10 Quick Questions

1. Who painted a famous landscape around the year 1600 titled View of Toledo?

Titian

Rembrandt

El Greco

Michelangelo

2. Who is credited with this quote at their own trial: “The unexamined life is not worth living”?

Susan B Anthony

Socrates

Galileo

Oscar Wilde

3. In May 1960, New Zealand was struck by tsunami generated by a huge earthquake occurring where?

Chile

Hawaii

Japan

Indonesia 4. Which of these is most similar to what Americans call a biscuit?

Cookie

Flatbread

Cracker

Scone

5. Where might you drive the hairpin turns of Lombard St or climb the steps to Coit Tower? Edinburgh

Toronto

Cape Town

San Francisco

6. Who sang: “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls”?

Janis Joplin

Simon & Garfunkel

Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen

7. According to an old English proverb, “Ne’er cast a clout till … what?” There be no doubt

Y’see the snout

They act a lout

May be out

8. True or false? A chicken can live for months with its head cut o .

True

False

9. What exactly is a Bedfordshire clanger? Sheep

Pastry

Train

Insult

10. True or false? In Mary Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein gives his creature a name.

True

False