Multiple-Choice Trivia II

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Answer is D

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A?

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Question

In 1963, there was a zoo exhibit on the "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World". What did this exhibit feature?

1. A Saltwater Crocodile
   
2. A wolf
   
3. A goose
   
4. A mirror behind bars

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D because that sounds like something someone would do

Correct!
The mirror was a 1963 exhibit at the Bronx Zoo intended to show how dangerous humankind is to the world.

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Is it

D

?

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I'll come up with a question later.

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This shouldn't be hard.

Question

Which of these people was assasinated by a woman?

1. Caesar
   
2. Jean-Paul Marat
   
3. Napoleon
   
4. Jacques-Louis David

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B?

Correct!
Marat, a Jacobin leader who helped orchestrate the purge of the Girondins, was assassinated by a sympathiser of his opponents, Charlotte Corday.
Caesar was famously assassinated by a group of senators that included his friend, Brutus.
Napoleon died in exile.
David, an associate of Marat and supporter of Napoleon, famously painted Marat's assassination. He later exiled himself and eventually a carriage struck him.

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I'm going to randomly guess

B

.

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Question

How many years passed since Alaric I sacked Rome and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire?

1. 86
   
2. 33
   
3. 66
   
4. 43

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A

It's incorrect!
Sorry!

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C

Correct!
The Sack of Rome occurred in 410 CE and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire is generally agreed to have occurred in 476 CE.

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It's been 72 hours.

How do you write 467 in Chinese characters?

A: 四六七
B: 七四六
C: 四百六十七
D: 七百四十六

Easy.
It's

C

.

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Question

Along the lines of languages and numerals, if you rearranged 17 in Roman Numerals, you get VIXI.

What does

VIXI

mean in Latin?

1. I live / I am living
   
2. I will live / I shall live
   
3. I lived / I have lived
   
4. I was living / I used to live

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B

Incorrect, sorry.
That would be

vivam

.

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C?

Correct!

vivo

is "I live / I am living" and "vivebam" is "I was living / I used to live".

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I'm going to guess

C

.

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Question

You might have heard the cliched opening of "It was a dark and stormy night…".

Which piece of literature did it originate from?

1. A Winkle In Time
   
   
2. Paul Clifford
   
   
3. Dracula
   
   
4. Peanuts

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I'm gonna guess A even though I think that's wrong.

C

Both are incorrect.
Sorry.

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D lololol

None of you have obviously ever read Peanuts.

Sorry.
D is also incorrect.
"It was a dark and stormy night…" originated from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1930 novel,

Paul Clifford

.

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Question

You may know Agatha Christie; After all, she's widely nicknamed the "Queen of Crime".

Which of her following novels did not include Poirot?

1. Endless Night
   
   
2. Cards on the Table
   
   
3. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
   
   
4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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C

Incorrect, sorry.
Poirot appears in this.

B?

Incorrect, sorry.
This crossover between two of Christie's characters included Poirot as one of the sleuths.

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A

Correct.

Endless Night

does not include Poirot but is instead a stand-alone novel.

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Is it A, then?

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It is indeed A.

The Cascade is a pre-hardmode Yoyo that is replaced entirely with the Hel-Fire.

The Chest Statue generates upon world gen

The Bone Key is a drop from the Dungeon Guardian, which cannot be fought after killing skeletron, which is required for killing the moon lord.

The Ankh Shield is made of some materials only accessible in Hardmode.

Ooh.
I made a lucky guess.
I'll come up with a question now.

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Question

You may know about Alfred Hitchcock; but you may not have heard of

Rear Window

.

Which short story was it inspired by?

1. The Monkey's Paw
   
   
2. The Fly
   
   
3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
   
   
4. It Had To Be Murder

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D

I’m familiar with that film and D would make the most sense.

Actually, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t D.

You are correct.
Fun Fact: I am actually reading

It Had To Be Murder

right now.

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Is it

D

?

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That was a lucky guess. I knew that A and B were wrong and randomly chose between C and D.

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Anyways, on the note of geography.

Question

Which state is the tallest mountain in Australia located in?

1. Victoria
   
2. NSW
   
3. ACT
   
4. Queensland

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Incorrect, sorry.

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NSW is New South Wales (my state) and ACT is the Australian Capital Territory.

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B

Correct!
Mt Kosciusko, the tallest mountain in Australia, is located in NSW.

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I'm going to guess

B

.

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Going on a tangent, you may have heard of the Sally Clark case.

What is it now occasionally used as an example of?

Answers

1. Miscarriage of justice that led to a misuse of statistics
   
2. Use of statistics to aid the rightful conviction of Clark
   
3. Misuse of statistics that led to a miscarriage of justice
   
4. Rightful conviction of Clark to aid the use of statistics

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C?

Correct!
Prosecutors misused statistics to arrest Clark of murdering her children.
Her conviction was eventually overturned but she never completely recovered from the miscarriage of justice and passed away from alcohol poisoning 4 years after.

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B?

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Speaking of disasters, Australia had one of the deadliest and costliest flood seasons this year.

Around how much did insured losses total up to?

Answers

1. 1.35 trillion
   
2. 8.35 billion
   
3. 5.35 billion
   
4. 3.35 billion

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B?

C?

Incorrect, sorry.

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D?

Correct.
According to the Insurance Council of Australia, the flood season resulted in "$3.35 billion in insured losses".