Deck 1: History, Science, and Literature

Question 1

Alexander of Abonutichus lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor ________.

A)Marcus Aureliu
B)Publius Helvius Pertinax
C)Augustus
D)Lucius Aurelius Verus

Answer 1

Marcus Aureliu

Question 2

The serpent of Alexander of Abonutichus was bought from ________.

A)Greece
B)Macedonia
C)France
D)Tampa

Answer 2

Macedonia

Question 3

Who wrote the book Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.

A)Alexander of Abonutichu
B)Lamar Keene
C)Charles Markay
D)Harry Houdini

Answer 3

Charles Markay

Question 4

One of the most striking apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the _______.

A)precognitive experience
B)post-judice
C)prejudice
D)none of these

Question 5

Universal spiritualist association, an association of spiritualist churches and clergy founded in 1956 by ____________.

A)Clifford Bia
B)Lamar Keene
C)Charles Markay
D)Carl Sagan

Question 6

The preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

A)precognitive experience
B)post-judice
C)prejudice
D)none of these

Question 7

scientists are, of course, ___________

A)superheroe
B)human
C)holy man
D)none of these

Question 8

Who wrote Worlds in collision

A)Spiro T Agnew
B)Immanuel Velikovsky
C)Robert Fulton
D)Charles Markay

Question 9

The rising or lifting of a person or thing in the air by supernatural means is called ____________

A)Levitation
B)Bamboozles
C)Seances
D)Arcane

Question 10

SETI means

A)space educational technology information
B)search for extra - terrestrial intelligence
C)stock exchange technology information
D)search engine tech intelligence

Question 11

Cosmos :A personal voyage is written by __________

A)Dilip Chitre
B)EV Lucas
C)Roald Dahl
D)Carl Sagan

Question 12

Harry Houdini was an American ______________

A)Scientist
B)Doctor
C)spiritualist
D)Magician

Question 13

Dilip Chitre, bilingual writer, who wrote in ____________

A)Marathi and english
B)english and Bengali
C)english and Gujarati
D)english and Punjabi

Question 14

Dilip Chitre 's most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi Bhakti poet ____________

A)Tukaram
B)Tulsidas
C)Kabirdas
D)Guru Nanak

Question 15

Who left the elderly infant to explore the rooms of age in the poem "The house of my childhood "

A)family member
B)Grandmother
C)season
D)sons and daughters

Question 16

The figurines of grandmother's gods are made up with_______

A)Gold
B)Silver
C)Brass
D)Iron

Question 17

Whose voice shivers on a bare branch in the poem " The house of my childhood "?

A)Poet'
B)Grandmother's
C)Families
D)Birds'

Question 18

Who toddled around the empty house in the poem "The house of my childhood "?

A)Poet
B)Grandmother
C)child
D)father

Question 19

________ distribute their silence Among intricately clustered glyphs

A)song
B) gifts
C)symbols
D)words

Question 20

Find the figure of speech in the expression 'colourless cracks '?

A)Metaphor
B)Alliteration
C)Oxymoron
D)Hyperbole

Question 21

Who was the first black woman poet to read her poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton?

A)Toni Morrison
B)Alice walker
C)Maya Angelou
D)None of them

Question 22

The poem "Still I Rise" is written by _____________

A)John Keat
B)Gabriel Okara
C)Maya Angelou
D)Dilip Chitre

Question 23

How many autobiographies were written by Maya Angelou?

A)Seven
B)One
C)Three
D)none of these

Question 24

Which of the poem was read by Maya Angelou on the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993?

A)Still I Rise
B)Phenomenal Women
C)Old flocks laugh
D)On the Pulse of Morning

Question 25

Maya Angelou's most famous autobiography, _____________.

A)Still I Rise
B)phenomenal Women
C)I know why the caged birds sing
D)The heart of a woman