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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. Which country was the first to institute a minimum wage for its laborers?_______________________
[Choices: New Zealand, United States, England, Egypt, Soviet Union ]

2. Which metal or gemstone was named after a well-known Mediterranean island?______________________
[Choices: Gold, Copper, Silver, Diamond, Quartz ]

3. Which U.S. President mediated the peace between Japan and Russia?___________________________
[Choices: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Pierce, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson ]

4. What sort of thing would a limnologist most likely study?_______________________
[Choices: Insect, Black hole, Rock, Tree, Lake ]

5. The Baron de Coubertin was responsible for this famous event in 1896:_________________________.
[Choices: Reign of Terror, Charge of Light Brigade, First Modern Olympiad, Napoleon's exile, Sarajevo assassination ]

6. From which literary work do we get the phrase "Lotus eater"?_______________________
[Choices: Pilgrim's Progress, The Tempest, The Canterbury Tales, Gulliver's Travels, The Odyssey ]

7. Shira, Kibo and Mawenzi are volcanoes located in:___________________________.
[Choices: Tanzania, Antarctica, Indonesia, Greenland, Peru ]

8. Simon Kuznets won the 1970 Nobel Prize for:__________________________.
[Choices: Literature, Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Economics ]

9. "_______________________ from the Meadows" is a famous 1831 painting by John Constable.
[Choices: Reflections, Riding, Laughing Girl, Robert Middleton, Salisbury Cathedral ]

10. The Paradoxides are an extinct Genus of:_______________________.
[Choices: Avians, Ferns, Rodents, Trolls, Trilobites ]

11. Which writer refused his degree from Harvard?________________________
[Choices: Edgar Allan Poe, T.S. Eliot, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald ]

12. The Queen of the Night appears in which opera?_______________________
[Choices: The Magic Flute, La Gioconda, Don Juan, Carmen, Aida ]

13. You would most likely find an Androecium on a:________________________.
[Choices: Horse's leg, Piano, Spaceship, Shoelace, Flower ]

14. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to rotate once. About how long does it take the Sun?___________________
[Choices: One month, One hour, One day, One year, One week ]

15. Emil Sinclair and Max Demian are literary characters created by:_______________________.
[Choices: Ayn Rand, Hermann Hesse, Henry James, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon ]






Answers:

1. New Zealand [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industria ... n_Act_1894 ]

2. Copper [see the section "Etymology" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus ]

3. Theodore Roosevelt [see the section "Presidency (1901-to-1909), Foreign policy " at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt ]

4. Lake [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnology ]

5. First modern Olympics [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin ]

6. The Odyssey [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters ]

7. Tanzania [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro ]

8. Economics [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kuznets ]

9. Salisbury Cathedral [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury ... he_Meadows and for another view by Constable, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury ... 's_Grounds ]

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

11. Thoreau [see the section "Early life and education" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau ]

12. The Magic Flute [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute and for the incredible aria by the Queen of the Night, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ ]

13. Flower [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamen ]

14. One month [see the table of "Rotation characteristics" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun ]

15. Hermann Hesse [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demian ]