5 today which I was very pleased with
Is this taught in history in the US cos it was impossible for me?Player: BrowningM
1. One of the biggest upsets in Tony Awards history came in 2004, when Wicked lost Best Musical to what show, whose cast consisted of just four puppeteers and three human actors (compared to Wicked's eleven principals and an ensemble of more than twenty)?
Correct Answer: AVENUE Q
Your Answer: avenue q
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A classic
2. The 1954 armistice that ended French rule in Indochina followed the surrender, after a nearly three-month siege, of what fortified stronghold between Hanoi and the Laotian border?
Correct Answer: DIEN BIEN PHU
Your Answer: pass
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3. German engineer Felix Wankel is best remembered today for developing in the 1950s what type of internal combustion engine (also simply called a "Wankel engine") that is compact and smooth-running, but generally suffers from poor fuel economy and higher emissions compared with piston engines?
Correct Answer: ROTARY ENGINE
Your Answer: rotary engine
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Gimme
4. Before his tragic death in 2018 at age 28, Swedish-born producer and DJ Tim Bergling was a defining figure in the EDM breakthrough of the 2010s, with hits including 2011's "Levels" and 2013's "Wake Me Up" with Aloe Blacc. What Buddhism-derived name did Bergling use as his stage name?
Correct Answer: AVICII
Your Answer: avicii
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Very happy to work this out5. The 1900 opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan is only moderately known today, but a short, frantic orchestral interlude from it—an example of a perpetuum mobile ("perpetual motion")—remains hugely popular. What is the name of this interlude?
Correct Answer: THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE
Your Answer: flight of the bumble bee
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6. Though architect Louis Sullivan—the "father of modernism" who is credited with popularizing the phrase "form follows function"—was born in Boston, he is far more closely associated with what other city, where he died in 1924?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO
Your Answer: chicago
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I like Frank Lloyd Wright so knew about him
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