QUIZ 8

1. Which fruit was known as the ‘gold apple’ in Italy and the ‘love apple’ in France?
Tomato

2. What does the abbreviation “P.S.” at the bottom of a letter stand for?
Post Scriptum

3. Which cartoonist created the donkey and elephant as symbols of the United States’ two major political parties?
Thomas Nast

4. Which fictional spy is named after a Philadelphia ornithologist who wrote ‘Birds of the West Indies’?
James Bond

5. Who is the only person to win a Nobel prize in both physics and chemistry?
Marie Curie

6. What substance causes Superman to lose his powers?
Kryptonite

7. In which U.S. State are the headwaters of the Mississippi River?
Minnesota

8. According to legend, what ancient Greek playwright died when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head?
Aeschylus

9. Alaska’s Mt. McKinley is part of which national park?
Denali

10. Which two U.S. presidents both died on July 4, 1826?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson