LL71-73 Flashcards
The culinary term affogato normally refers to a dessert topped (or drowned) with what?
ESPRESSO or COFFEE
What was the real name of the FBI Special Agent and one-time Deputy Director of the Bureau who was revealed in 2005 to be the secret Watergate informant Deep Throat?
Mark FELT
Thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin form a dietary group of eight that is known collectively as what?
B Vitamins
Badaro, Raouché, Gemmayzeh, Saifi Village, Centre Ville (The Central District) and Wadi Abu Jamil are all neighborhoods or districts within what city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
Beirut
What New Orleans-born (and jazz and blues-influenced) singer and civil rights activist, who died in 1972, was dubbed the Queen of Gospel? In fact, her 1955 album was titled The World’s Greatest Gospel Singer.
Mahalia Jackson
What was the nickname of the fictional literary character David Wilson, a young lawyer in pre-Civil War Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, whose eccentric hobby of collecting fingerprints eventually helps him solve his novel’s central murder?
Pudd’nhead
The style of tailored overcoat like the example seen here is colloquially named after what world leader? Click here
Jawaharlal Nehru
In mathematics, a function is a non-empty set of ordered pairs of which no two can have the same first element. The set of all first elements in a function’s ordered pairs is the domain, while the set of all second elements is the what?
Range
The title of a 1976 live album by the rock band Rush references the first line of a soliloquy by the melancholy traveler Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. What is that line?
All the World’s A Stage
A unit of acceleration, used in geological surveying and elsewhere, which is defined as one centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s2), is named (appropriately) after what mathematician and physicist?
GALILEO Galilei
What titular television character was employed as an investigative journalist for the fictional newsmagazine program FYI?
Murphy Brown
The ANA Inspiration, an event of the LPGA Tour and one of the five major championships of women’s professional golf, was for many years hosted by and named after what singer, talk-show personality, and Chevrolet pitchwoman?
Dinah Shore
While sloe gin is a liqueur made by infusing gin with berries of the sloe bush, gin itself is a liquor flavored predominantly by the berries of what other, coniferous plant?
Juniper
The landing operations (specifically) for the largest seaborne invasion in history—the June 1944 Allied assault of the French region of Normandy—were fittingly codenamed after what Roman deity?
Neptune
Give the full name (given name and surname) of the composer and violin teacher who wrote several concertos and symphonies, including Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt (but perhaps not the Toy Symphony sometimes credited to him), and became court violinist at Salzburg in 1743, though he’s surely most famous as a musical dad.
Leopold Mozart
The transfer of what musical from London’s West End to Broadway in 1991 proved difficult in part because few New York houses are large enough to accommodate a set that includes a life-size helicopter?
Miss Saigon
What is the medical term for the inflammation, caused most often by a viral infection, of the membrane that surrounds the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity?
Pluerisy/Plueritis
What word is obscured by the red box in this image? Click here (Battleships - piece with 3 holes)
Cruiser
American swimmer Michael Phelps holds the record for most career Olympic gold medals, with 23. Give the last name of any one of the five athletes who are tied for second place, with nine.
BOLT, LATYNINA, LEWIS, NURMI, SPITZ
According to the lyrics of an international hit rock song from 1976, one can dial 36-24-36 to procure, at an affordable cost, what title service?
DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP)
Ross, Filchner-Ronne, Amery, Larsen, Riiser-Larsen, Fimbul, Shackleton, and George VI are all geographical features associated with Antarctica. They are all a type of feature defined by what two-word term?
Ice Shelf
What great-granddaughter of Henry VII reigned as the Queen of England for nine days in 1553, before her forced abdication in favor of Mary I (and subsequent imprisonment in the Tower of London, and beheading)?
lady Jane Grey
In the film Marathon Man, what precisely is the three-word question Dr. Szell (Laurence Olivier) asks Babe (Dustin Hoffman) during his torturous interrogation with a dental probe?
Is it Safe?
Hong lou meng, a 19th-century work by Cao Xueqin that is considered China’s greatest novel, is usually translated to English in part as Dream of the Red what?
CHAMBER
What is the name used for the modernist architectural style, pioneered by Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus school, and others, that is characterized by architecture as volume (vs. mass), emphasis on regularity in the façade (vs. symmetry), and zero applied ornamentation? Dominant in the mid-20th century, the style took its name from a 1932 exhibition curated by Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
INTERNATIONAL STYLE
What Roman Catholic writer from (and of) the rural American South first achieved wide regard as a master of the short story form via her collection published in 1955 as A Good Man is Hard to Find?
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
Jude Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jack Davenport played characters who were murdered (while Gwyneth Paltrow’s and Cate Blanchett’s were almost murdered) in what 1999 film?
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda, Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Prospero, Ophelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, and Rosalind, along with exactly thirteen others, are all names of what?
MOONS OF URANUS
The largest privately owned house in the United States was commissioned by George W. Vanderbilt and erected on a vast estate of 125,000 acres near Asheville, NC. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s, the estate is known by what name?
BILTMORE
What prolific patron of art, literature, and architecture was installed at Versailles in 1745, and for her final 20 years influenced state policy while assuming virtual control of public affairs during the reign of Louis XV?
MADAME DE POMPADOUR (JEAN ANTOINETTE POISSON)
A portion of what company’s logo is pictured here? Click here
STATE FARM
Varla, Rosie, and Billie are three wild, drag racing go-go dancers who are up to no good at all in what 1965 Russ Meyer cult classic?
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!
The cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Riga, Königsberg, and Dortmund were among a confederation that was known collectively during the Late Middle Ages as what?
HANSEATIC LEAGUE
Animals which are classified in the taxonomic class Asteroidea are most commonly known by what term?
STAR FISH
The Peshmerga are military forces which form a major part of the coalition in the offensive to retake the Iraq city of Mosul beginning in mid-October 2016. The Peshmerga are members of what Middle Eastern ethnic group?
KURDS
During the weeknight primetime hours (8 to 11 pm ET), the Fox News Channel typically shows three hour-long news/talk programs. One is hosted by Bill O’Reilly; another is hosted by Sean Hannity. Who hosts the third?
MEGYN KELLY
Per the information on its packaging and in its marketing, what type of cake is used to produce a Hostess Twinkie?
(Golden) SPONGE CAKE
The world’s first woman to be democratically elected as chief of state was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who served as what nation’s president beginning in August 1980?
ICELAND
What Norwegian’s last name comes next in this chronological list? Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Karpov, Khalifman, Anand, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Topalov, Kramnik, Anand, _________.
CARLSEN
A debilitating 1984-85 coal miners strike and its effects on a working-class community in County Durham in northeast England provide a crisis central to the story of what Broadway musical (and the movie on which it is based)?
Billy ELLIOT
Sufferers of a particular hereditary degenerative disorder of connective tissue, bones, ligament, and muscles tend to be tall and thin with long limbs and digits, and have included Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman, Rent composer Jonathan Larson, actor Vincent Schiavelli, and possibly Akhenaten and Abe Lincoln (but, conspiracy theories aside, probably not Osama bin Laden). What is this syndrome, named after a late-19th/early-20th-century French pediatrician?
MARFAN SYNDROME
With works that include the quartet Death and the Maiden, the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, and several symphonies (some completed; others unfinished), the output of this great Austrian melodist is vast—notably so, given his premature death at age 31.
Franz SCHUBERT
Although it was used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels about the Soviet Union and was in use elsewhere, what term’s popularity in its Cold War definition is credited to a March 1946 speech by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Missouri?
Iron Curtain
Only once in the history of tennis has a player (man or woman) achieved the Golden Slam—winning all four Grand Slam singles titles as well as an Olympic gold medal in singles in the same calendar year. Who accomplished this feat in 1988?
Steffi Graf
In a well-known centuries-old proverb, what comes first in a sequence that includes shoe, horse, rider, message, battle, and kingdom?
Nail
Magnesium sulfate, and specifically a heptahydrate sulfate mineral with the formula MgSO4·7H2O, is commonly associated with what town in Surrey, England, due to the mineral spring there that produced the bitter and colorless inorganic compound?
Epsom (Salts)
According to the press from the FX network of a television series created by and starring Donald Glover, Two cousins work through the __________ music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. What fills in this blank of this quote, and also serves as the series’s title?
ATLANTA
While there are other candidates, including Dongbei and Guandong, what is the name most often used for the region in northeast China that comprises the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and forms the entirety of the Chinese border with North Korea?
MANCHURIA
In most English versions of the Bible (including the King James version), the 23rd psalm of the Old Testament begins with what five words?
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
A July festival honoring Saint Fermín is a popular event in what ancient Basque city and capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Navarre?
PAMPLONA
Pictured here is exactly the left-most 1/3 of a painting by what artist? Click here
James WHISTLER
A popular 1961 novel by Scottish writer Muriel Spark tells of the prime (and the downfall) of what eccentric and revered Edinburgh schoolteacher?
MISS JEAN BRODIE
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo is most often seen translated into English as what?
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
What is the technical term, from the Latin for decayed or rotten, used in dentistry for the gradual breakdown and disintegration of a tooth due to bacteria? Commonly known as cavities, it’s an ailment believed to afflict the vast majority of the world’s population.
CARIES
This montage contains photographs by what Danish-born social justice reformer and police reporter for the New York Tribune? Click here
Jacob RIIS
Name the 1974 film loosely inspired by the real-life story of farmer and handyman Ed Gein (although Gein himself lived his entire life in Wisconsin).
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (also DERANGED)
1990’s I’m Your Baby Tonight was what artist’s first full-length album not to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, as well as her first not to be titled eponymously?
Whitney HOUSTON
What prefix, which is derived from the Greek for deep, precedes -scaphe and -sphere in terms for vessels used to explore the ocean depths?
BATHY-
A particular political movement, formed between 1945 and 1946 and still strong today, and formally labeled justicialismo in 1949, has transformed and modified over the years but is a general amalgam of populist nationalism, social democracy, and economic independence. Perhaps mostly, it can be described as loyalty to what person (and his memory), after whom the movement is also commonly named?
Juan PERON
Which African country has the continent’s longest coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, running from the mouth of the Congo River in the north to the Namibian border on the Kunene River in the south (plus an exclave to the north)?
ANGOLA
Identify this woman. Click here (Facebook Chief Operating Officer)
Sheryl SANDBERG
The Prix Renaudot, Prix Goncourt, and Prix Femina are all prizes awarded annually in what field?
LITERATURE
Custer National Cemetery is located within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which itself is in Big Horn County, in what state?
MONTANA
Four Green Dragons, four Red Dragons, four White Dragons, four North Winds, four East Winds, four South Winds, and four West Winds: this Honor set of 28 is associated with what game?
MAHJONG
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the first major Afghan city to fall to the U.S. Special Forces-backed Northern Alliance was what strategically important city in the far northern Balkh province, roughly 200 miles northwest of Kabul?
MAZAR-I-SHARIF
A 1983 strategy game for the Atari 8-bit family; a 1981 film credited with launching (or at least boosting) the film careers of Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, and others; and a hotel and casino in Las Vegas are all named after what weapon?
EXCALIBUR
What term is used in mathematics to describe a number that divides exactly into the difference between two given numbers (relevant to mathematical congruence)? The term is also used for the multiplication factor that converts a logarithm of one base to a logarithm of another base, as well as being another name for absolute value.
MODULUS
What singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album was titled Yes I Am, in an apparent and proudly bold response to questions from much of her earlier career involving her personal life?
Melissa ETHERIDGE
Separate from flaps and spoilers, the hinged surfaces on the back edge of airplane wings which are moved up and down to create uneven lift and thus control the plane’s rolling and tilting movements are known as what?
AILERONS
Identify the term, first used by financial journalist and investor Alfred Winslow Jones in the mid-20th century and still not clearly defined, which is closely associated with Steve Cohen, Daniel Loeb, John Paulson, Bill Ackman, Ken Griffin, David Tepper, and George Soros, among others.
HEDGE FUND
Mousseline, also known as sauce Chantilly, is a variation of hollandaise which includes the addition of what ingredient?
WHIPPED CREAM
The ebullient Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is the work of what 20th-century composer, arguably Britain’s most celebrated since Sir Edward Elgar?
Benjamin BRITTEN
A regulatory commission was established in Europe in 1948, currently headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, and including only fellow riparian nations, for the common purpose of improving, maintaining, and safeguarding free navigation of what?
River DANUBE
1944’s Hoosick Falls in Winter is among the works painted during the 23-year career of what American artist, who died in December 1961 at age 101?
GRANDMA MOSES
The first parliamentary democracy was officially created in Germany with the signing into law of the Constitution of the German Reich by SDP member and provisional president of the German Reichstag (and chancellor-to-be) Friedrich Ebert. The signing took place in 1919 in what city?
WEIMAR
What Hindi word, adopted into English and very common on menus of Indian restaurants, has much the same meaning as kebab, referring to small chunks of grilled meat (usually)?
TIKKA
Rewrite the following sentence, changing the verb to past perfect progressive: I think.
I HAD BEEN THINKING
Wandsworth, Brixton, Wakefield, Wormwood Scrubs, Albany, Long Lartin, and Parkhurst are all British examples of what?
PRISONS
What U.S. city, which had a population of around 287,000 in the 2010 census, shares a name with a province and historical city of Spain?
TOLEDO
The controversial (to say the least) proviso to ban slavery within land acquired during the Mexican War was introduced in 1846 by what Pennsylvania Congressman? While it was never passed into law, it is credited with helping to bring about the eventual collapse of the Whigs and the later emergence of the Republican Party.
David WILMOT
Ismail and James are the first names of what iconic and distinctive filmmaking duo, whose names have come to represent a certain style of film beyond those they themselves produced that are similar in manner and gentility?
MERCHANT IVORY
In business, what is the most common term for the current asset designation, reported on a company’s balance sheet, which represents the amount owed to the company by its customers or debtors in the short term? It is often (but not necessarily) accompanied by the word accounts?
RECEIVABLES
The fictional woodcutter Ali Baba’s life turns rich and prosperous thanks mostly to what phrase?
OPEN, SESAME
What rap artist’s first claim to fame was as the original human beat box (or for being on in six minutes in his hit song The Show), but is perhaps now best known for his namesake hip hop dance, popularized 20 years after his artistic peak? (Note: You may name either the artist or the dance.)
(DOUG E. FRESH / DOUGIE
The Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie was inspired by the hysteria that followed whose draft into the U.S. Army?
ELVIS PRESLEY
The League for the Independence of Vietnam was a political and military organization formed in 1941 to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese and then gain independence from France (and then oppose South Vietnam and the U.S. in the Vietnam War). By what two-word name—an abbreviation of the organization’s full official name and reminiscent of the name of its long-time leader— was this coalition of nationalists and communists widely known?
VIET MINH
Meinl, Paiste, Sabian, and Zildjian are considered the big four manufacturers of what?
CYMBALS
Maser—a high-frequency amplifier in which a signal is used to stimulate atoms into emitting energy at the same frequency—is, like laser, an acronym. What does the m in maser stand for?
MICROWAVE
With an area of ~3,500 square miles and 3.7 million residents (at the 2010 census), what is by far (by both measures) the largest U.S. territory?
PUERTO RICO
Legend says that the name for a particular variant of the game of poker, where players receive a mix of face-up and face-down cards, comes from the item one player offered as a bet when the game was created during the mid-1800s. What is the name for that poker variant?
STUD
A 1986 film, whose plot is derived from a novella published in 1982 (as part of an anthology), takes its title from a song first released in 1961. What is that title?
STAND BY ME
High Land is the English translation of the name of what midwestern U.S. city, describing its location on a plateau overlooking the Wabash River?
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana
Of the two great epic poems of India, the longer is the Mahābhārata. The shorter, composed in Sanskrit by the poet Valmiki and with 24,000 couplets divided into seven books is its modern form, has what name?
RAMAYANA
What Scottish-born American detective and spy led an intelligence network for General George McClellan and served President Lincoln as head of what would be the precursor to the Secret Service? Later, his namesake National Detective Agency would battle the Molly Maguires and police other labor disputes (often controversially and violently).
Allan PINKERTON
Prince, Tron Carter, Negrodamus, Ashy Larry, and Rick James are among the characters (real and fictional) who appeared on what sketch comedy series?
CHAPPELLE’S SHOW
The object pictured here is among the regulation equipment produced for use in what game? Click here
TETHERBALL
This is a promotional still from what (seemingly appropriately named) television series? Click here
SUITS
The 1928 Pact of Paris, formally the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, was a noble but toothless agreement best known by a name that references its authors, the U.S. Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister. What is this more common name?
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
Directed by the United Nations Security Council, construction began in 1991 on a 120-mile long fence and barrier zone, nine miles wide with electrified fencing, concertina wire, trenches, and dirt berms, on the border of two nations. Name either of those nations.
IRAQ, KUWAIT
What is the name of the philosophical system developed by Ayn Rand, expressed in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as in her nonfiction works, which holds, among other tenets, that all real achievement is the result of individual ability and effort and that altruism is a vice?
OBJECTIVISM
Deriving from a French term for raw or uncooked, what word is used to refer to raw vegetables or fruits, often thinly sliced or grated and accompanied by cold sauces, that are served as an hors d’oeuvre?
CRUDITÉS
Pictured here is a scene from what animated film? Click here
PRINCESS MONONOKE
What genre of Jamaican music, named for the type of venue in which it originated, emerged in the 1970s with DJs toasting over prerecorded tracks? A precursor to American rap and hip hop, it borrowed back from those styles in the 80s in its transformation into the modern, digital ragga style.
DANCEHALL
The existence of a separate political system in the Western Hemisphere; U.S. resistance to further European colonization in the region; U.S. neutrality with existing European colonies and in European affairs: these items are included in a doctrine written by John Quincy Adams but attributed to (and proclaimed by) whom?
James MONROE
The Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination, which is administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and qualifies candidates to become investment advisers, is commonly known as the Series 65 exam. Another FINRA exam, formally the General Securities Representative Exam (GS), provides the qualifications necessary to trade general securities (i.e., be a stockbroker) and is likewise best known by what numerical name?
SERIES 7 EXAM
Two of the three words in the title of a popular, moralistic 1812 novel could also apply to the group that created the novel—pastor Johann David Wyss and his sons, Johann Rudolf Wyss and Johann Emmanuel Wyss. What are either of those two words?
SWISS FAMILY
A philosophical tract by Friedrich Nietzsche provides the loose basis for a tone poem composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss. What title do they share?
ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA (THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA)
Pasta and other Italian dishes which are described as al forno, such as lasagna, have what distinction?
(OVEN) BAKED
The first son of Jacob and Leah and progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel has a name that also commonly appears (unrelatedly) on delicatessen menus. What is that name?
REUBEN
While the building today houses the most important collection of paintings in Italy, its original purpose when commissioned in 1560 was to house the government. What is this museum, whose name translates to English as offices?
UFFIZI
Of the four main islands of Japan, which is the farthest north?
HOKKAIDO
What automotive engineer (and famous automotive name) developed the Volkswagen Beetle and the classic Mercedes-Benz SSK, not to mention various Nazi military vehicles?
Ferdinand PORSCHE
In the game Scrabble, what is the sum of the point values on the tiles used to play the word SCRABBLE (as displayed on many standard Scrabble boards)?
14
What was the derogatory epithet used to describe whites of the southern United States who cooperated with occupying forces from the North during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era?
SCALAWAGS
While its emphasis was on vaudeville when it was founded in 1905 (as indicated by its title), what leading weekly theatrical magazine soon expanded to cover all aspects of show biz (a term the journal itself originated in 1945)?
VARIETY
What was the sartorially named faction of Parisian commoners who were politically active during the French Revolutionary Wars, associated for a time with the Jacobins? More broadly, the term was also used to apply to the mass of the working populace across France during the era.
SANS-CULLOTES
What is the only nation that shares land borders with both India and Bangladesh?
BURMA / MYANMAR
The development of the modern version of what musical apparatus is credited to Frenchman François Tourte, whose innovations include the use of pernambuco, perfection of the screw and eyelet system, and a heavier frog?
BOW
Seventeen-year-old (or thereabouts) William Cullen Bryant’s musings on a magnificent and omnipresent Nature, human mortality, and a particular view of death are contained in a meditative poem first published in 1817 under what title?
THANATOPSIS
What term for the outer layers of cereal grains is commonly found in grocery cereal aisles, as it is often added to many commercial breakfast cereals and also can be purchased separately?
BRAN
Otra Vez, A Toda Maquina, Eyes of Innocence, and Primitive Love were albums released in the 1980s by what musical group? Later in the decade, the group would become the backing band for its lead singer’s solo career.
MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
With 26 titles, including eight of the last 12, what soccer club is the most dominant in the history of the German Bundesliga, and is Germany’s most successful club in European competition? (Please note that the name of a city alone is not a sufficient answer to this question).
BAYERN MUNICH
What type of nuts, from the state tree of Texas, are pictured here? Click here
PECANS
The 2002 film Russian Ark (Russkiy kovcheg) is best known (perhaps only known) for the technical wonder of its single shot of approximately an hour and a half, wandering steadily through what building?
HERMITAGE MUSEUM / WINTER PALACE
Glen Canyon, New Bullards Bar, New Croton, Oroville, Robert Moses-Robert H. Saunders, Three Gorges, Itaipu, and Shasta are all names of what?
DAMS
Produced in 1935 and first released in the marketplace in 1938, what thermoplastic was the first commercially successful, fully synthetic fiber?
NYLON
A mechanical device from the 16th century that uses a series of adjustable mirrors and lenses to project a scene in a darkened space to aid in painting or drawing was known as camera ottica, but is better known as what other camera?
Camera OBSCURA
In what language is the following sentence written? Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod.
WELSH (CYMRAEG)
What 1990s television series began with the title character, Cory Matthews, as a sixth-grader who navigates his pre-teen years alongside his best friend, Shawn, and his future wife, Topanga? They all pass through high school and into college during the show’s original seven seasons.
BOY MEETS WORLD
While it may sometimes include small amounts of other metals, brass is primarily an alloy of what two metals—often in roughly a 2-to-1 ratio (though proportions can vary significantly depending on use)?
COPPER / ZINC
The mathematical notation loge x is accurate but is more often expressed in what other manner?
In x (NATURAL LOG)
The Uruguayan urban guerrilla group Tupamaros were named after an 18th-century Peruvian Indian revolutionary, who himself had adopted the name of the last Incan ruler (from whom he claimed descent). What is that full name (first and last)?
TUPAC AMARU
Operation Car Wash is the name given to a wide-ranging corruption and money-laundering investigation that has ensnared business and political leaders, including the president (since impeached), of what country?
BRAZIL
What food, common as grits or as the main ingredient in posole, is dried or hulled and alkaline-treated maize kernels? Its name is derived from Algonquian, as it was one of the first foods accepted by English settlers from native North Americans.
HOMINY
One of the three base types in cloud nomenclature is stratus; what are both of the other two? The three, alone or in combination with themselves and/or nimbus (raincloud) or altus, make up the ten basic types of cloud classification (e.g., nimbostratus).
CIRRUS / CUMULUS
Rossignol, Salomon, Elan, Dynastar and Fischer are all brands most prominently of what type of sporting equipment?
SKIS
Two months before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Roe v. Wade case in January 1973, what sitcom’s title character famously and controversially made TV history by undergoing an abortion (legal at the time in the state of New York) to terminate an unplanned pregnancy at age 47?
MAUDE
Though the term itself dates back centuries and is derived from Hebrew, its modern meaning—a group of people united in ideology or intrigue— is believed to come from (or at least be popularized by) five leading advisers to England’s Charles II between 1667 and 1673, whose initials spell out the word. What is that word?
CABAL
The thesis that no human nature precedes human presence in the world encapsulates what 20th-century philosophy, associated principally with Jean-Paul Sartre but also with Heidegger, Jaspers, Camus, de Beauvoir, and others?
EXISTENTIALISM
Among particle accelerators (or atom smashers), which are used to create high-energy collisions between atomic particles and nuclei (or other particles), one type is a linear accelerator, which stimulates the particles in a straight line. Another type, which accelerates charged particles in an outwardly spiraling path and was invented in 1931 by Ernest Lawrence at the University of California at Berkeley, is best known by what term?
CYCLOTRON
Traditionally, the term caviar is limited to the roe of three types of sturgeon from the Caspian and Black sea basins. One type is sevruga; name either of the other two.
BELUGA / OSETRA
While the term has quite a different (and perhaps negative) modern association, originally this term was used for the decorative technique from the Renaissance where layers of different-colored plasters are applied to a surface, with a design scratched through one layer to reveal a different color beneath. What is this term?
GRAFFITO / GRAFFITI
Thirty-five Southern Democrats stormed out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention to form their own segregationist, white supremacist third party, which would nominate Strom Thurmond as its candidate for president that year, carrying four states and winning 39 electoral votes in the ensuing election. Formally the States’ Rights Democratic Party, this short-lived party was best known by what portmanteau?
DIXIECRATS
Story of Your Life, a 1998 short story by science-fiction author Ted Chiang that involves alien/human contact and a complex interpretation of language and time, was adapted into what 2016 film?
ARRIVAL
The itching and sneezing that often accompany respiratory allergies are caused by the release as a part of the body’s immune response of what organic compound, chemical formula C5H9N3?
HISTAMINE
The embassy of what country is pictured here? Click here
ECUADOR
African political leader Milton Obote is remembered largely for the distinction of effectively preceding and succeeding the same individual as his nation’s president. Who is this other man, a Benjamin Harrison of sorts to Obote’s Grover Cleveland (noting that the circumstances are not remotely similar otherwise)?
Idi AMIN
In 1699, a code of discipline was instituted in what religion, mandating (among other items) the common adoption of the name Kaur for all females?
SIKHISM
The fictional Ponderosa Ranch, which bordered Lake Tahoe near Virginia City, Nevada, and was operated by Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, provided the setting for what long-running television drama series?
BONANZA
In the Zone, Blackout, Circus, Femme Fatale, and Glory are among the studio albums from what now-35-year-old pop superstar, who is in the midst of her four-year residency show at The AXIS auditorium at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas?
Britney SPEARS
