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. What nation is called Suomi by its natives?____________________
[Choices: Hungary, Cambodia, Finland, Sudan, New Zealand ]

2. Elliot Richardson was the ___________________ under Richard Nixon in 1973.
[Choices: U.S. Vice President, U.S. Chief Justice, CIA Director, Head of the FBI, U.S. Attorney General ]

3. Robert de Sorbon was a famous French ________________ of the 13th Century.
[Choices: Explorer, King, Minstrel, Chaplain, Poet ]

4. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" was written by this 18th Century writer:______________________.
[Choices: Aphra Behn, Anne Bronte, George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller ]

5. What Arabic number is represented by the Roman numeral MDCCLXXVI?_____________
[Choices: 1066, 1557, 1917, 1974, 1776 ]

6. Hey you Chem students! You ought to know that bismuth is the most ________________ of all metals.
[Choices: Transparent, Phlegtacious, Diamagnetic, Isocentric, Ozonic ]

7. On June 8, 1861, it officially became the last of the 11 states to secede from the U.S.:___________________.
[Choices: Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania ]

8. If you accept the Nicene Creed, you are a:___________________.
[Choices: Zoroastrian, Freemason, Christian, Doctor, Citizen of Italy ]

9. Astronomer Percival Lowell is best remembered for championing this theory:__________________.
[Choices: Ours is only galaxy, Sun will last forever, Intelligent life on Mars, Sun circles around Earth, Black holes explode ]

10. He wrote "White-Jacket", a scathing criticism of abuses in the U.S. Navy:_____________________.
[Choices: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Lewis Carroll ]

11. The _______________ Eagle, aka the Monkey-eating Eagle, is one of the rarest and most powerful of birds.
[Choices: African, Golden, Philippine, Siberian, Bald ]

12. Which of these New England cities is the most populated?____________________
[Choices: Burlington Vermont, Portland Maine, Providence Rhode Island, Hartford Connecticut, Concord New Hampshire ]

13. Francisco de Orellana is remembered in history for his exploration of the:__________________.
[Choices: Amazon basin, Andes mountains, Aztec empire, Southwestern U.S., Antarctic ]

14. The last person to hold the title of Holy Roman Emperor was:___________________.
[Choices: Francis II, Philip the Handsome, Napoleon, Charles V, Maximilian II ]

15. Which of these is a variety of iron garnet?_____________________
[Choices: Cretzite, Andradite, Sandorite, Malomite, Drolobite ]






Answers:

1. Finland [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomi ]

2. Attorney General [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Richardson ]

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

4. Mary Wollstonecraft [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft ]

5. 1776 [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals ; MDCCLXXVI = 1000 + 500 + 200 + 50 + 20 + 5 + 1 ]

6. Diamagnetic [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth ; the other Choices were wrong or made-up ]

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

8. Christian [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed ]

9. Intelligent life on Mars [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell ]

10. Herman Melville [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Jacket ]

11. Philippine [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_eagle ; Steller's sea eagle of Eastern China and Siberia is the heaviest eagle - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's_sea_eagle ]

12. Providence, Rhode Island [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island (pop. 178,000), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Vermont (pop. 42,400), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine (pop. 66,200), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut (pop. 125,000), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire (pop. 42,700) ]

13. Amazon basin [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana ]

14. Francis II [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I ... an_Emperor ]

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