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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. People Mixture. Player Windswept asks:
  The great Neo-Classical British writer Alexander Pope once wrote , "A little learning [knowledge] is a ______ thing." What one word expresses what he thought about knowledge?

    wonderful
    dangerous
    obtainable
    miraculous

#2. People Mixture. Player masonbee asks:
  Who is reported to have said, "There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad"?

    Salvador Dali
    Ray Charles
    Winston Churchill
    Don Knotts

#3. People Mixture. Player RufusDufus asks:
  Which newspaper mogul built his ranch, "The Enchanted Hill," on a hill above the California coastal town of San Simeon?

    William Armiger Scripps
    George Gough Booth
    William Randolph Hearst
    William Kellogg

#4. People Mixture. Player koshatnik asks:
  English journalist and author Rebecca West had a torrid love affair with one of the greats of science fiction, the author of "War of the Worlds". Who was he?

    H.G. Wells
    Isaac Asimov
    Arthur C. Clarke
    William Gibson

#5. People Mixture. Player History1066 asks:
  In 1066, future English King William the Conqueror invaded England and defeated the reigning monarch, King Harold II of England. Where was William from?

    Normandy
    Mercia
    Burgundy
    Northumbria

#6. People Mixture. Player portgleep asks:
  Alfred Nobel is best known for establishing the Nobel Prizes in his will, but which of the following did he do during his lifetime?

    Invented dynamite
    Composed over 300 symphonies
    Attempted to assassinate the Swedish king
    Founded a new sect of Christianity

#7. People Mixture. Player Babilonia asks:
  She was Marie Therese of France, known as Madame Royale. She was born 1778 and died 1852. Who were her unfortunate parents?

    Charles IX and Elizabeth of Austria
    Louis XIV and Maria Teresa of Spain
    Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
    Henry II and Catherine of Medici

#8. People Mixture. Player trident asks:
  Before he published "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes worked as what kind of government employee, which resulted in him going to prison due to embezzlement?

    tax collector
    baker
    mail carrier
    diplomat

#9. People Mixture. Player chabenao1 asks:
  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last person to hold which title?

    Shahanshah
    Petrichor
    Dacoit
    Ouroboros

#10. People Mixture. Player Billkozy asks:
  Who is the business mogul known for the Virgin Group of more than 400 companies?

    Tim Cook
    Reed Hastings
    Bob Iger
    Sir Richard Branson