The Wednesday Quiz's topics include the laws of sacrifice

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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!!  

Traditionally, it is a closed-book quiz.

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


1. Rolling Stone says they are the 73rd "Greatest [rock, presumably] Artists of All Time."  This is apparently evidenced on albums such as The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A.

2. Shakespeare's plays probably retailed for 6 pence each when they were first printed in this format.

3. His college professor told him not to go into Physics because there weren't any problems left to solve -- so of course he went and founded quantum theory (although some people think he was more like Einstein's co-pilot). He's got a constant named after him! h!

4. The actor is Marlon Brando. What's the movie?

5. This is information about a language test. What language is it in?

6. Shah Jahan built its most impressive monuments, but it reached its peak of power under Aurangzeb.  In 1700, it encompassed about a quarter of the world's population, but by 1804 it existed only as a formality, and in 1857 its last vestiges were eliminated.  What was this political entity?

7. Its topics include the laws of sacrifice, the rules of the priesthood, how to avoid and purge uncleanliness, and other assorted rules on behavior.

8. It's the pink one over to the east.

9. The main character of The Grapes of Wrath, he's also the title character of songs by Woodie Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen.

10. Who wrote The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go?

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Don't bother with the Wednesday Quiz; there aren't really any problems left to solve in it.