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Daily Quiz 36

1 of 15

Claret is another name for red wine from which French region?

  • Burgundy
  • Champagne
  • Loire
  • Bordeaux

 

2 of 15

Convicted in a 1938 show trial and executed, Nikolay Bukharin had edited Pravda and which other Soviet newspaper?

  • Izvestia
  • Tass
  • Komsomolskaya Pravda
  • Trud

 

3 of 15

The blind Norse god Hodur was tricked into killing which beloved god with a projectile of mistletoe?

  • Tyr
  • Baldur
  • Bragi
  • Vidar

 

4 of 15

A military corps named for which Australian state, site of the first British settlement, ran the colony from 1808 to 1810?

  • Victoria
  • Queensland
  • New South Wales
  • Tasmania

 

5 of 15

The capitals of Sierra Leone and Gabon share a meaning in different languages. Which pair is this?

  • Accra & Lomรฉ
  • Banjul & Bissau
  • Conakry & Dakar
  • Freetown & Libreville

 

6 of 15

Patrick Stewart performed which Dickens classic as a one-man stage show and audiobook?

  • A Christmas Carol
  • Oliver Twist
  • Great Expectations
  • David Copperfield

 

7 of 15

Rebecca Wisocky and Brandon Scott Jones play the departed Hetty and Isaac on which CBS comedy?

  • Abbott Elementary
  • Ghosts
  • The Neighborhood
  • Bob Hearts Abishola

 

8 of 15

Embezzlement is a form of which type of crime, named for an article of clothing?

  • Blue-collar crime
  • Organized crime
  • White-collar crime
  • Petty crime

 

9 of 15

Which German surname is the equivalent of "smith," meaning a metalworker?

  • Mรผller
  • Fischer
  • Bauer
  • Schmidt

 

10 of 15

B'gosh! Which Wisconsin city sits where the Upper Fox River enters Lake Winnebago?

  • Oshkosh
  • Waukesha
  • Manitowoc
  • Sheboygan

 

11 of 15

Which highest French order of merit was founded by Napoleon in 1802?

  • The Order of the Garter
  • The Lรฉgion d'honneur
  • The Iron Cross
  • The Order of Merit

 

12 of 15

A papyrus from 35 B.C. calls which Egyptian ruler Philopatris, "she who loves her country"?

  • Nefertiti
  • Hatshepsut
  • Cleopatra
  • Berenice

 

13 of 15

Legend says the Prince of Wales inspired the name of which flambรฉed dessert, ending it with a woman's name?

  • Cherries Jubilee
  • Baked Alaska
  • Bananas Foster
  • Crรชpes Suzette

 

14 of 15

Which "Devil's Dictionary" author vanished after traveling to Mexico, reportedly to write about Pancho Villa?

  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Stephen Crane
  • Jack London
  • O. Henry

 

15 of 15

The hump over its twin machine guns gave which 1917 British fighter plane its name?

  • The Fokker Triplane
  • The Sopwith Camel
  • The Spad XIII
  • The Bristol Fighter

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