Q1: This Italian tenor was in town to perform when the earthquake struck?

The crrect Answer is: Enrico Caruso

Q2: Between 1309 & 1377, Avignon, France, was the seat of power for this important world
figure?

The crrect Answer is: the pope

Q3: Keep pieces of this in special flannel bags that are infused with particles of this to stop
the pieces from tarnishing?

The crrect Answer is: silver

Q4: His later career included intoning that Paul Masson would "Sell no Wine Before Its
Time"?

The crrect Answer is: Orson Welles

Q5: It's the month Truman began a famous speech with the line "We have just dropped a
new bomb..."?

The crrect Answer is: August (of 1945)

Q6: Measuring alkalinity or acidity, test this 2-letter quality of your soil?

The crrect Answer is: pH

Q7: Dry farming, growing without irrigation on semi-arid land, gained 1st wide use in this
Beehive State?

The crrect Answer is: Utah