Games: Trivia Test 213729

The discovery of Metallica’s song “I Disappear” on a file-sharing network led to the demise of the original incarnation of what company?

Metallica 250 (photo credit: Mercenary PR/Bloomberg News)
Metallica 250
(photo credit: Mercenary PR/Bloomberg News)
1. The discovery of Metallica’s song “I Disappear” on a file-sharing network in 2000 started a chain of events that led to the demise of the original incarnation of what company?
2. Which 1895 poem, probably the best evocation of Victorian stoicism, was once called “the essence of the message of The Gita (Bhagavad Gita) in English”?
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3. Which anthropomorphic cartoon character whose parsimony typifies the stereotype of miserly Scotsmen was possibly modeled after the Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie?
4. Who is the English weaver who purportedly destroyed two knitting frames in 1779 and whose name is now synonymous with “anti-technology”?
5. Which actor, the epitome of American masculinity, has the appropriate distinction of being the only one on every annual list of Harris Poll’s ‘America’s favorite film stars’?
6. Which hazelnut liqueur comes in a bottle with a knotted white cord around its waist that is meant to mimic the religious garments of a friar?
7. What namesake thought experiment intended to demonstrate the limitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics features a malevolent creature opening doors in a chamber?
8. Who wrote the Israeli teenage romance novels ‘Uri’ and ‘Alifim’?
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