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Daily Quiz 67

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Which fanatical group of young people did Mao Zedong unleash in 1966 to attack intellectuals and destroy "old" culture during China's Cultural Revolution?

  • the Red Guard
  • the Brownshirts
  • the Blackshirts
  • the Black Hundreds

 

2 of 15

Which gentleman thief, created by French writer Maurice Leblanc, is a dashing master of disguise and the hero of recent Netflix fame?

  • Hercule Poirot
  • Arsene Lupin
  • Fantomas
  • Raffles

 

3 of 15

Which Italian Baroque sculptor created the swooning, theatrical marble masterpiece "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"?

  • Donatello
  • Cellini
  • Bernini
  • Canova

 

4 of 15

"Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," and a whole lot of complex drumming belong to which Canadian power trio?

  • Triumph
  • Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  • Styx
  • Rush

 

5 of 15

Which tomato-based seafood stew, loaded with crab, clams, and fish, was created by Italian immigrant fishermen in San Francisco?

  • cioppino
  • bouillabaisse
  • paella
  • gumbo

 

6 of 15

When MLB folded Negro League stats into its records, which catcher's lifetime batting average leapt to the top, above Ty Cobb?

  • Cool Papa Bell
  • Josh Gibson
  • Satchel Paige
  • Buck O'Neil

 

7 of 15

Which tusked Arctic marine mammal, whose genus name is Odobenus, hauls its huge bulk onto ice floes in noisy herds?

  • the manatee
  • the sea lion
  • the walrus
  • the dugong

 

8 of 15

Which long bone of the upper arm forms the ball of the ball-and-socket shoulder joint?

  • the femur
  • the radius
  • the tibia
  • the humerus

 

9 of 15

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution famously bans which kind of punishment?

  • cruel and unusual punishment
  • double jeopardy
  • eminent domain
  • self-incrimination

 

10 of 15

A 2010 Nobel Prize honored work on which super-strong, single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, the thinnest material ever made?

  • Teflon
  • graphene
  • Kevlar
  • silicone

 

11 of 15

Which Omaha company, run by Warren Buffett, holds an annual shareholder meeting nicknamed "Woodstock for Capitalists"?

  • State Farm
  • BlackRock
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Fidelity

 

12 of 15

Which verb, meaning to ponder or mull something over at length, comes from the way cattle re-chew their cud?

  • procrastinate
  • equivocate
  • extrapolate
  • ruminate

 

13 of 15

Which Jack London adventure novel pits a shipwrecked gentleman against the brutal, Nietzsche-quoting sea captain Wolf Larsen?

  • The Sea-Wolf
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Moby-Dick
  • Two Years Before the Mast

 

14 of 15

In "Die Hard," John McClane fights terrorists inside which Los Angeles skyscraper during a Christmas party?

  • the Overlook Hotel
  • Nakatomi Plaza
  • Arkham
  • the Bates Motel

 

15 of 15

Which comedian, part of the "Original Kings of Comedy," went on to headline his own hit sitcom before his death in 2008?

  • Cedric the Entertainer
  • Steve Harvey
  • Bernie Mac
  • D.L. Hughley

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