The Wednesday Quiz, in its new incarnation, is generally credited with building this city

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The Wednesday Quiz, in its third incarnation, is basically the same old weekly game of knowledge, intuition, inductive reasoning, and willingness to risk public embarrassment in a friendly and moderately supportive environment!!  With a minor twist that will probably make it rather difficult at first!  


Traditionally, it is a closed-book quiz, but who's going to know?

Answers sometimes come out Fridayish.

1. It's a kind of ecosystem that makes up about a third of the world's forest cover.  And it's usually pretty cold.

2. Whose compositions include "Semper Fidelis," "The Washington Post," and "Stars and Stripes Forever" -- as well as "The Liberty Bell," a tune you are almost certainly familiar with?

3. One of the foremost 20th Century abstract expressionists, whose work dealt primarily with color relationships, vehemently denied that he was an abstract expressionist. He was interested, he said:

only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point.

It would have to be ________.

4. What religious community's meetings consist of "expectant waiting," often in complete silence, for divine guidance or inspiration?

5. Who is generally credited with "building" this city -- which is to say, commanding it to be built?

6. They had an empire called Oium until they were subjegated by the Huns in 370.  They recovered, and founded the successful Kingdom of Italy in the former territory of the Roman Empire by 500.  But fifty years later, they were pretty much wiped off the map by the Byzantines.  Who were they?

7. What are the orange bits?

8. What is Humphrey Bogart holding here?

9. Often thought of in the United States as a dietary deficiency, this "problem" is shared by most adult mammals and more than half of the human population, including nearly everyone in many Asian and African countries.

10. What sad fictional character says:

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks!

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Touch me with noble anger, and put your answers in the comments.