1/6. Yikes.
1. Since the 11th century, a central district known as the Rialto has been an important commercial and financial area of what European city?
Correct Answer: VENICE
Your Answer: Milan
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: VENICE
Your Answer: Milan
Points Assigned: 2
I was in Venice a few years ago, but couldn't remember where the Rialto was.
2. In April 2016, 11.5 million documents were leaked that reveal financial details relating to sprawling and secretive offshore entities used by wealthy individuals and public officials. What term is used for these documents, referencing the location of the law firm that created the documents over the past five decades?
Correct Answer: PANAMA PAPERS
Your Answer: Panama papers
Points Assigned: 1
2. In April 2016, 11.5 million documents were leaked that reveal financial details relating to sprawling and secretive offshore entities used by wealthy individuals and public officials. What term is used for these documents, referencing the location of the law firm that created the documents over the past five decades?
Correct Answer: PANAMA PAPERS
Your Answer: Panama papers
Points Assigned: 1
Seems easy if you follow the news.
3. What tick-borne disease was originally named "black measles" but is now named in reference to the region in which it was first identified (although it is found throughout the contiguous U.S. and elsewhere)? Caused by the Rickettsia rickettsii bacterium, it was frequently fatal before the advent of effective antibiotic therapy.
Correct Answer: ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER
Your Answer: Lyme Disease
Points Assigned: 0
3. What tick-borne disease was originally named "black measles" but is now named in reference to the region in which it was first identified (although it is found throughout the contiguous U.S. and elsewhere)? Caused by the Rickettsia rickettsii bacterium, it was frequently fatal before the advent of effective antibiotic therapy.
Correct Answer: ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER
Your Answer: Lyme Disease
Points Assigned: 0
I was trying to think of an area called Lyme, but have barely heard of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever so that never occurred to me.
4. J. M. Barrie's original Peter and Wendy gives the location of "Neverland" as "second to the right, and straight on till morning." What word was added to these directions beginning with Walt Disney's 1953 film version of Peter Pan?
Correct Answer: STAR
Your Answer: Over the sunrise
Points Assigned: 1
4. J. M. Barrie's original Peter and Wendy gives the location of "Neverland" as "second to the right, and straight on till morning." What word was added to these directions beginning with Walt Disney's 1953 film version of Peter Pan?
Correct Answer: STAR
Your Answer: Over the sunrise
Points Assigned: 1
Nope, I had no idea.
5. It has been asserted, incorrectly, that a common nickname for a particular food item comes from a nineteenth-century British activist group known as the Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet? What is that food?
Correct Answer: POTATO/SPUD
Your Answer: Pudding
Points Assigned: 2
5. It has been asserted, incorrectly, that a common nickname for a particular food item comes from a nineteenth-century British activist group known as the Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet? What is that food?
Correct Answer: POTATO/SPUD
Your Answer: Pudding
Points Assigned: 2
Ahh, ok. Didn't get that.
6. The sadistic zeal of what infamous Spanish Inquisitor General has made his name an embodiment of cruel persecution? Interestingly, while his name evokes a Latin verb for inflicting extreme pain, it actually derives from a village in his Castilian homeland.
Correct Answer: TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA
Your Answer: Sisqo
Points Assigned: 3
6. The sadistic zeal of what infamous Spanish Inquisitor General has made his name an embodiment of cruel persecution? Interestingly, while his name evokes a Latin verb for inflicting extreme pain, it actually derives from a village in his Castilian homeland.
Correct Answer: TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA
Your Answer: Sisqo
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
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