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I like the freedom of the general category and hope to have ten unique questions for your trivia playing pleasure.

A multiple-choice quiz by biblioholik. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
biblioholik

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
259,771

Updated
Sep 08 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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949

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which letter does not appear in the homerow on a Dvorak keyboard? Hint

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Question 2 of 10

2. This was a popular children's rhyme when I was in elementary school. "Miss Lucy had a baby, she named him -----, she put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim." What was this infant's name? Hint

Li'l Jim

Tiny Tim

Big Slim

Puny Pim

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Question 3 of 10

3. Royalty is known for the many names they give their children. Which is not one of the names Prince Andrew, Duke of York and brother to Charles (Prince of Wales), can claim? Hint

David

Christian

Albert

Edward

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Question 4 of 10

4. Franz Schubert wrote the only existing composition for this instrument. Can you name this rather unique instrument? Hint

baryton

viaola da gamba

arpegione

fortepiano

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Question 5 of 10

5. Horology is the study of time and time keeping.

True

False

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of the following is not a James Clavell novel? Hint

Noble House

Shogun

The Journeyer

King Rat

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Question 7 of 10

7. Author Wilbur Smith is best known for his novels set on this continent? Hint

North America

Africa

Asia

South America

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Question 8 of 10

8. Better known as Victoria Holt but writing as ----, she is best known for her fictionalized biographies of royalty. Who is she? Hint

Danielle Steel

Barbara Cartland

Jean Plaidy

Philippa Gregory

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which of the following presidents was not born in Virginia? Hint

Rutherford B. Hayes

James Monroe

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson

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Question 10 of 10

10. This child of Johann Sebastian Bach is known as the London Bach and his compositions demonstrate the Rococo or galant aesthetic style of music. Who was he? Hint

Johann Christian Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

P. D. Q. Bach

Benjamin Bach

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which letter does not appear in the homerow on a Dvorak keyboard?

Answer: k

This keyboard layout was designed to more evenly distribute the letters between the fingers on both hands. An interesting website to visit in order to learn more is www.dvortyboards.com

Answer: Tiny Tim

This popular jump rope rhyming song kept the girls busy during recess. Another of their popular songs was this one: "Cinderella dressed in yellow went upstairs to kiss a fellow. How many times did she kiss him?" They then jumped rope to see how many times Cindy's fellow got kissed.

3. Royalty is known for the many names they give their children. Which is not one of the names Prince Andrew, Duke of York and brother to Charles (Prince of Wales), can claim?

Answer: David

Older brother, Charles, also can use Philip Arthur George. I remember when Diana reversed the order of his names thus marrying Philip Charles Arthur George. That charming, little flub was edited and disappeared from the many news broadcasts that followed.

4. Franz Schubert wrote the only existing composition for this instrument. Can you name this rather unique instrument?

Answer: arpegione

This instrument resembles a guitar but is bowed like a violin. The other three instruments are also no longer used except in groups devoted to original instrumentation.

5. Horology is the study of time and time keeping.

Answer: True

To be more exact it is the science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.

6. Which of the following is not a James Clavell novel?

Answer: The Journeyer

"The Journeyer" was written by Gary Jennings. It tells the part of Marco Polo's story that he did not tell in his manuscript. It is quite picaresque.

7. Author Wilbur Smith is best known for his novels set on this continent?

Answer: Africa

In such novels as "Flight of the Falcon," "River God," and "Triumph of the Sun," Smith takes his readers to 19th-century South Africa and the Sudan, and the Egypt of the pharaoh.

8. Better known as Victoria Holt but writing as ----, she is best known for her fictionalized biographies of royalty. Who is she?

Answer: Jean Plaidy

As Victoria Holt, she wrote several interesting novels about royalty including "The Queen's Confession" and "My Enemy the Queen" but nothing like the books she wrote as Jean Plaidy which included various series dealing with the Bourbon and Valois of France and Tudors, Stuarts, and other dynasties of England.

Diane Tixier Herald's book, "Genreflecting" indicates that she all but developed the royals romance subgenre.

9. Which of the following presidents was not born in Virginia?

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes

Hayes was born in Ohio and Ohio claims 7 of the presidents; Virginia where the other three choices were born claims 8.

10. This child of Johann Sebastian Bach is known as the London Bach and his compositions demonstrate the Rococo or galant aesthetic style of music. Who was he?

Answer: Johann Christian Bach

P. D. Q. Bach is an invention of modern musicologist, Peter Schickele.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach did exist and wrote beautiful music for the clavichord, but it was brother Johanne Christian who went to London in 1732.

Source: Author biblioholik

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