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The ten questions and their answers

Play the day above first if you want to; the answers below are in the order the quiz asked them, with the options as it showed them. Topics: geography, sports, nature, arts, science, literature, history and food and drink.

1. Geography

   Egypt's capital city is which one?

   • ACairo(the answer)
   • BPort Said
   • CAlexandria
   • DShobra Elkhema

   Answer: Cairo. Cairo is the capital of Egypt.

   Source: wikidata.org

2. Sports

   The Tour de France, held every summer, is a race in which sport?

   • ARunning
   • BSwimming
   • CCycling(the answer)
   • DMotor racing

   Answer: Cycling. The Tour de France is a multi-stage road cycling race around France.

   Source: letour.fr

3. Nature

   Many volcanoes form where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another, letting what rise to the surface?

   • AMolten rock (magma)(the answer)
   • BCold seawater
   • CCompressed air pockets
   • DFrozen ice sheets

   Answer: Molten rock (magma). At many subduction zones, melted rock from the sinking plate rises and erupts, building a volcano.

   Source: usgs.gov

4. Arts

   Which American composer wrote the score for the musical West Side Story, set in New York City?

   • AStephen Sondheim
   • BRichard Rodgers
   • CLeonard Bernstein(the answer)
   • DCole Porter

   Answer: Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein composed the score; Sondheim wrote the lyrics for the 1957 musical.

   Source: britannica.com

5. Geography

   Which of these countries is landlocked?

   • AGabon
   • BAlgeria
   • CBurkina Faso(the answer)
   • DAngola

   Answer: Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is landlocked — it has no coastline on an ocean or sea.

   Source: wikidata.org

6. Science

   Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?

   • AChlorine
   • BLithium
   • CHydrogen
   • DChromium(the answer)

   Answer: Chromium. Chromium has atomic number 24, the highest of these four.

   Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

7. Literature

   Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World imagines a future society that controls its population mainly through what?

   • AConditioning and pleasure(the answer)
   • BMilitary force
   • CStrict religion
   • DIsolation

   Answer: Conditioning and pleasure. The novel's title ironically echoes a line from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

   Source: britannica.com

8. Arts

   Which Egyptian singer, active across much of the 1900s, is widely regarded as the Arab world's most celebrated vocalist?

   • AUmm Kulthum(the answer)
   • BFairuz
   • CDalida
   • DWarda Al-Jazairia

   Answer: Umm Kulthum. Umm Kulthum's concerts drew enormous radio audiences across the Arab world.

   Source: britannica.com

9. History

   The Mapuche people successfully resisted conquest by which colonial empire for over two centuries?

   • AThe Spanish Empire(the answer)
   • BThe Portuguese Empire
   • CThe Inca Empire
   • DThe Dutch Empire

   Answer: The Spanish Empire. The Mapuche of southern Chile and Argentina resisted Spanish conquest from the 16th into the 19th century.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

10. Food and drink

    Allspice, a berry spice often confused with peppercorns, is native to which region?

    • AWest Africa
    • BSoutheast Asia
    • CThe Caribbean(the answer)
    • DThe Mediterranean

    Answer: The Caribbean. Allspice comes from the dried berries of a tree native to the Caribbean and Central America, especially Jamaica.

    Source: britannica.com

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