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Ballet Stories
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Did you know that the great ballets each tell a story through dance without using any words at all? See if you can name the ballet these tales are from!
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General Topics for Kids
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Easy
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Jan 13 05
5310 plays
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Eat Your Colors
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Does it seem like there's a lot of confusion nowadays as to what constitutes a healthy diet? It's simpler than you might have imagined...the answer is phytochemicals, and they're found in brightly colored foods.
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Nutrition
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 27 04
3213 plays
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High Maintenance Women in "Herstory"
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In one way or another, aren't we ALL high maintenance? These ten ladies, though, were perhaps just a bit more so. Enjoy the excess!
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Famous Women : Infamous
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 19 04
7353 plays
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Guest Stars are the Best Stars
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The first four seasons of "Will and Grace" featured some terrific talent in guest-starring roles. How much do you remember about these fleeting but memorable visitors? (Not all questions come from the show.)
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'Will & Grace' - Characters and Actors
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Average
15 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 20 05
3372 plays
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Eat Your Flowers
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They're not just for vases anymore...take this quiz and then try blossoms in your baking, buds in your bread, petals on your plate...you get the idea. A veritable feast of flowers!
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Incredible Edibles
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Average
15 Q
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LilahDeDah
Oct 18 04
8337 plays
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Treasure Tour: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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The "Met" boasts more than two million works of art, from prehistory to the present day. On this tour, we'll be looking at fifteen, but wishing we had time to see them all!
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Art: By Museum
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Tough
15 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 07 04
684 plays
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Endangered Languages
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Like plant and animal species, when a language becomes extinct, it's gone forever. Over half of the world's 6800 languages are endangered. Here are ten questions about language loss and language rescue.
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Languages
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 09 05
981 plays
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The Above Rubies Awards for 2005
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If the award doesn't sound familiar, that's because I have just created it to honor women in ten different fields who should be more famous than they are. How many do you know? (Be advised that this quiz can be regarded as Americacentric.)
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Famous Women
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Feb 14 05
912 plays
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Animal Aphorisms For Kids
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An "aphorism" is an interesting saying. All of these sayings have animals in them...can you figure out what they mean?
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Animal Expressions and Wordplay
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Easy
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Oct 24 04
22350 plays
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"The Dinner Party": Wing One
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From prehistory to classical Rome, Wing One of Judy Chicago's masterwork illustrates women's history with beauty and grace. Familiarity with "The Dinner Party" is not required to answer most of the questions.
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Chicago, Judy
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 28 04
528 plays
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The Queen's Beasts
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Welcome to the royal bestiary of England. This quiz presents questions on ten of the kingdom's heraldic beasts. Alas, HM's corgis will not be making an appearance.
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Heraldry
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
May 01 05
993 plays
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Quotable Death
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Since it's everyone's final destination, perhaps we should see what some of the famous and infamous among us have had to say about death.
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Death Becomes Them
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Tough
15 Q
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LilahDeDah
Oct 02 04
3435 plays
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Treasure Tour: MoMA, New York City
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On November 20, 2004, New York's beloved Museum of Modern Art reopened after a a 2½-year, $425 million renovation. This quiz looks at ten treasures from its collection.
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Art: By Museum
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Nov 22 04
606 plays
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Sitten in a Yeldehalle: Medieval Guilds
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Guilds were an extremely important part of medieval life. How much do you know about these organizations?
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Medieval History
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Nov 05 04
1302 plays
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I'd Rather Be Sleeping
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You'll spend a third of your life doing it, but how much do you really know about sleep?
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Nervous System and the Senses
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 19 04
4599 plays
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A Few Minor Corrections: Famous Female Editors
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Although most of these American women are better known for other accomplishments, they each wielded the editor's blue pencil at one time or another. I surmise that they found it both challenging and rewarding.
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Famous Women
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Nov 02 04
429 plays
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Capt. James Cook or Capt. James Kirk?
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These two explorers share more than a common first name. For each question, decide if the statement is true for James Cook, James Kirk, both, or neither. Enjoy the voyage!
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Thematic By Name
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Difficult
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
May 30 05
4389 plays
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A Wheel of Light: The Chakras
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We are all more than our physical bodies, for each of us exists within a rainbow of light. How much do you know about chakras? Find your center, try this quiz, and don't worry about your score. Shanti...Peace.
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Eastern Philosophy
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Average
15 Q
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LilahDeDah
Mar 05 05
816 plays
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Sculpture I: Prehistory to Rodin
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A brief overview of the human form in sculpture from its earliest beginnings to the dawn of Modernism.
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Sculpture
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Oct 31 05
636 plays
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A World of Women Poets
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Her name, birth country, birth year, the title of (or a line from) one of her poems. I'll give you three (I'm generous like that) and you pick the fourth. The real objective is to learn more about these well-versed women. For the poetry-obsessed only!
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Poetry
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Tough
20 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 27 04
636 plays
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Vulcan's Furnaces
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How much do you know about volcanoes? These fearsome but useful planetary features have created about 80% of the landmass we call home.
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Volcanoes
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Sep 30 04
4602 plays
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Falling for "Sex and the City"
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"Macbeth" has blood and weather imagery; Steinbeck used religious and nature themes. This quiz takes a (semi-serious) look at the frequency with which "Sex and the City" characters...fall down.
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SATC - Themed Quizzes
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Feb 10 05
4584 plays
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"The Dinner Party": Wing Three
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The conclusion of Judy Chicago's masterwork covers the period from the American Revolution to the Women's Revolution. Most of the questions are about the women subjects rather than the specific artworks.
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Chicago, Judy
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Mar 24 06
294 plays
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"The Dinner Party": Wing Two
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Second quiz of three about Judy Chicago's feminist history mixed media creation "The Dinner Party". Wing Two covers the years 325-1678 AD. Having seen the artwork is not necessary in order to answer most of the questions.
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Chicago, Judy
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Average
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Jul 13 05
414 plays
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The 2006 Above Rubies Awards
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Welcome to this year's awards, which honor women from more than a dozen nations who have made our world more just, more beautiful and more inspiring.
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Famous Women
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
May 17 06
564 plays
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Elephant Artists: Painting for Peanuts
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The creative community can be a real jungle! How much do you know about the works of art created by elephants all over the world?
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Art
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Nov 26 04
435 plays
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Art
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Fire, flood, fraud, filching...it's frightening to be a fabulous work of art!
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Art
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Difficult
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 14 04
1209 plays
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What Would Elvis Eat?
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Elvis's favorites are like a tour of the fabulous cuisine of the American South. Don't be cruel...try this quiz! (Thank you, thank you very much.)
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Food & Drink
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Feb 05 06
9183 plays
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My Guilty Pleasure: Ira Levin
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I love the lesser-known works of Ira Levin. Most of his oeuvre has been adapted for the movies, so even if you haven't read all of these books and plays, give the quiz a try. (And then go READ THEM! You won't be sorry.)
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L
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Tough
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Mar 08 05
192 plays
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The Silk Road: 7000 Miles of History
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The title of this quiz is similar to that of a wonderful children's book by John S. Major, but the Silk Road was not for kids! How much do you know about the geography and history of trade between China and the West?
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Historical Geography
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Difficult
10 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 22 04
1914 plays
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