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Friday, August 12, 2011

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - August 12, 2011

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: White. "This week's brainteaser is about the colour white. All the answers have "white" in their names or concern something called "white."" Answers here.

1. What is the official name of the executive mansion of the President of the United States?
2. What kind of shark is famous as the "villain" of the various Jaws films?
3. As the name for something, what is a white elephant?
4. In astronomy, what kind of thing is a white dwarf?
5. Which band recorded the 1968 album that is generally called "The White Album"?
6. Which 1992 movie was the first starring film role for Woody Harrelson as a basketball-player opposite Wesley Snipes?
7. In Jack London's 1906 novel "White Fang", what kind of animal was White Fang?
8. Which 1937 film was nicknamed "Disney's Folly" by some industry insiders?
9. What kind of thing is the Dashing White Sergeant?
10. Who wrote the 1958 historical fantasy "The Once and Future King"?

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