QUES: Extending across the north and south side of the Alps in west-central Europe, Switzerland encompasses a great diversity of landscapes and climates on a limited area of 41,285 square kilometres (15,940 sq mi). The population is about 8 million, resulting in an average population density of around 195 people per square kilometre (500/sq mi). The more mountainous southern half of the country is far more sparsely populated than the northern half. In the largest Canton of Graubunden, lying entirely in the Alps, population density falls to 27 /km (70 /sq mi).
How large is Switzerland?

ANS: 41,285 square kilometres (15,940 sq mi)

QUES: In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit over reverse discrimination brought by 20 white and Hispanic firefighters against the city. The suit involved the 2003 promotion test for the New Haven Fire Department. After the tests were scored, no blacks scored high enough to qualify for consideration for promotion, so the city announced that no one would be promoted. On 29 June 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the firefighters, agreeing that they were improperly denied promotion because of their race. The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, became highly publicized and brought national attention to New Haven politics due to the involvement of then-Supreme Court nominee (and Yale Law School graduate) Sonia Sotomayor in a lower court decision.
The actual name for the case was what?

ANS: Ricci v. DeStefano

QUES: After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province today. During the Cultural Revolution (196676), Zhejiang was in chaos and disunity, and its economy was stagnant, especially during the high tide (196669) of the revolution. The agricultural policy favoring grain production at the expense of industrial and cash crops intensified economic hardships in the province. Mao's self-reliance policy and the reduction in maritime trade cut off the lifelines of the port cities of Ningbo and Wenzhou. While Mao invested heavily in railroads in interior China, no major railroads were built in South Zhejiang, where transportation remained poor.
When was the high tide of the Cultural Revolution?

ANS: 196669

QUES: As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes (/litiz/ -GLEE-teez; , Aigletes, from , "light of the sun"), Helius (/hilis/ HEE-lee-s; , Helios, literally "sun"), Phanaeus (/fnis/ f-NEE-s; , Phanaios, literally "giving or bringing light"), and Lyceus (/lasis/ ly-SEE-s; , Lykeios, from Proto-Greek *, "light"). The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia () and who was identified with the wolf (), earning him the epithets Lycegenes (/lasdniz/ ly-SEJ--neez; , Lukegenes, literally "born of a wolf" or "born of Lycia") and Lycoctonus (/lakktns/ ly-KOK-t-ns; , Lykoktonos, from , "wolf", and , "to kill"). As god of the sun, Apollo was called Sol (/sl/ SOL, literally "sun" in Latin) by the Romans.
Since Apollo was known as god of the sun, what was another name for Apollo?

ANS:
Sol