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A series of questions on a series of topics -- all trivial!
Question 1:
Which French phrase can mean "tastes differ?"
Pret-a-porter
Idee fixe
Chacun a son gout
Pour encourager les autres
Question 2:
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the first American women to be awarded what?
The Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Prize in Medicine
The Pulitzer Prize
The Congressional Medal of Honor
Question 3:
Which is the most recent volcano formed in the Western Hemisphere ?
Mayon
Guallatiri
Yerupaja
Paricutin
Question 4:
Plato won it twice. Aristotle, Socrates and Alexander the Great are all said to have been keen observers of it. Dioxippus was probably the most famous winner of it. What does this question refer to?
A martial art championship
A literary award
A debate championship
A poetry contest
Question 5:
Former Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, was considered an expert in which of these subjects?
Marine biology
Linguistics
Astronomy
Poetry
Question 6:
Who wrote the poem, "In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave "
Thilios Parmedes
Allen Ginsberg
Langston Hughes
Delmore Schwartz
Question 7:
What is an ordinal number?
A number that shows the number of elements in a set
A number that shows order
A number involving i
A number that is less than zero
Question 8:
It is the 1954 Cotton Bowl between Rice and Alabama. Rice's All-American running back, Dicky Moegle, is leading his team to a crushing of the Bart Starr led Alabama team. On one run, he was stopped on his own 35 yard line, where he was tackled. The referee blew his whistle and awarded a touchdown. Why ?
He ran the wrong way
He was tackled by Tommy Lewis
He flipped the ball to another player who scored
The referee made a mistake on a penalty
Question 9:
Who lost the Battle of Marathon?
Cyrus I
Parimedes
Darius I
Xerces I
Question 10:
Historians often attribute Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo to which of these reasons?
Marshall Ney had special ties to Wellington and intentionally did not turn Wellington's right flank
Wellington took a big risk and it paid off
All of these reasons
Napoleon had hemorrhoids
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