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43.6667° N    70.2667° W 

Founded January 1970

2022-2023: XLIII

Sunrise: 6:39 a.m.

Sunset: 4:13 p.m.

Civil twilight ends: 4:44 p.m.

Sun's host constellation: Libra the Scales

Moon phase: Waning crescent (30% illuminated)

Moonrise: 1:29 a.m. (11/19/2022)

Moonset: 2:12 p.m. (11/19/2022)

Julian date: 2459902.21

"To make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the Universe."

-Carl Sagan

THE DAILY ASTRONOMER Friday, November 18, 2022

Quiz # 11: Thanksgiving Quiz

As the DA will be off during the latter half of next week, we thought we'd post the Thanksgiving Quiz today. This quiz is designed to bring cheer and delight (i.e. stress and tumult) to your family during this festive holiday. We're mixing together a variety of topics from history to sports to astronomy. Think of this as being similar to a "Brain of Portland"quiz, only not quite as taxing, or so we hope. Enjoy! See you on Monday,

1.   Who wrote "Mansfield Park?"

2.  The Full Moon rises around what time of day/night?

3.  Which baseball player still holds the record for the greatest lifetime batting average?

4. Ok, smart aleck!  Who has the second greatest lifetime batting average?

5.  Who was the first Roman Emperor?

6.  What part of the cell contains DNA?

7.  The confederates started the American Civil War by firing on what?

8.  What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?

9.  According to Isaac Newton, every action has an equal ____________?

10.  Which President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday?

11.  A 50th wedding anniversary is gold; the 60th is diamond.   What is the 65th anniversary?

12.  Which two NFL teams ALWAYS play on Thanksgiving, though not necessarily against each other? 

13.  Though snowflakes are all different, they all have the same geometrical shape.  What is that shape?

14.   What is the most abundant element in the Universe?

15.   Which single television broadcast was the most watched show ever?  (NOT counting NFL games)

16.   Who was named the richest person in the world (2021) by Forbes magazine?

17.    What is the earliest possible date for Thanksgiving? 

18.    "Virga" is the meteorological term for rain that does what? 

19.   In which Shakespeare play did Portia's suitors have to select a gold, silver or lead casket to win her hand?

20.   Wood Fire, such as that one would have in a fireplace, is a chemical process called what?

21.  Who was the Roman goddess of home and hearth?

22.  Let's just say you had five people in a home.    They have a chess tournament so that each person plays everybody else exactly once.  How many chess games would there be? 

23.  Historians believe that which people brought the Christmas Tree to America when, ironically, they were helping Britain fight the Revolutionary War?

24.  Who was the longest serving British Monarch?

25.  The Sun is in which constellation during Thanksgiving, hence this constellation's nickname, 'The Thanksgiving constellation?"

ANSWERS

1.  Jane Austen

2.  Around sunset

3.  Ty Cobb   (0.366)

4.  Roger Hornsby  (0.358)

5. Caesar Augustus.    (Julius was a dictator, not an emperor.)

6.  The nucleus

7. Fort Sumter

8. A barred spiral (SBc)

9. and opposite reaction

10. Abraham Lincoln (1863)

11. Sapphire

12. Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions

13. Hexagonal

14.  Hydrogen

15. The final episode of M*A*S*H   104 million viewers (February 1983)

16.  Elon Musk (net worth $213 billion...well, it was before he bought Twitter.)

17.  November 22.  (TODAY!!)  The latest date is November 28. 

18. Evaporates before it strikes the ground.

19.  "The Merchant of Venice."

20.  Combustion

21. Vesta

22. 10

23.  The Hessians.

24.  Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)

25.  Scorpius the Scorpion

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