Trivia Newsletter CIII Submission Form

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Question #1 - The interaction of ozone molecules and isoprene, a volatile hydrocarbon naturally released by trees as a means of protection against heat and insects, produces a haze that is commonly believed to give WHAT mountain range, a part of the Appalachian Mountains, its name?

Question #2 - A fictional diamond with a distinctively shaped flaw was the titular object in WHAT 1963 film, which spawned a media franchise of almost a dozen films, as well as a series of animated shorts?

Question #3 - WHAT name is given to the thought experiment first devised by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, based upon an idea proposed by evolutionary biologist W.D. Hamilton in 1964, that is intended to explain selective altruism among individuals of a species? In the thought experiment, a particular vivid example of a detectable phenotypic marker causes its carrier to behave altruistically towards individuals who display the same marker.

Question #4 - Erwin Wardman, the editor of the New York Press, is generally credited with being the first to publish WHAT phrase to describe the sensationalistic reporting that characterized Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal in the late 1890s?

Question #5 - Please answer either of the following questions: (a) NAME the author and illustrator who created the Arthur series. He also served as an executive producer for the same-named PBS television show that holds the distinction as the longest-running children’s animated television show in American history; OR (b) WHAT is the alliterative term oft-applied to overly ornate text that distractingly takes away from even an obsequious reader’s enraptured attention by producing a too-liberal font of fanciful adjectives and unnecessarily lurid adverbs?

Question #6 - Of the 363 colleges and universities that participate in NCAA’s “Division I” in men’s basketball, only one of them fits the theme of this newsletter. NAME the team. (One word is acceptable.) *

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