Daily Quiz 28
In which James Jones war novel, set in the Pacific, do soldiers fear both battle and being seen as cowards?
Marie Curie and Simone Veil are among the notable figures interred in which Paris monument honoring great French citizens?
Horace McCoy's grim novel "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" centers on which Depression-era spectacle?
A mongoose is famous as a skilled killer of which animals, thanks to its speed and resistance to venom?
In Angkor, Cambodia, the enormous temple complex Angkor Wat takes the second half of its name from which structure?
Columnist Jimmy Breslin popularized which idiom for deception, referencing two tools of a magician's trade?
The word "impeccable," meaning flawless, is linguistically related to "peccadillo," a term for what?
The Tuamotu Archipelago in the South Pacific is made up of 76 of which coral formations that surround lagoons?
Ferde Grofé used coconut shells to imitate a burro's clip-clopping "on the trail" in which orchestral suite?
Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen were both active in which capital during its 19th-century Golden Age?
Which country's national flower is the golden wattle, an acacia known for surviving bushfires?
A shark's skeleton is made of which flexible tissue rather than bone?
Thomas Edison spent 1879 testing thousands of materials to find a workable one of these for his light bulb?
The Great Dismal Swamp straddling Virginia and North Carolina got its gloomy name in 1728 from whom?
A "creation" composer whose head was stolen from his Vienna grave in 1809 and not returned until 1954 was whom?
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