In the sentence 'He quickly gobbled his lunch.' the word 'quickly' functions as which part of speech?
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Verb
What is the two-word phrase, which includes a term for a group of people living in North America, that is used to describe a period of calm, dry, warm weather in late autumn in the northern U.S. or elsewhere?
American Summer
Canadian Summer
Indian Summer
Mexican Summer
Which monster of ancient Greek myth not only had nine heads, but when one was cut off, two more would replace it?
Chimera
Hippocampus
Hydra
Manticore
A popular term in
psychology
, it is a term of Pacific island origin synonymous with 'ban' and 'prohibition'. What is this 'T' word?
Taboo
Taunt
Terror
Totem
What eight-letter 'Q' word is synonymous with both 'marshland' and 'predicament'?
Quadriga
Quagmire
Quandong
Quantico
The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of which literary device?
Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Spoonerisms
The name of which classic
dance
is from the German "to revolve"?
Ballet
Mazurka
Polka
Waltz
Epictetus and Zeno of Citium were ancient Greek practitioners of what philosophical 'ism'?
Epicurianism
Platonism
Skepticism
Stoicism
The Cloisters, in upper Manhattan, is a branch of which New York City Museum?
The Brooklyn Museum
The Frick Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Phidias, the famed ancient Greek sculptor of Athena at the Parthenon, also created a gigantic sculpture at Olympia. Which Greek god was the subject of this sculpture?
Apollo
Helios
Nike
Zeus