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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