Folklore and Chinook Winds

Question 1

In which European country would you find the historical region of Transylvania?

Accepted Answer

Romania

Answer

Slovakia

Answer

Bulgaria

Answer

Hungary

Question 2

Which Canadian city hosted the Winter Olympics in February 1988?

Accepted Answer

Calgary

Answer

Vancouver

Answer

Quebec City

Answer

Montreal

Question 3

Which actor played the grown-up Peter Pan in the 1991 film Hook?

Accepted Answer

Robin Williams

Answer

Kevin Kline

Answer

Dustin Hoffman

Answer

Tom Hanks

Question 4

Which type of cloud produces the towering anvils associated with severe thunderstorms?

Accepted Answer

Cumulonimbus

Answer

Nimbostratus

Answer

Altostratus

Answer

Cirrostratus

Question 5

In which Shakespeare play does the mischievous spirit Puck serve Oberon?

Accepted Answer

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer

As You Like It

Answer

The Tempest

Answer

Twelfth Night

Question 6

Which English king was captured near Vienna while returning from the Third Crusade?

Accepted Answer

Richard I

Answer

Henry II

Answer

Edward I

Answer

John

Question 7

The mistral blows down which French river valley toward the Mediterranean?

Accepted Answer

Rhône

Answer

Loire

Answer

Seine

Answer

Garonne

Question 8

Which archaeologist excavated ancient Troy and Mycenae during the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer

Flinders Petrie

Answer

Arthur Evans

Answer

Howard Carter

Question 9

Who composed the orchestral tone poem Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks?

Accepted Answer

Richard Strauss

Answer

Johannes Brahms

Answer

Richard Wagner

Answer

Gustav Mahler

Question 10

In the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence”, how many blackbirds are baked in a pie?

Accepted Answer

Twenty-four

Answer

Sixteen

Answer

Twenty

Answer

Twelve