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Quiz about A Swift Mental Challenge
Quiz about A Swift Mental Challenge

A Swift, Mental Challenge Trivia Quiz


These five questions should challenge the very best of you trivia fanatics out there...I wish you luck with it!

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
27,947
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
5
Difficulty
Very Difficult
Avg Score
2 / 5
Plays
1779
Last 3 plays: Guest 4 (2/5), Guest 82 (3/5), BlueBlaze722 (2/5).
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Question 1 of 5
1. The term 'Bosky' denotes a wildly silvan area, but, in its early history, it represented a certain type of person. What type of person did this word describe early on? Hint


Question 2 of 5
2. Who was the Turkish mystic with whom this quote is tied, 'There is no past, there is no hereafter, everything is in a state of becoming'? Hint


Question 3 of 5
3. Which writer coined the marvelous word 'chortle'? Hint


Question 4 of 5
4. How many books and scrolls were there approximately at the Great Library of Alexandria at its peak? Hint


Question 5 of 5
5. Which artist of the Renaissance crafted the first free-standing nude bronze sculpture of the modern period? Hint



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1. The term 'Bosky' denotes a wildly silvan area, but, in its early history, it represented a certain type of person. What type of person did this word describe early on?

Answer: Drunk

The term 'bosky' denotes an area covered by vegetation in poetic language, but it also came to denote drunkenness. It seems that the feeling of being covered by shrubs is similar to the cloudy feeling that one gets from consuming alcohol.
2. Who was the Turkish mystic with whom this quote is tied, 'There is no past, there is no hereafter, everything is in a state of becoming'?

Answer: Bedreddin

Badr Ad-Din ibn Qadi Samawna, aka Bedreddin, was a 14th century Ottoman mystic who supported an ideology very similar to communism. His controversial social theories were popular with the masses, predicatably, but eventually got him into trouble...he was executed during his old age.
3. Which writer coined the marvelous word 'chortle'?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

The word 'chortle' is a combination of 'chuckle' and 'snort', and is one of the many portmanteau words created by the master, Lewis Carroll, for his work 'Through the Looking Glass'.
4. How many books and scrolls were there approximately at the Great Library of Alexandria at its peak?

Answer: 400,000-700,000

Opened in the 3rd century B.C., the Great Library at Alexandria was the most fantastic collection of literature of the ancient world. The Romans were blamed for its eventual destruction some time in the first century A.D., but no one really knows what happened to the place...the debate continues.
5. Which artist of the Renaissance crafted the first free-standing nude bronze sculpture of the modern period?

Answer: Donatello

Donatello's creation of his 'David' was quite controversial at the time, as no mythological figures were being used as the subject of artwork during the late-medieval period. His sculpture ushered in an entirely new trend for sculpture. Thank you for playing, please have a go at some of my other mixed quizzes...you won't be disappointed!
Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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