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Sir or Dame Postalot |
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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:/b]
1. Who was spirited away thanks to the "Night and Fog" decree?________________________ [Choices: American slaves, Irani terrorists, Enemies of Hitler, Chilean poets, First-born Hebrews ]
2. According to mythology, the Hesperides were sisters who guarded the Golden:___________________________. [Choices: Apples, Bough, Calf, Goose, Fleece ]
3. Which writer dedicated all but two of his sonnets to the "Dark Lady" and "Mr. W.H."?________________________ [Choices: Cummings, Shelley, Blake, Frost, Shakespeare ]
4. What type of creature is a panchax?________________________ [Choices: Fish, Weasel, Moth, Scorpion, Bird ]
5. Which of these paintings is the work of Mexican artist Diego Rivera?__________________________ [Choices: American Gothic, Detroit Industry, The Bathers, Persistence of Memory, Guernica ]
6. Which female name is an anagram for one of the most important Christian holidays?____________________ [Choices: Christine, Helena, Teresa, Hannah, Effie May ]
7. The Red Guards were volunteer armed bands of industrial workers during the:______________________. [Choices: 1917 Russian Revolution, Thirty Years' War, Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, French Revolution ]
8. Novelist and short-story author Bernard Malamud, author of "The Natural", was born in:___________________________. [Choices: Berlin, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Brooklyn, New York; Haifa, Israel; Havana, Cuba ]
9. Before 1930, this country's capital was called Angora:______________________. [Choices: Sudan, Turkey, Moldova, Guatemala, Afghanistan ]
10. What is a cedilla?____________________________ [Choices: Wrestling hold, Spanish city, Diacritical mark, Bottle of olive wine, Flock of mountain goats ]
11. Which mountain is located in Canada?___________________________ [Choices: Revelstoke, Desert Island, Rainier, Katahdin, Denali ]
12. Tamino, Papageno and Sarastro are characters in which opera?________________________ [Choices: The Magic Flute, Carmen, Aida, La Boheme, The Barber of Seville ]
13. The city of San Francisco was named after San Francisco Bay, which was named after:_________________________. [Choices: Francis of Paola, Francis of Assisi, The country of France, Sir Francis Drake, Francis Scott Key ]
14. The Madeira River is a major tributary of the __________________ River. [Choices: Amazon, Nile, Volga, Missouri, Ganges ]
15. If you quibble over details, you are a:________________________. [Choices: Paraclete, Pettifogger, Scapegoat, Rackrent, Kyoodle ]
[b]Answers: 1. Enemies of Hitler [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel ] 2. Apples [see the section "The Garden of the Hesperides" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides ] 3. Shakespeare [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lady_(Shakespeare) and https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... on-mystery ] 4. Fish [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_panchax ] 5. Detroit Industry [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Industry_Murals ] 6. Teresa [Easter] 7. 1917 Russian Revolution [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_(Russia) ] 8. Brooklyn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Malamud ] 9. Turkey [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara ; "Ankara"="Angora" ] 10. Diacritical mark [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla ] 11. Revelstoke [see http://www.revelstoke-realty.com/mount_revelstoke ] 12. The Magic Flute [see the section "Roles" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute ] 13. Francis of Assisi [see the section "History" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco ] 14. Amazon [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira_River ] 15. Pettifogger [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pettifog ] BTW, I had great difficulty logging onto www.scaratings.com , and had to go to a previous email which had a link to this site. Did anyone else have trouble getting here? Anyone know what is going on?
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