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Piece of Cake

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Humanities

1. Which word connects a term used in the sport of cricket with a security given to obtain the release of an arrested person?

Boil

Bile

Bail

Bull

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2. How would one spell out the word FOX using the NATO phonetic alphabet?

Foxtrot Oasis Xerxes

Freddie Oscar X-tra

Foxtrot Oscar X-ray

Felix Orlando X-ray

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3. What is the name of the vessel on which Jason sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece?

Olympias

Nautilus

Argo

Pequot

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4. Adding a tincture of something, say orange peel, to a meal would be to add what?

A stone

A reckoning

A trace

A gross

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5. Simonetta Vespucci was a renowned beauty in Renaissance Florence. She is reputed to be the model for which famous Botticelli painting which features her posing naked on a scallop shell?

The Birth of Venus

A Satyr mourning over a Nymph

Primavera

Venus and Mars

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6. Camille Saint-Sa�ns' "Danse macabre" begins with the note D played twelve times by the harp signifying the hour of midnight. What is the meaning of "macabre"?

reared up on hind legs

Scottish, highland

gruesome, horrifying, ghastly

lugubrious, despondent

7. What play made its Broadway debut in 2004, 47 years after it was made into an Academy Award nominated movie starring Henry Fonda, and 50 years after it appeared in a slightly shorter form on television?

Doubt

Take Me Out

Proof

12 Angry Men

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8. Screenwriter and novelist John Ridley wrote "[T]he true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art, literature and the theater of the mind." What are cognoscenti?

Italian commercial artists

connoisseurs, ultra-knowledgeable people

publishers

immature, sophomoric people

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9. Which of these Greek deities was NOT associated with fire?

Poseidon

Hephaestus

Prometheus

Hestia

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10. In words such as knob, knife and knee, the initial letter K is not pronounced. Which of these words does NOT begin with a silent letter?

psalm

write

twice

gnat