New Scaratings

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 group used a symbol system known as runes?__________________________
[Choices: Germanic tribes, Mesopotamians, Greeks, Egyptians, Nubians ]

2. What was the simples and earliest form of a capacitor?_________________________
[Choices: Autoclave, Glove box, Centrifuge, Leyden jar, Petri dish ]

3. Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is subtitled "The Town of Titipu"?____________________
[Choices: The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Yeoman of the Guard, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Sorcerer ]

4. The muskox of Northern Canada and Greenland belongs to the Family:________________________.
[Choices: Castoridae, Bovidae, Suidae, Pongidae, Ursidae ]

5. In the movie "The Sons of Katie Elder", what are the sons trying to do for their mother?___________________________
[Choices: Find a husband, Buy her a ranch, Get her out of jail, Move her to Texas, Avenge her death ]

6. Which writer first used the name "Gotham" in reference to New York City?_____________________
[Choices: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, T.S. Eliot, Washington Irving, E.B. White ]

7. In Renaissance London, Blackfriars was a famous:______________________.
[Choices: Chimneysweep, Site of Parliament, Theater, Famed Gothic cathedral, Red-light district ]

8. "The Zoo Story" was the first play of this notable U.S. playwright:_______________________.
[Choices: Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, John Guare, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams ]

9. Which Roman Emperor was known for his policy of consolidation and renouncing conquest?________________________
[Choices: Claudius I, Nero, Caligula, Hadrian, Marcus Cato ]

10. Captured by the Spanish in 1724, it became its country's capital in 1828:___________________________.
[Choices: Panama City, Montevideo, Manila, Lisbon, Jakarta ]

11. The volcanic peaks of Huila and Tolima are in:________________________.
[Choices: Algeria, The Philippines, Portugal, Colombia, Canada ]

12. Which person was jailed for a year in the Bastille for writing political poems?_________________________
[Choices: Ernest Hemingway, Miguel de Cervantes, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Napoleon ]

13. The carnation and Sweet William are members of the family of plants called:__________________.
[Choices: Blues, Reds, Greens, Purples, Pinks ]

14. Dorothea Brooke is the heroine of which work?_______________________
[Choices: Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Mill on the Floss, Portrait of a Lady ]

15. G. H. Shull's experiments with _______________________ in 1904 led to a vast expansion of the world's food supply.
[Choices: The peanut, Fertilizers, Automated seed machines, Hydroponics, Hybrid corn ]





Answers:

1. Germanic tribes [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes ]

2. Leyden jar [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar ]

3. The Mikado [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mikado ]

4. Bovidae [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskox ]

5. Avenge her death [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sons_of_Katie_Elder , although the article is not clear on this point ]

6. Washington Irving [see the section "Origin of name" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City ]

7. Theater [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Theatre ]

8. Edward Albee [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoo_Story ]

9. Hadrian [see the section "Military activities" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian ]

10. Montevideo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo ]

11. Colombia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado_del_Huila and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado_del_Tolima ]

12. Voltaire [see https://www.history.com/this-day-in-his ... e-bastille ]

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

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

15. Hybrid corn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison_Shull ]