Any Topic Quiz No. 5

by Pablo C. Villaseñor


1. What is the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases and care of old people?
2. What coral atoll in the former Gilbert Islands in the west central Pacific Ocean is once called Charlotte Island?
3. To what country was American actress Shirley Temple appointed ambassador in 1989?
4. In the movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider, what was the legendary artifact with the power to alter space and time?
5. What do you call the offspring of a stallion and a jenny?
6. What South Korean company means “enormous universe” and was founded by Kim Woo-choong?
7. What was the historical name for Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey?
8. What is the fourth stomach of a ruminant animal?
9. What was the original name of Justice League member Martian Manhunter?
10. In mythology, who was the father of Medea and king of Colchis, who kept the Golden Fleece?
11. What was the rock where it was said Jesus Christ conferred on Simon Peter the responsibility of being the future head of His Church saying: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church?
12. What vitamin is biotin?
13. What is the familiar term for white plague?
14. What country in the southwest Pacific Ocean is once called the Ellice Islands?
15. What Japanese art of self-defense has two main systems, namely: tomiki and uyeshiba?
16. In British history, what was the constitutional upheaval of the period November 16 to December 10, 1936 brought about by King Edward VIII’s decision to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee?
17. What country has national name Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk?
18. What international relief agency founded by the Geneva Convention in 1864 at the instigation of the Swiss doctor Henri Dunant to assist the wounded and prisoners in war?
19. How many years is a lustrum?
20. In what country is Fatima, the 13 May 1917 apparition site of the Virgin Mary, located?


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