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Daily Quiz 20

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Saoirse Ronan earned her first Oscar nomination playing a 13-year-old whose lie causes lasting regret in which WWII-set film?

  • Atonement
  • The Book Thief
  • Brooklyn
  • The Reader

 

2 of 15

The New Horizons spacecraft flew by which object in 2015, capturing its heart-shaped feature and its moon Charon?

  • Ceres
  • Neptune
  • Pluto
  • Eris

 

3 of 15

Winfield Scott proposed which snake-named plan to squeeze the Confederacy by blockading its coast and seizing the Mississippi?

  • The Copperhead Strategy
  • The Python Campaign
  • The Anaconda Plan
  • The Rattlesnake Doctrine

 

4 of 15

In 1963, mobster Joe Valachi broke the mafia's code of silence in televised testimony. What is that code called?

  • Vendetta
  • Cosa Nostra
  • Consigliere
  • Omertà

 

5 of 15

Every May, the Netherlands honors which structures with a national day, their millers' craft recognized by UNESCO?

  • Dikes
  • Windmills
  • Tulip fields
  • Canals

 

6 of 15

In science, the spot on the celestial sphere directly above an observer's head is called what?

  • The apex
  • The meridian
  • The azimuth
  • The zenith

 

7 of 15

The "Peace Walls" of Belfast stand as reminders of which decades-long period of conflict in Northern Ireland?

  • The Rising
  • The Troubles
  • The Emergency
  • The Partition

 

8 of 15

On October 16, 1946, Joachim von Ribbentrop and nine others were executed in which German city after a famous trial?

  • Berlin
  • Munich
  • Nuremberg
  • Dachau

 

9 of 15

Which woman married Alexander Hamilton at her family's Albany home in December 1780?

  • Angelica Schuyler
  • Eliza Schuyler
  • Peggy Schuyler
  • Martha Manning

 

10 of 15

A grand jury does not decide guilt, but whether a person should be formally charged with a crime, a decision known as what?

  • Arraigned
  • Convicted
  • Indicted
  • Subpoenaed

 

11 of 15

King Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and the town of Volcano lie on which U.S. island?

  • Maui
  • The island of Hawaii
  • Oahu
  • Kauai

 

12 of 15

Werner Herzog's documentary "Grizzly Man" follows Timothy Treadwell, who lived among and was killed by which animal in 2003?

  • Wolves
  • Mountain lions
  • Bears
  • Bison

 

13 of 15

Bar Harbor, Maine, sits on Mount Desert Island, home to most of which national park?

  • Shenandoah
  • Katahdin
  • Acadia
  • Baxter

 

14 of 15

Prospectors braved the treacherous Chilkoot Pass hurrying to which 1890s event?

  • The California Gold Rush
  • The Comstock Lode
  • The Yukon Gold Rush
  • The Silver Boom

 

15 of 15

Since the 9th century, pilgrims have walked which network of Iberian routes known as "The Way of St. James"?

  • The Via Appia
  • The Pilgrim's Progress
  • The King's Road
  • The Camino de Santiago

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