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A multiple-choice quiz by Zeldabar. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Zeldabar

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
333,496

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
745

Last 3 plays: Hayes1953 (5/10), boombaby (9/10), Guest 176 (4/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which English mathematician worked on the design of the Automatic Computing Engine and in 1950 devised a test for determining whether a computer can be said to 'think'? Hint

Alan Turing

Isaac Barrow

Alexander Abercrombie

William Leybourn

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Question 2 of 10

2. In a square in the centre of which English city is the huge cast-iron statue of a mummified Iron Man by Antony Gormley? Hint

London

Birmingham

Liverpool

Newcastle

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Question 3 of 10

3. What was the name of the feathered serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon? Hint

Quetzalcoatl

Chalchiuhtlicue

Tezcatlipoca

Mictlancihuatl

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which Hollywood superstar makes a cameo appearance at the end of the 1997 film "Fairytale: A True Story" as a soldier returning home from the First World War? Hint

Harrison Ford

Robert de Niro

Richard Gere

Mel Gibson

5. Which 1915 epic silent film about the American civil war, directed by D.W. Griffith, was based on Thomas Dixon's book "The Clansman" and includes the assassination of President Lincoln, the surrender of General Lee and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan? Hint

The Way West

How the West Was Won

Gone with the Wind

The Birth of a Nation

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which eighteenth-century French chevalier, a diplomat and secret agent, gave his name as an alternative term for transvestism? Hint

Gilbert Proesch

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Charles Eon de Beaumont

Francis Poulenc

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Question 7 of 10

7. In which two languages were the Dead Sea Scrolls written? Hint

Median and Latin

Sumerian and Hebrew

Aramaic and Hebrew

Ancient Macedonian and Aramaic

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which US sci-fi writer's first book was "Pebble in the Sky" written in 1950? Hint

H.G.Wells

Hugo Gernsback

Isaac Asimov

John Wyndham

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Question 9 of 10

9. In classical legend, which sculptor and king of Cyprus fell in love with the ivory statue he made of the ideal woman, who was then given life by the goddess Aphrodite? Hint

Lynceus

Odysseus

Pygmalion

Jason

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Question 10 of 10

10. What does the Christian festival of Epiphany (6th January) commemorate? Hint

The death of Mary, mother of Jesus

The Exodus

The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene

The visit of the wise men to the infant Christ

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which English mathematician worked on the design of the Automatic Computing Engine and in 1950 devised a test for determining whether a computer can be said to 'think'?

Answer: Alan Turing

It is known as the Turing Test. A remote human interrogator, within a set time, has to distinguish between a computer and human subject from the replies they give to various questions.

2. In a square in the centre of which English city is the huge cast-iron statue of a mummified Iron Man by Antony Gormley?

Answer: Birmingham

The statue, made from four pieces of cast iron and just over three centimetres thick is set into the paving at an angle. It was a gift to the city of Birmingham from the Trustee Savings Bank to mark its relocation in the city in 1993.

3. What was the name of the feathered serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon?

Answer: Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcoatl, symbolised death and resurrection. He was said to have descended to the underworld, Mictlan, with Xolotl, a dog-headed god, to gather the bones of the ancient dead. He anointed the bones with his own blood, and thus created the ancestors of modern people.

4. Which Hollywood superstar makes a cameo appearance at the end of the 1997 film "Fairytale: A True Story" as a soldier returning home from the First World War?

Answer: Mel Gibson

Gibson plays the father of one of the two young girls at the centre of the Cottingley Fairies story. They claimed to have photographed fairies at the bottom of their garden.

Answer: The Birth of a Nation

"The Birth of a Nation" is now considered irredeemably racist in content. However its scope and editing techniques meant the demise of the old two-reeler.

6. Which eighteenth-century French chevalier, a diplomat and secret agent, gave his name as an alternative term for transvestism?

Answer: Charles Eon de Beaumont

He was known as the Chevalier d'Eon, born in 1728 and died in 1810. As a secret agent in Russia in 1755 he stayed at the court of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia dressed as a woman. He tried to claim a pension in France as a woman, and was sentenced to wearing women's clothing for the rest of his life: hence the term eonism.

7. In which two languages were the Dead Sea Scrolls written?

Answer: Aramaic and Hebrew

In late 1946 or early 1947 a Bedouin goatherd, Muhammad Khalil and his friend Muhammad el-Hamed found a cave at the north-west end of the Dead Sea, some pottery jars containing the first of the scrolls to be discovered since biblical times.

8. Which US sci-fi writer's first book was "Pebble in the Sky" written in 1950?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

Born in 1920, Asimov was also an academic biochemist. He produced a prodigious body of science fiction, including the four "Foundation" novels. He added the word "robotics" to the English language.

9. In classical legend, which sculptor and king of Cyprus fell in love with the ivory statue he made of the ideal woman, who was then given life by the goddess Aphrodite?

Answer: Pygmalion

The flesh and blood statue was named Galatea, whom he married. The musical "My Fair Lady" was based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion".

10. What does the Christian festival of Epiphany (6th January) commemorate?

Answer: The visit of the wise men to the infant Christ

The word comes from the Greek word epiphaneia, meaning "an appearing". It is a Christian festival held on January 6, commemorating, in the Western Church, the manifestation of Christ to the Magi and, in the Eastern Church, the baptism of Christ.

Source: Author Zeldabar

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