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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