Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: How was Julius Caesar killed?
A He was poisoned
B He was stabbed
C He was pushed off a ledge
At least 60 Roman senators are believed to have conspired to kill Caesar because they thought he intended to crown himself king of Rome, after a string of moves that concentrated his power and disrespected the Senate. He was stabbed 23 times.
The correct answer is He was stabbed.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What is ‘the Ides of March’?
A The 15th day of the month
B A day to beware
C The spring equinox
The Roman calendar didn’t number each day of a month from the first to the last day. Instead, Romans counted back from three fixed points of the month: the Nones (the fifth or seventh, nine days inclusive before the Ides), the Ides (the 13th for most months, but the 15th in March, May, July, and October), and the Kalends (the first of the following month).
If you’ve heard of the Ides of March, it’s probably because of the ominous warning, ‘Beware the Ides of March,’ in Shakespeare’s play, ‘Julius Caesar.’ The play depicts the assassination of Caesar here in the Roman Forum on the fateful day of March 15, 44 BCE.
The correct answer is The 15th day of the month.
Microsoft Rewards Bing News Quiz: Once the domain of digital media pirates, which peer-to-peer file-sharing service is being revived as an NFT marketplace?
A LimeWire
B Kazaa
C Napster
The correct answer to this quiz is LimeWire.
Microsoft Rewards Bing News Quiz: Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at a…
A War protest in Russia
B Rodeo in Texas
C Random kid’s birthday party
The correct answer to this quiz is Rodeo in Texas.
Microsoft Rewards Bing News Quiz: Which band’s song ‘Heat Waves’ finally hit No. 1 after 59 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100?
A The Electric Mayhem
B Glass Animals
C Imagine Dragons
The correct answer to this quiz is Glass Animals.
Microsoft Rewards Bing News Quiz: Which reclusive writer announced two new novels to be published this fall, ending a 16-year hiatus?
A Thomas Pynchon
B S.E. Hinton
C Cormac McCarthy
The correct answer to this quiz is Cormac McCarthy.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: This Italian village, Bobbio, is where Leonardo da Vinci is believed to have painted…
A The Virgin of the Rocks
B The Mona Lisa
C The Last Supper
Look carefully past Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile and you will see a river landscape believed to be 16th-century Bobbio, complete with an arched, stone bridge.
The correct answer is The Mona Lisa.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: Years after serving in World War I here in northern Italy, Ernest Hemingway used that experience to write…
A For Whom the Bell Tolls
B A Farewell to Arms
C The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in the war, like the novel’s American narrator. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ (1929) was Hemingway’s first bestseller. It tells the story of the narrator’s love affair with an English nurse.
The correct answer is A Farewell to Arms.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: Which ancient culture innovated the use of arches in civil engineering?
A Greek
B Egyptian
C Roman
While arches were known to the Greeks and Egyptians, the Romans used them in bridges, aqueducts, and other large-scale structures. Stones were cut with such precision that mortar was usually not needed.
The correct answer is Roman.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What British pop band used this pattern on the cover of their album ‘A Head Full of Dreams’?
A Blur
B Coldplay
C Oasis
Peaking at number two in the US and reaching the top spot on the UK Albums Chart, 2015’s ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ was a commercial success, if less well received critically. The album featured collaborations with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, and Tove Lo.
The correct answer is Coldplay.