text=Are you sharp enough for the Big Quiz Thing? Of course you are - you made it this far. But whether you're smart enough to win is a whole other story. Below are some of the greatest questions from BQTs past. Keep in mind that if you find yourself clueless, we award "Smart-Ass Points" for amusing answers, giving credit where it isn't due.

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1. What's ironic about the fact that the New Hampshire state motto, "Live Free or Die," is stamped on their license plates?

2. Who died in September 1978, only 33 days into his new job?

3. What book presented the following dilemma?: A soldier cannot be relieved of dangerous duty unless he is diagnosed insane. But if he refuses the dangerous missions, he is thinking clearly, and therefore cannot be insane.

4. What type of dog has a name that means "takes to the earth"?

5. What fictional character is depicted in statue form on Eighth Avenue outside of the Port Authority bus station?

6. What artificially flavored beverage inspired its own board game in the late '70s?

7 What place was discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722?

8. What late-'60s Tony Award winner for best play was a comedic takeoff of a play written almost 370 years earlier?

9. Typically, what are you going to get if you're traveling to Pier 76?

10. In "Jocko Homo," Devo sings: "They tell us that God made man but he used the monkey to do it. Apes in the plan, and we're here to prove it. I can talk like an ape, walk like an ape, I can do what a monkey can do. God made man, but the monkey" did what?

11. What's the common factor?: Rick Blaine and one stroke over par in golf?


ANSWERS:

1. What's ironic about the fact that the New Hampshire state motto, "Live Free or Die," is stamped on their license plates?
A: The plates are made by prisoners

2. Who died in September 1978, only 33 days into his new job?
A: Pope John Paul I

3. What book presented the following dilemma?: A soldier cannot be relieved blah blah blah...
A: Catch-22

4. What type of dog has a name that means "takes to the earth"?
A: Terrier

5. What fictional character is depicted in statue form on Eighth Avenue outside of the Port Authority bus station?
A: Ralph Kramden (of The Honeymooners, a bus driver)

6. What artificially flavored beverage inspired its own board game in the late '70s?
A: Hawaiian Punch 

7 What place was discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722?
A: Easter Island (a-ha!)

8. What late-'60s Tony Award winner for best play was a comedic takeoff of a play written almost 370 years earlier?
A: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (the older play is Hamlet)

9. Typically, what are you going to get if you're traveling to Pier 76?
A: Your car (that's the Manhattan Tow Pound)

10. In "Jocko Homo," Devo sings: "They tell us that God made man but he used the monkey to do it. Apes in the plan, and we're here to prove it. I can talk like an ape, walk like an ape, I can do what a monkey can do. God made man, but the monkey" did what?
A: Supplied the glue

11. What's the common factor: Rick Blaine and one stroke over par in golf?
A: Bogey (Rick Blaine was played by Bogey in Casablanca, although spellings vary)