The Theodore Newsletter

August 1, 2025

This 9^th edition is another tough one. You are once again asked to provide the correct answer to the following 20 questions. Credit 5 points for each correct answer. A grade of 75 suggests you might be brilliant.

1. The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
2. What are the chemical symbols for gaseous hydrogen and water?
3. Who are the two worst managers in baseball?
4. Who won the 2025 Super Bowl?
5. True or false. The first casino in Las Vegas opened in 1943.
6. Name the author of the $9 book “Winning at Casinos.”
7. Provide the solution to the following two linear algebraic equations: 2x + 3y = 12; x + y = 5
8. Name an individual who claimed that “there is no free hydrogen on planet Earth.”
9. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
10. True or false. An electrostatic precipitator is a pollution control device.
11. What diner that recently closed in Astoria, is alive and doing well in Bayside, and recently opened in Syosset
12. What two brothers out of Rockaway Beach, Queens, are in the basketball Hall of Fame?
13. What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
14. Does a royal straight flush beat four aces?
15. Can you use notes, calculators, computers, etc., while gambling at a casino.
16. Who recently celebrated his 91^st birthday?
17. Who recently celebrated her 58^th wedding anniversary?
18. Whose picture is on a $2 bill?
19. What is the traditional Greek soup?
20. Who is the Vice President of the United States?

ANSWERS:

1. Darkness
2. H₂ and H₂O
3. Full credit, but for me, it is the two New York managers.
4. Philadelphia Eagles.
5. False.
6. It’s yours truly and published by Amazon.
7. x = 3, y = 2.
8. Your favorite author is one of them.
9. The letter m.
10. True.
11. The Neptune Diner.
12. Dick and Al McGuire.
13. Incorrectly.
14. Yes.
15. Surprisingly, the answer is yes.
16. This one is a giveaway.
17. The Queen.
18. Jefferson.
19. Avgolemono.
20. J.D. Vance.

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