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1. Of the nine European countries that share a land border with Germany, only one shares a land border in Europe with only Germany. What is that country?
Correct Answer: DENMARK
Your Answer: Denmark
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: DENMARK
Your Answer: Denmark
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
2. What hit musical—and subsequent two-part film adaptation—is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel, itself based on a beloved book from 1900?
Correct Answer: WICKED
Your Answer: Wicked
Points Assigned: 1
2. What hit musical—and subsequent two-part film adaptation—is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel, itself based on a beloved book from 1900?
Correct Answer: WICKED
Your Answer: Wicked
Points Assigned: 1
This was a guess. 1995 is pretty recent. I don't follow musicals, but I had heard of Wicked and knew it was a revisionist Wizard of Oz. The only thing I was concerned with was the two-part adaptation. I only thought there was one wicked film, which I have not seen.
3. Name the country music superstar whose career breakthrough was her 1991 debut single "She's in Love with the Boy", and who was one of the two singers (along with LeAnn Rimes) to release a hit version of "How Do I Live" in May 1997.
Correct Answer: TRISHA YEARWOOD
Your Answer: McQuaid
Points Assigned: 2
3. Name the country music superstar whose career breakthrough was her 1991 debut single "She's in Love with the Boy", and who was one of the two singers (along with LeAnn Rimes) to release a hit version of "How Do I Live" in May 1997.
Correct Answer: TRISHA YEARWOOD
Your Answer: McQuaid
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea. Made up a country name.
4. George Dzundza, Chris Noth, Michael Moriarty, and Richard Brooks were the original quartet that represented the duality of what television series?
Correct Answer: LAW & ORDER
Your Answer: Law and Order
Points Assigned: 2
4. George Dzundza, Chris Noth, Michael Moriarty, and Richard Brooks were the original quartet that represented the duality of what television series?
Correct Answer: LAW & ORDER
Your Answer: Law and Order
Points Assigned: 2
Got it based on duality. The only actor I knew by name was Chris Noth, and I figured they weren't looking for the duality of Sex and the City.
5. What magazine, a global fashion and lifestyle publication that generally targets women readers (perhaps obviously given its nom féminin), was founded in Paris in 1945 and owned for many years by the Lagardère Group?
Correct Answer: ELLE
Your Answer: Marie Claire
Points Assigned: 1
5. What magazine, a global fashion and lifestyle publication that generally targets women readers (perhaps obviously given its nom féminin), was founded in Paris in 1945 and owned for many years by the Lagardère Group?
Correct Answer: ELLE
Your Answer: Marie Claire
Points Assigned: 1
Nope.
6. What Roman historian, author of Annals (Annales) and Histories (Historiae), and one of the most preeminent historians of antiquity, is responsible for much of our knowledge of the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties, as well as of the Germanic peoples of the era?
Correct Answer: TACITUS
Your Answer: Plutarch
Points Assigned: 3
6. What Roman historian, author of Annals (Annales) and Histories (Historiae), and one of the most preeminent historians of antiquity, is responsible for much of our knowledge of the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties, as well as of the Germanic peoples of the era?
Correct Answer: TACITUS
Your Answer: Plutarch
Points Assigned: 3
Nope.
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