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BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. May 7, 2019 http://www.scaratings.com/newScaratings/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3783 |
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Author: | REACH [ Wed May 08, 2019 9:59 pm ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. May 7, 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. 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 ] |
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