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A multiple-choice quiz by rivait. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
rivait

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
137,675

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
562

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Question 1 of 10

1. Of the following, who was first to win all four women's golf majors? Hint

Patty Sheehan

Nancy Lopez

Annika Sorenstam

Juli Inkster

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who was the first U.S president to have preceded and followed the same man? Hint

Millard Fillmore

Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Roosevelt

Chester Arthur

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Question 3 of 10

3. What group had a hit with 'Tainted Love'? Hint

Human League

Kajagoogoo

Duran Duran

Soft Cell

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which philosopher is considered to be the founder of existentialism? Hint

Kierkegaard

Heidegger

Spinoza

Sartre

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of the following physicists won the Fields Medal in 1990? Hint

Murray Gell-Mann

Steven Weinberg

Stephen Hawking

Edward Witten

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which actress received two Oscar nominations in 2003? Hint

Julianne Moore

Nicole Kidman

Meryl Streep

Kathy Bates

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the following college football teams did not win a national championship in the 1990s? Hint

Notre Dame

Alabama

Michigan

Washington

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who played Jackie Templeton on 'General Hospital'? Hint

Demi Moore

Julianne Moore

Meg Ryan

Genie Francis

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which biologist authored 'The Selfish Gene'? Hint

Edward Wilson

Stephen Jay Gould

Charles Darwin

Richard Dawkins

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Question 10 of 10

10. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were students of which famous social scientist? Hint

Franz Boas

Sigmund Freud

Charles Darwin

Nigel Leakey

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Of the following, who was first to win all four women's golf majors?

Answer: Juli Inkster

Inkster the linkster won each of the U.S Women's Open, the LPGA Championship, the DuMaurier Classic, and the Nabisco Dinah Shore in her storied career.

2. Who was the first U.S president to have preceded and followed the same man?

Answer: Benjamin Harrison

Harrison was the 23rd president, interrupting Grover Cleveland's two terms.

3. What group had a hit with 'Tainted Love'?

Answer: Soft Cell

The one-hit wonders took the Gloria Jones song to #8 in 1982.

4. Which philosopher is considered to be the founder of existentialism?

Answer: Kierkegaard

Sartre was an existentialist, but not the first.

5. Which of the following physicists won the Fields Medal in 1990?

Answer: Edward Witten

Gell-Mann and Weinberg each won the Nobel Prize, and Hawking is famous. However, it was the superstring-theorist Witten who won the top prize in mathematics that year.

6. Which actress received two Oscar nominations in 2003?

Answer: Julianne Moore

Streep had the most overall nominations at that point (with 13) and Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar, but Moore received nominations for 'The Hours' and 'Far From Heaven'. Alas, she went home empty-handed.

7. Which of the following college football teams did not win a national championship in the 1990s?

Answer: Notre Dame

Though the Irish have won their share, they did not win a national title between 1988 and the end of the century. Michigan (1997), 'Bama (1992), and Washington (1991) all took home the top prize in the last decade of the twentieth century.

8. Who played Jackie Templeton on 'General Hospital'?

Answer: Demi Moore

Prior to commanding $20 million per movie, Demi was a soap star.

9. Which biologist authored 'The Selfish Gene'?

Answer: Richard Dawkins

The contentious Dawkins discusses the theory that genes "work" to reach future generations.

10. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were students of which famous social scientist?

Answer: Franz Boas

Though arguably more distinguished than his pupils, Boas' fame was surpassed by both Benedict and Mead.

Source: Author rivait

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