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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. Humanities Mixture. Player jessebubba asks:
  What is thorium?

    A lethal bacterium
    A plant
    An element
    An animal

#2. Humanities Mixture. Player BlueMNguy asks:
  What is the plural of louse?

    Blouse
    Lice
    Lazy
    Mites

#3. Humanities Mixture. Player merylfederman asks:
  Which of these theatrical works is a musical?

    "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
    "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams
    "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
    "Les Miserables" by Boublil and Schonberg

#4. Humanities Mixture. Player chrissie25 asks:
  An anagram of the word REWARD, which word means a part of a chest or other piece of furniture?

    drawer
    warder
    redraw
    warred

#5. Humanities Mixture. Player trident asks:
  Having drastically changed its meaning since it was used in Aristotle's "Poetics", what word now means "a sense of renewal due to the release of emotion"?

    catharsis
    depression
    frustration
    antagonism

#6. Humanities Mixture. Player Caseena asks:
  What does the title of the opera "La Traviata" figuratively mean? (Don't stumble over the answer.)

    The Fallen Woman
    The Great Diva
    The Troubadour
    The Bartered Bride

#7. Humanities Mixture. Player FatherSteve asks:
  The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) once said "I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible." What is irascible?

    a quick study
    red in the face
    easily angered
    radiant, shining

#8. Humanities Mixture. Player Upstart3 asks:
  What sort of multilingual sign says "Achtung", "Cuidado" and "Uwaga"?

    Direction
    Instruction
    Information
    Warning

#9. Humanities Mixture. Player BrightonDragon asks:
  Which play by William Shakespeare, set in Denmark, contains the well-known line "Alas poor Yorick!"?

    Hamlet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Macbeth
    The Merchant of Venice

#10. Humanities Mixture. Player FatherSteve asks:
  In Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1979), Arthur Dent's house is razed and Planet Earth is razed. What, in this sense, does it mean to raze something?

    to knock down, destroy, level
    to cook like a rasher of bacon
    to lift up, to elevate, to make ascend
    to repair a roof or an atmosphere