Thursday, July 16, 2009

Any Topic Quiz No. 4

by Pablo C. Villaseñor


1. In what country can you find the Plains of Abraham where the final and decisive battle of the French and Indian wars was fought on September 13, 1759?
2. In telecommunications technology, what does the acronym CDMA stand for?
3. Who was The Flash’s mentor who died during the Crisis of Infinite Earths?
4. What Irish rock group formed in 1977 by Bono Vox, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen?
5. In the movie Bionicle, what is the glorious city threatened by mysterious dark forces?
6. What animals are kept or bred in a kennel?
7. What North American rock group acquired its name when its members worked as Bob Dylan’s backing band and made a solo debut in 1968 with Music from Big Pink?
8. Who created the memorable character of failed businessman Willy Loman in the 1949 play Death of a Salesman?
9. What insects reside in formicaries?
10. In photography, what is the number used to calculate the ratio of light passing through a lens?
11. Gelding is a castrated what animal?
12. What was the codename of the built-up phase of the Operation Desert Storm, the military action aimed to eject the Iraqi army from Kuwait in 1991?
13. In physics, what is the symbol for conductance?
14. Who played the role of Don Logan in the movie Sexy Beast?
15. What term was given to a pioneer who went to California, USA in 1849 to look for gold?
16. Who directed the movie Million Dollar Baby, the wrenching story of a female boxer starring Hilary Swank?
17. What is the first name of female tennis player Hantuchova of Slovakia?
18. What is the more familiar term for French letter?
19. In the Old Testament, who was the first Jewish high priest, the son of Amram and the father of Abihu, Eleazer, Ithamar, and Nadab?
20. What do you call a sexually imperfect and sterile cow calf, born as the twin of a bull calf?


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