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LAT259 Group Assignment 4

The document appears to be a quiz containing multiple choice questions about various topics including history, Shakespeare, Broadway musicals, celebrities, and more. It asks 12 questions in each section for a total of 144 questions. The questions cover factual information about important figures, events, works of art, and details from biographies.

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1.

Assyrian king Sennacherib039;s destruction of Babylon in 689 BCE was viewed as a


triumph by other Assyrian citizens.
a. True
b. !False

2. What did the first vending machines in the early 1880039;s dispense?
a. Sodas
b. Alcohol
c. Cigarettes
d. !Post cards

3. Which one of these rulers did not belong to the Habsburg dynasty?
a. Charles V
b. Philip II
c. !Philip V
d. Francis Joseph

4. Joseph Stalin had a criminal past doing what?


a. Identity Fraud
b. !Robbing Trains
c. Tax Evasion
d. Murder for Hire

5. The main objective of the German operation quot;Case Bluequot; during World War
II was originally to capture what?
a. Crimea
b. Stalingrad
c. !Caucasus
d. Voronezh

6. How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?


a. !56
b. 47
c. 65
d. 43

7. In addition to his career as an astrologer and quot;prophetquot;, Nostradamus


published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?
a. Digging graves
b. Cheating at card games
c. !Making jams and jellies
d. Teaching parrots to talk

8. Which of the following Presidents of the United States was assassinated?


a. Lyndon Johnson
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. !William McKinley
d. Chester Arthur

9. In 1453, which important city fell?


a. Rome
b. Athens
c. Hamburg
d. !Constantinople

10. On what street did the 1666 Great Fire of London start?
a. !Pudding Lane
b. St Paul039;s Cathedral
c. Houses of Parliament
d. Baker Street

11. The Ottoman Empire was dissolved after their loss in which war?
a. Crimean War
b. Serbian Revolution
c. !World War I
d. Second Balkan War

12. Which of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?


a. Turkish bath
b. Kennel
c. Squash court
d. !Fainting room

1. In which Shakespeare play does the character Marcellus say, quot;Something is


rotten in the state of Denmarkquot;?
a. King Lear
b. Twelfth Night
c. Macbeth
d. !Hamlet

2. In which Shakespearean play will you find the suicide of Ophelia?


a. Othello
b. Macbeth
c. !Hamlet
d. King Lear

3. Who wrote the award winning musical quot;In The Heightsquot;?


a. Steven Sondheim
b. John Phillips Sousa
c. !LinManuel Miranda
d. Francis Scott Key

4. Who is the musical director for the award winning musical quot;Hamiltonquot;?
a. !Alex Lacamoire
b. LinManuel Miranda
c. Renee EliseGoldberry
d. Leslie Odom Jr.

5. What is the name of Broadway039;s first quot;longrunquot; musical?


a. Hamilton
b. !The Elves
c. Wicked
d. The Book of Mormon

6. What play is the quote quot;Hell is other peoplequot; from?


a. !No Exit
b. The Flies
c. The Devil and the Good Lord
d. The Condemned of Altona

7. Who wrote the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein039;s 1957 Brodway musical West Side
Story?
a. !Stephen Sondheim
b. Richard Rodgers
c. Oscar Hammerstein
d. Himself

8. The musical quot;Dirty Rotten Scoundrelsquot; is set in what country?


a. Sweden
b. !France
c. Germany
d. USA

9. Which Shakespeare play features the stage direction quot;Enter a messenger, with
two heads and a handquot;?
a. Macbeth
b. !Titus Andronicus
c. King Lear
d. Othello

10. Which of these plays was famously first performed posthumously after the
playwright committed suicide?
a. Much Ado About Nothing
b. Hamilton
c. !4.48 Psychosis
d. The Birthday Party

11. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical quot;Catsquot; is based off a book of poems
written by which author?
a. !T.S. Elliot
b. Emily Dickenson
c. Andrew Lloyd Webber
d. Robert Frost

12. Who wrote the play 039;Angels in America039;?


a. Matthew Lopez
b. Tom Stoppard
c. Anthony Neilson
d. !Tony Kusher
1. Michael Jackson had a pet python named lsquo;Crusherrsquo;.
a. !True
b. False

2. What year did radio icon Howard Stern start a job at radio station WNBC?
a. !1982
b. 1985
c. 1984
d. 1995

3. What was the cause of death for Freddie Mercury?


a. Brain Hemorrhage
b. !Pneumonia
c. Stomach Cancer
d. HIV

4. Which radio personality calls himself quot;The King of All Mediaquot;?


a. Rush Limbaugh
b. Ryan Seacrest
c. !Howard Stern
d. Pete Tong

5. Lady Gaga039;s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.


a. False
b. !True

6. Which school in Surrey, England did Steve Backshall attend?


a. Kings International College
b. Lyndhurst School
c. !Collingwood College
d. Tomlinscote School

7. The eccentric natural philosopher Tycho Brahe kept what as a pet?


a. Goat
b. !Moose
c. Bear
d. Dog

8. Who is quot;James Rolfequot; better known as?


a. !The Angry Video Game Nerd
b. TotalBiscuit
c. PeanutButterGamer
d. PewDiePie

9. By which name is Ramon Estevez better known as?


a. Emilio Estevez
b. Ramon Sheen
c. !Martin Sheen
d. Charlie Sheen
10. Gabe Newell was born in which year?
a. 1972
b. !1962
c. 1960
d. 1970

11. In 2014, this new top 100 rapper who featured in quot;Computersquot; and
quot;Body Dancequot; was arrested in a NYPD sting for murder.
a. Swae Lee
b. DJ Snake
c. !Bobby Shmurda
d. Young Thug

12. What caused Jake Lloyd who played Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace to
quit acting?
a. Criminal Record
b. Nomination for Worst Actor
c. !Bullying
d. Racism

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