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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. The novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, Pere is set during the times of:____________________.
[Choices: Hugh Capet, Joan of Arc, King Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, Catherine de Medicis ]

2. In the world of music, a Kochel Number is used in reference to:______________________.
[Choices: Mozart compositions, Dissonant intervals, Notes in a chord, Metronome speeds, Multiple octaves ]

3. Where would one find a Lagrange Point?____________________
[Choices: Outer space, Acrylic painting, Budget report, Hydroelectric dam, Computer ]

4. His "Ideology and Utopia" is a pioneering study in the sociology of knowledge:________________________.
[Choices: Claude Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber ]

5. Which mammal weaves a nest very much like a bird's nest?___________________
[Choices: Brown hare, Sea otter, Bandicoot, Harvest mouse, Platypus ]

6. Which word comes from the Greek, meaning "in yeast"?_________________
[Choices: Grain, Infection, Indianapolis, Enzyme, Wine ]

7. Which opera is set in Egypt?______________________
[Choices: La Boheme, Carmen, La Traviata, Aida, Madame Butterfly ]

8. Geographically speaking, what are the Kattegat and Skagerrak?__________________
[Choices: Rivers, Straits, Islands, Mountains, Currents or tides ]

9. This English writer's first novel, "Burmese Days", was published in 1934:_______________________.
[Choices: Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, A.A. Milne ]

10. Which one of the Seven Wonders of the World was located in the Greek seaport city of Ephesus?___________________
[Choices: Colossus of Rhodes, Hanging Gardens, Lighthouse, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus ]

11. This social reformer started the Hull House settlement in Chicago:____________________.
[Choices: Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger, Dorothea Dix, Carrie Nation, Albert Schweitzer ]

12. It is the most unstable of the first 101 elements of the Periodic Table:___________________
[Choices: Uranium, Barium, Sulfur, Francium, Mercury ]

13. What was the name of the human rights movement in Czechoslovakia in 1977?___________________
[Choices: Charter 77, Cultural Revolution, New Deal, Helsinki Accords, Secret Six ]

14. This self-taught, primitive painter is best known for his jungle landscapes:____________________.
[Choices: Peter Rubens, Paul Cezanne, Henri Rousseau, Jan van Eyck, Georges Braque ]

15. This period in American history called the "Great Awakening" had to do with:_____________________.
[Choices: Religious revivals, Industrial revolution, Artistic freedom, Resurgence of liberalism, Indian rights ]






Answers:

1. Napoleon Bonaparte [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo , set in 1815-1839. ]

2. Mozart compositions [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Ritter_von_Kochel ]

3. Outer space [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point ]

4. Karl Mannheim [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim ]

5. Harvest mouse [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_harvest_mouse ]

6. Enzyme [see the section "Etymology and history" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme ]

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

8. Straits [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_straits ]

9. George Orwell [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Days ]

10. Temple of Artemis [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis ]

11. Jane Addams [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House ]

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

13. Charter 77 [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_77 . At Buster's Bar in Ottawa ON, fewer than half the tablets are charged and working, so we were interrupted by newcomers looking for extra tablets. During the distraction I lost 755 Points, and others lost a couple hundred on this gimme. Does any other Site have problems with tablets showing two green lights indicating "all charged up" in the charging ports, only to show red lights and no lit screen when removed from the charger? ]

14. Henri Rousseau [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau ]

15. Religious revivals [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening ]