10 Trivia Questions with Unknown Theme

In this quiz you need to select the answer for ten increasingly difficult questions. There is a theme that connects the questions, which can help to identify some answers. Have fun!
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1. Which figure in Greek mythology has a tendon named in his honour?
Apollo
Achilles
Hector
Heracles
2. Who pioneered classical conditioning?
Hermann Rorschach
Carl Jung
B. F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
3. Which simple machine does a nutcracker doll make use of?
Screw
Lever
Wedge
Wheel and axle
4. Who shares a middle name with Lenin?
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Tchaikovsky
Gorky
5. What is the name of the fountain in Lake Geneva?
Grand jeté
Tours en l'air
Piqué
Jet d'eau
6. Who was Archbishop of Cape Town during apartheid?
F. W. de Klerk
P. W. Botha
Albert Luthuli
Desmond Tutu
7. What did Louis XIV do on a professional level?
Polo
Paint
Dance
Play the harpsichord
8. Who led the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike?
Clement Attlee
Arthur Scargill
Jimmy Hoffa
A. J. Cook
9. Which is not a member of the clade Euungulata, translating to 'hoofed'?
Elephant
Hippopotamus
Tapir
Orca
10. What is Aerial Ballet?
A style of dogfighting
A pop album
A sport
A specific aircraft holding pattern
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3 Comments
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Level 88
Apr 18, 2026
Hmm, I can see some relationships between the answers - the ballet stuff - but I'm not seeing the exact theme, or how all the answer fit.

Fun quiz though!

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Level 77
Apr 19, 2026
The theme is ballet, some have a very obscure connection to the theme.
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Level 77
Apr 19, 2026
1) The Achilles tendon is shortened when dancing ballet

2) Pavlov is the male version of Anna Pavlova's last name (the most famous prima ballerina)

3) Nutcracker dolls appear in the ballet The Nutcracker

4) Tchaikovsky wrote ballets

5) All terms except Jet d'eau are ballet terms

6) Desmond Tutu's last name is also a skirt worn by ballerinas

7) Lousi XIV was a ballet dancer

8) The UK miner's strike features prominently in 'Billy Elliot'

9) Pointe shoes are basically hoofs

10) It's in the name