Dev Patel David Copperfield

Question 1

Airport near Astoria:. :

Answer 1

LGA
Fiorello La Guardia was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945, racking up three full terms in office. The famous airport that bears La Guardia’s name was built at his urging, stemming from an incident that took place while he was in office. He was taking a TWA flight to “New York” and was outraged when the plane landed at Newark Airport, in the state of New Jersey. The Mayor demanded that the flight take off again and land at a small airport in Brooklyn. A gaggle of press reporters joined him on the short hop and he gave them a story, urging New Yorkers to support the construction of a new commercial airport within the city’s limits. The new airport, in Queens, opened in 1939 as New York Municipal, often called “LaGuardia” as a nickname. The airport was officially relabeled as “LaGuardia” (LGA) in 1947.

Astoria is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York. The area sits on the East River, and was originally called Hallet’s Cove after the first landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1659. The area was renamed Astoria in a deal to get John Jacob Astor, then the wealthiest man in the country, to invest $2,000 in the neighborhood. Astor only put up $500 in the end, but the name stuck.

Question 2

” is actually an acronym, one standing for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (“Lombard Automobile Factory, Public Company”).

Answer 2

The “Alfa” in “Alfa Romeo

ALFA was an enterprise founded in 1909 and which was taken over by Nicola Romeo in 1915. In 1920 the company name was changed to Alfa Romeo.

Question 3

encompasses most of Western Asia and Egypt

Answer 3

The Near/Middle East

In geographical terms there are three “Easts”. “Near East” and “Middle East” are terms that are often considered synonymous, although “Near East” tends to be used when discussing ancient history and “Middle East” when referring to the present day. The Near/Middle East encompasses most of Western Asia and Egypt. The term “Far East” describes East Asia (including the Russian Far East), Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Question 4

was first served in French restaurants in the early 1900s. Back then, the dish went by the name “steak à l’Americaine”, would you believe? It was basically raw, seasoned beef mixed with egg yolk.

Answer 4

Steak tartare

A later version of l’Americaine, without the egg yolk and with tartar sauce served on the side, was dubbed “steak tartare”. Over time the two versions became one, and the steak tartare moniker won out. By the way, if you order steak tartare in Switzerland, I believe you are served horse meat. There are now similar “tartare” dishes made with raw salmon, or raw tuna.

Question 5

David Copperfield portrayer

Answer 5

Dev Patel is an actor from Harrow in England who is perhaps best known for playing the lead in the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. He also stars in a lovely 2012 film called “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” alongside an incredible cast that included Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Tom Wilkinson. Patel also had a regular role in the marvelous HBO drama series called “The Newsroom”.

“The Personal History of David Copperfield” is a 2019 big-screen adaptation of the 1850 Charles Dickens novel “David Copperfield”. Written and directed by Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci, this a comedy-drama version of the Dickens story. Ianucci is the man behind the hit show “Veep”, which is one reason that I’ve put this film on my “must see” list …

Question 6

The oak depicted on this quarter is the Charter Oak. The tree earned its name from the legend that the original Royal Charter for the colony was hidden in a cavity of the tree for a while. The tree no longer exists, as it went down in a storm in 1856.

Answer 6

Connecticut

Question 7

This baseball franchise started out in 1869 as the Forest Citys, named after Forest City, the nickname for the city.

Answer 7

Cleveland
After a number of transitions, in 1914 the team took on the name “Indians”. The media came up with the name “Indians” after being asked for suggestions by the team owners. “Indians” was inspired by the successful Boston team of the day, the Boston Braves. In 2021, the team dropped the insensitive “Indians” moniker and renamed itself to the Guardians. The “Guardians” name is a reference to four pairs of Art Deco statues on the city’s Hope Memorial Bridge known as the Guardians of Traffic.

Question 8

is a range of video cassette products that was released by Sony starting in 1982.

Answer 8

Betacam

Question 9

is a Canadian actress who came to world attention playing Kim Bauer, Jack Bauer’s daughter on TV’s “24”. After “24”, she played one of the lead characters on the sitcom “Happy Endings” that ran from 2011 to 2013.

Answer 9

Elisha Cuthbert

Question 10

2020 NL batting champion :

Answer 10

SOTO
Juan Soto is a professional baseball player from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He made his MLB debut with the Washington Nationals in 2018, and in so doing became the youngest player in the majors (at 19).

Question 11

Name a few 5 spice ingredients

Answer 11

Five-spice powder is a mixture of five spices that is used in some Asian and Arabic cuisines. The five ingredients can vary, but a common formulation is:

Star anise
Cloves
Chinese cinnamon
Sichuan pepper
Fennel seeds

Question 12

Gilead” series author

Answer 12

Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” series : LILA
“Lila” is a 2014 novel by Marilynne Robinson that is the third installment in the “Gilead” series, following “Gilead” and “Home”.

Question 13

NASA research center in Silicon Valley :

Answer 13

AMES
The Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Joseph Ames was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics when it was formed in 1915, and chaired the committee from 1919-1939.

Question 14

are rubber overshoes worn to protect shoes in bad weather

Answer 14

Galoshes
. A particular kind of galosh covers only the upper part of the shoe, and it is known as a gaiter or a spat.

Question 15

Fifth letter of the NATO alphabet :

Answer 15

ECHO
The NATO phonetic alphabet is also called the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) phonetic alphabet. Alfa, Bravo, Charlie … X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.

Question 16

Actor career started when he was a child playing a lead role in the TV Western series “The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters” in the sixties. He met her on the set of the 1984 film “Swing Shift”, and the two have been in a committed relationship ever since.

Answer 16

Kurt Russell’s

Goldie Hawn

I remember watching the ditsy character played by Goldie Hawn on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”. Hawn used to give great performances on the show, convincing everyone that she was the stereotypical dumb blonde. Well, what a great career she was to carve out for herself!

The Christmas Chronicles 2” is an entertaining 2020 holiday movie, a sequel to 2018’s “The Christmas Chronicles”. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn reprise their roles, as Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus respectively. I enjoyed this one, although I still think that the original is more fun …

Question 17

” is the Latin word for “moon”, and is the name given to the Roman moon goddess. Also The Greek equivalent

Answer 17

Luna

Also The Greek equivalent of Luna was Selene. Luna had a temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome but it was destroyed during the Great Fire that raged during the reign of Nero. She also had a temple on the Palatine Hill in which a lamp remained lit, illuminating the night.

Question 18

Compost is best made by “putting together” green waste that is rich in this , with brown waste that is rich in this , all in the presence of water and air.

Answer 18

nitrogen
Carbon - brown

Question 19

1921 play is remembered in part for introducing the world to the word “robot”

Answer 19

Čapek’s

“R.U.R.”

The words “automaton” and “android” were already in use, but Capek gave us “robot” from the original Czech “robota” meaning “forced labor”. The acronym “R.U.R.”, in the context of the play, stands for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”.

Question 20

is the 2015 case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry. Famously, President Obama had the White House illuminated in rainbow colors on the night of the ruling.

Answer 20

Obergefell v. Hodges

Question 21

The police raided this gay bar on June 29th, 1969. That raid triggered a spate of violent demonstrations led by the LGBT community.

Answer 21

the Stonewall Inn

Now known as the Stonewall riots, those demonstrations are viewed by many as a significant event leading to the modern-day fight for LGBT rights in the US. Since then, June has been chosen as LGBT Pride Month in recognition of the Stonewall riots.

Question 22

Literary musketeers

Answer 22

Alexandre Dumas’ “Three Musketeers” are Athos, Porthos and Aramis, although the hero of the novel is the trio’s young protégé D’Artagnan. A musketeer was an infantry soldier who was equipped with a musket. Funnily enough, the three “musketeers” really don’t use their muskets, and are better known for prowess with their swords.

Question 23

In 2022, President Joe Biden presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, making her the youngest person ever to receive the award.

Answer 23

Simone biles

Question 24

is a very hard type of rock that is crushed for use as an abrasive.

Answer 24

Emery
Emery paper is made by gluing small particles of emery to paper. Emery boards are just emery paper with a cardboard backing. And emery boards are primarily used for filing nails.

Question 25

Utah jazz genesis

Answer 25

The Utah Jazz professional basketball team moved to Salt Lake City in 1979. As one might guess from the name, the team originated in New Orleans, but only played there for five seasons. New Orleans was a tough place to be based because venues were hard to come by, and Mardi Gras forced the team to play on the road for a whole month.

Question 26

” is Italian for “‘bye”. “

Answer 26

Ciao
Arrivederci” is more formal, and translates as “goodbye”.

Question 27

Actress is best known for her performances on the soap opera “General Hospital”, portraying head nurse Epiphany Johnson. She won a Daytime Emmy for her work on “General Hospital” in 2023, but it was awarded posthumously, as she passed away unexpectedly at the end of 2022 at the age of 55.

Answer 27

Sonya Eddy

Question 28

are hand-held digital pets from Japan. They come housed in tiny egg-shaped computers, usually with a three-button interface. They can be named, get hungry, and can be happy or sad. Care is provided by the owner using the interface buttons. The name ” comes from the Japanese word “” meaning “egg”, melded with the English word “watch

Answer 28

Tamagotchis

“tamago” meaning “egg”, melded with the English word “watch

Question 29

Chris elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021 :

Answer 29

BOSH
Chris Bosh is a retired professional basketball player. Sadly, his career was cut short when the NBA ruled that he could not play in the league any longer due to persistent blood-clotting issues.

Question 30

Musical set in Argentina :.

Answer 30

EVITA
“Evita” was the follow-up musical to “Jesus Christ Superstar” for Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Both of these works were originally released as album musicals, and very successful ones at that (I remember buying them when they first came out). “Evita” was made into a film in 1996, with Madonna playing the title role and Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce playing her husband Juan Perón

Question 31

The iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” has stood at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip since 1959. The sign, and indeed most of the Strip, lies outside of the city of Las Vegas, and is instead in this neighboring town

Answer 31

Paradise
Neon sign

Question 32

Solar panels are arrays of solar cells that make use of what’s known as this effect.

Answer 32

photovoltaic
We are more likely to have learned about the photoelectric effect in school, in which electrons were ejected from the surface of some materials when it was exposed to light or other forms of radiation. The photovoltaic effect is related but different. Instead of being electrons ejected from the surface, in the photovoltaic effect electrons move around in the material creating a difference in voltage.

Question 33

Another name for bingo :

Answer 33

BEANO
The game called Beano is a precursor to Bingo. Beano was so called as dried beans were used to cover the called numbers on a card.

Question 34

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Answer 34

The Three Witches in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” have some lovely lines as they boil up and evil brew and cast a spell:

Question 35

She is an American actress who made a name for herself playing Donna Martin on television’s “Beverly Hills, 90210”.

Answer 35

Tori Spelling
Tori is the daughter of film and television producer Aaron Spelling.

Question 36

colorful collective nouns:

lions
apes

Answer 36

A pride of lions
A shrewdness of apes

Question 37

Groups of
Bats
Bishops

Answer 37

A cloud of bats
A bench of bishops

Question 38

Group of
cats
Ducks

Answer 38

A clowder of cats
A waddling of ducks

Question 39

Group of
Frogs
Toads

Answer 39

An army of frogs
A knot of toads

Question 40

Group of
Elephants
Zebra

Answer 40

A memory of elephants
A dazzle of zebra

Question 41

Group of

giraffe
rhinos

Answer 41

A tower of giraffe
A crash of rhinos

Question 42

Inferno” poet : DANTE
This Dante epic narrative poem “is divided into these three parts: “

Answer 42

Divina Commedia” (Divine Comedy)

Inferno”, “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso” (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise).

Question 43

“A Symphony: New England Holidays” is an orchestral work by him

Answer 43

Charles Ives.
It comprises four movements:

Washington’s Birthday
Decoration Day
The Fourth of July
Thanksgiving and Forefathers’ Day

Question 44

is an author and lawyer from Chicago. Turow has had several bestselling novels including “Presumed Innocent”, “The Burden of Proof” and “Reversible Errors”, all three of which were made into films. He also wrote the autobiographical book “One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School”.

Answer 44

Scott Turow