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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