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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?

    A plant
    A lethal bacterium
    An animal
    An element

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

    Blouse
    Lice
    Lazy
    Mites

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

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

#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?

    redraw
    drawer
    warder
    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"?

    frustration
    antagonism
    depression
    catharsis

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

    The Fallen Woman
    The Great Diva
    The Troubadour
    The Bartered Bride

#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"?

    Direction
    Instruction
    Information
    Warning

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