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

1. Mexico's Emperor Maximilian was executed when ____________________ refused to commute his sentence.
[Choices: Emiliano Zapata, Benito Juarez, Fernando Valenzuela, Porfirio Diaz, Pancho Villa ]

2. Spelunking is the sport of:_______________________.
[Choices: Rock climbing, Cave exploration, Weight lifting, Power walking, Skydiving ]

3. Which organ in the body contains a section called the Dura Mater?_____________________
[Choices: Small intestine, Kidney, Heart, Lungs, Brain ]

4. "Two Treatises of Government" is a 1689 work of political philosophy by:____________________.
[Choices: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, T.S. Eliot, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau ]

5. The southern portion of the ______________ Desert merges with the Kalahari Desert.
[Choices: Gobi, Limpopo, Namib, Thar, Nubian ]

6. Like Anne Boleyn, this wife of Henry VIII was beheaded:_______________________.
[Choices: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Jane Seymour, Catherine of Aragon ]

7. Samuel Beckett's famous play "Waiting for Godot" was originally written in:__________________.
[Choices: Italian, French, German, Russian, Spanish ]

8. Formed in 1956, Kerala is a state in southern:_____________________.
[Choices: Mexico, India, Russia, Brazil, China ]

9. Which Biblical figure interprets a dream of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar? __________________
[Choices: Saul, Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, Solomon ]

10. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is a line from what movie?________________________
[Choices: Apocalypse Now, The Longest Day, The Deer Hunter, Heartbreak Ridge, Platoon ]

11. In Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", which instrument is used to represent the Wolf?___________________
[Choices: Violin, Bass drum, French horn, Oboe, Triangle ]

12. In which country did the Carlist Movement take place in the 19th century?__________________
[Choices: Poland, Spain, Japan, Belize, Denmark ]

13. Bartholome Murillo was a Spanish painter of the __________________ period.
[Choices: Impressionist, Medieval, Baroque, Modernist, Romantic ]

14. Which celestial body was discovered by Johann Galle at the Berlin Observatory in 1846?____________________
[Choices: Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Mercury, Neptune ]

15. John Sedgwick's acclaimed "Blood Moon" tells the story of a long blood feud between:_______________________.
[Choices: Plantation owners, New Orleans Creoles, Horse racing gamblers, Cherokee chiefs, Television networks ]





Answers:

1. Benito Juarez [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Juarez ]

2. Cave exploring [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caving ]

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

4. John Locke [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke ]

5. Namib [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namib ]

6. Catherine Howard [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Howard ]

7. French [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot ]

8. India [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala ]

9. Daniel [see the section "Tales of Daniel" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_(biblical_figure)

10. Apocalypse Now [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2qXzMS9Tg ]

11. French horn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf ]

12. Spain [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlism ]

13. Baroque [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolome_Esteban_Murillo ]

14. Neptune [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune ]

15. Cherokee chiefs [see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297528-blood-moon ]