Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. Which food was not served at the 1621 Thanksgiving feast: venison, corn on the cob, or turkey?
-2. What is Freytag's Pyramid?
-3. Who has the only spoken line in Mel Brooks's 1976 film Silent Movie?
-4. Who/what was the Pink Panther in the movie of the same name?
-5. What is the state sport (individual, not team) of Maryland?
-6. If you wrote a poem with five anapestic lines in a rhyme scheme of aabba, what would you have?
-7. Murder victim Elizabeth Short was known by what moniker?
-8. By what name is the Cyanocitta Cristata commonly known?
-9. On what game show would you have heard the Herb Alpert's song "Whipped Cream"?
-10. At which racetrack is the Preakness held?

7 - the black dahlia ?

9. The Dating Game

4. a gem?

4. A diamond?

6. just a guess: Limerick

10. Pimlico

7. Black Dahlia

Sorry - niteowl already posted the answer.

3. Marcel Marceau

1. turkey

Excellent answers and good guesses!

jboliver, turkey was part of the meal. Try again.

1. Corn?

Corn might have been there, but not in corn-on-the-cob form. If it existed, it would have been as a crude kind of cornmeal.

2. Pyramid of basic human needs? The one I'm thinking of has self-actualization at the top.

Nevermind
The one I was thinking of was Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Well, cool! I learned something new.

5. Jousting
8. Blue jay

Well done, Koala!

2. The five parts of dramatic structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement. The pyramid is formed by the rising action going up one side of the pyramid, to the climax at the apex of the pyramid and the falling action down the other side.

I wonder if this analysis would apply to adventure games.

Well, we've certainly explored our share of pyramids. Good answer!