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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