89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which farm bird is scientifically known as Numida meleagris?
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Guineafowl
Which domestic animal is the main source of mohair fiber?
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Angora goat
Which cattle breed is famous for its extremely muscular body and Belgian origin?
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Belgian Blue
What is the name of the broad ocean current that circles Antarctica from west to east?
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Which chemical is commonly used as an ice-forming agent in cloud seeding?
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Silver iodide
What atmospheric measurement is expressed in parts per million on the Keeling Curve?
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Carbon dioxide concentration
What is the long-term warming trend caused by increasing heat-trapping gases called?
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Global warming
What is the original Danish title of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling”?
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Den grimme ælling
Which Hans Christian Andersen tale features a young boy named Johannes guided by a traveling companion?
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The Travelling Companion
What was Hans Christian Andersen’s 1847 book about his life called in English?
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The True Story of My Life
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s spiritual autobiography published in 1884?
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A Confession
Which Leo Tolstoy novel is set partly in the Caucasus and follows Olenin?
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The Cossacks
Which Leo Tolstoy book influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas about nonviolence?
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
What was the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 drama about a wealthy family’s estate?
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The Fruits of Enlightenment
Which Leo Tolstoy story centers on the peasant character Alyosha the Pot?
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Alyosha the Pot
Who directed the 1966–1967 Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace?
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Sergei Bondarchuk
How many siblings did Leo Tolstoy have?
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Four
Where is Leo Tolstoy buried?
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Yasnaya Polyana
Who wrote the 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove?
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Larry McMurtry
Which 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was written by Alison Lurie?
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Foreign Affairs
Which 1982 Pulitzer-winning novel was written by John Updike?
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Rabbit Is Rich
Who wrote The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
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Robert Lewis Taylor
Which author won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Known World?
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Edward P. Jones
What is the title of N. Scott Momaday’s 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
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House Made of Dawn
Which author won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Confessions of Nat Turner?
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William Styron
Which 1926 Pulitzer-winning novel was written by Sinclair Lewis?
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Arrowsmith
In Suzanne Collins’s Catching Fire, what anniversary edition of the Hunger Games is held?
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The 75th Hunger Games
In Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger, what card begins Ed Kennedy’s mysterious missions?
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The ace of diamonds
In Philip Pullman’s young-adult novel Northern Lights, what is the book called in the United States?
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The Golden Compass
Who illustrated the original editions of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia?
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Pauline Baynes