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

1. What British playwright was born in what is now the Czech Republic?___________________________
[Choices: David Cameron, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, John Arden, Alan Bennett ]

2. In India, puranas are:________________________.
[Choices: Feasts, Books, Statues, Palaces, Schools ]

3. "HUNG OVER, DAMN IT" is an anagram of:________________________.
[Choices: BOURBON AND SCOTCH, MILD ALE AND MEAD, VODKA AND COGNAC, GIN AND VERMOUTH, ABSINTHE AND RUM ]

4. The Roman Vitruvius had an enormous impact in this field:_________________________.
[Choices: Irrigation, Surgical procedures, Architecture, Military strategy, Astronomy ]

5. Raines Inlet is one of the few places where it is possible to:____________________________.
[Choices: Cross the Barrier Reef, See Asia from the U.S., Stand in four countries, Swim the English Channel, See 100-foot tides ]

6. All of these are meanings of the word "foil" except:__________________________.
[Choices: A fencing sword, To weave with wool, A thin sheet of metal, To prevent success, A Gothic window arc ]

7. The pygmy mouse __________________ is a tiny creature found only in Madagascar.
[Choices: Pika, Capybara, Oryx, Lemur, Gereluk ]

8. His "Salvator Mundi" painting sold for over $450 million in 2017:_________________________.
[Choices: Da Vinci, Picasso, Donatello, Rembrandt, Van Gogh ]

9. The U.S. Mint's 50 State Quarters Program coin of Florida features a Spanish Galleon and a:______________________.
[Choices: Submarine, Space Shuttle, Race car, Bicycle, Motorcycle ]

10. What comet is responsible for the annual Orionid meteor shower?_________________________
[Choices: Temple-Tuttle, Hubble's, Shoemaker-Levy 9, Herschel-Nobel, Halley's ]

11. The KSE 100 Index is a good barometer of how this country's economy is doing:__________________________.
[Choices: Chile, Libya, Bulgaria, Pakistan, New Zealand ]

12. In the Robert Service ballad, the lady "known as Lou" is the cause of "The Shooting of _____________________."
[Choices: Bob Askew, Dan McGrew, Carl Cashew, Ben Bijou, Les Fescue ]

13. Which President appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman to the Supreme Court?_______________________
[Choices: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter ]

14. Amaranth is a Genus of:_________________________.
[Choices: Plants, Algae, Toy dogs, Marine snails, Beetles ]

15. An historian should know that the Montagnards played a key role in the:_________________________.
[Choices: Wars of the Roses, Hundred Years' War, French Revolution, Spanish Succession, Dark Ages ]







Answers:

1. Tom Stoppard [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard ]

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

3. GIN AND VERMOUTH

4. Architecture [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius ]

5. Cross the Barrier Reef [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raine_Island_Beacon ]

6. To weave with wool [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/foil (see various definitions) ]

7. Lemur [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mouse_lemur ]

8. Da Vinci [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Mundi_(Leonardo) ]

9. Space Shuttle [see https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal ... rs/florida ]

10. Halley's [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orionids ]

11. Pakistan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSE_100_Index ]

12. Dan McGrew [see https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... dan-mcgrew and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoot ... Dan_McGrew ]

13. Ronald Reagan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O'Connor ]

14. Plants [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth ]

15. French Revolution [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain ]