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K: Kit and caboodle
This quiz is dedicated to the letter K. Thus all the questions and/or answers are connected to the letter K. Note: The facing page contains expanded information about some of the answers.
1. The Broadway musical and subsequent Hollywood film Kiss Me, Kate was based on which Shakespearean play?
2. What are the names of King Charles III’s three siblings?
3. Carolyn Keene was the pen name of the author of which series of novels?
4. K is the symbol for which element?
5. What was the name of Superman’s dog?
6. What does the Japanese word karate mean? (a) alert mind (b) empty hand (c) fist of iron (d) self-control
7. Which film ends with the line “’Tis beauty that killed the beast”?
8. Which artist painted the oil-on-canvas The Kiss?
9. Which sculptor created the marble sculpture The Kiss?
10. Kabul is the capital of which country?
11. Which US state is called the Keystone State?
12. True or false? Fashion designer Calvin Klein is Jewish.
13. Which sport is called the Sport of Kings?
14. Which Israeli author wrote and directed the films Sallah Shabati and The Policeman?
15. Who wrote the novel Anna Karenina? (a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (b) Vladimir Nabokov (c) Alexander Pushkin (d) Leo Tolstoy
16. Who played the divorcing couple in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer?
17. Which sport does the team the New York Knicks play?
18. Who wrote the poem “Endymion,” which begins with the line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”?
19. What is a kelvin? (a) a unit of astronomical distance (b) a unit of geological time (c) a unit of freight weight (d) a unit of temperature
20. In which US state is Kansas City located?
21. What is the main currency of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden?
22. Who wrote the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest? (a) Jack Kerouac (b) Ken Kesey (c) Stephen King (d) Jerzy Kosinski
23. What is the English word for the herb kusbara?
24. True or false? A koala bear is not a bear.
25. What word represents the letter K in the NATO phonetic alphabet?