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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. 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 ]