Twenty Questions: The Questions Unlimited Monthly Quiz

Answers to the January Twenty Questions quiz:

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1. Google honored a famous leftist artist with a "Google doodle" last month, much to the chagrin of anti-communists. Who's the artist?
Answer - Diego Rivera.
2. From what movie is this scene?
Answer - The King's Speech.
3. Name this inventor.
Answer - Robert Fulton.
4. What's the name of this album?
Answer - Highway 61 Revisited
5. He portrayed in busts great French philosophers – Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau – and American leaders -- Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington, shown here. Name this French portrait sculptor.
Answer - Jean Antoine Houdon
6. Which phylum of zooplankton is named for the wheel-shaped corona around the mouths of its members?
Answer - Rotifer
7. In the 18th century, children played a game by skipping pebbles across the water. What type of sailboat was named after this game?
Answer - Schooner
8. What 1968 motion picture has no dialogue in the last 23 minutes?
Answer - 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Whose suicide note reads, "It's better to burn out than to fade away"?
Answer - Kurt Cobain
10. This is an example of a uniquely medieval art form. What was it?
Answer - Illuminated manuscript
11. Name this toy dog and you’ve named a resident of a historical region along Poland's Baltic coast.
Answer - Pomeranian.
12. From what movie is this scene?
Answer - The Bridge on the River Kwai
13. This is Emerald Lake, in the crater of an extinct volcano. In what national park is it found?
Answer - Tongariro National Park (NewZealand)
14. This skyscraper is 163 floors tall, and this is the view down. Where is it?
Answer - Dubai
15. Look at this portrait called The Clothed Maja, and name the European artist who painted it.
Answer - Francisco Goya
16. This is a café on the border between what two nations?
Answer - Netherlands and Belgium
17. The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world. In what country will you find it?
Answer - China
18. This unusual tunnel may be found in which national park?
Answer - Sequoia National Park
19. Global warming may inundate the airport and the other islands in what chain in the middle of the Indian Ocean?
Answer - The Maldives
20. Whose self-portrait is this?
Answer - Peter Paul Rubens

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Last updated 31-01-2012

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