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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 jessebubba asks:
  What is thorium?

    An element
    An animal
    A plant
    A lethal bacterium

#2. Humanities Mixture. Player BlueMNguy asks:
  What is the plural of louse?

    Lice
    Lazy
    Blouse
    Mites

#3. Humanities Mixture. Player merylfederman asks:
  Which of these theatrical works is a musical?

    "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
    "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams
    "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
    "Les Miserables" by Boublil and Schonberg

#4. Humanities Mixture. Player chrissie25 asks:
  An anagram of the word REWARD, which word means a part of a chest or other piece of furniture?

    drawer
    warder
    redraw
    warred

#5. Humanities Mixture. Player trident asks:
  Having drastically changed its meaning since it was used in Aristotle's "Poetics", what word now means "a sense of renewal due to the release of emotion"?

    antagonism
    frustration
    catharsis
    depression

#6. Humanities Mixture. Player Caseena asks:
  What does the title of the opera "La Traviata" figuratively mean? (Don't stumble over the answer.)

    The Troubadour
    The Bartered Bride
    The Great Diva
    The Fallen Woman

#7. Humanities Mixture. Player FatherSteve asks:
  The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) once said "I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible." What is irascible?

    easily angered
    radiant, shining
    red in the face
    a quick study

#8. Humanities Mixture. Player Upstart3 asks:
  What sort of multilingual sign says "Achtung", "Cuidado" and "Uwaga"?

    Warning
    Information
    Direction
    Instruction

#9. Humanities Mixture. Player BrightonDragon asks:
  Which play by William Shakespeare, set in Denmark, contains the well-known line "Alas poor Yorick!"?

    The Merchant of Venice
    Macbeth
    Hamlet
    Romeo and Juliet

#10. Humanities Mixture. Player FatherSteve asks:
  In Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1979), Arthur Dent's house is razed and Planet Earth is razed. What, in this sense, does it mean to raze something?

    to lift up, to elevate, to make ascend
    to knock down, destroy, level
    to cook like a rasher of bacon
    to repair a roof or an atmosphere