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Potpourri Quiz
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A quiz including questions from science, social studies, literature, and art.
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1
What is the capital of Morocco?
Casablanca
Marrakesh
Rabat
Tangier
2
What mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy is known for its almost pyramidal shape?
Mount Kosciuszko
Matterhorn
Denali
K2
3
Which group of elements is nonreactive?
Alkaline-earth metals
Transition metals
Noble gases
Inner transition metals
4
Who wrote
The Pickwick Papers
and
A Christmas Carol
?
Charles Dickens
Joseph Conrad
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oscar Wilde
5
Who designed the Wainwright Building (St. Louis) and was a champion of skyscrapers?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Gehry
Louis Sullivan
Eero Saarinen
6
Most elements on the periodic table are classified as _______.
nonmetals
gases
metalloids
metals
7
This museum in Florence houses Botticelli's
The Birth of Venus
and Titian's
Venus of Urbino.
Uffizi Gallery
Guggenheim
Museum of Modern Art
Museuo del Prado
8
Who is the President of the Philippines?
Joko Widodo
Rodrigo Duterte
Kim Jong-un
Leni Rebredo
9
Who discovered the first effective vaccine for polio?
Louis Pasteur
Maurice Hilleman
Jonas Salk
Max Theiler
10
What school of philosophy holds that one should refrain from making truth claims?
Epicureanism
Hedonism
Stoicism
Skepticism
11
Which founder of modern anthropology wrote
The Mind of Primitive Man
?
Claude Levi-Strauss
Branislow Malinowski
Franz Boas
Clifford Geertz
12
Who wrote "Oh Captain, My Captain!" and
Leaves of Grass
?
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Cullen Bryant
13
Which Spanish painter created
The Persistence of Memory?
Salvador Dalí
Pablo Picasso
René Magritte
Marcel Duchamp
14
What is the name of the Grant Wood painting of the farmer and his wife in front of their house?
Southern Gothic
American Gothic
Iowa Cornfield
Main Street
15
What royal house rose to power after the War of the Roses and included Henry VIII and Elizabeth I?
Tudor
Valois
Plantagent
Stuart
16
What is the capital of Canada?
Toronto
Quebec
Ottowa
Montreal
17
Who is the President of Egypt?
Mohamed Morsi
Entissar Amer
Adly Mansour
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
18
This Pre-Columbian culture had a capital of
Tenochtitlan
.
Aztec
Inca
Maya
Olmec
19
Who wrote
The Green Book
and was killed in the 2011 Libyan Civil War?
Idi Amin
Haile Selassie
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mummar al-Gaddafi
20
Which scientist is responsible for the discovery of the nucleus?
Niels Bohr
J.J. Thomson
John Dalton
Ernest Rutherford
