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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. General Mixture. Player goodreporter asks:
  Monday Night Football--American football, that is--has a huge audience in the US. But, on Monday night December 8, 1980 around 11:15 pm, the focus of the show suddenly turned away from the game after cantankerous sportscaster Howard Cosell announced news of international import. What happened?

    President Carter announced he was declaring war on Iran
    Pope John Paul II had been shot at the Vatican
    John Lennon had been shot and killed
    Iran announced American hostages were being released

#2. General Mixture. Player Triviaballer asks:
  What word describes both a noun for a color between brown and red and a verb meaning to leave someone trapped in an inaccessible place?

    Chestnut
    Fallow
    Maroon
    Taupe

#3. General Mixture. Player daver852 asks:
  If the stock market is going down, or expected to go down, what animal is used to describe it?

    Bull
    Bear
    Dog
    Horse

#4. General Mixture. Player ramonesrule asks:
  What is the common bond between a flowering plant, a beach in South Carolina, USA and a ghost who haunts a toilet in the "Harry Potter" novels?

    Myrtle
    Therese
    Rosa
    Molly

#5. General Mixture. Player andymuenz asks:
  What is the common bond between the US Civil War, a group of workers, and a Philadelphia soccer team?

    Confederacy
    Union
    Eagles
    Grant

#6. General Mixture. Player Upstart3 asks:
  What would you do with a bain-marie?

    develop some photographs
    wash your feet
    cook a cheesecake
    exercise your turtle

#7. General Mixture. Player Billkozy asks:
  Which of these uses a derailleur mechanism?

    a locomotive
    a food processor
    an electric cuckoo clock
    multi-speed bicycle

#8. General Mixture. Player tiye asks:
  Which city connects such diverse personalities as Howard Hughes, Michael Dell, Beyonce Knowles and Red Adair?

    New Orleans
    Houston
    Honolulu
    Seattle

#9. General Mixture. Player Joepetz asks:
  The small German town of Lauscha is the birthplace of what common object?

    Spoon
    Umbrella
    Paperback book
    Glass Christmas ornament

#10. General Mixture. Player Upstart3 asks:
  An 18th century Colombian monstrance is nicknamed La Lechuga (the lettuce) because it is covered in more than a thousand of what gemstone?

    Spinel
    Garnet
    Emerald
    Peridot