Lemon and Longing

Question 1

Which disease historically afflicted sailors whose diets lacked sufficient vitamin C?

Accepted Answer

Scurvy

Answer

Beriberi

Answer

Rickets

Answer

Pellagra

Question 2

In Casablanca, which actor plays the nightclub owner Rick Blaine?

Accepted Answer

Humphrey Bogart

Answer

James Stewart

Answer

Cary Grant

Answer

Clark Gable

Question 3

Which sea borders Italy's Amalfi Coast, south of the city of Naples?

Accepted Answer

Tyrrhenian Sea

Answer

Ligurian Sea

Answer

Ionian Sea

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Adriatic Sea

Question 4

In The Great Gatsby, what colour is the light at the end of Daisy's dock?

Accepted Answer

Green

Answer

Red

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White

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Blue

Question 5

Which spirit forms the base of a traditional Tom Collins cocktail?

Accepted Answer

Gin

Answer

Vodka

Answer

Whisky

Answer

Rum

Question 6

Who was Britain's prime minister when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936?

Accepted Answer

Stanley Baldwin

Answer

Ramsay MacDonald

Answer

Winston Churchill

Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 7

In human cells, where do most reactions of the Krebs cycle occur?

Accepted Answer

Mitochondrial matrix

Answer

Golgi apparatus

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Cytosol

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Cell nucleus

Question 8

Which composer wrote Winterreise, a song cycle about a lovelorn wanderer?

Accepted Answer

Franz Schubert

Answer

Felix Mendelssohn

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Johannes Brahms

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Robert Schumann

Question 9

Which Romantic poet wrote both "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on Melancholy"?

Accepted Answer

John Keats

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William Wordsworth

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 10

What does throwing one coin into the Trevi Fountain traditionally promise?

Accepted Answer

Returning to Rome

Answer

Gaining great wealth

Answer

Getting married

Answer

Finding new love