15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:1. Lake Nakuru National Park, known for its birdlife, is in this African country:_________________________.
[Choices: Kenya, Angola, Mali, Senegal, Libya ]
2. Thornfield Hall is a setting in this classic novel:_______________________________.
[Choices: Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations ]
3. Marchantia is an Order of ____________________ commonly found on moist clay or silty soils.
[Choices: Mollusks, Nematodes, Fairy shrimp, Cetaceans, Liverworts ]
4. Van Diemen's Land was the old name for this island:_________________________.
[Choices: Greenland, Hawaii, Madagascar, Jamaica, Tasmania ]
5. "Love and Happiness" and "Let's Stay Together" are two of his most recognizable songs:_____________________________.
[Choices: Al Green, David Ruffin, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Ritchie, Isaac Hayes ]
6. President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 by beating this Democratic candidate:________________________.
[Choices: Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, Horace Greeley, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland ]
7. Who composed "Symphonie fantastique" in 1830?_________________________
[Choices: Henry Purcell, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Francois Mitterrand ]
8. If you sail due North from the island of Malta, you'll run smack dab into:_______________________.
[Choices: Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus ]
9. Callimachus of Cyrene was one of the earliest _______________________ of the Western world.
[Choices: Poet-critics, Business tycoons, Terrorists, Geographers, Big game hunters ]
10. A character is killed and devoured by a mob of starving urchins in this Tennessee Williams play:____________________________.
[Choices: Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Orpheus Descending, The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tattoo ]
11. China's _________________ Dynasty came to an end in 1279 when it was conquered by Kublai Khan.
[Choices: Fong, Wong, Long, Song, Pong ]
12. Which law states that if the temperature of a gas is kept constant, its volume will vary?________________________
[Choices: Boyle's Law, Gay-Lussac's Law, Murphy's Law, Blue's Law, Waal's Law ]
13. "Copula" is a term in:_________________________.
[Choices: Architecture, Finance, Astronomy, Grammar, Botany ]
14. Best known for his operettas, he also wrote "Onward Christian Soldiers":__________________________.
[Choices: Sigmund Romberg, Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Victor Herbert ]
15. The Meteora is a rock formation in ______________________ that is home to a large complex of monasteries.
[Choices: Tibet, Honduras, Algeria, Greece, Japan ]
Answers:1. Kenya [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nakuru ]
2. Jane Eyre [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre ]
3. Liverworts [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta ]
4. Tasmania [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania ]
5. Al Green [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsU6_eSG4k4 , and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM ]
6. Horace Greeley [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Unit ... l_election ; note that Greeley was the Liberal Republican candidate, not Democratic ]
7. Hector Berlioz [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK6iAxe0oEc (if you have never listened to this work, start with the 2nd, 4th & 5th movements)]
8. Sicily [see the map at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea ]
9. Poet-critic [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callimachus ]
10. Suddenly Last Summer [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_ ... mmer_(film) ]
11. Song [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty ]
12. Boyle's Law [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle's_law ; this is the right answer if pressure varies. But the Ideal Gas Equation is PV = nRT, so V= nRT/P , which means that if temperature and pressure are constant, then volume varies as n, the number of moles (molecules), since R is a constant (the Ideal Gas Constant). I was slightly delayed in answering this poorly worded Question.]
13. Grammar [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics) ]
14. Sir Arthur Sullivan [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward,_C ... n_Soldiers and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhiHoqp0neU ]
15. Greece [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora ]