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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, arts, sports, literature, history, food and drink, nature and science.

1. Geography

   What is the currency of Egypt?

   • AArmenian dram
   • BEgyptian pound(the answer)
   • CBelarusian ruble
   • DThai baht

   Answer: Egyptian pound. Egypt's currency is the Egyptian pound.

   Source: wikidata.org

2. Arts

   Which German composer wrote a Ninth Symphony that ends with an ode to joy sung by a chorus?

   • AJohannes Brahms
   • BFranz Schubert
   • CLudwig van Beethoven(the answer)
   • DJohann Strauss

   Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was almost completely deaf by the symphony's 1824 premiere.

   Source: britannica.com

3. Sports

   Which country has won the Cricket World Cup the most times, with six titles through 2023?

   • AIndia
   • Bthe West Indies
   • CAustralia(the answer)
   • DPakistan

   Answer: Australia. Australia's six titles came in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023, when they beat India in Ahmedabad.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

4. Literature

   Which 13th-century Persian poet, born in Balkh, is famous for mystical verse collected in the Masnavi?

   • AOmar Khayyam
   • BRumi(the answer)
   • CHafez
   • DFerdowsi

   Answer: Rumi. Rumi's poetry on divine love is still widely read in translation today.

   Source: poetryfoundation.org

5. Geography

   Syria's capital city is which one?

   • AHoms
   • BDamascus(the answer)
   • CAleppo
   • DHama

   Answer: Damascus. Damascus is the capital of Syria.

   Source: wikidata.org

6. History

   The Umayyad Caliphate's westernmost province, Al-Andalus, covered most of which present-day region?

   • ANorth Africa
   • BAnatolia
   • CThe Levant
   • DThe Iberian Peninsula(the answer)

   Answer: The Iberian Peninsula. Al-Andalus, under Umayyad and later independent rule, covered most of what is now Spain and Portugal.

   Source: britannica.com

7. Food and drink

   Nutmeg, a spice used in sweet and savory dishes, originally comes from which island group?

   • AThe Canary Islands
   • BThe Banda Islands, Indonesia(the answer)
   • CThe Seychelles
   • DThe Galapagos Islands

   Answer: The Banda Islands, Indonesia. For centuries nutmeg grew only on a small group of islands now part of Indonesia's Maluku province.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

8. Arts

   A mosque built almost entirely from sun-dried mud brick, needing yearly replastering, stands in which Malian city?

   • ATimbuktu
   • BBamako
   • CSegou
   • DDjenne(the answer)

   Answer: Djenne. The Great Mosque of Djenne is rebuilt each year by the community after rains.

   Source: whc.unesco.org

9. Nature

   The kakapo, a flightless parrot that came close to extinction, is native only to which country?

   • AAustralia
   • BNew Zealand(the answer)
   • CPapua New Guinea
   • DFiji

   Answer: New Zealand. The kakapo is the world's heaviest parrot and the only one that cannot fly, found only in New Zealand.

   Source: doc.govt.nz

10. Science

    Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?

    • AEinsteinium(the answer)
    • BMolybdenum
    • CXenon
    • DLutetium

    Answer: Einsteinium. Einsteinium has atomic number 99, the highest of these four.

    Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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