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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. Which man was a French Prime Minister before becoming French President?__________________________
[Choices: Georges Pompidou, Francois Mitterand, Eugene Delacroix, Blaise Pascal, Arthur Rimbaud ]

2. The Delian League was a confederation of:________________________.
[Choices: Greek states, Iberian nations, Roman dissidents, Renaissance artists, Irish Catholics ]

3. Which English poet and printer developed a technique called "Illuminated Printing"?_______________________
[Choices: Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

4. A person medically described as atopic is one who:_______________________________.
[Choices: Has a history of anemia, Tends towards allergies, Cannot produce insulin, Is pregnant, Wakes often during night ]

5. Which is another term for the Age of Reason?___________________________
[Choices: Enlightenment, Adolescence, Puritanism, Restoration, Renaissance ]

6. In Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World", this man is revered as God:_____________________.
[Choices: Henry Ford, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Harry Houdini, Mark Twain ]

7. Muskoxen are native to:_______________________.
[Choices: Afghanistan, Manchuria, Argentina, Greenland, Nepal ]

8. What city provides the setting for the novel "The Maltese Falcon"?__________________________
[Choices: London, Los Angeles, New York, West Lafayette, San Francisco ]

9. The Scottish word "Skerry" refers to a:______________________.
[Choices: Whiskey glass, Strong wind, Breeding cow, Brief battle, Rocky island ]

10. Film studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures were collectively known as:_________________________.
[Choices: Poverty Row, Skid Row, The Slums, Tenement Housing, Shanty Town ]

11. Which instrument is used to measure relative humidity?_________________________
[Choices: Barometer, Pedometer, Seismometer, Hygrometer, Anemometer ]

12. A black cook named Dilsey is a literary character created by:________________________.
[Choices: William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Thornton Wilder, Harper Lee ]

13. Which nation's flag has horizontal stripes colored blue and yellow?___________________
[Choices: Venezuela, Myanmar, Tanzania, New Zealand, Ukraine ]

14. Who was the first President of the German Weimar Republic?______________________
[Choices: Erich Honecker, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Paul von Hindenburg ]

15. The two main types of modern horse saddles are the:_______________________.
[Choices: Southern & Spanish, Eastern & Italian, French & Indian, Smith & Wesson, Western & English ]






Answers:

1. Georges Pompidou [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou ]

2. Greek states [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League ]

3. William Blake [see https://www.skoletorget.no/abb/eng/blake/ill_print.html and the section "Relief etching" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake (see especially his "Ancient of Days" in the section "Religious Views") ]

4. Tendency to allergies [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atopy ]

5. Enlightenment [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment ]

6. Henry Ford [see https://study.com/academy/lesson/henry- ... world.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World ]

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

8. San Francisco [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malte ... (1941_film) ]

9. Rocky island [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerry ]

10. Poverty Row [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_Row ]

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

12. William Faulkner [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury ]

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

14. Friedrich Ebert [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert ]

15. Western & English [see the section "Development of the modern saddle" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle ]
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