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Question 1

How was I killed And why?

Sir Walter rawl e Raleigh
Londo England
1618

Answer 1

Beheaded for treason
Guitionne not yet invented

Question 2

How was I killed And why?

William kemler
Auburn nY 1890

Answer 2

Electric chair for murder
Edison just invented electricity
First person ever executed this way

Question 3

How was I killed And why?
Ignatious of antiock
Collesium
Circa 135 common era

Answer 3

Thrown to lions
Spreading Christianity

Question 4

Sworn in as governor of Pennsylvania in 23

Answer 4

Josh Shapiro

Question 5

Prefix for 10

Answer 5

Deca

Question 6

23 super bowl Champs

Answer 6

Chiefs and mahomes

Question 7

The hormone insulin is secreted by structures in the pancreas called this , which are named for their island-like appearance under a microscope and for their discoverer- him .

Answer 7

Rhe islets of Langerhans

Paul Langerhans

The hormone is named for the “islets”, as the Latin for island is “insula”.

Question 8

were the first breath mints to be marketed nationally in the US, hitting the shelves in 1956.

Answer 8

Certs

A Cert is called a mint, but it isn’t really as it contains no mint oil and instead has its famous ingredient named “Retsyn”. Retsyn is a mixture of copper gluconate (giving the green flecks), partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil (not healthy!) and flavoring (maybe mint?).

Question 9

The microwave oven was invented in 1946 by him , an engineer here . While he was standing beside an active radar unit, which used microwaves, he noticed that the candy bar in his pocket had melted.

Answer 9

Percy Spencer at Raytheon

Spencer proceeded to expose various foods to microwaves in tests that would lead to the development of the first commercial microwave oven

Question 10

Ceramic cooker for a classic Boston dish that led to its nickname :

Answer 10

BEAN POT
In the days of sail, the natural trade routes across the Atlantic involved a lot of ships arriving in Boston directly from the West Indies. One of the main cargoes carried by these vessels coming from the West Indies was molasses. An abundance of cheap molasses led to an abundance of baked beans in the port city, and all those baked beans gave rise to Boston’s nickname “Beantown”.

Question 11

Poor Things” Oscar winner Stone :

Answer 11

Actress Emma Stone is from Scottsdale, Arizona. Shereally came to prominence with her performance in the 2010 high school movie called “Easy A”, and won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the 2016 movie “La La Land”. Now one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood, Stone values her privacy and works hard to maintain a low profile. Good for her, I say …

Question 12

Most populous word cities
Top 15

Answer 12

Tokyo
Delhi
Shanghai
San Paulo
Mexico City
Cairo
Mumbai
Beijing
Dhaka Bangladesh
Osaka Japan
NYC
Karachi Pakistan
Buenos Aires
Chongqing China
Istanbul

Question 13

He made a name for himself in the “Harold & Kumar” series of comedy films. These so-called “stoner comedies” are not my cup of tea, but I enjoyed him playing his more mainstream roles on TV’s “House” and “24”. He left the world of acting when President Obama won the 2008 election to work as an Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement (although he did leave the White House briefly to film the “Harold & Kumar” sequel).

Answer 13

Indian-American actor Kal Penn

Question 14

is located in northern Iraq and is the third largest city in the country, after Baghdad and Basra. It is located on the west bank of the Tigris river, opposite the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in the east bank.

Answer 14

Mosul

Mosul was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014. Those residents of Mosul who did not escape suffered under the rule of ISIL until the city’s liberation following the Battle of Mosul in 2016/2017.

Question 15

The marvelous Scottish actor Brian Cox plays this head of the company in succession.

Answer 15

Logan Roy

Question 16

two nations in the Americas to have French as an official language,

Answer 16

Haiti

the other being Canada.

Question 17

Otis Redding’s record label :

Answer 17

STAX

Stax Records was founded in 1957 as Satellite Records. The biggest star to record with Stax was the great Otis Redding.

Question 18

was best known for her beautiful rendition of the song “At Last”. Sadly, as she disclosed in her autobiography, she lived a life that was ravaged by drug addiction leading to numerous legal and health problems. She passed away in January 2012 having suffered from leukemia.

Answer 18

Etta James

Question 19

Nobel peace prize categories

Answer 19

The Peace Prize is the most famous of the five prizes bequeathed by Alfred Nobel. The others are for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. There is also a Nobel Prize in Economics that is awarded along with the original five, but it is funded separately and is awarded “in memory of Alfred Nobel”. Four of the prizes are awarded by Swedish organizations (Alfred Nobel was a Swede) and so the award ceremonies take place in Stockholm. The Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and is presented in Oslo.

Question 20

The celebrated 1959 Charlton Heston movie “is a dramatization of a book published in 1880 by Lew Wallace

Answer 20

Ben-Hur”

titled “Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ”. The 1959 epic film won a record 11 Academy Awards, a feat that has been equaled since then but never beaten. The other winners of 11 Oscars are “Titanic” (1997) and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003).