Cultural Trivia Quiz #63

        1. Christians worship in churches, and Jews worship in synagogues. Where do Moslems worship?

        2. Handel's Messiah is the best known example of which of the following muscal forms? -- the anthem; the symphony; the oratorio; or the madrigal?

        3. Arrange the following famous paintings in order from the oldest to the most recent: Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy; Michangelo's The Last Supper; and Pablo Picasso's Guernica.

        4. G-8 stands for "the Group of Eight," a loosely knit group of eight economically powerful nations which meets each year to discuss international economic and monetary policy. Name any four of the eight countries in G-8.

        5. For which of the following achievements is an early 20th Century Norwegian named Roald Amundsen best known? -- the first European to fly across the Atlantic Ocean; the first European to climb Mount Everest; the first scientist to separate uranium from uranium ore; or the first European to reach the South Pole?

        6. In which of the following fields did two ancient Greeks named Herodotus and Thucydides become most famous? -- history; architecture; sculpture; or philosophy?

        7. Which of the following pairs of families kept England involved in a civil war known as The Wars of the Roses from 1455 to 1485? -- the Tudors and the Stuarts; the Plantagenets and the Mountbattens; the Lancasters and the Yorks; or the Windsors and the Knotts?

        8. What occupation are you allowed to practice after you pass the State Bar Exam?

        9. When a Trojan prince named Paris abducts Helen, the wife of Greek king Menelaus, a war between the Greeks and Trojans breaks out. That is the basic situation at the beginning of which of the following works from ancient literature? -- the play Oedipus Rex; the epic known as The Iliad; the epic known as Beowulf; or the romance entitled Chanson de Roland?

        10. When King James the Sixth of Scotland moved to London in 1603 and became King James the First of England, what English monarch was he succeeding?

        11. Which of the following television comedies was set during the Korean War? -- M*A*S*H; McHale's Navy; Hogan's Heroes; or Gomer Pyle?

        12. The mental illness that used to be known as manic depression is characterized by alternating between periods of excessive enthusiasm and elation and periods of excessive and abnormal depression? What is the modern name of this mental illness?

        13. What religion celebrates holidays called Purim and Rosh Hashanah?

        14. Name the largest planet in our Solar System.

        15. Which of the following famous scientists died on the guillotine during the French Revolution? -- Pierre Curie; Antoine Lavoisier; Jacques Cousteau; or Charles Coulomb?

        16. Fermions and quarks belong to which of the following categories? -- sub-atomic particles; ionized radicals; grand unified theories; or halogens?

        17. In which of the following sciences does one encounter the term megaflop? -- physical education; computer science; social science; or Scientology?

        18. "Tom has angered her to the point that she will soon lose complete control." Name all the auxiliary verbs in this sentence.

        19. Which of the following four-letter words is the name of an American Indian tribe? -- CANA; CEBU; COHO; or CREE?

        20. In which of the following bodies of water will you find the tiny island nation called the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis? -- the Caribbean; the Bight of Biafra; the Bay of Bengal; or the Gulf of Finland?

        21. Mobile, Alabama, author Winston Groom's novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling illness to become a football player at the University of Alabama and who ends up owning a fleet of shrimp boats in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, was made into a 1982 movie starring Tom Hanks. The movie won the Oscar for Best Picture that year. Name the movie.

        22. If I raise a thirty-two-ounce weight from the floor to the top of thirty-six inch high table, how many foot-pounds of work have I done? -- 6 foot-pounds; 60 foot-pounds; 96 foot-pounds; or 108 foot-pounds?

        23. Math Time! Add the square root of 16 to the cube root of 8 and then square that result.

        24. For which of the following reasons is a 16th Century Englishwoman named Anne Boleyn most famous? -- she designed the first British flag; she wrote Ye Olde Scafolde; her husband King Henry the Eighth had her beheaded for treason; or she was the mother of Mary Queen of Scots?

        25. Name the 20th Century American writer of science fiction whose best known books were Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

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