1. Who painted this fresco, Scenes from the Life of Moses, located in the Sistine Chapel?
Answers to the April Twenty Questions quiz:
This was the last Twenty Questions quiz of the 2008-2009 school year, as we will be busy in May making preparations for the National Academic Championship. Thanks for playing our quiz, which will resume next September!
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1. Who painted this fresco, Scenes from the Life of Moses, located in the Sistine Chapel?
Answer - Sandro Botticelli
2. What is the two-word name of this instrument?
Answer - Cow bells
3. This residential building is the site where what infamous event happened?
Answer - John Lennon was shot.
4. Which ancient British custom is in danger of dying out because young people are "too embarrassed" to take part?
Answer - Morris dancing
5. Painted around the start of the war, this Salvador Dali work * is called Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, and is the artist's premonition of what War?
Answer - Spanish Civil War
6. Thanks to a cosmic storm, dust levels in our solar system are a triple the levels seen just a few years ago. Some scientists think they've figured out what's spewing all the dust. Name this nebula.
Answer - Red Rectangle Nebula
7. What kind of ski turn is named for a region in Norway?
Answer - Telemark
8. What type of plant is this?
Answer - Coleus
9. The Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics has identified a single-celled organism called a choanoflagellate as the probable ancestor of all what?
Answer - Animals
10. Who painted "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," shown here?
Answer - Grant Wood
11. Who was the last man to serve as Secretary of State before becoming President?
Answer - James Buchanan
12. Nearly 400 years after his death, he appeared in a new and more handsome guise last month, thanks to a newly discovered portrait that a group of scholars and art historians said was the only known likeness to have been painted in his lifetime. Who was he?
Answer - William Shakespeare
13. Which two national flags are exactly the same?
Answer - Indonesia and Monaco
14. Who was the best known American female fashion icon of the 1960s?
Answer - Jacqueline Kennedy
15. James McNeil Whistler honored this social critic by making him the subject of his "number two" in the series, because he so admired his "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number One." Who is this man, portrayed in "Arrangement in Grey and Black Number Two"?
Answer - Thomas Carlyle
16. Name the only national capital that borders two different countries.
Answer - Bratislava
17. Six years after the idea was hatched, what country's much-hyped $2,500 Tata Nano was introduced last month?
Answer - India's
18. What do we call this port?
Answer - PS/2
19. In the wake of the military take-over of the government of Madagascar last month, gangs of looters are raiding many wildlife sanctuaries, endangering some already endangered species. This animal lives only on the island of Madagascar. What is it?
Answer - Lemur
20. Here's El Greco's painting of what saint receiving the stigmata?
Answer - St. Francis
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