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Author:	REACH [ Thu Aug 01, 2019 11:21 pm ]
Post subject:	BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. July 30, 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. 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 ]

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