photo
app, informally
57 Joint problem
58 Feature of the
Swiss Miss logo
59 Dismounted
60 Harmful
substances to
swallow
62 Squeak (out)
63 Muscular Pontiac
64 Orders
65 Atlanta-based TV
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. ... meal where guests serve themselves.
2. ... domed building made of snow or ice.
3. ... humorous poem with fi ve lines.
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. ... rubber shoes worn over ordinary shoes to
protect them.
5. ... painting in which inanimate objects such as
fl owers are depicted.
6. ... wire kitchen utensil used for beating food
by hand.
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. ... shot glass that holds a single swallow of
liquor.
8. ... road for local traffi c that runs parallel to an
expressway.
9. ... umbrella designed to provide protection
from the sun.
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1 50 is a high one:
Abbr.
2 Luau bowlful
3 “C’mon, throw
me a bone
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4 Low-maintenance
fish
5 Jibber-jabbers
6 Things coaches
handle
7 N.L. West team:
Abbr.
8 Palindromic
woman’s name
9 ___ Xtra (soda)
10 Worrisome word
at a nuclear plant
11 2017 biography
subtitled “The
Man, the
Dictator, and the
Master of Terror”
12 Pulitzer-winning
playwright Vogel
13 “r u kidding
me?!”
18 Arthurian times,
say
19 Boris Johnson,
for one
22 Word often
shortened to its
middle letter
23 Pulmonologist’s
study
24 Musical syllables
25 1987 drama set
in apartheid-era
South Africa
28 Number in a
shield symbol:
Abbr.
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34 Second
Amendment
1 Squabble
focus
5 “Um, sure”
37 Breakfast aisle
option for a
9 Old detective
wheat allergy
magazines, e.g.
14 Astringent target 42 Solomonic sort
43 Russian yeses
15 Indian tourist
44 Zip
mecca
46 Bingo, for one
16 “Word on the
51 Indian honorific
street is …”
54 Towering tree
17 Bingo, in
55 ___ Castle,
Scrabble
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20 One of the
landmark
friends on
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Friendly Islands
21 Upscale San
59 “Such a shame”
Francisco
61 “Bingo!”
neighborhood
66 Arose
22 Site for a rite
67 Dust Bowl
25 Something with a
traveler
belt and coat
68 Perforate, in a
way
26 Assembly line?
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27 “B-I-N-G-O,” e.g.
such
32 Cellular plan?
70 Barclays Center
33 Flirt (with)
team
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