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Daily Quiz 32

1 of 15

Which author set several of her books in the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea?

  • Montgomery
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Alice Munro
  • Carol Shields

 

2 of 15

"Always Coming Home" is a work by which fantasy author, honored as a guest at Mythcon 19 in her birthplace of Berkeley?

  • Anne McCaffrey
  • Ursula Le Guin
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

3 of 15

The Baltimore Orioles play their home games at which ballpark?

  • Fenway Park
  • Wrigley Field
  • PNC Park
  • Camden Yards

 

4 of 15

Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe played which fighter in the original?

  • Spartacus
  • Commodus
  • Maximus
  • Ben-Hur

 

5 of 15

This possibly apocryphal 13th-century effort was said to be waged by "pueri" and never reached the Holy Land. What was it?

  • The Children's Crusade
  • The Peasants' Crusade
  • The People's Crusade
  • The Albigensian Crusade

 

6 of 15

The title of which very long David Foster Wallace novel comes from a line in "Hamlet" implying hilarity?

  • Gravity's Rainbow
  • Infinite Jest
  • The Pale King
  • White Noise

 

7 of 15

Cayetano Ripoll, executed in Valencia in 1826, was the last known victim of which tribunal?

  • The Star Chamber
  • The Roman Inquisition
  • The Court of the Star
  • The Spanish Inquisition

 

8 of 15

The Pulitzer-honored biography of which late intellectual candidly covers her many glamorous lovers?

  • Hannah Arendt
  • Joan Didion
  • Susan Sontag
  • Mary McCarthy

 

9 of 15

A rich sauce of egg yolks, sherry, cream, and butter over lobster and toast points is served as which dish?

  • Lobster Newberg
  • Lobster Thermidor
  • Oysters Rockefeller
  • Shrimp Scampi

 

10 of 15

A Christian doctrine holds that humans are born in which two-word fallen state?

  • Predestination
  • Original sin
  • Transubstantiation
  • Purgatory

 

11 of 15

Before becoming Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla served for 14 years as archbishop of which southern Polish city?

  • Warsaw
  • GdaÅ„sk
  • WrocÅ‚aw
  • Kraków

 

12 of 15

Most of the $100 million in diamonds stolen from which Belgian city's diamond center in 2003 has never been recovered?

  • Amsterdam
  • Brussels
  • Antwerp
  • Rotterdam

 

13 of 15

The classic game Reversi is also known by which name, shared with a Shakespearean title character?

  • Othello
  • Backgammon
  • Mancala
  • Go

 

14 of 15

Roald Dahl described the "gormless" parents of which title character as unaware of her special abilities?

  • The BFG
  • Matilda
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • The Witches

 

15 of 15

Which archduchess and empress led Austria through the Seven Years' War and was the mother of Marie Antoinette?

  • Catherine the Great
  • Elizabeth of Russia
  • Isabella of Castile
  • Maria Theresa

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