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BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. December 3, 2019 http://www.scaratings.com/newScaratings/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3924 |
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Author: | REACH [ Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:18 am ] |
Post subject: | BRAINBUSTER Game Q&A for Tue. December 3, 2019 |
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 ] |
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