Can you name the answers to these really difficult questions? by nathanl

Question	Answer
Who gets Eva Pregnant in 'An Inspector Calls'?
What does the word 'bekommen' translate to from German to English?
Apple announced the first iPad on what day, in January 2010?
In photography, which of these is a fictional brand? Sigma, Tamron, Nikon, Matsuri, or Canon.
Which processor is more powerful, the Intel Core 2 Duo, the Intel i3 (Dual Core) or the Apple A5?
Which empire, did Turkey belong to at the breakout of WWI?

Question	Answer
Which musical chord, was commonly associated to be that of the devil in the Middle Ages, due to its sound? Cm, Fsharpmaj, B, C or Dm?
Which scottish town is further west? Cullen, Buckle or Fochabers?
Which company, acquired the Huffington Post in 2011?
Name the author of book, 'The Book Thief'.
In which year, was this website, Sporcle, launched?

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A Fiendish General Knowledge Quiz

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Created Mar 24, 2011 in Just For Fun
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	Vman455:	Mar 24th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT		2 points
	Tough quiz. I suggest you reword question 7--first, you need to establish whether the musical period in question is the early, middle, or late medieval period (important because polyphony didn't begin to be codified until nearly 1000CE). Second, chords were not "banned"; there was no watchdog group telling musicians what they could and could not do, merely the parameters of established practice. Music at the time was built on 3 hexachords (six-note scalar groups with consistent intervallic relationships), with B natural (known at the time as H) introduced in the hard hexachord (B referred to what we now call B flat, introduced in the soft hexachord). Because F sharp did not exist (as well as E flat; note that there are actually three correct possible answers in the options you give) it was impossible to form a perfect fifth relationship with H (B natural)--attempting to do so when singing polyphonically would produce a diminished fifth, or tritone, which medieval musicians were taught to studiously eschew as it was believed to be disruptive. To avoid this, at first singers would simply lower the H to B (flat), thus producing a perfect fifth; later, someone had the bright idea of sharping F to solve the problem another way. Usually this was not notated in written music and left to the judgment of the performer to correct. Sorry for the lengthy response; I teach music history at the collegiate level and couldn't let this slide by.