Cultural Literacy Daily Quiz for January 10

1. dismay:

consternation
magnanimity
oblation
virtue
2. According to legend, ancient Rome was founded by the twin brothers Romulus and _____ in 753 B.C.E.

Ralph
Remus
Ricky
Rufus
3. The term "Palestine" has its origin in the term _____.

palace
Philistine
Phoenician
psalm
4. Addis Ababa is the capital city of what African country?

Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
Niger
5. Which of the following cities is not located in Spain?

Barcelona
Lisbon
Madrid
Toledo
6. heroic:

afraid
brave
cowardly
meek
7. Austin is the capital city of what U.S. state?

Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Texas
8. Which of the following terms describes a political community located within a precise territory?

locale
nation
popular sovereignty
state
9. According to taxonomy, to what phylum do human beings belong?

Anthropoda
Brachiopoda
Chordata
Mollusca
10. Which of the following is not a member of the Nuclear Club?

Canada
France
Russia
United States
11. Which of the following scientists did not participate in the Manhattan Project?

Edward Teller
Enrico Fermi
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jonas Salk
12. Where in Asia was the United States Navy allegedly attacked in 1964?

Gulf of Thailand
Gulf of Tonkin
Pearl Harbor
South China Sea
13. What caused the English settlement at Jamestown to nearly fail?

Pocahontas ordered her people to attack Fort James.
Proper nutrition and heralth care led to insupportable population growth.
Settlers focused on discovering gold rather than growing crops.
The Powhatan people fed the settlers poisoned maize.
14. "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

This presidential statement is known as what?

"Day of Infamy" speech
Gettysburg Address
"I Have a Dream" speech
Truman Doctrine

15. Which of the following was not part of the Allies in World War II?

Australia
Hungary
Soviet Union
United States
16. "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

This line is from what famous 1972 film?

Bonnie and Clyde
Cabaret
The Godfather
Tootsie

17. Napoleon Bonaparte replaced the Holy Roman Empire with the _____.

Federation of the Rhine
Peace of Augsburg
Prussian monarchy
Third Reich
18. Popular in the early 1900s, the American policy of avoiding involvement in international affairs is known as _____.

globalism
isolationism
libertarianism
worldliness
19. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" describes a battle fought during the _____ War (1853-1856).

Civil
Crimean
First World
Peninsular
20. What American president famously said, "The chief business of the American people is business... The man who builds a factory builds a temple"?

Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Richard Nixon

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