The Daily Quiz

Ernest Hemingway drove an ambulance in World War I, just like his protagonist Frederic Henry in which novel?

• A Farewell to Arms
• The Sun Also Rises
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Old Man and the Sea

Andrew Wiles electrified the mathematical world in the 1990s by proving whose 350-year-old last theorem?

• Euler
• Fermat
• Gauss
• Riemann

RKO Radio Pictures collapsed after its 1948 purchase by which increasingly reclusive magnate?

• J. Paul Getty
• William Randolph Hearst
• Howard Hughes
• Andrew Mellon

After serving as assistant marshal, which lawman left Dodge City in 1879 and headed for Tombstone to join his brothers?

• Bat Masterson
• Doc Holliday
• Wild Bill Hickok
• Wyatt Earp

Manet's famous painting invites the viewer up to the bar at which hyphenated Parisian nightclub?

• The Folies-Bergère
• The Moulin Rouge
• Le Chat Noir
• The Lido

The shifting plates responsible for earthquakes make up which rigid outer "sphere" of the Earth?

• The stratosphere
• The asthenosphere
• The lithosphere
• The mesosphere

The ancient village of Aït Benhaddou, a stop on the trade route between Marrakesh and the Sahara, is in which country?

• Egypt
• Tunisia
• Algeria
• Morocco

This Kuala Lumpur landmark features a skybridge connecting its two towers on the 41st floor.

• The Burj Khalifa
• The Petronas Towers
• Taipei 101
• The Shanghai Tower

Also called the maidenhair tree, which species is thought to have first been cultivated in China around a thousand years ago?

• The banyan
• The bonsai
• The ginkgo
• The cypress

Which tech figure dropped out of Washington State University and joined forces with his friend Bill Gates?

• Steve Ballmer
• Steve Wozniak
• Paul Allen
• Marc Andreessen

Sen no Rikyū is credited with elevating which Japanese ritual into a refined art form?

• Calligraphy
• Flower arranging
• Sword forging
• The tea ceremony

In the 490s B.C., which philosopher left the state of Lu with his disciples after serving as its minister of crime?

• Confucius
• Laozi
• Mencius
• Sun Tzu

Which English chocolate company is credited with introducing the heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day in 1868?

• Rowntree's
• Cadbury
• Nestlé
• Lindt

The Dongjak Bridge spans the Han River in which capital city?

• Tokyo
• Beijing
• Bangkok
• Seoul

Galileo landed in serious trouble with the Church over which 1632 book?

• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
• Principia Mathematica
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• The Starry Messenger