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Correct Answer: INFERNO/THE DIVINE COMEDY
Your Answer: Divine Comedy
Points Assigned: 2
This was a guess, but it was the only Italian work of literature that came to mind.
2. The share index known informally as the "Footsie" is operated and maintained by an entity that originated as a joint venture between the London Stock Exchange and what newspaper?
Correct Answer: FINANCIAL TIMES
Your Answer: The Financial Times
Points Assigned: 0
2. The share index known informally as the "Footsie" is operated and maintained by an entity that originated as a joint venture between the London Stock Exchange and what newspaper?
Correct Answer: FINANCIAL TIMES
Your Answer: The Financial Times
Points Assigned: 0
This is the only British financial newspaper I could think of.
3. Some of the vitamins in the vitamin B complex also have names by which they are widely known, including B<sub>9</sub> (folate), B<sub>7</sub> (biotin), B<sub>3</sub> (niacin), B<sub>2</sub> (riboflavin), and B<sub>1</sub>, which has what name?
Correct Answer: THIAMINE
Your Answer: Bioflavinoid
Points Assigned: 2
3. Some of the vitamins in the vitamin B complex also have names by which they are widely known, including B<sub>9</sub> (folate), B<sub>7</sub> (biotin), B<sub>3</sub> (niacin), B<sub>2</sub> (riboflavin), and B<sub>1</sub>, which has what name?
Correct Answer: THIAMINE
Your Answer: Bioflavinoid
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
4. Enver Pasha was the leader of a coalition of nationalist, antigovernment groups that took control of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s, adopting liberal democratic reforms but not stopping the rapid reduction in Ottoman territory and influence. This coalition—which actually included individuals of various ages and ethnicities—is nonetheless known best by what name?
Correct Answer: YOUNG TURKS
Your Answer: Young Turks
Points Assigned: 1
4. Enver Pasha was the leader of a coalition of nationalist, antigovernment groups that took control of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s, adopting liberal democratic reforms but not stopping the rapid reduction in Ottoman territory and influence. This coalition—which actually included individuals of various ages and ethnicities—is nonetheless known best by what name?
Correct Answer: YOUNG TURKS
Your Answer: Young Turks
Points Assigned: 1
Feels like a gimmie to me.
5. The islands of the Caribbean known in English as the Windward Islands (e.g., Martinique , Saint Vincent, Saint Lucia) are so named due to their exposure to the northeast trade winds of the Atlantic. What is the corresponding name given to the islands (e.g., Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat) that are away from the winds and less exposed to the northeasterlies?
Correct Answer: LEEWARD ISLANDS
Your Answer: Lesser Antilles
Points Assigned: 3
5. The islands of the Caribbean known in English as the Windward Islands (e.g., Martinique , Saint Vincent, Saint Lucia) are so named due to their exposure to the northeast trade winds of the Atlantic. What is the corresponding name given to the islands (e.g., Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat) that are away from the winds and less exposed to the northeasterlies?
Correct Answer: LEEWARD ISLANDS
Your Answer: Lesser Antilles
Points Assigned: 3
Ah, that makes sense.
6. An odd TV sitcom from the mid-1960s starred Jerry Van Dyke as a small-town lawyer and Ann Sothern as the voice of his mother, who had been reincarnated in what form (per the show's title)?
Correct Answer: CAR
Your Answer: Car
Points Assigned: 1
6. An odd TV sitcom from the mid-1960s starred Jerry Van Dyke as a small-town lawyer and Ann Sothern as the voice of his mother, who had been reincarnated in what form (per the show's title)?
Correct Answer: CAR
Your Answer: Car
Points Assigned: 1
I have heard of this show, never seen it.
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