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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 last major German offensive of the Second World War was the:_______________________.
[Choices: Battle of the Bulge, Attack on Malta, North African campaign, El Alamein fight, Siege of Stalingrad ]

2. Which term refers to both a small Greek coin and a class of subatomic particles?____________________
[Choices: Lepton, Xenon, Krypton, Argon, Gluon ]

3. Who said "Man is by Nature a political animal"?__________________
[Choices: Machiavelli, Aristotle, Socrates, Voltaire, Marx ]

4. Which singer had a column in the U.S. Communist paper, "The People's Daily World"?__________________
[Choices: Pat Boone, Odetta, Glen Yarborough, Perry Como, Woody Guthrie ]

5. On January 1, 1540, she arrived in England to meet her fiancé for the first time:_____________________.
[Choices: Anne of Cleves, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Pocahontas ]

6. In his lifetime, Henry David Thoreau published "Walden" and "A Week on the _________________ Rivers".
[Choices: Chipuxet and Sakonnet, Forbidden, Concord and Merrimack, Green and White, Missouri and Mississippi ]

7. Which object is made up of barbs, barbulas and a rachis?___________________
[Choices: Pulley, Rifle, Compass, Feather, Dandelion ]

8. Which of the following nations on the Arabian peninsula is the smallest?__________________
[Choices: United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar ]

9. According to medieval legend, Prester John was a:____________________.
[Choices: Son of King Arthur, Forerunner of Antichrist, Holder of the Holy Grail, Christian ruler, Descendant of Cain ]

10. Josef Breuer was a friend and colleague of this important thinker:___________________.
[Choices: Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin ]

11. Which capital city is built on the site of the former center of Chibcha culture?__________________
[Choices: Tehran, Ankara, Nairobi, Lisbon, Bogota ]

12. Which U.S. President was a member of the Whig Party?___________________
[Choices: Martin van Buren, James Polk, Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor, Grover Cleveland ]

13. "Ships that pass in the night" is a line from this poet's "Elizabeth":________________________
[Choices: Poe, Shelley, Blake, Longfellow, Tennyson ]

14. Gourmet cooks and eaters know the Chanterelle is a special type of:____________________.
[Choices: Herb, Cut of veal, Grouse pie, Egg custard, Mushroom ]

15. Which object is one astronomical unit in distance from the Earth?___________________
[Choices: The Sun, Pluto, Mars, Andromeda galaxy, Center of the Milky Way ]






Answers:

1. Battle of the Bulge [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge ]

2. Lepton [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_lepton ]

3. Aristotle [see https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/164 ]

4. Woody Guthrie [see the section "1930s, California" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie ]

5. Anne of Cleves [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves ]

6. Concord and Merrimack [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on ... ack_Rivers ]

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

8. Qatar [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula ]

9. Christian ruler [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John ]

10. Sigmund Freud [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Breuer ]

11. Bogota [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muisca ]

12. Zachary Taylor [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States) ]

13. Longfellow [see https://literarydevices.net/ships-that- ... the-night/ ]

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

15. The Sun [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit ]