Trivia Test

Amazon 250 (photo credit: Reuters)
Amazon 250
(photo credit: Reuters)
1. What WWII plane that was exceptional for its short-field maneuverability (aiding clandestine operations) was named after the legendary Spartan general who helped end the Peloponnesian War?
2. Which filmmaker who spent much of his life on the island of Fårö in the Baltic was once referred to by Woody Allen as “probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera?”
3. Fill in the missing word in this famous quote of Jorge Luis Borges that is very appropriate coming from a writer! “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of ___.”
4. Nearly three quarters of the Amazon rain-forest is in Brazil (60%) and what other country?
5. Which 1970 film that portrays a key incident of the 20th century takes its thrice-repeating title from a code word that the antagonists used to indicate the surprise they achieved in their belligerence?
6. What is the term for the food preparation in which an ingredient, usually in a shallow dish, is topped with a browned crust?
7. In times gone by, shepherds used to place a bell around the neck of a castrated ram that was leading a flock of sheep so that the movement of the flock could be noted.
What was another term for the castrated ram?
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