1. Submit your entry by end of day Jan 2 via Google survey
2. Use your brain, not your smartphone
3. DROP one question for zero points
4. SHEEP one question and take points for the most common answer in that round
5. Wrong answers = SHEEP (most common answer) + 5 points
6. There are 5 bonus questions worth -1 point each or -6 points for 5 correct answers. No penalty for wrong answers
7. Letter required only when asked for
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2. AMERICAN PLAY SETTINGS - Name the U.S. state where any of the following plays takes place. Letter required
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B. The Miracle Worker
C. The Music Man
D. Barefoot in the Park
E. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
F. Fences
G. Long Day’s Journey into Night
H. The Crucible
I. Glengarry Glen Ross
J. True West
K. The Trip to Bountiful
L. Hairspray
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- Role played by Ricki Lake in the 1988 John Waters film, Hairspray
- Dustin Hoffman's down and out character in Midnight Cowboy
- Former MLB left fielder who played 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants (and who recently tweeted: "My fresh baked sourdough bread #homemade")
- 92-year old American actor known for his portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Deep Throat
- British and Irish playwright, screenwriter, and film director, most recently for the dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- American businesswoman, lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from North Dakota since 2013
- Tall and skinny, with tightly wound hair and enormous feet. Popeye says she’s a perfect 57... 19-19-19
- Incredible Best Actress Academy Award winner from Conyers, Georgia
- American artist whose best known works include Flags, Numbers, Maps and Stenciled Words
- American artist known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, innovative combinations of non-traditional materials and objects
- Name given to a group of settlements in Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, D.C., adjoining Friendship Heights
- The cartoon character featured on this recent cover of The New Yorker
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B. High Noon (1952)
C. Citizen Kane (1941)
D. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
E. The Graduate (1967)
F. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
G. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
H. All the President’s Men (1976)
I. The Ten Commandments (1956)
J. Raging Bull (1980)
K. The Social Network (2010)
L. Good Fellas (1990)
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- Tragic flaw, as defined by Aristotle (Greek)
- Large crater formed by collapse of volcano (Spanish)
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as in a monogram; someone or something
of no importance (Arabic) - Novel of education or personal formation (German)
- 1960s TV character portrayed by Alan Hale, Jr. (Dutch)
- Area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality,
ethnicity or race (Italian) - A pillaging, predatory multitude, say of Dothraki or walkers (Turkish)
- Good, well, wonderful, excellent (Nadsat)
- Maniacally or furiously violent or out of control; also a 1967 Joan Crawford B-movie
(Norse) - A word in the news - sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government
(French) - Cultured dairy product with the consistency of strained yogurt (Icelandic)
- Tower (Sindarin)
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- Gary Oldman, Robert Pattinson and Tom Cruise have all portrayed this being that tends to hang around for a long time
- In Game of Thrones, this priestess, aka The Red Woman, has a pretty horrible track record when it comes to interpreting prophecies
- In folklore, this horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon" metes out just punishment to naughty children at Christmas time
- A member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures
- Medieval military order founded c. 1190 to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land (Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus der Heiligen Maria in Jerusalem)
- Wearing distinctive white mantles with a red cross, these knights were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades
- Enlightenment-era secret society whose mission was to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power
- The old guy mentioned in these lines from Genesis: 25 And (he) lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26 And (he) lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of (him) were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. - In DC Comics, he's the leader of the League of Assassins kept alive for centuries by the Lazarus Pits. His name in Arabic translates to "The Demon's Head"
- Ancient people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC
- An ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily inhabiting the Maghreb. Augustine of Hippo is one of the best known of this ancient people
- Ethnolinguistic group indigenous to present-day Sudan and southern Egypt who originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, pre-dating dynastic Egypt
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- 3-time Best Actor Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis claims this fashion pic is his last
- Kate Winslet stars in Woody Allen’s latest, set in Coney Island
- A teenager falls for his dad’s research assistant in this Luca Guadagnino pic set in Italy in the 1980s
- Ansel Elgort plays the titular man behind the wheel in this fast-paced heist flick
- Guillermo del Toro’s latest, a beauty and the beast tale inspired by classic monster movies
- Judd Apatow produced romantic comedy starring real life couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon
- Emma Stone and Steve Carrell go head to head in this film about an epic athletic match-up
- Margot Robbie and Alison Janey play mother daughter in this lurid Lillehammer tale
- James Franco plays Tommy Wiseau, the mysterious director behind the cult classic, The Room
- The most polarizing movie of the year? J.Law and Michelle Pfeiffer star in Darren Aronofsky's latest
- Judi Dench frocks up in this film about Queen Victoria's scandalous relationship with an Indian boy toy
- Nicole Kidman stars in Sofia Coppola's latest, set in the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies in 1864
Bonus #1 - Name the last musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture before Chicago
Bonus #2 - Name Pantone's Color of the Year 2018, "A Dramatically Provocative and Thoughtful Purple Shade"
Bonus #3 - Name the actor who replaced Kevin Spacey in reshoots for the film, All the Money in the World
Bonus #4 - Bikini Bottom Day and Super Sea Star Savior are songs from which Broadway musical that opened on December 4, 2017
Bonus #5 - What word is missing in this name of a paper posted online to a cryptography mailing list in 2008? “________: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”