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Daily Quiz 45

1 of 15

Also called "wheat meat," which chewy, high-protein food is made from gluten and often used as mock duck?

  • Tempeh
  • Seitan
  • Tofu
  • Textured soy

 

2 of 15

After years of lawsuits against Isaac Singer, which inventor collected royalties on every U.S. sewing machine from 1854 to 1867?

  • Isaac Singer
  • Eli Whitney
  • Elias Howe
  • Elisha Otis

 

3 of 15

A 1914 meeting of police officials from 24 countries led to which crime-fighting organization, now based in Lyon?

  • Europol
  • The Red Cross
  • The Hague Tribunal
  • Interpol

 

4 of 15

The ball of the shoulder's ball-and-socket joint is the head of which arm bone?

  • The humerus
  • The ulna
  • The radius
  • The femur

 

5 of 15

Nicknamed for looking like a giant sliver of glass, which Renzo Piano skyscraper is the tallest building in the UK?

  • The Gherkin
  • The Shard
  • The Walkie-Talkie
  • The Cheesegrater

 

6 of 15

You can spot this maker's jets by their rounder noses and the "A" in model names like the A320. Which Boeing rival?

  • Bombardier
  • Embraer
  • Airbus
  • Lockheed

 

7 of 15

Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack filming which epic, chaotic 1979 Vietnam War movie?

  • The Deer Hunter
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Casualties of War
  • Apocalypse Now

 

8 of 15

Whose name means "the way of the gods," or kami, in its native Japan?

  • Shinto
  • Taoism
  • Jainism
  • Zoroastrianism

 

9 of 15

Invented from brewer's yeast by a German scientist, which savory, intensely divisive spread is a British staple?

  • Vegemite
  • Marmite
  • Bovril
  • Branston Pickle

 

10 of 15

In 1950 which French naval officer converted a British minesweeper into the famous research ship Calypso?

  • Thor Heyerdahl
  • Robert Ballard
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • Ernest Shackleton

 

11 of 15

Brennan and Dale become reluctant middle-aged stepsiblings in which 2008 Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly comedy?

  • Talladega Nights
  • Anchorman
  • Blades of Glory
  • Step Brothers

 

12 of 15

Descended from Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal, which group takes its name from the Hebrew word for Spain?

  • Sephardi
  • Ashkenazi
  • Mizrahi
  • Hasidic

 

13 of 15

Sleeping sickness in Africa is spread by the bite of which bloodsucking insect, also called the "tik-tik fly"?

  • The mosquito
  • The tsetse fly
  • The kissing bug
  • The sandfly

 

14 of 15

Born Malcolm Little, which civil rights leader was assassinated in Harlem in 1965, later honored with a renamed avenue?

  • Marcus Garvey
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Malcolm X
  • Medgar Evers

 

15 of 15

Rich in antioxidants, which dark purple Brazilian palm berry became a smoothie-bowl sensation?

  • The goji berry
  • The elderberry
  • The mulberry
  • The acai berry

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