New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. Which vehicle is a velocipede?_____________________
[Choices: Hot air balloon, Yacht, Monoplane, Canoe, Bicycle ]

2. Sara Gruen wrote a popular 2006 novel titled:______________________.
[Choices: Apples for Monkeys, Beer for Horses, Vegetables for Giraffes, Water for Elephants, Bourbon for Lions ]

3. It is regarded as one of the world's finest types of wool:________________.
[Choices: Llewelyn, Jastine, Pashmina, Farsi, Edam ]

4. In the world of science, Alfred Wegener is known as the man who proposed this famous theory:_____________________.
[Choices: The Doppler Effect, The concept of zero, The Big Bang, Continental Drift, Earth revolves round Sun ]

5. Krubera Cave, the world's deepest, is located in a breakaway region of this country:__________________.
[Choices: Georgia, Japan, Chile, Greenland, Spain ]

6. Which insect belongs to the Grasshopper family?___________________
[Choices: Lady bug, Butterfly, Wasp, Scarab, Locust ]

7. Eileen Collins was the first female commander of a:_______________________.
[Choices: Navy destroyer, Military academy, U.S. Embassy, U.S. Overseas Territory, Space Shuttle ]

8. Today it is once again called "Denali". What was it once called?______________________
[Choices: Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Mount McKinley, Mount Whitney, Mount St. Helens ]

9. The writer Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is better known as:__________________.
[Choices: Aristophanes, Dante, Proust, Balzac, Moliere ]

10. The river Ob flows through this famous region:___________________.
[Choices: Siberia, Sahara Desert, Rift valley, Scandinavia, Amazon rainforest ]

11. Which mythological being is said to have been killed by Perseus?___________________
[Choices: Morpheus, Medusa, Atlas, Hades, Prometheus ]

12. Gaussian distribution is a concept in _________________ theory.
[Choices: Quantum, Uncertainty, Cosmic expansion, Evolutionary, Probability ]

13. She and Alfred Lunt formed a popular acting duo of the 1920's and 1930's:____________________.
[Choices: Ida Lupino, Clara Bow, Paulette Goddard, Lynn Fontanne, Ginger Rogers ]

14. Surtsey Island, off the coast of Iceland, claims this distinction:______________________.
[Choices: Always covered in ice, Last home of the dodo, World's tiniest republic, Actually seen forming, Most Northern NATO base ]

15. Francois Boucher, born in 1703, is most closely associated with this school of art:__________________.
[Choices: Pre-Raphaelite, Cubist, Modernist, Gothic, Rococo ]






Answers:

1. Bicycle [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocipede ]

2. Water for Elephants [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_for_Elephants ]

3. Pashmina [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashmina ]

4. Continental Drift [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener ]

5. Georgia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deepest_caves ]

6. Locust [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust ]

7. Space Shuttle [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Collins ]

8. Mount McKinley [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali ]

9. Moliere [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moliere ]

10. Siberia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob_River ]

11. Medusa [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa ]

12. Probability theory [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution ]

13. Lynn Fontanne [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Fontanne ]

14. Actually seen forming [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey ]

15. Rococo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_Boucher ]