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Daily Quiz 57

1 of 15

Which compound word for someone who ruins others' fun contains no actual homicide?

  • A killjoy
  • A curmudgeon
  • A spoilsport
  • A naysayer

 

2 of 15

Kendrick Lamar morphed into Kobe Bryant in a music video using which portmanteau visual effect?

  • CGI
  • A deepfake
  • Rotoscoping
  • Motion capture

 

3 of 15

More common in snow than fog, which color-named condition wipes out a traveler's visibility entirely?

  • A brownout
  • A blackout
  • A whiteout
  • A greyout

 

4 of 15

A 2017 breach at which credit-reporting agency exposed the personal data of nearly 150 million Americans?

  • Experian
  • TransUnion
  • LifeLock
  • Equifax

 

5 of 15

A colonoscopy can spot cancer as well as which condition, where small pouches form in the colon wall?

  • Diverticulitis
  • Appendicitis
  • Colitis
  • Cirrhosis

 

6 of 15

Myanmar's Golden Rock is which type of Buddhist structure, improbably perched on a mountainside?

  • A stupa
  • A pagoda
  • A ziggurat
  • A minaret

 

7 of 15

The record-setting Flying Cloud, which rounded Cape Horn in 89 days in 1854, was which type of fast sailing ship?

  • A galleon
  • A schooner
  • A clipper ship
  • A frigate

 

8 of 15

Justin Bartha goes missing, leaving a baby and a live tiger behind, in which 2009 comedy?

  • Old School
  • Wedding Crashers
  • Superbad
  • The Hangover

 

9 of 15

A dish served "ร  l'Argenteuil" comes with stalks of which green spring vegetable?

  • Asparagus
  • Artichoke
  • Leek
  • Fennel

 

10 of 15

Maurice Bishop Day honors a slain prime minister on which Caribbean island the U.S. invaded in 1983?

  • Dominica
  • Grenada
  • St. Lucia
  • Barbados

 

11 of 15

George Clooney earned an Oscar nod as a law firm's "fixer" cleaning up a dangerous case in which 2007 film?

  • Erin Brockovich
  • The Firm
  • Michael Clayton
  • A Civil Action

 

12 of 15

What is the collective name for the oldest and most sacred scriptures of Hinduism?

  • The Upanishads
  • The Puranas
  • The Sutras
  • The Vedas

 

13 of 15

Both alliterative and repetitive, which tiny antelope of East Africa has one of the animal kingdom's more amusing names?

  • A dik-dik
  • A duiker
  • A klipspringer
  • A gerenuk

 

14 of 15

In 1908, who defeated Tommy Burns to become the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion?

  • Joe Louis
  • Jack Johnson
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Sonny Liston

 

15 of 15

Sandwiched between Tibet and India, which small Himalayan kingdom famously measures "Gross National Happiness"?

  • Nepal
  • Sikkim
  • Bhutan
  • Ladakh

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