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 ]