Acelarator -- Quiz Quilt 176 Solution

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Literature & Arts	DICKENS	The early mystery was published posthumously in 1879, nine years after Charles Dickens's death.
Geography & Nature	NICARAGUA	The triangular nation covers just over 50,000 square miles, slightly smaller than Louisiana and larger than Mississippi.
Entertainment & Food	HAIR	The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, and the Cowsills reached #2 with their rendition of "Hair".
History & Government	GETTY	J. Paul Getty, the founder of Getty Oil, was one of the world's first billionaires and considered to be the wealthiest person in the world when he died.
Sports & Games	GIAMATTI	Former Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti ousted the belatedly apologetic hitter for life on August 24, 1989.
Math & Science	RADAR	British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt constructed the first practical radar in 1935, although the name wasn't coined until 1941.

Quiz Quilt Answer: AMTRAK (Fourth letters going up)

The Acela Express is a high-speed Amtrak train that runs from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts.

Acelarator -- Quiz Quilt 176 Puzzle

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Literature & Arts	What author's final novel was The Mystery of Edwin Drood?
Geography & Nature	What is the largest Central American country?
Entertainment & Food	What musical inspired the Fifth Dimension's medley "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", which won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1970?
History & Government	What oil baron observed, "I've noticed that people who don't respect money don't have any"?
Sports & Games	What Major League Baseball commissioner banned Pete Rose for gambling?
Math & Science	What instrument detects the position, motion, and nature of a remote object by reflecting radio waves off its surface?

Dickie's Dandies -- Quiz Quilt 175 Solution

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Sports & Games	KARIYA	Left winger Paul Kariya had 24 goals and 69 assists in the regular season and added a goal and 6 assists in the postseason.
History & Government	SHERMAN	William Tecumseh Sherman's campaign began on November 15, 1864 and lasted 24 days. He bragged, "We have devoured the land... . To realize what war is, one should follow our tracks."
Entertainment & Food	CAPRA	Italian immigrant Frank Capra was nominated for Best Director Oscar awards for the 1937 and 1939 movies but did not win.
Geography & Nature	DRAKE	Upon Francis Drake's return, he gave Queen Elizabeth enough money to pay off England's foreign debts.
Math & Science	GRISSOM	The capsule had sunk after Gus Grissom's fifteen-minute sub-orbital flight on July 21, 1961.
Literature & Arts	DADA	The proponents of the movement, which began as a response to World War I, considered their work "anti-art".

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIAPER (Third letters)

Sportscaster and former Detroit Pistons coach Dick Vitale refers to college freshmen basketball players as "diaper dandies".

Dickie's Dandies -- Quiz Quilt 175 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	What University of Maine hockey player won the Hobey Baker award while his team won the Frozen Four championship in 1992-93?
History & Government	What general led the March to the Sea during the U.S. Civil War?
Entertainment & Food	Who directed Lost Horizon and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?
Geography & Nature	What Englishman sailed around the world from 1577 to 1580, partly to escape Spanish ships from which he stole gold?
Math & Science	What astronaut was originally in the Mercury spaceship's Liberty Bell 7, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999?
Literature & Arts	What art and literature movement, begun in Zurich, was based on deliberate irrationality and the negation of traditional and artistic values?

Wolfman Jack -- Quiz Quilt 174 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	RAVEL	John Derek tried to cash in on the fame of Maurice Ravel's one-movement orchestral piece by casting Bo Derek in a 1984 movie called Bolero.
History & Government	FULTON	Engineer Robert Fulton had designed the first practical submarine for Napoleon seven years earlier.
Sports & Games	GREEN	American roulette wheels also have a green double-zero to increase the house's advantage further.
Math & Science	FARADAY	Michael Faraday, the son of a blacksmith, also studied the opposite effect, electromagnetism, but was criticized for failing to credit his predecessors in his publications.
Geography & Nature	ARIZONA	The 342-square-mile desert area contains many colorful, rock-hard logs formed from the mineralization of wood by the silica in volcanic ash.
Literature & Arts	DIXON	The Franklin W. Dixon series was the brainchild of Edward Stratemeyer, who also used the name Carolyn Keene and several ghostwriters to create the Nancy Drew mysteries.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LONDON (Fifth letters)

Author Jack London wrote "The Son of the Wolf", published in 1900, the complementary novels "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" about wild dogs and wolves, and "The Sea-Wolf", whose antagonist is a sea captain named Wolf Larsen.

Wolfman Jack -- Quiz Quilt 174 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What French composer wrote "Bolero", which gained notoriety in the 1979 movie 10?
History & Government	What American inventor created the first commercially successful steamboat in 1807?
Sports & Games	What color is the zero slot on a roulette wheel?
Math & Science	What English physicist and chemist first produced electricity by moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire?
Geography & Nature	In which U.S. state is the Petrified Forest National Park located?
Literature & Arts	What pseudonym was used to pen The Hardy Boys?

Math Middle -- Quiz Quilt 173 Solution

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Math & Science	MUSHROOM	Poisonous mushrooms are called toadstools.
Literature & Arts	GARDNER	The movie A View to a Kill is based on John Gardner's License Renewed. He wrote License to Kill and Goldeneye based on their respective movies.
History & Government	MUSSOLINI	In a 1925 speech, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini outlined the party's philosophy as "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
Entertainment & Food	COOLIDGE	Leon Russell's tune about Rita Coolidge reached #1 in the U.K. in 1969 and was a Top 40 hit in the U.S.
Geography & Nature	TANZANIA	The peak is 19,340 feet high.
Sports & Games	SIMPSON	Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson totaled 2,003 yards on the ground in only 14 games in 1973, just over two decades before his infamous run from the law.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ORIGIN (Seventh letters)

The middle of the Cartesian coordinate system is known as the origin, "0, 0" in two dimensions or "0, 0, 0" in three.

Math Middle -- Quiz Quilt 173 Puzzle

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Math & Science	What is the common name for the enlarged, complex, aerial, fleshy, fruiting body of a fungus, especially one that is edible?
Literature & Arts	What author continued the James Bond tradition after Ian Fleming's death, writing fourteen novels from 1981 to 1996?
History & Government	Who founded the Fascist Party in 1921?
Entertainment & Food	What singer was Joe Cocker's 1969 song "Delta Lady" about?
Geography & Nature	In what country is Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, located?
Sports & Games	Who was the first NFL player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season?

Drug Druthers - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Nifedipine. The dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker is approved for treatment of hypertension and angina pectoris.
• A2) Ibuprofen. The pain killer has been approved for use by the U.S. FDA since 1984.
• A3) Citalopram. The antidepressant is used to treat depression and social anxiety disorder. Its successor is escitalopram, which is sold as Lexapro.
• A4) Tadalafil. The 36-hour PDE5 inhibitor was the third ED drug approved by the FDA in December 2003.
• A5) Meperidine (also called pethidine). The opioid analgesic was created by German Otto Schaumann in 1932 as a safer alternative to morphine.
• A6) Furosemide (also called frusemide). [name comes from "LAsts SIX" hours] -- used to treat hypertension and other ailments in humans but infamous for being used to keep horses from bleeding during races.
• A7) Vardenafil. Levitra is Bayer's name in the U.S., and Vivanza is GSK's name in Europe for the same PDE5 inhibitor.
• A8) Paroxetine. The antidepressant is less frequently used because withdrawal symptoms can be severe.
• A9) Fluoxetine. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), like paroxetine, was created by Eli Lilly in 1970.
• A10) Acetaminophen (paracetamol outside of North America). The popular pain reliever and fever reducer was first marketed in the U.S. in 1953 as an aspirin substitute.
• A11) Sildenafil citrate. The first ED drug was approved by the FDA in March 1998, leading to over a billion dollars in annual sales.
• A12) Sertraline. The SSRI, the most widely prescribed antidepressant in the U.S. in 2007, was developed at Pfizer beginning in the early 1970s but did not come to market for two decades.

Note: this is the final random trivia quiz that will be posted to the Trivia Why's blog. The Quiz Quilt puzzles will continue to be posted each Friday (questions) and Saturday (answers) night.

Drug Druthers - Random Trivia Questions

Given your druthers, what generic drugs would you rather purchase to save the expense of these higher-priced brand names?

Drug Druthers Questions

• Q1) Adalat, Nifedical, and Procardia
• Q2) Advil and Motrin
• Q3) Celexa
• Q4) Cialis
• Q5) Demerol
• Q6) Lasix
• Q7) Levitra and Vivanza
• Q8) Paxil
• Q9) Prozac
• Q10) Tylenol
• Q11) Viagra
• Q12) Zoloft

An American in Puerto Vallarta -- Quiz Quilt 172 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	DEVITO	The title of Danny DeVito's directorial debut comes from a 1956 Patti Page song written by Irving Gordon.
Geography & Nature	MICHIGAN	The Great Lakes State could fit Indiana in its almost 40,000 square miles of water.
Literature & Arts	ATALANTA	Hippomenes, also known as Melanion, won her hand in marriage by following Aphrodite's wise advice.
History & Government	GEORGIA	The southeastern state was readmitted on July 15, 1870, almost five years after the war ended.
Math & Science	HILBERT	David Hilbert was born in 1862 in Konigsberg, Germany, which is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Sports & Games	CHINAGLIA	Striker Giorgio Chinaglia finished as the NASL's all-time top goal scorer with 193 and led the league in scoring five times from 1976 to 1982, including his 1981 MVP season.

Quiz Quilt Answer: GRINGO (Sixth letters going up)

"Gringo" is a derogatory Latin American term for Americans.