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Daily Quiz 35

1 of 15

Conveying anger indirectly rather than openly is which contradictorily named behavior?

  • Passive-aggression
  • Projection
  • Displacement
  • Repression

 

2 of 15

Which Herman Melville title character is impressed onto the HMS Indomitable in a novella?

  • Typee
  • Billy Budd
  • Israel Potter
  • Redburn

 

3 of 15

In 1610, Galileo discovered which moon of Jupiter, about 5 percent wider than our own?

  • Europa
  • Callisto
  • Io
  • Ganymede

 

4 of 15

Which king of Corinth was condemned to forever roll a boulder uphill only to watch it roll back down?

  • Tantalus
  • Prometheus
  • Ixion
  • Sisyphus

 

5 of 15

The devastating 2004 Asian tsunami was triggered by a massive quake off which second-largest of the Sunda Islands?

  • Sumatra
  • Java
  • Borneo
  • Sulawesi

 

6 of 15

Whose first four novels, including "Rabbit, Run," depict a fictional version of the Pennsylvania county where he grew up?

  • John Cheever
  • Updike
  • Philip Roth
  • Richard Ford

 

7 of 15

After Persephone was abducted, which grieving goddess roamed the Earth for nine days without eating or drinking?

  • Hera
  • Artemis
  • Demeter
  • Hestia

 

8 of 15

John Winthrop sailed from England in 1630 to govern which Puritan colony?

  • The Plymouth Colony
  • The Jamestown Colony
  • The Roanoke Colony
  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

 

9 of 15

Famed in legend for commanding the tide not to come in, which king ruled Denmark, Norway, and England at his death in 1035?

  • Cnut
  • Harald Bluetooth
  • Eric the Red
  • Sweyn Forkbeard

 

10 of 15

Sarah Burton, who designed a famous royal wedding dress, was the right hand of which late British fashion designer?

  • Vivienne Westwood
  • Alexander McQueen
  • John Galliano
  • Stella McCartney

 

11 of 15

The Kuril Islands extend south from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula toward which nation that claims some of them?

  • South Korea
  • China
  • Japan
  • North Korea

 

12 of 15

In 1429, Joan of Arc took up arms against the English to relieve which besieged French city?

  • Rouen
  • Chartres
  • Compiรจgne
  • Orlรฉans

 

13 of 15

In mythology, which group sailed in search of the Golden Fleece to unseat a usurping king of Thessaly?

  • The Argonauts
  • The Myrmidons
  • The Titans
  • The Spartoi

 

14 of 15

Jack London set "The Call of the Wild" during an 1890s gold rush in which Canadian region?

  • The Cariboo
  • The Klondike
  • The Yukon Flats
  • The Fraser Canyon

 

15 of 15

Constituting most of the world's green plants, which seed-bearers produce flowers, unlike cone-bearing gymnosperms?

  • Bryophytes
  • Pteridophytes
  • Angiosperms
  • Lichens

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