New Scaratings

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

1. Cape Breton Island is part of which Canadian province?_____________________
[Choices: British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta ]

2. What does a lepidopterist study?_________________
[Choices: Ancient languages, Toxic waste disposal, Butterflies, Waves, Sexual habits ]

3. What word best describes a person who is "wretched"?__________________
[Choices: Wealthy, Intelligent, Healthy, Happy, Miserable ]

4. His first film as a director was 1950's "Variety Lights":___________________.
[Choices: Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, Vincente Minnelli, Vittorio de Sica ]

5. Which ethnic cuisine is usually served with a flat millet bread called Injera?___________________
[Choices: Mayan, Moroccan, Mandarin, Sicilian, Ethiopian ]

6. Which business mogul was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under three Presidents?_________________
[Choices: John D. Rockefeller, Harvey Firestone, Andrew Mellon, Meyer Rothschild, John Henry Kaiser ]

7. The fennec is a _______________ noted for its very large ears.
[Choices: Ape, Pig, Sheep, Fox, Rat ]

8. Twyla Tharp created her 1976 dance work "Push Comes to Shove" especially for:_____________________.
[Choices: Gene Kelly, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bob Fosse, Ben Vereen, Rudolf Nureyev ]

9. Mimas is a moon of which planet?__________________
[Choices: Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus ]

10. Who served as the President of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953?__________________
[Choices: Zoltan Tildy, Wolfgang Pauli, Klement Gottwald, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Friedrich von Schiller ]

11. Helga Testorf became famous in the art world as a:___________________.
[Choices: Director of the Louvre, Model, Collector, Critic, Patron of Leroy Neiman ]

12. An early casualty of World War II, The Admiral Graf Spee was a:____________________.
[Choices: U.S. tank, French bomber, British aircraft, German battleship, Russian battalion ]

13. Ross and Demelza ________________ are the main characters of a series of novels by Winston Graham.
[Choices: De Winter, Poldark, Baxter, Pengallen, Barrattia ]

14. Ketamine is a medication used to start and maintain:__________________.
[Choices: Abiotic stress, Acquisition, Acceleration, Anxiety, Anesthesia ]

15. Fashion plate Beau Brummell was a friend and contemporary of this famous figure:_________________.
[Choices: Sarah Bernhardt, Mozart, Mark Twain, King George IV, Socrates ]






Answers:

1. Nova Scotia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Breton_Island ]

2. Butterflies [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera ]

3. Miserable [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wretched ]

4. Fellini [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_Lights ]

5. Ethiopian [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injera ]

6. Andrew Mellon [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon ]

7. Fox [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox ]

8. Barishnikov [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyla_Tharp and https://www.twylatharp.org/works/push-comes-shove-0 ]

9. Saturn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon) ]

10. Klement Gottwald [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klement_Gottwald ]

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

12. German battleship [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cr ... _Graf_Spee ]

13. Poldark [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Graham and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark_(2015_TV_series) ]

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

15. King George IV [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Brummell ]