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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. One of Napoleon's worst defeats came at _________________ in October 1813.
[Choices: Saratoga, Borodino, Waterloo, Trafalgar, Leipzig ]

2. Which Shakespearean tale tells us of the young lovers, Perdita and Florizel?__________________
[Choices: Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Othello, The Winter's Tale ]

3. The Spanish word "Borrego" refers to this animal:____________________.
[Choices: Black bear, Bighorn sheep, Timber wolf, Rattlesnake, Mountain lion ]

4. "Hop Head" and "Black Cat Blues" are early works by this jazz composer:_____________________.
[Choices: Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Roland Kirk ]

5. In what part of the human body do you find the modiolus?____________________
[Choices: Pancreas, Stomach, Brain, Ear, Foot ]

6. If you go to this Middle Eastern city, you can visit the "Sunken Palace":_____________________.
[Choices: Sofia, Damascus, Istanbul, Mecca, Bilbao ]

7. The word "noctilucent" specifically refers to clouds that are:_______________________.
[Choices: Loaded with hail, Moving very fast, Visible at twilight, Taller than their width, Very low to the ground ]

8. Which classic English novel is subtitled, "A Novel Without a Hero"?____________________
[Choices: Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, A Farewell to Arms, Jude the Obscure, The Ambassadors ]

9. Which island belongs to the U.S. Virgin Islands?______________________
[Choices: St. Thomas, Tortola, Great Thatch, Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke ]

10. Who became Chancellor of West Germany when Willy Brandt resigned in 1974?___________________
[Choices: Helmut Schmidt, Kurt Kiesinger, Otto von Bismarck, Franz Josef Strauss, Konrad Adenauer ]

11. This writer celebrated the pioneer traditions of American settlers in the novel "O Pioneers!:____________________________.
[Choices: James Fenimore Cooper, Ellen Glasgow, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne ]

12. If you were caught in a Haboob you would have to protect yourself against:_________________.
[Choices: Sand, Fire, Rain, Spiders, Ants ]

13. His turbulent painting of the shipwrecked "Raft of the Medusa" ushered in French Romanticism:______________________.
[Choices: J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, Jean Gericault, Jean-Auguste Ingres, Jean-Baptiste Corot ]

14. What is a Nuremberg Egg?_____________________
[Choices: Watch, Art object, Crystal, Head wound, Diamond ]

15. The National Covenant of 1638 was an agreement of this religious group:______________________.
[Choices: Lutherans, Presbyterians, Mormons, Anabaptists, Anglicans ]






Answers:

1. Leipzig [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig ]

2. The Winter's Tale [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter's_Tale ]

3. Bighorn sheep [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrego ]

4. Duke Ellington [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNOtjnwW2M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjUXi_C6nno . Both of these early works were from 1927; for Duke Ellington's biography, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington ]

5. Ear [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modiolus_(cochlea) ]

6. Istanbul [see https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bas ... s-istanbul ]

7. Visible at twilight [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud ]

8. Vanity Fair [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Sharp_(film) for the 1935 feature film, the first to use 3-color Technicolor (red-blue-green) ]

9. St. Thomas [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Tho ... in_Islands ; the other Choices are part of the British Virgin Islands - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Thatch ]

10. Helmut Schmidt [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt ]

11. Willa Cather [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Pioneers! ]

12. Sand [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob ]

13. Gericault [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa ]

14. Watch [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_eggs ]

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