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Question 1

Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Answer 1

The Road Not Taken

Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be titled “The Road Less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road Not Taken”. Quite interesting …

Question 2

Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Answer 2

The Road Not Taken

Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be titled “The Road Less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road Not Taken”. Quite interesting …

Question 3

” is a 2019 legal drama movie that is based on a 2014 memoir of the same name by Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson, a defense attorney devoted to representing African-American prisoners on death row, is portrayed by Michael B. Jordan. After the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, Warner Bros. made the film available for free on several streaming platforms in an effort to educate the public about systemic racism. It’s a very powerful film …

Answer 3

Just Mercy

Question 4

O’Shea Jackson Jr. is an American actor and rapper who is best known for his portrayal of his own father him in this biopic

Answer 4

rapper Ice Cube, in the biopic “Straight Outta Compton” (2015).

Question 5

Peanuts” character in a cloud of dirt :

Answer 5

PIG-PEN
Pig-Pen is the kid in the “Peanuts” cartoon strip that is always dirty. Charles Schulz, the strip’s author, said that Pig-Pen was one of his least favorite characters, and he almost disappeared from the later years of “Peanuts” comic strips.

Question 6

This great American tennis player spent the last years of his life writing his memoir called “Days of Grace”. He finished the manuscript just a few days before he passed away, dying from AIDS caused by a tainted blood transfusion.

Answer 6

Arthur Ashe

Question 7

These tennis championships are held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club located in same name district, a district of London.

Also played on this surface

Answer 7

The Wimbledon Championships

The Wimbledon Championships started in 1877, and have been played on grass surface since day one.

Question 8

Gatorade was developed here

Answer 8

at the University of Florida by a team of researchers at the request of the school’s football team. And so, Gatorade is named after the Gators football team.

Question 9

Maryland athlete, for short :

Answer 9

TERP
The sports teams of the University of Maryland (UMD) are called the Maryland Terrapins, or “Terps” for short. The name dates back to 1932 when it was coined by the university’s president at the time, Curley Byrd. He took the name from the diamondback terrapins that are native to the Chesapeake Bay.

Question 10

” is a Hindi word meaning “teacher” or “priest”.

Answer 10

Guru

Question 11

She was an author from Jackson, Mississippi who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. She won a Pulitzer in 1973 for her novel “The Optimist’s Daughter”. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1980.

Answer 11

Eudora Welty

The Eudora email system, once used by Mac and Windows operating systems, was named for Eudora Welty.

Question 12

home of the Munch Museum :

Answer 12

OSLO
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian expressionist, and most famous for his painting “The Scream”, painted in 1893. What a wonderful work that is, a true representation of expressionism. The Munch Museum in Oslo is dedicated to his work and life. In 2004, two of Munch’s paintings, “The Scream” and “Madonna”, were stolen from the Munch Museum by armed robbers who subdued the museum guards. The paintings were missing for two years, but recovered in 2006.

Question 13

This forms from peat that is subject to heat and pressure deep in the ground over millions of years.

Answer 13

Coal

The peat is dead plant matter from former wetlands that we now refer to as “coal forests”.

Question 14

is located on the River Thames in Berkshire, just 20 miles outside London. It was built in the early 11th century by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion of England.

Answer 14

Windsor Castle

Queen Elizabeth II used to spend many of her weekends at Windsor. She had lots of room to move around there, as it’s the largest inhabited castle in the world.

Question 15

French artist was one of the founders of the Impressionist movement, and indeed the term “Impressionism” comes from the title of his 1872 painting “Impression, Sunrise”.

Answer 15

Claude Monet

That work depicts the port of Le Havre, which was Monet’s hometown. Later in his life, Monet purchased a house in Giverny, and famously installed lily ponds and a Japanese bridge in the property’s extensive gardens. He spent two decades painting the water lily ponds, producing his most famous works. I was fortunate enough to visit Monet’s house and gardens in Giverny a few years ago. A beautiful place …

Question 16

This term “”, which is French for “melted”, is now applied more widely to similar dishes served in a communal pot into which a food is dipped.

Answer 16

Fondue is a traditional Swiss dish comprising melted cheese served in a pot over a tabletop stove, into which diners dip bread.

Traditional fondue is delicious, so very delicious …

Question 17

” is a Cantonese word, and is the name for the frying pan now used in many Asian cuisines.

Answer 17

Wok

Question 18

Cleveland’s lake :

Answer 18

ERIE
Cleveland, Ohio was named after the man who led the team that surveyed the area prior to the founding of the city. General Moses Cleaveland did his work in 1796 and then left Ohio, never to return again.

Question 19

Tik tok star with more than 12 M followers known for his frequent collaborations with his friend megan trainor and for his coffee brand flight fuel

Answer 19

Chris Olsen

Question 20

Snapchat original name
2011

Answer 20

Peek a boo

Question 21

Recorded a song called jealousy jealousy about prior obsession with social media and making comparisons to people online

Answer 21

Olivia Rodrigo

Question 22

Nu metal band since 1993 :

Answer 22

KORN
Korn is an alternative-metal band from Bakersfield, California. The band’s name is derived from a fan suggestion of “Corn”. The suggested name was considered too bland and so was prettied up to Korn, with the letter “r” capitalized and written backwards.

Question 23

Nu metal band since 1993 :

Answer 23

KORN
Korn is an alternative-metal band from Bakersfield, California. The band’s name is derived from a fan suggestion of “Corn”. The suggested name was considered too bland and so was prettied up to Korn, with the letter “r” capitalized and written backwards.

Question 24

” is a catchphrase associated with restaurateur and TV personality Guy Fieri.

Answer 24

Flavortown

Fieri opened Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen in 2021, a delivery-only restaurant that serves over 170 locations in 34 US states.

Question 25

Shoulder muscle, briefly :

Answer 25

DELT
The deltoid “muscle” is actually a group of “muscles”, the ones that cover the shoulder and create the roundness under the skin. The deltoids (delts) are triangular in shape resembling the Greek letter delta, hence the name.

Question 26

The three big airports serving New York City (NYC) are

Answer 26

John F. Kennedy (JFK), LaGuardia (LGA) and Newark (EWR).

Question 27

African snake :

Answer 27

MAMBA
Mambas, most famously black mambas, are highly venomous snakes that used to be responsible for a great number of fatalities before anti-venoms became available. Mamba venom is a deadly mix of neurotoxins that attack the nervous system and cardiotoxins that attack the heart. A bite, if left untreated, causes the lungs and the heart to shut down.

Question 28

are like small llamas, but unlike llamas were never beasts of burden. They were bred specifically for the fleece. As such, there are no known wild these days, even in their native Peru.

Answer 28

Alpacas

Question 29

Contact lens solution :

Answer 29

SALINE
The concepts that underpin the technology of contact lenses date back to Leonardo Da Vinci. Although Da Vinci didn’t propose the development of the contact lens, he did write about correcting vision by submerging the eye in a bowl of water. Over a hundred years later, René Descartes made a somewhat impractical suggestion, but along the right lines, of using a glass tube filled with liquid that could be placed in contact with the eye to correct vision. The first real contact lenses were developed by German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick in 1887.

Question 30

Candy mixed with Coke in a chemistry experiment :
Element ?

Answer 30

POP ROCKS
The fizzy candy marketed as Pop Rocks was introduced in 1975. The candy is made by exposing a melted sugar syrup to carbon dioxide at high pressure. As the syrup cools, it traps high-pressure bubbles of the gas inside the candy. When the candy dissolves in the mouth, the carbon dioxide is released with a popping sound.

Question 31

Where I come from, the cocktail known in North America as a mimosa is called a buck’s fizz, with the latter named for Buck’s Club in London where it was introduced in 1921. The mimosa came along a few years later, apparently first being served in the Paris Ritz. If you want to make a mimosa, it’s this

Answer 31

50-50 mix of champagne and orange juice, and it is very tasty …

Question 32

Racer known as “the fastest woman in the world” :

Answer 32

O’NEIL
Kitty O’Neil was a stuntwoman and auto-racer. In 1976, she set the women’s absolute land speed record in a jet-powered vehicle that reached almost 513 miles per hour. That record stood until 2019.

Question 33

Angelic being :

Answer 33

CHERUB
A cherub (plural “cherubim”) is an angel. The term “cherub” ultimately comes from the Hebrew “kerubh” (plural “kerubhim”) meaning “winged angel”. In the Jewish tradition, cherubim play a key role in protecting the Garden of Eden, and in particular the Tree of Life.

Question 34

The concepts of anima and animus are found in his school of analytical psychology. The idea is that within each male there resides a feminine inner personality called the anima, and within each female there is a male inner personality known as the animus.

Answer 34

Carl Jung

Question 35

The compact disc won the battle over this

Answer 35

Bygone audio format : MINIDISC
Sony introduced the MiniDisc data storage device in 1992, ostensibly as a successor to the cassette tape. Although the MiniDisc was successful in Japan, it failed to take over the audio market in the rest of the world. The compact disc won that battle.

Question 36

William Shakespeare was born and raised in the lovely town of

Answer 36

Stratford-upon-Avon in the English Midlands. He was the third oldest of eight children born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. In 1582, he was only 18 years old when he somewhat hastily married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, and the couple welcomed their first child six months later. For much of his life, Shakespeare divided his time between Stratford and London, where he worked as an actor and theater owner in addition to penning his plays and sonnets. He apparently retired to Stratford, dying there after three years at the age of 52 in 1616.

Question 37

was a Russian pianist and composer who was active in the late Romantic Era. He emigrated from Russia in 1917, having been driven away by the Russian Revolution. He eventually settled in the US, where he toured as a pianist for many years. His most famous works are probably his “Piano Concerto No. 1” and his “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”.

Answer 37

Sergei Rachmaninoff