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A History Lesson from Billy Joel
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'We Didn't Start the Fire' is a history lesson in song, listing events from the years 1948-1986. Unfortunately, he only gives a list, without any explanation as to what the events ARE! Here are some questions on the historical events mentioned there.
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20th & 21st Centuries
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Tough
15 Q
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kevinatilusa
Aug 23 02
17724 plays
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The Death of a Mathematician
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In addition to interesting proofs and theorems, mathematics has been the scene of many interesting deaths, some of which have become lost in the fabric of legend.
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Scientists & Inventors
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Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jul 25 02
2163 plays
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Gee, I'm a Tree!
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For each question, I will give a description of either a plane shape or a solid. You must give the MOST GENERAL shape which fits the description.
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Geometry
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Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jun 12 02
9906 plays
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Irish Literary Figures
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I will give a pair of works by an Irish literary figure. You need to give the novelist, playwright, or poet who wrote both of those works.
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Irish Literature
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 22 02
843 plays
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Speculative Science Fiction
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Speculative science fiction is a type of work which focuses more on a fascinating setting or situation than on characters or plot details. In each question you will be given one of these situations, and must identify the work or author from which it cam
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Science Fiction
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jul 10 02
1284 plays
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James Joyce's 'Dubliners'
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'Dubliners' is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works. Joyce claimed he wrote this collection to expose what he referred to as the 'paralysis' permeating Dublin. Interestingly, most of the stories were written while Joyce lived outside Ireland.
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Joyce, James
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 23 02
435 plays
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Musical Forms
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Music has changed much over the course of the last several hundreds of years. Nevertheless, several fixed forms of music have served to unite the music of various eras.
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History of Music
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Mar 05 03
1134 plays
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Dystopias in Literature
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Sometimes the future just isn't all that it was made out to be.
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Science Fiction
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jun 16 04
966 plays
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History of Ireland
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This quiz (mostly) covers Irish history from 1690 to the inception of the Irish Republic.
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Irish
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Apr 13 02
4017 plays
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The Labors of Herakles
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Herakles (or Hercules, as he is known to the Romans) was one of the great problem solvers of Greek Myth. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable series of twelve tasks, he nevertheless completed them and emerged a legend.
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Herakles
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Average
15 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 10 03
3204 plays
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The Poetry of War
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The horrors of war have served as the inspiration for many a poem. This quiz covers ten of those poems, from the 17th through the 20th century.
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War Poetry
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jul 09 03
510 plays
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The Works of Jack London
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John Griffith London, better known to us as Jack, was an oyster pirate, gold prospector, and rancher who somehow found time in between to write a few books here and there, and not just "dog stories" either.
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London, Jack
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Aug 17 02
405 plays
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Music for the Human Voice
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From the 11th century motets of Hildegarde von Bingen to the Masses of J.S. Bach to the works of modern composers like Britten and Vaughn Williams, choral and operatic music has provided some of the most powerful and beautiful pieces in existence today.
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Classical Music
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Mar 18 02
588 plays
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Introduction to Cryptography and its History
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In some sense cryptography can be viewed as a battle. New technology allows new codes to be made, but also allows new methods of breaking codes. This quiz traces some of the history of these codes, from Caesar to today's modern algorithms.
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Espionage & Codebreaking
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Jun 17 02
678 plays
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The U.S. Election of 1860
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The 1860 election featured no fewer than 4 candidates. By the time the dust cleared and the winning candidate was seated, America was about to be caught in a Civil War. Here are ten questions about the candidates, votes, and events of that campaign.
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Campaigns & Elections
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Mar 08 02
1167 plays
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The poetry of W.B. Yeats
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The 1923 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Yeats wrote poetry which chronicled both Ireland's rise to independence and its legend and myth. His poems have also found their way into more modern settings.
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Yeats, William Butler
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Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 22 02
726 plays
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Borderlines
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In each set of answers you will be given a list of four countries. Exactly one country on that list will border all the other countries on the list, and that country is the correct example.
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Borders
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 23 02
4794 plays
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Winter Olympic Sports
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Identify the Winter Olympic sport after being given a brief description of it. No, bribing judges is not yet an official sport.
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Winter Games Mixture
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 24 02
909 plays
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Calculus Fundamentals
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There's a lot more to Calculus than just integrating and differentiating mindlessly. This quiz will cover some of the theorems and concepts behind the area. Some questions are hard, but you shouldn't need to do any actual computations.
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Calculus
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 19 02
2865 plays
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The Limitations of Science
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While scientists have obtained many fascinating results and discoveries in the last century, some of the most surprising results have been those which state precisely what we cannot possibly accomplish. Here are 10 questions on some of those discoveries
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Scientists & Inventors
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 23 03
429 plays
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Variations on a Piece by Paganini
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Niccolo Paganini's 1805 collection of Caprices are among of the most virtuosic pieces written for any instrument. The last of these Caprices, a theme with 12 variations, has served as the inspiration for many later composers.
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Classical Music
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Average
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Oct 09 03
264 plays
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Scrabble Scoring
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For each question you will be given a word played, adjacent words or crossing words, and any bonus squares the word was played on. You must give the score the play receives. (Assume the American English version of Scrabble is being used).
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Scrabble
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Tough
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Mar 16 02
1341 plays
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Million Dollar Math
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There are 7 current problems in mathematics, that if solved, would net you a cool 1 million dollars. An eighth problem was also worth a million dollars but went unsolved. Don't worry, you don't have to solve any of them here, just identify the problems
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Mixed Math
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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kevinatilusa
Feb 23 02
1812 plays
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