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Daily Quiz 16

1 of 15

Robert Todd Lincoln, who had already witnessed his father's assassination, was in whose Cabinet when he saw that president shot as well?

  • McKinley
  • Garfield
  • Grant
  • Arthur

 

2 of 15

The jelly-like material at the center of a tooth, containing blood vessels and nerves, is called what?

  • Enamel
  • Dentin
  • The pulp
  • Cementum

 

3 of 15

A cycle of dwelling on negative feelings shares its name with what a cow does while chewing. What's the term?

  • Wallowing
  • Fixating
  • Brooding
  • Ruminating

 

4 of 15

The Hutu people form the majority group in Burundi and which neighboring country?

  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
  • Tanzania
  • Zambia

 

5 of 15

In her unsettling story "The Lottery," which author depicts a New England town that stones an annual victim to ensure a good harvest?

  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Eudora Welty
  • Shirley Jackson
  • Carson McCullers

 

6 of 15

Broca's and Wernicke's are two types of which condition affecting language and speech?

  • Amnesia
  • Apraxia
  • Aphasia
  • Dyslexia

 

7 of 15

This Bronze Age culture on Crete was the first high civilization of the Aegean, peaking around 1600 B.C.

  • The Mycenaean
  • The Etruscan
  • The Phoenician
  • The Minoan

 

8 of 15

Which people, whose religion blends Islamic and gnostic elements, live mainly in Lebanon and Syria and make up about 2% of Israel's population?

  • The Yazidi
  • The Druze
  • The Alawites
  • The Copts

 

9 of 15

In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which Nick becomes the beloved of the enchanted Titania?

  • Nick Carraway
  • Nick Adams
  • Nick Bottom
  • Nick Shadow

 

10 of 15

Plutarch describes which conqueror meeting the naked "gymnosophists" during his campaign in India?

  • Julius Caesar
  • Hannibal
  • Cyrus the Great
  • Alexander the Great

 

11 of 15

The U.S. Department of Labor headquarters is named for which woman, the first to head a Cabinet department?

  • Frances Perkins
  • Jane Addams
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Clara Barton

 

12 of 15

Which prolific author and illustrator created Busytown, a densely detailed world of animals doing human jobs?

  • Dr. Seuss
  • Maurice Sendak
  • Eric Carle
  • Richard Scarry

 

13 of 15

Meaning "restructuring" in Russian, which policy did Mikhail Gorbachev launch to overhaul the Soviet economy?

  • Glasnost
  • Perestroika
  • Detente
  • Collectivization

 

14 of 15

Also called a water bear or moss piglet, which microscopic creature has survived exposure to the vacuum of space?

  • The rotifer
  • The amoeba
  • The copepod
  • The tardigrade

 

15 of 15

In a Herman Melville story, twelve-year-old Ginger Nut works in an office alongside which reluctant title character?

  • Billy Budd
  • Ishmael
  • Bartleby
  • Redburn

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