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. [I missed this Question & Choices due to setting up my camcorder too late. I did record the right Answer, so the Question might have been something like "Which of the following is a plant?"______________________ ]

2. This Ottawa chief led a native American uprising against the British in 1763:___________________________.
[Choices: Sitting Bull, Pontiac, Crazy Horse, Cochise, Red Cloud ]

3. This double-decker bridge in New York City is also known as the 59th Street Bridge:_____________________________.
[Choices: Holland, Verrazzano-Narrows, Brooklyn, Golden Gate, Queensboro ]

4. GPSS, SNOBOL, Ada and Lisp are all:_______________________.
[Choices: Celestial bodies, National security forces, Computer languages, Enemies of James Bond, Artificial colors ]

5. Enrique Bolanos Geyer became President of this country in 2002:____________________.
[Choices: Portugal, Uruguay, Slovakia, Cameroon, Nicaragua ]

6. To cozen is to:_________________________.
[Choices: Crowd, Destroy, Comfort, Shock or surprise, Cheat or deceive ]

7. The world's largest concentration of orangutans is here:_______________________.
[Choices: New Zealand, Singapore, Tasmania, Hong Kong, Borneo ]

8. All of these U.S. states have an eagle on their state flag except:__________________________.
[Choices: Alaska, North Dakota, Utah, Michigan, Illinois ]

9. The inorganic salt known as Epsom Salt is actually ____________________ sulfate.
[Choices: Barium, Magnesium, Lithium, Francium, Radium ]

10. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was known as _____________________ between 1971 and 1997.
[Choices: French Somaliland, Burma, Zaire, British Guiana, Tanganika ]

11. This 20th-Century writer was a champion of "Objectivism":______________________.
[Choices: Joseph Conrad, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer ]

12. "Thumbing the spool" is an activity of a:_____________________________.
[Choices: Plumber, Gardener, Chef, Farmer, Fisherman ]

13. "Venus of Urbino" is a 16th-Century masterpiece by:_______________________.
[Choices: El Greco, Titian, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya ]

14. As the last of his 12 Labors for Eurystheus, Hercules had to get _________________________ from the Hesperides.
[Choices: Golden apples, The girdle of snakes, A first-born son, Cupid's bow, The Minotaur ]

15. The Willa Cather novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is set in what part of the world?______________________
[Choices: American Southwest, New England, Italy, Wales, France ]






Answers:

1. Loofah [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa ]

2. Pontiac [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_War ]

3. Queensboro [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensboro_Bridge ]

4. Computer languages [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... _languages ]

5. Nicaragua [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Bolanos ]

6. Cheat or deceive [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cozen ]

7. Borneo [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan ]

8. Alaska [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_ ... erritories ]

9. Magnesium [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_sulfate ]

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

11. Ayn Rand [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand) ]

12. Fisherman [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUDfRDCOnQ ]

13. Titian [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Urbino ]

14. Golden apples [see the section "The Eleventh Labour of Heracles" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides ]

15. American Southwest [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Com ... Archbishop ]