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Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 84

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  1. Q1Type the answer

    “May the Force be with you” is the famous blessing from which film saga?

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    ✓Star Wars, whose fans now celebrate it every year on May the Fourth.

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    Which Egyptian queen was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?

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    ✓Cleopatra, who lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

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  3. Q3Multiple choice

    Michael Jordan won all six of his NBA championships with which team?

    • Chicago Bulls
    • Los Angeles Lakers
    • Boston Celtics
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    ✓The Chicago Bulls, with two separate three-peats in 1991–93 and 1996–98.

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  4. Q4Multiple choice

    Louis Armstrong, “Satchmo”, was a jazz virtuoso on which instrument?

    • Trumpet
    • Saxophone
    • Clarinet
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    ✓The trumpet, though he played cornet, which he studied at a New Orleans boys’ home, until switching in 1926.

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  5. Q5Type the answer

    Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” is painted on the ceiling of which Vatican chapel?

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    ✓The Sistine Chapel, named after Pope Sixtus IV, who commissioned it.

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  6. Q6Type the answer

    Sailors on long voyages got scurvy from a lack of which vitamin?

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    ✓Vitamin C, hence the Royal Navy’s citrus rations, first lemon and later lime juice, and the nickname “limeys”

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  7. Q7Multiple choice

    The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu stands high in the Andes of which country?

    • Peru
    • Bolivia
    • Ecuador
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    ✓Peru, where the citadel won world fame after Hiram Bingham’s 1911 visit.

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