Toughest Questions from Last Week’s Quizzo

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  1. Most asteroids in our solar system are in a circular belt found between what two planets?
  2. Which of the following is completely landlocked: a) Laos b) Cambodia c) Vietnam d) Burma
  3. John Smoltz recently became the 3rd pitcher to record 3000 strikeout while playing for the same team. One retired in the 1920s, the other in 1970s. Who were they?
  4. This Mozart opera caused an uproar in Vienna when it was released because of its satire directed at the aristocracy. It had characters named Count Almaviva and Rosina.
  5. Which of these flowers is pollinated by beetles and not bees?
  6. a) daisy b) magnolia c) marigold d) snapdragon

  7. This famous female novelist was born in Germantown in 1832.
  8. This new orleans sandwich is made with a type of bread similar to focaccia, and contains olive salad, salami, capicola, and provolone.
  9. This 2000 movie was based on a spec script originally written for X-Files, and was directed by James Wong.
  10. Edward Bulliver Litton wrote a book about the last days of what city?
  11. List the seven presidents born west of the Mississippi.

  1. Mars and Jupiter
  2. Laos
  3. Bob Gibson and Walter Johnson
  4. Marriage of Figaro
  5. B) Magnolia
  6. Louisa May Alcott
  7. muffuletta
  8. Final Destination
  9. Pompeii
  10. Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Clinton

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