The Wednesday Quiz is no longer worth anything near $101 billion

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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.

Answers may well come out Fridayish. Or Saturdayish.

1. This country came into being in 1861 as an expansion of the monarchy of the ancient House of Savoy -- although this isn't the way it's usually it's usually talked about. It wasn't complete in its modern form, however, until losing the Franco-Prussian War convinced the French to give up a chunk that they had been hanging onto.

2. I'm told Holi is the most fun, but there's also Diwali, Navaratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Rama Navami, Janmashtami, and plenty of others. What are they?

3. Who is no longer worth anything near $101 billion, in part because he's given $28 billion to charity?

4. It's not a liquor, it's the name of the guy who painted this:

5. Who said

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language, not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue. 

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. 

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

and:

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

6. In what movie do we meet Mookie, Buggin' Out, and the unfortunate Radio Raheem?

7. Who convinced himself that these were trips to Indonesia?

8. The eighth most populous country in the world considers itself especially vulnerable to climate change because it is so low-lying, with most of its land below 10 meters of elevation. What country is this?

9. Of what well known organization is this the symbol?

10. The county of Tanzania was formed by the 1964 union of mainland Tanganyika and this archipelago principality, which is famous in some circles for its cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper. Where are we talking about?

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know, in the comments.