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Daily Quiz 25

1 of 15

Spitsbergen Island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago is prized for great views of which luminous atmospheric display?

  • The northern lights
  • The midnight sun
  • A solar eclipse
  • Ball lightning

 

2 of 15

In the Bible, David commits a grave sin after seeing which woman bathing on a rooftop?

  • Delilah
  • Bathsheba
  • Jezebel
  • Salome

 

3 of 15

A being that delays its own enlightenment to help others reach it is known by which term from Buddhism?

  • A stupa
  • A lama
  • A bodhisattva
  • A koan

 

4 of 15

Which fruit is a hybrid of a tangerine and a pomelo or grapefruit, with a name that blends its parents?

  • The plumcot
  • The ugli
  • The clementine
  • The tangelo

 

5 of 15

The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act, which worsened the Great Depression, raised what?

  • Tariffs
  • Interest rates
  • Income taxes
  • The minimum wage

 

6 of 15

Which North Star is also used as a word meaning a guiding principle or someone who shows the way?

  • A touchstone
  • A lodestar
  • A keystone
  • A cornerstone

 

7 of 15

Sandra Cisneros's coming-of-age novel narrated by Esperanza Cordero bears which title?

  • The Joy Luck Club
  • Bless Me, Ultima
  • The House on Mango Street
  • Like Water for Chocolate

 

8 of 15

In which English port city, at the edge of the West Country, was a leading 18th-century British slave-trading hub?

  • Liverpool
  • Portsmouth
  • Southampton
  • Bristol

 

9 of 15

Which liqueur, named for a Caribbean island, gives a Blue Hawaiian cocktail its color?

  • Curaçao
  • Chartreuse
  • Campari
  • Absinthe

 

10 of 15

Which epic two-part Tony Kushner play, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," won Best Play in the 1990s?

  • Rent
  • Angels in America
  • The Normal Heart
  • Torch Song Trilogy

 

11 of 15

Which passageway of the alimentary canal sits between the mouth and the esophagus?

  • The larynx
  • The trachea
  • The epiglottis
  • The pharynx

 

12 of 15

Which pen name concealed the identity of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote "Middlemarch"?

  • Currer Bell
  • George Eliot
  • Acton Bell
  • George Sand

 

13 of 15

Which soft leather cloth, used for polishing cars, takes its name from a goat-like Alpine animal?

  • Suede
  • Mohair
  • Chamois
  • Angora

 

14 of 15

The only U.S. state that borders New Hampshire and no other state is which one?

  • Maine
  • Vermont
  • Massachusetts
  • Rhode Island

 

15 of 15

In Chrétien de Troyes's "Perceval," a mysterious castle houses the Holy Grail and which wounded monarch?

  • The Once and Future King
  • The Erl-King
  • The Fisher King
  • The Lich King

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