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Author: | REACH [ Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:01 am ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. March 12, 2019 |
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 ] |
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