New Scaratings

15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance o Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. Eight years after being U.S. President, he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:___________________________.
[Choices: Franklin Pierce, Dwight Eisenhower, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan ]

2. This island chain is made up of over 1,000 islands spread across the Indian Ocean:__________________________.
[Choices: Kuril Islands, Faroe Islands, Turks and Caicos, Zanzibar, Maldives ]

3. Which type of poem is *NOT* considered lyric?________________________
[Choices: Epic, Ballad, Pastoral, Elegy, Sonnet ]

4. "Cult of personality" is a term coined by Nikita Khrushchev in his description of:________________________.
[Choices: John F. Kennedy, Czar Nicholas I, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin ]

5. The Latimeria, a type of ____________________, was not discovered until 1938.
[Choices: Rodent, Fish, Ape, Cobra, Bird of Paradise ]

6. What did Edvard Benes, Tomas Masaryk and Milan Stefanik do in 1918?______________________________
[Choices: Discovered Xenon, Won Olympic gold medals, Founded a new country, Solved the Gordian Knot, Designed the Boeing 707 ]

7. Another name for a common type of edema is:____________________________.
[Choices: Phlebitis, Shin splints, Dropsy, Callouses, Pleurisy ]

8. On April 12, 1204, Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breached the walls of this city:______________________________.
[Choices: Naples, Constantinople, Cairo, Tunis, Belgrade ]

9. Which word is derived from the Arabic language?____________________________
[Choices: Zodiac, Admiral, Cannibal, Demagogue, Exception ]

10. Shakespeare's acting company, "The King's Men", performed in this theater around 1608:__________________________.
[Choices: Old Fenwick, Abbey, Blackfriars, The Pearl, Carnegie Hall ]

11. Which rock band is a Canadian group based in Montreal?_________________________
[Choices: Muse, Audioslave, The White Stripes, Arcade Fire, The Killers ]

12. Emil von Behring was one of this scientific field's founders:___________________________.
[Choices: Neuromancy, Immunology, Botany, Astrophysics, Underwater acoustics ]

13. Who got thrown in jail because he married Elizabeth Throckmorton?_________________________
[Choices: Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Raleigh, Victor Hugo, Errol Flynn, Paul Revere ]

14. The Pia Mater is part of the:___________________________.
[Choices: Balearic Islands, Human body, Hippocratic Oath, Catholic liturgy, Mother Goose Tales ]

15. In the 12th Century, King Bela III helped make this country a leading power:________________________.
[Choices: Cambodia, Sweden, Greece, Hungary, France ]






Answers:

1. William Taft [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft ]

2. Maldives [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives ]

3. Epic [see the sections "Forms" and "Genres" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry ]

4. Josef Stalin [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality ]

5. Fish [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth ]

6. Founded a new country [see the section "History" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia ]

7. Dropsy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edema ]

8. Constantinople [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade ]

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

10. Blackfriars [see the section "Second theatre" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Theatre ]

11. Arcade Fire [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_Fire ]

12. Immunology [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_von_Behring ]

13. Sir Walter Raleigh [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Raleigh ]

14. Human body [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater ]

15. Hungary [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_III_of_Hungary ]