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Author: | REACH [ Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:58 am ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. June 4, 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. 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 ] |
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