Friday 9 December 2011

Quiz 103:9th December 2011

Q1. Officially known as Ivan Franco National University of ________, this is the oldest operating university in Ukraine. Ivan Vakarchuk is the president of this university. The University was founded on January 20, 1661 when the King John II Casimir of Poland issued the diploma granting the city's Jesuit Collegium, founded in 1608, "the honour of the Academy and the title of the University". ‘Theology’ and ‘Philosophy’ were its first two departments. Name this university.
Q2. Formerly known as Ellice Islands this country is the 4th smallest country of this planet. The people living in this country are a Polynesian people who settled the islands around 3000 years ago coming from Tonga and Samoa. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbors are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls. Name this country.
Q3. __________ is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas. __________ received its premiere at the National Theatre in Munich on 22 September 1869, with August Kindermann in the role of Wotan, Heinrich Vogl as Loge, and Karl Fischer as Alberich. Name this opera.
Q4. The team was founded in Kansas City in 1894 as a Western League team and would move to Washington, D.C., in 1901 as one of the eight original teams of the American League, named the Washington Senators or Washington Nationals. Manager Clark Griffith joined the team in 1912 and became the team's owner in 1920. The franchise remained under Griffith family ownership until 1984. Scott Baker is one of the most famous pitchers of this team. Name this team.
Q5. _____________ is a professional gridiron football defensive end for the La Crosse Spartans of the Indoor Football League. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Missouri. He has also been a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and RiverCity Rage. Name this player.


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