The Wednesday Quiz is tall, tapered, four-sided, and has a little pyramid on top.

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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.

It is very possible that answers will come out over the weekend.

1. Most of its population lives in a long, narrow strip at the base of the Wasatch Mountains.

2. Perhaps the largest India-based company is an enormously diversified, privately-held, family-controlled firm. Its motor vehicles division owns the Jaguar and Land Rover brands as well as producing its own "Nano," the least expensive road car in the world. What is the name of this economic giant?

3. The Babylonians looked back at him as the man who

had neither rival nor equal. His splendor, over the lands it diffused. He crossed the sea in the east. In the eleventh year he conquered the western land to its farthest point. He brought it under one authority. He set up his statues there and ferried the west's booty across on barges. He stationed his court officials at intervals of five double hours and ruled in unity the tribes of the lands.

After establishing himself as the king of Kish, he went on to conquer the city-states of Sumeria and found the Akkadian Empire, possibly the first large, multi-ethnic, centrally controlled political entity in history. Who was this remarkable guy?

4. This Wikipedia entry on a noted British rock band of the 1960s is written in what language?

5. What's the name of the state shown here in orange?

6. What opera contributed two of its arias, "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So," to the list of American jazz standards?

7. It's tall, tapered, four-sided, and has a little pyramid on top. That makes it a classic ____________.

8. It begins after Moses receives the law, but ends before the Israelites are allowed to enter the Promised Land.

9. He didn't really "invent radio," but he was the first guy to make the technology usable and useful. Close enough.

10. The Canadian province that people call "Newfoundland" isn't just the island of Newfoundland; it also includes a big chunk of the North American mainland. This mainland area has two-thirds of the province's area, but only about a twentieth of its population. What's it called?

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Contribute your answers to the list of American jazz standards.