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  • Submit your answers by 7:30am ET 12/20/24
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google IS cheating.
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This time of year, certain industries are in desperate need of extra laborers.



You can consider this quiz an homage to those working longer as the days get shorter.

In related news: What's black and white and red all over? We're excited to announce our new trivia book series!

SOCIAL STUDIES Q1. FDR's First: In the pantheon of U.S. Presidential inaugural addresses, FDR’s first stands amongst the top with his famous quote, “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is ______ ______.”



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Premium Potables: We here in the trivia business are more of the well drink kinda crowd, but for you high-falootin’ folks what term, earned as they are often stored far above the rest, is given to premium liquors served at a bar?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Complimentary Confections: Devil’s food cake is a moist, rich chocolate layer cake from the butter cake family. What is its rival dessert, a sponge cake made with egg whites, flour, sugar, and a whipping agent like cream of tartar?



POP CULTURE Q4. Beatles Ballads: Name the Beatles song that also fills in the blank from this first verse: “Baby's good to me, you know / She's happy as can be, you know / She said so / I'm in love with her and ______ ______ ______”.



SOCIAL STUDIES Q5. Southern Spanish: Literally translating from Spanish to “Land of Fire” what three-word name is given the archipelago just off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland?



SPORTS & GAMES Q6. Football Fans: Both the football team of Texas A&M and the Seattle Seahawks lay claim to what name of their home crowd? It’s guessably derived from the fact that it’s one more person than the number of players on each side of an American football team.



SPORTS & GAMES Q7. Terrific Tricks: For all you skateboarders out there, you know that a kickflip is where the board flips 360 degrees on its horizontal axis while what similar trick is instead executed with the back of the foot…I mean board flipping away from the skater?



FINE ARTS Q8. Dancing Dynamos: Which of these gentlemen is credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance through shows like “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance”?
  Danny Elfman
  Mel Ferrer
  Michael Flatley
  Axel Foley



CURRENT EVENTS Q9. Photography Phenomena: Photographers like Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibovitz, and Diane Arbus have seen some encroachment on their business ever since what Chainsmokers-approved six-letter phenomenon became popular?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Seasonal Staff: As we mentioned, finding seasonal workers this time of year is tough. What very specific type of winter employee who usually works at an extremely high latitude is hiding in all of the previous answers this week?



TIEBREAKER Retail Rosters: Each Q4, the retail sector has to really beef up its rosters to handle the holidays. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, how many retail jobs were added in the U.S. October-December 2023?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 12/20/24