Friday, July 04, 2008

Just the Questions

No time for wittering; I am deep in the hole writing the second half of my summer e-mail quiz. So here are today's five ...

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1 According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which British work of fiction supplies the best treatise on an education according to nature and is the first book the imaginary pupil and title character of his 1762 philosophical novel Emile will read?
2 Seen on British shop counters everywhere, Thomas Adams invented the modern form of what in 1869?
3 Primarily used to refer to live-action Japanese film and television dramas that make use of them, the term "tokusatsu" literally means what?
4 In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and subsequent comic books, what was the "treacherous" surname of the character Willow?
5 The earliest explicit description of which musical instrument, including its tuning, appeared in the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556?

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Answers to FE:IV
1 Robinson Crusoe 2 Chewing gum 3 Special effects 4 Rosenberg 5 Violin

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