New Scaratings

[I gave up on the OCR software because it didn't save any time. I also can't hide the answer and align the answers at the same time, because it won't do the color trick inside a code block, so I had to give up one or the other.]

Round 1
1 This ancient Greek thinker is best known for his doctrine of the Harmony of the Spheres
1 Pythagoras*
2 Zeno
3 Epicurus
4 Socrates
5 Plato

No 'academy' founder
No hemlock health tonic
Geometry's _____ Theorem

The philosopher and mathematician also wrestled with the theory of soul transmigration

2 At what school was Vladimir Nabokov a professor from 1948 to 1959?
1 Sewanee
2 Cornell*
3 Northwestern
4 Florida State
5 California

Not in Evanston
Not Berkeley
Ithaca

While there, he wrote 'Lolita' and Russian and English versions of his autobiography

3 Which place name means 'owner of big canoes' in a native-American language?
1 Indiana
2 Vancouver
3 Nevada
4 Missouri*
5 Saskatchewan

No 2010 Olympics host
Las Vegas not there
Harry Truman's home

The name comes from the Iliniwek indian language.

4 What leader saw defeat at the battle of Zama in 202 B.C.?
1 Alexander the Great
2 Constantine
3 Julius Caesar
4 Hannibal*
5 Nebuchadnezzar

Not a type of salad
Not the Babylonian king
Film's evil Dr. Lecter

Roman forces of Scipio Africanus beat the Carthaginian general in what is now Tunisia.

5 This pseudonym is used by directors when a film is such a disaster they wish to be anonymous.
1 Reno Carbonara
2 Beasley Fantishaw
3 Alan Smithee*
4 Rex Reed
5 Brooks de Soto

No Nevada city
Not a 1950's U.S. car
Starts with a vowel

The pseudonym was first used for 1969's 'Death of a Gunfighter'.


Round 2
6 What country lies on the slopes of Monte Titano?
1 San Marino*
2 Monaco
3 Antigua
4 Andorra
5 Tonga

Not in the Pyrenees
Not Prince Rainier
Inside Italy

This tiny nations's official name is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino.

7 Refusing to subscribe to the 'Act of Supremacy' led to his imprisonment and execution in 1535.
1 John Locke
2 John Calvin
3 Sir Thomas More*
4 Martin Luther
5 St. Thomas Aquinas

No designer Klein
Not what a key undoes
Opposite of less

A Roman Catholic martyr, he was also a lawyer and a diplomat for English king Henry VIII.

8 Hydrargyrum is the Latin term for what chemical element?
1 Arsenic
2 Protactinium
3 Mercury*
4 Hydrogen
5 Helium

Not the balloon gas
Not the first element
A planet

This is why mercury's symbol on the periodic table is 'Hg'.

9 What painter born in 1770 is remembered for his portraits of famous Europeans?
1 John Lafarge
2 Anthony van Dyck
3 Maurice Utrillo
4 Thomas Hart Benton
5 Francois Gerard*

Not peeping or doubting
Not Tony for short
Dr. Kimble's nemesis

His subjects included the likes of Napoleon and Louis XVIII.

10 Galicia is both a region in northwest Spain and a historic territory in southeast:
1 Brazil
2 Mexico
3 Poland*
4 Canada
5 Australia

Not a continent
Not where Aztecs lived
Warsaw is capital

The territory of this Galicia extends into the Ukraine and was a WWI battleground.


Round 3
11 In 1936, he coined the term 'axis powers' in reference to Germany and Italy.
1 Douglas MacArthur
2 Winston Churchill
3 Benito Mussolini*
4 Bertrand Russell
5 Clark Gable

Not a film actor
No British bulldog
Leader of Italy

He hoped the alliance would be the axis that all of Europe would revolve around.

12 Vaslav Nijinsky based his famous choreography of Debussy's 'Afternoon of a Faun' on:
1 A walk in the woods
2 African masks
3 Violent dreams
4 Greek vase paintings*
5 Circus clowns

Not during R.E.M.
No Bozos
Keep flowers here

Mental illness ended the magnetic Russian dancer's career in 1919.

13 Many critics regard St. Augustine's '_____' as the first true autobiography.
1 The Misanthrope
2 The Prince
3 Areopagitica
4 Beyond Good and Evil
5 Confessions*

Doesn't hate everyone
Not royalty
Tell your secret

It was written in 13 volumes between A.D. 397 and A.D. 398.

14 It is the only member of the family Cetorhinidae.
1 Gila monster
2 Burmese python
3 Harpy eagle
4 Basking shark*
5 Sumatran tiger

No big snake
No large bird
Big scary fish

The family name comes from two Greek words meaning 'whale' and 'nose'.

15 Which ancient wonder was built most recently?
1 Pharos of Alexandria*
2 Hanging Gardens
3 Statue of Zeus
4 Temple of Artemis
5 Great pyramid of Giza

Not in Babylon
No Mt. Olympus resident
Lighthouse

Built circa 270 B.C., the Pharos was the world's first and most famous lighthouse.

15 years ago in BB we ran into this question and didn't know it. When the choices came up I confidently announced that it's not Missouri, because if it was, I'd know it. Naturally for the last 15 years I've been reminded of that about once a month. But last night, revenge was mine. Although several of us had difficulty collecting 1k because we were literally ROFL.

BO