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Are You Smarter than a High Schooler?

Each question has been heard at a high school academic team meet.
Quiz by Quagga50
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Last updated: December 11, 2022
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First submittedNovember 25, 2015
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Third opera in Richard Wagner's "The Ring"
Siegfried
Play about a king splitting his kingdom among his daughters
King Lear
Book "written" by John Kennedy
Profiles in Courage
Painting by Picasso about the terrors of war and a horse
Guernica
Country with the most islands
Finland
Treaty signed in 1848 that ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Cross between a sweet orange and a pomelo
Grapefruit
Religion that requires all baptized males to take the name Singh
Sikhism
Opera based on a story written by Prosper Merimee
Carmen
Director of Point Break as well as James Cameron's ex-wife
Kathryn Bigelow
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European country whose capital is Tirana
Albania
Birthstone for July
Ruby
Author of "The Color Purple"
Alice Walker
If Jo can paint a fence in 4 hours and Bob can paint it in 6, how long will it take Jo and Bob to paint the fence together?
2.4 hours
Baseball player of the early 1900s nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman"
Honus Wagner
1415 battle won because of England's longbow use
Battle of Agincourt
The fear of dogs
Cynophobia
Small country located in the Pacific Ocean just off of Malaysia
Singapore
NHL team that plays its home games in the Amalie Arena
Tampa Bay Lightning
Title of an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book that combines a land form and a Soviet camp system
The Gulag Archipelago
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Level 39
Nov 25, 2015
Generally a nice quiz, but a couple of things. It is profiles IN courage, not OF. Also, you might want to consider some alternate answers, not requiring things like the word "The" before Gulag, etc.