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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. Port Moresby is the capital of this island nation:_____________________________.
[Choices: Tasmania, Madagascar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Reunion ]

2. In English nobility, the wife of an earl is a:____________________.
[Choices: Countess, Princess, Dame, Earless, Baroness ]

3. Which classic heroine did Greta Garbo play twice on screen?_____________________________
[Choices: Marie Antoinette, Marguerite Gautier, Mata Hari, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina ]

4. The curlew is a large:_______________________.
[Choices: Freshwater turtle, Placental mammal, Marine lizard, Wading bird, Bivalve mollusc ]

5. This word for luck or good fortune was coined circa 1754 by Horace Walpole:_____________________.
[Choices: Pandemonium, Serendipity, Misanthropy, Palinode, Armageddon ]

6. In music, an arpeggio is performed when the notes of a chord are played:_______________________.
[Choices: Softly and muted, In succession, By the entire orchestra, In minor key, With passion and feeling ]

7. 6, 28, and 496 are the only _____________________ numbers under 500.
[Choices: Integer, Irrational, Prime, Perfect, Polynomial ]

8. Pentheraphobia is the fear of:_________________________.
[Choices: Five-sided objects, Your mother-in-law, Hearing your own voice, Misspelled words, Flashing lights ]

9. He is described by his creator as "some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield":_______________________.
[Choices: Ishmael, Natty Bumpo, Ichabod Crane, Bartleby the Scrivener, Ebenezer Scrooge ]

10. Who was the first admiral of the U.S. Navy?____________________________
[Choices: William Bainbridge, John Paul Jones, David Farragut, Horatio Nelson, John Hawkins ]

11. The Jarvik-7 is an artificial:_____________________.
[Choices: Limb, Heart, Liver, Lung, Eye ]

12. Wilhelm Wundt is called the father of this discipline:______________________.
[Choices: Oceanography, Sociology, Historiography, Psychology, Geology ]

13. What nation was rocked in 1933 and 1934 by the Stavisky Affair?_______________________
[Choices: Germany, United States, France, Tibet, Great Britain ]

14. This popular novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquival was made into a movie in 1993:_________________________.
[Choices: Rain of Gold, Like Water for Chocolate, 100 Years of Solitude, Lost in Yonkers, El Mariachi ]

15. In 1905, Bertha von Suttner became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in what category?________________________
[Choices: Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Peace, Physics, Economics ]






Answers:

1. Papua New Guinea [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moresby ]

2. Countess [see the section "Summary" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesy_ ... ed_Kingdom ]

3. Anna Karenina [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(1927_American_film) - a silent film, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_(1935_film) - a talkie ]

4. Wading bird [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlew ]

5. Serendipity [see the section "Etymology" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ]

6. In succession [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio ]

7. Perfect [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number ]

8. Your mother-in-law [see https://common-phobias.com/Penthera/phobia.htm ]

9. Ichabod Crane [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod_Crane ]

10. David Farragut [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut ]

11. Heart [see the section "First clinical applications...." at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart ]

12. Psychology [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt ]

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

14. Like Water for Chocolate [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Water_for_Chocolate ]

15. Peace [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner (1905) ]

This question, more than any other, made me glad that nobody collected a 14K on this quiz.