The Wednesday Quiz wouldst be great

It's:

The new weekly game of knowledge, intuition, inductive reasoning, and willingness to risk public embarrassment in a friendly and moderately supportive environment!!

Answers come out Fridayish.

1. Who is the character who quoth:

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition; but without
The illness should attend it.

2. What German company puts this logo on its vehicles?

3. You might think his biggest hit was "If I had a Boat," but the truth is he's never really had a "hit" single per se. His career has been interrupted when he was gored by a bull, and he used to be Mr. Julia Roberts. Who is the man with the large band?

4. This blue mineral's popularity is pretty enduring; it has been mined in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan for more than 6000 years.

5. Sometimes this term is thought to just mean any kind of fat, but it is actually "a broad group of naturally occurring molecules which includes waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins, monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others."

6. Name the countries! Indicating which is which! Chop chop!

7. "Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination." Yet, "he is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived." Who is this fiendishly clever dude?

8. It's the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It has j's in its name!

9. Who is the painter who is famous and considered important, despite that this sort of thing is typical of his work?

10. He survived two assassination attempts in 1918, but his health never recovered and, after a series of strokes, he died, apparently with grim misgivings about his successor, in 1924. We refer of course to _________.


Put your answers in the comments on your pony on your boat.