10 Quick Questions

1. Which version of this word appeared in English first?

Turkey (the country) turkey (the bird)

2. Which of these nominees won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Picture?

Elizabeth

Saving Private Ryan Life Is Beautiful Shakespeare in Love

Which novel begins: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

Murphy

Jane Eyre

Fahrenheit 451 Moby-Dick

Which of these best defines the word “noisome”?

Foul-smelling Deafening

Which music star played a leading role in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan?

Madonna Billy Idol Sting

Cyndi Lauper

Which of these types of drinking glass typically has the largest capacity?

Pony glass

Hurricane glass Old-fashioned glass Highball glass

Which city was formerly promoted with the slogan “It’s All Right Here”?

Tauranga

Dunedin

Hamilton

Wellington

On display in the Louvre, the iconic sculpture Winged Victory of Samothrace depicts which

deity? Aphrodite Zeus

Nike Poseidon

The Rosetta Stone was used to decipher which of these?

Dead Sea Scrolls Egyptian hieroglyphs Maya script

Old Persian

10. Once common in Europe but now extinct, what kind of creature was an aurochs?

Large bird

Wild cattle

Big cat

Wild horse