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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 salami_swami asks:
  What is the main idea of a story called?
    Theme
    Climax
    Plot
    Tone

#2. Humanities Mixture. Player jules44 asks:
  What Paris club became famous for the Can-Can?
    Lido
    Folies Bergère
    Le Chat Noir
    Moulin Rouge

#3. Humanities Mixture. Player looney_tunes asks:
  What is a palooka?
    Derogatory term for a Polish person
    A lout or an inept boxer
    A portable rocket launcher
    A flat ornamental plate fixed on a wall

#4. Humanities Mixture. Player Ate_May asks:
  What word refers to a pulley-like body part?
    counterplea
    bougainvillea
    trochlea
    flea

#5. Humanities Mixture. Player keikekaze asks:
  Richard Rodgers wrote both music AND lyrics for which Broadway musical?
    South Pacific
    No Strings
    Allegro
    Pipe Dream

#6. Humanities Mixture. Player uscgx2 asks:
  What is it called when someone acts as a cover to obscure the true purpose for (an anonymous) someone else? For example: a candidate put forward, not to win, but to split the opposition or to mask the true candidate.
    Straw man
    Stalking horse
    Devil's advocate
    Polemic

#7. Humanities Mixture. Player Arlesienne asks:
  After a long search for a model with sufficiently ugly and depraved features, Leonardo da Vinci found in a prison a criminal who perfectly matched his vision for a certain apostle in his mural "The Last Supper". Which apostle was it?
    Simon the Zealot
    Judas Iscariot
    Thomas
    Bartholomew

#8. Humanities Mixture. Player dsimpy asks:
  'Reclining Figure, 1969-70', a two-tonne bronze sculpture valued at £3 million, was stolen in 2005 and was believed by 2009 to have been sold for scrap! Who was the world-famous sculptor?
    John Buckley
    Henry Moore
    Daniel Ost
    Robert H. Hudson

#9. Humanities Mixture. Player glendathecat asks:
  We are all familiar with the big top kind of circus but what does circus mean when used at the end of place names such as Oxford Circus or Piccadilly Circus?
    A round open space where roads meet
    A place where clowns are sacrificed
    A place where animals are sold
    A place where tourists are fleeced

#10. Humanities Mixture. Player Calpurnia3 asks:
  Neanderthals engaged in big game hunting as a means of survival. Working in which modern profession often results in similar types of injuries as those seen in Neanderthal skeletons?
    Professional bull riding
    Alaskan king crab fishing
    Race car driving
    Playing professional American football

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