Easter Meetup

Question 1

In what famous battle in Texas struggle for independence did 200 defenders hold out for 13 days before the invaders finally overpowered them

Answer 1

Battle of the Alamo

From Mexico

Question 2

A whole geological time period centered on the queen of the olympians

Answer 2

Hera era

Question 3

A prohibition on the horned god of Shepard’s and flocks

Answer 3

Pan ban

Question 4

World war 1

Suvla bay and cape helles were major landing sites along this peninsula

Answer 4

Ga lip o lee

Hellas don’t in modern day Turkey

Question 5

Meteorology

It was feared this word caused panic but in 1950 the US Weather bureau removed a ban on it in forecasts saying prediction wasnt impossible

Answer 5

Tornado

Weather bureau decided Not impossible to predict but merely difficult

Question 6

ESRB genesis

Answer 6

Mortal kombat

But we will accept night trap

Question 7

Books less than zero

American psycho

Answer 7

Brett Easton Ellis
Literary rat pack
4books turned into movies

Question 8

1969 World Series

Answer 8

Mets defeated orioles

Question 9

1969 SB

Answer 9

Jets defeated Baltimore colts

Question 10

2006 movie stars Jamie fox and Colin Farrell as 2 cool cops in Florida

Answer 10

Miami Vice

Adaptation of the TV show of the same name

Question 11

Only flag that does not contain red white or blue

Answer 11

Jamaica

Question 12

When blood is removed from the body; components withdrawn from it before returned

Answer 12

Apheresis

Af a reeses

Question 13

Movie stars

Mccounefy said dazed and confused the first words I ever said on film were

Answer 13

All right all right all right

Question 14

Though Frederick Chopin is burried in Paris what part of him is preserved where

Answer 14

Heart in Warsaw

The great polish exile

Question 15

When Angelina Jolie married brad Pitt in 2014 what was unique about her wedding gown

Answer 15

Decorated with her kids drawings

Question 16

The shroud of Turin is made of what fabric

Answer 16

Linen

Question 17

Spin-off to holes

Answer 17

Small steps

Follows Theodore aka armpit from the original story

Question 18

Belgian bicycle racer nicknamed the cannibal

Answer 18

Eddie mar ix

Question 19

Non fiction

This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer national hon predicted that man will end by destroying the earth

Answer 19

Silent spring

Rachel Carson ecological classic about the pesticides

Question 20

Robinson Crusoe

Answer 20

Daniel Defoe

Question 21

More time zones than any other country in the world

Answer 21

France

Because of territories

Question 22

Mt acongaua

Answer 22

Argentina in the Andes
Highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere
Aw kawng kah gwah

Question 23

In the code breaker we learn of Jennifer doudna and her work on this gene editing technology

Answer 23

CrispR

Question 24

A tale of immigrants from Africa is imbolo mbues behold these people also a term for DACA recipients

Answer 24

Dreamers

Question 25

The title character in this Paulo coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago

Answer 25

The alchemist

Question 26

This singer was actually born on Friday feb 16 1990 in Toronto to parents from Ethiopia

Answer 26

The Weeknd

Question 27

Roots drummer

Answer 27

Quest love

Question 28

A principle often attributed to Hippocrates and followed by doctors

Answer 28

First do no harm

Question 29

This leading city of Northern Ireland is home to queens university

Answer 29

Belfast

Question 30

Only country that borders Venezuela and Ecuador

Answer 30

Colombia

Question 31

It’s the name of the capita of Alberta Canada and also of a northern suburb of london

Answer 31

Edmonton

Question 32

In 2019nrbis capital was renamed but-sultan after retiring leader nursultan nazarbayev

Answer 32

Astana

Kazakhstan

Question 33

Meaning west in Africa this term is used for the region that includes most of African north of the Sahara

Answer 33

The Maghreb