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Author: | REACH [ Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:40 am ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. November 26, 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 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 ] |
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