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1. The fictionalized and anachronistic Hulu comedy-drama series The Great is based on the rise of what long-reigning 18th-century monarch?
Correct Answer: CATHERINE (THE GREAT)/CATHERINE II
Your Answer: Catherine the Great
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: CATHERINE (THE GREAT)/CATHERINE II
Your Answer: Catherine the Great
Points Assigned: 0
I watched the first two seasons and have been meaning to watch the third.
2. The Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered at more than 3,100 carats, is the source of one of the largest cut diamonds in the world—the 530-carat Star of what (referring to the location of the Cullinan's discovery)?
Correct Answer: AFRICA
Your Answer: Africa
Points Assigned: 1
2. The Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered at more than 3,100 carats, is the source of one of the largest cut diamonds in the world—the 530-carat Star of what (referring to the location of the Cullinan's discovery)?
Correct Answer: AFRICA
Your Answer: Africa
Points Assigned: 1
I must have heard of it or seen it, because that was the first thing to come to my mind.
3. A British linguist renowned for his work in phonetics and the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a Welsh composer and contemporary of Dylan Thomas who composed thirteen symphonies, and a North Carolina native and recent New York Giant all share what first and last name?
Correct Answer: DANIEL JONES
Your Answer: John Smith
Points Assigned: 2
3. A British linguist renowned for his work in phonetics and the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a Welsh composer and contemporary of Dylan Thomas who composed thirteen symphonies, and a North Carolina native and recent New York Giant all share what first and last name?
Correct Answer: DANIEL JONES
Your Answer: John Smith
Points Assigned: 2
I had absolutely no idea even with all of these clues.
4. The 18th-century Spanish province of Las Californias was split in 1804 into two new Californias—Baja California, which is coterminous with the modern Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, and what other "opposite" California, which included all of the present-day US states of California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado?
Correct Answer: ALTA (CALIFORNIA)
Your Answer: Gran California
Points Assigned: 2
4. The 18th-century Spanish province of Las Californias was split in 1804 into two new Californias—Baja California, which is coterminous with the modern Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, and what other "opposite" California, which included all of the present-day US states of California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado?
Correct Answer: ALTA (CALIFORNIA)
Your Answer: Gran California
Points Assigned: 2
I thought of Gran Colombia and was hoping there might be a Gran California.
5. "Energy and Atmosphere", "Water Efficiency", and "Materials and Resources" are among the categories assessed in a framework for the certification of sustainable and environmentally responsible buildings, which is recognized internationally and managed by the US Green Building Council. This certification is commonly known by what four letters?
Correct Answer: LEED
Your Answer: LEAD
Points Assigned: 1
5. "Energy and Atmosphere", "Water Efficiency", and "Materials and Resources" are among the categories assessed in a framework for the certification of sustainable and environmentally responsible buildings, which is recognized internationally and managed by the US Green Building Council. This certification is commonly known by what four letters?
Correct Answer: LEED
Your Answer: LEAD
Points Assigned: 1
Darn... Stupid, stupid, stupid
6. What Latin word was first used in a physics context by Johannes Kepler in 1617 and defined in principle by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion toward the end of that century?
Correct Answer: INERTIA
Your Answer: Inertia
Points Assigned: 3
6. What Latin word was first used in a physics context by Johannes Kepler in 1617 and defined in principle by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion toward the end of that century?
Correct Answer: INERTIA
Your Answer: Inertia
Points Assigned: 3
The Physics 100 class I took pays off again!
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