15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:1. This corsair took Algiers from Spain and ravaged the coasts of Italy and Greece:_____________________.
[Choices: Barbarossa, Muhammad Ali, Captain Kidd, Jean Lafitte, Thermopylae ]
2. Solve this problem in Roman numerals: What does CXCII divided by XVI equal?____________
[Choices: VII, DXII, IX, XII, CL
3. The famed "Hundred Days" was an important event in the history of this nation:_________________.
[Choices: Japan, Russia, Italy, France, Canada ]
4. A layer of Brazilian rock that matched layers in Ghana was the first solid evidence for the:_______________________.
[Choices: Continental drift theory, Asteroid-impact theory, Big Bang theory, Biblical flood of Noah, Theory of evolution ]
5. Grand scale, vast sky and detailed foreground are hallmarks of which school of painters?____________________
[Choices: Flemish, Hudson River School, Primitivism, Cubism, German expressionism ]
6. What is another name for the creature known as The Looper?______________________
[Choices: Boa constrictor, Inchworm, Vulture, Sloth, Angler fish ]
7. Rudyard Kipling dedicated his 1899 poem "White Man's Burden" to America, after it had:_____________________.
[Choices: Built the Panama Canal, Acquired the Philippines, Joined the war in China, Relocated the Indians, Free all its slaves ]
8. The Mohawks were a branch of this larger Indian tribe:_______________________.
[Choices: Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Mohegan ]
9. To whom do we owe the Principle of Buoyancy?____________________________
[Choices: Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Archimedes, Galileo Galilei ]
10. The Red Sea touches all of these countries except:___________________.
[Choices: Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Egypt ]
11. Which famous war novel is set mostly on the island of Pianosa?____________________
[Choices: The Thin Red Line, From Here to Eternity, Catch-22, The Winds of War, The Naked and the Dead ]
12. Popul Vuh is the title of the corpus of sacred writing of the:______________________.
[Choices: Sumerians, Inuit, Zuni, Mayans, Aztecs ]
13. Which unit of measure is the longest?______________________
[Choices: Meter, Rod, Fathom, Chain, Yard ]
14. In Greek mythology, who gave Theseus the ball of string so he could escape the Labyrinth?_____________________
[Choices: Hecuba, Antiope, Andromache, Ariadne, Vesta ]
15. If someone described you as lentiginous, he would be saying you have:_________________.
[Choices: Buck teeth, Gray hair, Cold hands, Bad breath, Freckles ]
Answers: 1. Barbarossa [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruc_Reis ]
2. XII [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals ; 192 divided by 16 = 12 ]
3. France [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days ]
4. Continental drift theory [see the section "Modern evidence" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift ]
5. Hudson River School [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_School ]
6. Inchworm [see
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inchworm and the section "Caterpillars" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometer_moth ]
7. Philippines [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden ]
8. Iroquois [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois ]
9. Archimedes [see the section "Discoveries and inventions, Archimedes' principle" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes ]
10. Qatar [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar ]
11. Catch-22 [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 ]
12. Mayans [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh ]
13. Chain [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit) = 22 yards = 66 ft;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit) = 5.5 yards = 16.5 ft; and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom = 6 ft ]
14. Ariadne [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne ]
15. Freckles [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentigo ]