Alphaquiz # 10

Alphaquiz # 10

1. Which French biologist discovered the HIV virus and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

2. Anna Marie is the real name of which X-MEN member?

3. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands is the book written by which stand-up comedienne and TV host?

4. Now on its 20th year what is the title of the U.S. magazine exclusively for lesbian?

5. What is the only chemical element named after a river?

6. Hans Sloane donated his collection that now became the foundation of what famous museum?

7. What is the shopping capital of Malaysia equivalent to Tokyo’s Ginza district and New York’s Fifth Avenue?

8. Who is the author of Men in Black graphic book where the movie franchise was based?

9. The movie Detroit Rock City features which heavy metal band?

10.Which Pope established the Inquisition to address the problem of heresy?

11. Literally means "carry mantle" what is a large traveling bag, and now a term for combination of meaning of two words?

12. What type of whiskey is made from a fermented mixture of hot water and grain mash containing at least 51 percent corn?

13. Which actor portrayed the comedian Peter Sellers in the movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers?

14. What is the name of the cemetery in Paris where Peter Abelard, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein was buried?

15. What is the fictional crime organization headed by M. Bison in Street Fighter?

16. Yersina Pestis bacterium caused what wide-ranging disease in human history?

17. What social networking website is owned and operated by Google Inc. and named after one of it's employees?

18. Teen idol River Phoenix died during the making of which movie?

19. What was the first sports in which women competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics?

20. "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" or "A Sleeping Dragon is Never to be Tickled" is the motto of which school?





ANSWERS


1. Luc Montaginer
2. Rogue
3. Chelsea Handler
4. Curve Magazine
5. Rhenium
6. British Museum
7. Bukit Bintang
8. Lowell Cunningham
9. KISS
10. Gregory IX
11. Portmanteau
12. Bourbon
13. Geoffrey Rush
14. Père Lachaise Cemetery
15. Shadaloo
16. Bubonic plague
17. Orkut
18. Dark Blood
19. Tennis and Golf
20. Hogwarts