Any Topic Quiz No. 7

by Pablo C. Villasenor


1. In physics, what is the theoretical value of temperature defined by total absence of heat and equal to zero degree Kelvin (-273.15 degrees Celcius or –459.67 degree Farenheit)?
2. Which biblical prophet reproved David for causing the death of Bathsheba’s husband Uriah?
3. How many states make up the United Arab Emirates?
4. In what city does Batman operate?
5. What country has an official name Chung Hua Min Kuo?
6. What ancient city of the Golan Heights section of Syria was originally called Paneas because it was a center for the worship of Greek god Pan?
7. What is the complete name of Intel, the computer company founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce?
8. Which former dictator of Chad was known as AFRICA’S PINOCHET?
9. What do you call an estimate based mainly on guesswork?
10. What British band popularized the songs Goin’ Out of My Head, She’s Not There, Tell Her No, and Miles Away?
11. What was the car model introduced by Henry Ford on 01 October 1908 and quickly won the approval of millions of owners who affectionately dubbed it THE TIN LIZZIE?
12. The silvery metallic element hafnium is found in another what metallic element?
13. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the first antiwar novels that led to the author’s deprivation of German nationality?
14. What is Scotland’s national dish, which consists of sheep’s stomach lining stuffed with offal, oatmeal, onions and seasoning, and traditionally eaten with a tot of whisky on Burns’ Night, celebrated annually on January 25 to commemorate the life of Scottish poet Robert Burns?
15. Budolfi Cathedral in Denmark was named after whom?
16. Which Arthur Miller’s play tells about the Salem witch trials of the 17th century but really about the witch hunts of American senator Joseph McCarthy of communist sympathizers after World War II?
17. What is the monetary unit of Bangladesh?
18. Who played the role of Sam “Ace” Rothstein in the 1995 movie Casino?
19. What do you call the legendary creature also known as yeti, which is said to resemble a human with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish-gray hair?
20. What is the ring that can create light structures of anything that Green Lantern will imagine?


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Any Topic Quiz No. 6

by Pablo C. Villaseñor


1. Who was the American patriot who said, “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past?”
2. In zoology, what is lacking in an abranchial animal?
3. What American satellite, launched in July 1962, relayed the first live television transmissions between the US and Europe?
4. What are the three elements in an alloy called German silver?
5. What is the economic theory claiming that an increase in the amount of money in circulation causes a proportionate increase in prices?
6. Who was the rapper and actor who has a single called Signs, which featured Justin Timberlake?
7. Who was the beauty products pioneer who was born Josephine Esther Mentzer?
8. Gadolinite is a silicate of what metallic element?
9. What Czech word was used to describe the mechanical workers in Karel Capek’s play R.U.R.?
10. In what German cathedral city was Charlemagne born and buried?
11. What vocal group consisted originally by Tony Butala, Jim Pike and Bob Engemann?
12. In mythology, who was the Greek warrior who killed Hector at Troy but was slain when Paris wounded him in his vulnerable heel?
13. Who landed in Smallville and was discovered by Martha and Jonathan Kent, who raised him and kept his origin a secret?
14. Do pigs have sweat glands?
15. Who was the American basketball player who played for the National Basketball Association’s Milwaukee Bucks from 1969 to 1975 and for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1975 to 1989, and named professional basketball’s most valuable player six times over the period between 1971 and 1980?
16. Galena is a sulphide of what metallic element?
17. Who was the English queen for whom King Henry VIII broke with the pope and founded the Church of England?
18. What is the art of cutting designs or engraving on a gem?
19. In ecology, what do you call the idea that there is an inherent equilibrium in most ecosystems, with plants and animals interacting so as to produce a stable, continuing system of life on earth?
20. What epithet was given to the 10th century Norwegian navigator named Eric?


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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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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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Any Topic Quiz No. 3

by Pablo C. Villaseñor


1. In the Roman Catholic Church, what do you call the voluntary contributions to the papal treasury?
2. In what country is the Thar Desert located?
3. What is the belief that intelligence and ability may be judged from the shape of a person’s skull?
4. Which duo has dance hits titled Chocolate and Boogaloo?
5. What was opened at the Paris Exhibition in 1889, which draws about six million visitors yearly?
6. Who was the Jewish leader empowered by Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem?
7. Pewter is an alloy of tin, copper, lead and what other metallic element?
8. What members of a religious order are sometimes known as the HOUNDS OF GOD?
9. What loose international movement, which was sparked by the book of Peter Singer, was against the infliction of suffering on animals, whether for scientific, military or commercial research or in being raised for food?
10. Ganja is commonly known by what name?
11. What Martin Scorsese’s biopic tells about the eccentric American billionaire Howard Hughes?
12. What atoll in the Marshall Islands has the same name as the two-piece swimsuit said to have an explosive effect?
13. Feretory is a shrine for the relics of what?
14. Who is often called AMERICA’S OLDEST TEENAGER because of his youthful appearance and dedication to rock music?
15. Michelle Bachelet is the first woman president of what South American country?
16. In military, who is the commanding officer’s personal staff officer?
17. Who was the Roman god of gates and doors represented with two opposite faces?
18. Who was the legendary character created by Washington Irving in his 1819 tale of a man who falls into a magical 20-year sleep and wakes up to find he has slumbered through the Revolutionary War?
19. What English alphabet letter represents Koppa of the earliest Greek alphabet?
20. What is the arrangement if it is described as abecedarian?


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Any Topic Quiz No. 2

by Pablo C. Villaseñor


1. What is the Lord’s Prayer in Latin?
2. Who played the role of climatologist Jack Hall in the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW?
3. What word was coined by writer Bill Cardoso, which describes the frenetic participatory journalism?
4. Tennis player Roger Federer is a native of what country?
5. What is the Japanese style of fencing using bamboo staves?
6. Who played the role of Randall “Memphis” Raines in the movie GONE IN 60 SECONDS?
7. Pedagogy is the art or science of what?
8. What is the short poem composed of three versified rhyming lines, each consists only of seven syllables but expresses a complete thought?
9. What acid is lacking with pellagra, the disease affecting the skin and nervous system?
10. What 1975 film marked John Travolta’s film debut?
11. What do you call a female swan?
12. What nickname was given to the plutonium A-bomb that the US dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945?
13. What was the ruling dynasty of Islam from 749 to 1258 A.D.?
14. In The Little Mermaid story, who was the father of Ariel and king of the undersea world?
15. Which British baron and poet wrote the following: “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?”
16. The Manila hemp is commonly known by what name?
17. Who was the Zambian prime minister who was also called THE BLACK LION?
18. What is the trademark of the cultivated Jamaican citrus fruit, a three-way cross between a grapefruit, a tangerine, and an orange?
19. Who is Kal-El, Krypton’s last son?
20. What do you call a subsoil that is permanently frozen?


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Any Topic Quiz No. 1

by Pablo C. Villaseñor

1. What is the science of improving the human race by selective breeding?
2. What movie narrates a true story of a quadriplegic’s battle for the right to die whose 30-year struggle after a diving accident paralyzed him from neck down?
3. Which country dubbed itself The Warm Heart of Africa?
4. In the Christian Church, what is the plate used for the bread at the Eucharist?
5. What kitchen ingredient is called Savior of the Poor Man’s Table?
6. In what movie was the winning in the Winter Olympics of Jamaica’s bobsledding team immortalized?
7. What was the popular name for the unidentified mutilator and murderer of, at least, five women prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888?
8. Who was the Roman orator and statesman who once said, “The good of the people is the chief law?”
9. What do you call a young hawk?
10. Which former Serbian president was called The Butcher of the Balkans?
11. What was the title of the first cable TV program to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series?
12. What was the military treaty concluded in 1955 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey with the United States of America cooperating, and was replaced by the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) when Iraq withdrew in 1958?
13. Who played the role of Harold Shand in the 1980 movie The Long Good Friday?
14. Who was the Justice League member dubbed The Fastest Man Alive?
15. In mythology, who was the mortal who became sea divinity by eating magic grass?
16. The word Gallic pertains to what European country?
17. Who was the Spanish theologian and jurist who was also called The Father of International Law?
18. In mathematics, what is an integer multiplied by all lower integers?
19. What Malaysian island owns a coral reef, which was once described by Jacques Cousteau as one of the ten wonders of the underwater world?
20. Which of the 12 animal signs in the Chinese astrology is the only mythical one?

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