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Friday, January 08, 2010

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Decades. "As we enter a new decade, here is a quiz about decades - which are periods of ten years, usually periods starting with a year that ends with 0 or 1, like 2010 or 2001" Answers here.

1. Which decade was called "The Noughties" - was it the last decade of the 20th century or the first decade of the 21st century?
2. Which decade was known as "The Roaring Twenties" - was it the 1720s, the 1820s or the 1920s?
3. Which 1956 play by John Osborne was described by Kenneth Tynan as "the best play of its decade"?
4. Were the films "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" made in the 1930s, the 1940s or the 1950s?
5. Which American author coined the phrase "the me decade" - was it Tom Wolfe, Saul Bellow or Henry Miller?
6. Which epic poem by Homer records the adventures of Odysseus on his decade-long homeward voyage from Troy?
7. "Fauvism" is the name given to the work of a group of young French artists of the first decade of which century?
8. "Celtic Tiger" was a nickname applied to which country in the last decade of the 20th century owing to its thriving economy?
9. In the USA, which decade was known as the "red decade" because the domestic Communist movement was the nucleus of a huge "popular front" against European fascism?
10. Which decade was nicknamed the "Mauve Decade"?

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