Fred Astaire And Ginger Rodgers

Question 1

Hong Kong transferred back to this country in this year

Answer 1

Back to China in 97

Question 2

Prior to having definition changed to a formula based on speed of light a specific atomic transition frequency and the plank constant the standard for this wqs defined as a chunk of platinum alloy by international bureau of weights and measures

Answer 2

Mass

Question 3

The garment known as this was named for French trapeze artist

Answer 3

Jules Léotard. Léotard wore such a garment when he was performing.

Question 4

The largest salt pan located near the Great Salt Lake is the famous these Salt Flats.

Answer 4

Bonneville

There is an area in the Flats called the Bonneville Speedway that is devoted to motor sports and is noted as a venue for numerous land speed records.

Question 5

owns more amusement parks than any other company in the world.

Answer 5

Six Flags

The first of these properties to open was Six Flags Over Texas. The park’s name was chosen as a homage to the flags of the six nations that have governed Texas, namely Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.

Question 6

1960s sitcom family with a pet dragon named Spot :

Answer 6

MUNSTERS
“The Munsters” is a sitcom about a family of harmless monsters that ran at the same time as “The Addams Family”, a show with a similar storyline. “The Munsters” was produced by the same team that created “Leave It to Beaver”.

Question 7

the state tree of Ohio

Answer 7

The athletic teams of OSU are called the Buckeyes, named after the state tree of Ohio. In turn the buckeye tree gets its name from the appearance of its fruit, a dark nut with a light patch thought to resemble a “buck’s eye”. The school’s athletic mascot was introduced in 1965, and is an anthropomorphic buckeye nut named Brutus Buckeye.

Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus was founded back in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Question 8

The term comes from the Latin “subvenire” meaning “to come to mind”, or literally “to come up”.

Answer 8

A souvenir is a memento, a token of remembrance. We imported “souvenir” from French, in which language it has the same meaning.

Question 9

This is a traditional Greek dish of meat roasted on a tall vertical spit that is sliced from the spit as required.

Answer 9

A gyro
Gyros are usually served inside a lightly grilled piece of pita bread, along with tomato, onion and tzatziki (a yogurt and cucumber sauce).

Question 10

It was founded in 1876, and named for Arlinlgton house in Virginia, the family residence of him .

Answer 10

Arlington Texas

House of Robert E. Lee

Question 11

The word “rill”, meaning a small brook or rivulet, has German roots. It has the same roots as “this”, the name of the major European river.

Answer 11

rill

Rhine

Question 12

The musical “Rent” by him is based on this opera “Rent” tells the story of struggling artists and musicians living in the Lower East Side of New York, and is set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic. The main character in both “La bohème” and “Rent” is named this.

Answer 12

Jonathan Larson is based on the Puccini opera “La bohème”.

Mimi

In the former, Mimi is a seamstress suffering from tuberculosis. In the latter, Mimi is an erotic dancer with HIV.

Question 13

Snark” is a term that was coined by him in his fabulous 1876 nonsense poem “The Hunting of the Snark”. Somehow, the term “snarky” came to mean “irritable, short-tempered” in the early 1900s, and from there “snark” became “sarcastic rhetoric” at the beginning of the 21st century.

Answer 13

Lewis Carroll

Question 14

Pain relief brand with an oxymoronic name :

Answer 14

ICYHOT
Heat rubs are products designed to produce a feeling of warmth in sore or tired muscles. The active ingredients are usually menthol (mint oil) and methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen, an analgesic). A common brand name in this country is IcyHot, and we have Deep Heat in Ireland, and there’s Tiger Balm in Asia and Canada.

Question 15

This is a red wine grape that used to be mainly associated with Bordeaux. A frost killed off much of the crop in Bordeaux in the fifties, and today these wines are more closely linked to Argentina and California.

Answer 15

Malbec
I must admit to being a fan of Malbec blends …

Question 16

The fatty component of milk is known as butterfat (sometimes “milkfat”). To be labeled whole milk, the butterfat content must be at least this

Answer 16

3.25%. Low-fat milk is defined as milk containing 0.5-2% fat, with levels of 1% and 2% commonly found on grocery store shelves. Skim milk must contain less than 0.5% fat, and typically contains 0.1%.

Question 17

works on the deck of a boat. He or she is unlicensed, and so is not involved in the navigation or handling of the vessel, and instead is in charge of the other unlicensed workers on the deck. “

Answer 17

A boatswain

Boatswain” is pronounced “bosun” and this phonetic spelling is often used interchangeably with “boatswain”. The contraction “bo’s’n” is also very popular.

Question 18

is a landlocked country in western Africa located south of Algeria. Formerly known as French Sudan, the nation’s most famous city is this .

Answer 18

The Republic of Mali

Timbuktu

Mali is the third-largest producer of gold on the continent, after South Africa and Ghana

Question 19

This Conservative politician was born to parents of Indian descent, and became the UK’s first British-Asian prime minister in 2022. He was only 42 years of age when he moved into Number 10, making him the youngest prime minister since 1812.

Answer 19

Rishi Sunak

Sunak studied at Stanford University, where he met his future wife Akshata Murty. Murty is an Indian heiress, and a very rich woman.

Question 20

This comes from the Irish word “meaning “outlaw, robber”. The term “” was originally used for an Irish outlaw and later became a term of abuse for Irish rebels. At the end of the reign of King Charles II in Britain, there was a political divide with sides being called this and this

Answer 20

Tory”

tóraí”

Historically, the term “Tory” evolved to basically mean a supporter of the British monarchy, and indeed was used to describe those who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. Today, “Tory” is used for a member of the British Conservative Party.

Whigs” and the other “Tories”.

Question 21

A Brussels museum has a landscape with thr fell of him later than the famous one this time with Daedalus still up in thr air

Answer 21

Icarus

Question 22

It’s a tchotchke or doodad perhaps thr Virginia is for lovers key chain picked up on vaca

Answer 22

Souvenir

Question 23

Total
Degrees in a circle divided by justices on the US Supreme Court

Answer 23

40 = 360 /9

Question 24

19th century Americans
In 1896 fifteen years after a famous showdown this man wqs accused of fizizi g a championship boxing match

Answer 24

Wyatt Earp - gunfight at thr OK coral
Ran afoul with his boxing shannagianfs

Against doc holiday ?

Question 25

Pop culture dogs
His real and toy dog from toy story

Answer 25

Andy’s
Real - buster doxson
Toy - slinky

Question 26

Pop culture dogs

Frankie mewn ez 00 movie

Answer 26

my dog skip Jack Russell terrier

Question 27

Lord delighted by the birth of his son Winston in 1874

Answer 27

Randolph Churchill

Question 28

Scottish terrier is the fitting mascot of this Pittsburgh school

Answer 28

CArnegie melon
Victoria husband works there

Question 29

Pleased the 18 century philosopher lord monboddo to think that these Asian creatures thr largest apes then known are human

Answer 29

Orangutans

Question 30

Consortium of colleges in California includes pitzer and Pomona

Answer 30

Claremont colleges

Question 31

Something called a tritone substitution is found in thr chords of lush life a classic by this duke Ellington collaborator

Answer 31

Strayhorn

Question 32

Coca Cola tycoon asa candler donated 1 M and 75 acres of land for what became this university

Answer 32

Emory

Question 33

Kellog school of management is part of this university

Answer 33

Northwestern
Illinois ?

Question 34

59 miles Davis album begins with bill evans piano including a famous pair of chords

Answer 34

Kind of blue

Question 35

He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra wqs in 1808 opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord

Answer 35

Beethoven

Question 36

Catholics hoping for special
Grace may pray this said for 9 consecutive days

Answer 36

Novena

Question 37

Mythology
A peasant who became king of Phrygia created this intricate problem that was solved in 333 BC
Frig e uh

Answer 37

Gordian knot
Famously Solved by Alexander the Great with his sword