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Question 1

The culinary term affogato normally refers to a dessert topped (or drowned) with what?

Answer 1

ESPRESSO or COFFEE

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Mark FELT

Question 3

Thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin form a dietary group of eight that is known collectively as what?

Answer 3

B Vitamins

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

Beirut

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Mahalia Jackson

Question 6

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?

Answer 6

Pudd’nhead

Question 7

The style of tailored overcoat like the example seen here is colloquially named after what world leader? Click here

Answer 7

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 8

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?

Answer 8

Range

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

All the World’s A Stage

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

GALILEO Galilei

Question 11

What titular television character was employed as an investigative journalist for the fictional newsmagazine program FYI?

Answer 11

Murphy Brown

Question 12

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?

Answer 12

Dinah Shore

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Juniper

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

Neptune

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Leopold Mozart

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

Miss Saigon

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Pluerisy/Plueritis

Question 18

What word is obscured by the red box in this image? Click here (Battleships - piece with 3 holes)

Answer 18

Cruiser

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

BOLT, LATYNINA, LEWIS, NURMI, SPITZ

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP)

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Ice Shelf

Question 22

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)?

Answer 22

lady Jane Grey

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

Is it Safe?

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

CHAMBER

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

INTERNATIONAL STYLE

Question 26

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?

Answer 26

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY

Question 28

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?

Answer 28

MOONS OF URANUS

Question 29

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?

Answer 29

BILTMORE

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

MADAME DE POMPADOUR (JEAN ANTOINETTE POISSON)

Question 31

A portion of what company's logo is pictured here? Click here

Answer 31

STATE FARM

Question 32

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?

Answer 32

FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!

Question 33

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?

Answer 33

HANSEATIC LEAGUE

Question 34

Animals which are classified in the taxonomic class Asteroidea are most commonly known by what term?

Answer 34

STAR FISH

Question 35

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?

Answer 35

KURDS

Question 36

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?

Answer 36

MEGYN KELLY

Question 37

Per the information on its packaging and in its marketing, what type of cake is used to produce a Hostess Twinkie?

Answer 37

(Golden) SPONGE CAKE

Question 38

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?

Answer 38

ICELAND

Question 39

What Norwegian's last name comes next in this chronological list? Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Karpov, Khalifman, Anand, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Topalov, Kramnik, Anand, _________.

Answer 39

CARLSEN

Question 40

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)?

Answer 40

Billy ELLIOT

Question 41

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?

Answer 41

MARFAN SYNDROME

Question 42

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.

Answer 42

Franz SCHUBERT

Question 43

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?

Answer 43

Iron Curtain

Question 44

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?

Answer 44

Steffi Graf

Question 45

In a well-known centuries-old proverb, what comes first in a sequence that includes shoe, horse, rider, message, battle, and kingdom?

Answer 45

Nail

Question 46

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?

Answer 46

Epsom (Salts)

Question 47

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?

Answer 47

ATLANTA

Question 48

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?

Answer 48

MANCHURIA

Question 49

In most English versions of the Bible (including the King James version), the 23rd psalm of the Old Testament begins with what five words?

Answer 49

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

Question 50

A July festival honoring Saint Fermín is a popular event in what ancient Basque city and capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Navarre?

Answer 50

PAMPLONA

Question 51

Pictured here is exactly the left-most 1/3 of a painting by what artist? Click here

Answer 51

James WHISTLER

Question 52

A popular 1961 novel by Scottish writer Muriel Spark tells of the prime (and the downfall) of what eccentric and revered Edinburgh schoolteacher?

Answer 52

MISS JEAN BRODIE

Question 53

Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo is most often seen translated into English as what?

Answer 53

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Question 54

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.

Answer 54

CARIES

Question 55

This montage contains photographs by what Danish-born social justice reformer and police reporter for the New York Tribune? Click here

Answer 55

Jacob RIIS

Question 56

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).

Answer 56

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (also DERANGED)

Question 57

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?

Answer 57

Whitney HOUSTON

Question 58

What prefix, which is derived from the Greek for deep, precedes -scaphe and -sphere in terms for vessels used to explore the ocean depths?

Answer 58

BATHY-

Question 59

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?

Answer 59

Juan PERON

Question 60

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)?

Answer 60

ANGOLA

Question 61

Identify this woman. Click here (Facebook Chief Operating Officer)

Answer 61

Sheryl SANDBERG

Question 62

The Prix Renaudot, Prix Goncourt, and Prix Femina are all prizes awarded annually in what field?

Answer 62

LITERATURE

Question 63

Custer National Cemetery is located within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which itself is in Big Horn County, in what state?

Answer 63

MONTANA

Question 64

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?

Answer 64

MAHJONG

Question 65

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?

Answer 65

MAZAR-I-SHARIF

Question 66

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?

Answer 66

EXCALIBUR

Question 67

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.

Answer 67

MODULUS

Question 68

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?

Answer 68

Melissa ETHERIDGE

Question 69

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?

Answer 69

AILERONS

Question 70

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.

Answer 70

HEDGE FUND

Question 71

Mousseline, also known as sauce Chantilly, is a variation of hollandaise which includes the addition of what ingredient?

Answer 71

WHIPPED CREAM

Question 72

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?

Answer 72

Benjamin BRITTEN

Question 73

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?

Answer 73

River DANUBE

Question 74

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?

Answer 74

GRANDMA MOSES

Question 75

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?

Answer 75

WEIMAR

Question 76

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)?

Answer 76

TIKKA

Question 77

Rewrite the following sentence, changing the verb to past perfect progressive: I think.

Answer 77

I HAD BEEN THINKING

Question 78

Wandsworth, Brixton, Wakefield, Wormwood Scrubs, Albany, Long Lartin, and Parkhurst are all British examples of what?

Answer 78

PRISONS

Question 79

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?

Answer 79

TOLEDO

Question 80

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.

Answer 80

David WILMOT

Question 81

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?

Answer 81

MERCHANT IVORY

Question 82

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?

Answer 82

RECEIVABLES

Question 83

The fictional woodcutter Ali Baba's life turns rich and prosperous thanks mostly to what phrase?

Answer 83

OPEN, SESAME

Question 84

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.)

Answer 84

(DOUG E. FRESH / DOUGIE

Question 85

The Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie was inspired by the hysteria that followed whose draft into the U.S. Army?

Answer 85

ELVIS PRESLEY

Question 86

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?

Answer 86

VIET MINH

Question 87

Meinl, Paiste, Sabian, and Zildjian are considered the big four manufacturers of what?

Answer 87

CYMBALS

Question 88

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?

Answer 88

MICROWAVE

Question 89

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?

Answer 89

PUERTO RICO

Question 90

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?

Answer 90

STUD

Question 91

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?

Answer 91

STAND BY ME

Question 92

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?

Answer 92

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana

Question 93

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?

Answer 93

RAMAYANA

Question 94

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).

Answer 94

Allan PINKERTON

Question 95

Prince, Tron Carter, Negrodamus, Ashy Larry, and Rick James are among the characters (real and fictional) who appeared on what sketch comedy series?

Answer 95

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW

Question 96

The object pictured here is among the regulation equipment produced for use in what game? Click here

Answer 96

TETHERBALL

Question 97

This is a promotional still from what (seemingly appropriately named) television series? Click here

Answer 97

SUITS

Question 98

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?

Answer 98

KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT

Question 99

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.

Answer 99

IRAQ, KUWAIT

Question 100

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?

Answer 100

OBJECTIVISM

Question 101

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?

Answer 101

CRUDITÉS

Question 102

Pictured here is a scene from what animated film? Click here

Answer 102

PRINCESS MONONOKE

Question 103

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.

Answer 103

DANCEHALL

Question 104

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?

Answer 104

James MONROE

Question 105

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?

Answer 105

SERIES 7 EXAM

Question 106

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?

Answer 106

SWISS FAMILY

Question 107

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?

Answer 107

ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA (THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA)

Question 108

Pasta and other Italian dishes which are described as al forno, such as lasagna, have what distinction?

Answer 108

(OVEN) BAKED

Question 109

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?

Answer 109

REUBEN

Question 110

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?

Answer 110

UFFIZI

Question 111

Of the four main islands of Japan, which is the farthest north?

Answer 111

HOKKAIDO

Question 112

What automotive engineer (and famous automotive name) developed the Volkswagen Beetle and the classic Mercedes-Benz SSK, not to mention various Nazi military vehicles?

Answer 112

Ferdinand PORSCHE

Question 113

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)?

Answer 113

14

Question 114

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?

Answer 114

SCALAWAGS

Question 115

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)?

Answer 115

VARIETY

Question 116

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.

Answer 116

SANS-CULLOTES

Question 117

What is the only nation that shares land borders with both India and Bangladesh?

Answer 117

BURMA / MYANMAR

Question 118

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?

Answer 118

BOW

Question 119

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?

Answer 119

THANATOPSIS

Question 120

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?

Answer 120

BRAN

Question 121

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.

Answer 121

MIAMI SOUND MACHINE

Question 122

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).

Answer 122

BAYERN MUNICH

Question 123

What type of nuts, from the state tree of Texas, are pictured here? Click here

Answer 123

PECANS

Question 124

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?

Answer 124

HERMITAGE MUSEUM / WINTER PALACE

Question 125

Glen Canyon, New Bullards Bar, New Croton, Oroville, Robert Moses-Robert H. Saunders, Three Gorges, Itaipu, and Shasta are all names of what?

Answer 125

DAMS

Question 126

Produced in 1935 and first released in the marketplace in 1938, what thermoplastic was the first commercially successful, fully synthetic fiber?

Answer 126

NYLON

Question 127

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?

Answer 127

Camera OBSCURA

Question 128

In what language is the following sentence written? Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod.

Answer 128

WELSH (CYMRAEG)

Question 129

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.

Answer 129

BOY MEETS WORLD

Question 130

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)?

Answer 130

COPPER / ZINC

Question 131

The mathematical notation loge x is accurate but is more often expressed in what other manner?

Answer 131

In x (NATURAL LOG)

Question 132

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)?

Answer 132

TUPAC AMARU

Question 133

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?

Answer 133

BRAZIL

Question 134

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.

Answer 134

HOMINY

Question 135

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).

Answer 135

CIRRUS / CUMULUS

Question 136

Rossignol, Salomon, Elan, Dynastar and Fischer are all brands most prominently of what type of sporting equipment?

Answer 136

SKIS

Question 137

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?

Answer 137

MAUDE

Question 138

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?

Answer 138

CABAL

Question 139

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?

Answer 139

EXISTENTIALISM

Question 140

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?

Answer 140

CYCLOTRON

Question 141

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.

Answer 141

BELUGA / OSETRA

Question 142

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?

Answer 142

GRAFFITO / GRAFFITI

Question 143

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?

Answer 143

DIXIECRATS

Question 144

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?

Answer 144

ARRIVAL

Question 145

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?

Answer 145

HISTAMINE

Question 146

The embassy of what country is pictured here? Click here

Answer 146

ECUADOR

Question 147

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)?

Answer 147

Idi AMIN

Question 148

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?

Answer 148

SIKHISM

Question 149

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?

Answer 149

BONANZA

Question 150

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?

Answer 150

Britney SPEARS

Question 151

Tavau is the local Romansh name for what fashionable resort town and geopolitical destination in the Rhaetian Alps?

Answer 151

DAVOS

Question 152

What is the full name of the man who assumed the position of Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September 1998, despite having died four years prior?

Answer 152

KIM IL SUNG

Question 153

What actor died in 2008 during the filming of the Terry Gilliam fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was completed with parts of the actor's role played by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell?

Answer 153

HEATH LEDGER

Question 154

In 1832, Sam Houston, formerly a governor of Tennessee, settled in what would become the state of Texas, where he would also become governor. Unrelatedly, in 1997, a well-known organization made a highly publicized reverse trip of sorts, migrating from Texas to Tennessee. What is the current name of that organization?

Answer 154

TENNESSEE TITANS

Question 155

The mammalian brain is typically classified anatomically into six lobes. Five are the frontal, parietal, temporal, limbic, and insular. What is the sixth?

Answer 155

OCCIPITAL

Question 156

A coffee house on London's Tower Street was the birthplace in 1688 of a namesake center of shipping intelligence and marine insurance market that has evolved into a giant and diverse general insurance marketplace. What is that shared name?

Answer 156

LLOYD'S

Question 157

Of the six Mexican states that share a border with the United States, Chihuahua has the longest, stretching from near the New Mexico/Arizona border in the west to Big Bend National Park in the east. Name any one of the other five Mexican states that border the U.S.

Answer 157

BAJA CALIFORNIA, SONORA, COAHULA, NEUVO LEON, TAMULIPAS

Question 158

What word has been redacted from this box? Click here

Answer 158

GNOCCHI

Question 159

Fill in either blank in this list that, based on the distinction all of the items share, is complete and chronological: The Roosters, Casey Jones and His Engineers, The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Glands, _______, The Powerhouse, Winston Legthigh and the Dirty Mac, _______, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, The Plastic Ono Band, Derek & The Dominos, Legends.

Answer 159

CREAM, BLIND FAITH

Question 160

In Arabic, what is the patronym—meaning son of—which is the basic equivalent of the English -son, the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac, the Spanish -ez, and the Russian -ovich/-evich/ich?

Answer 160

IBN / BIN

Question 161

The first child of English parents to be born in America was named Virginia (after the Virginia Colony) and was born on August 18, 1587, on Roanoke Island. What was Virginia's last name?

Answer 161

DARE

Question 162

Carina is Latin for the keel of a ship, puppis is the poop deck, and vela are a ship's sails. Those three Latin terms are also names for three individual what, having collectively been a part of Argo Navis (Ship Argo) until a breakup that was suggested in the mid-18th century and formalized in 1930?

Answer 162

CONSTELLATIONS

Question 163

Falstaff is the main character and Mistresses Page and Ford the title characters of what theatrical comedy (and subsequent operas and films)?

Answer 163

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Question 164

From 1971 until 1997, the country that is today the eleventh-largest in the world (by area) was known by what name?

Answer 164

ZAIRE

Question 165

While it premiered in his hometown of New York City at Carnegie Hall in late 1928, what George Gershwin rhapsodic ballet was actually largely composed during his travels abroad earlier that year?

Answer 165

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

Question 166

What is the term for any of several related, heat-resistant minerals with a fibrous structure that are woven together or bound by an inert material and made of naturally occurring mineral silicates of the serpentine and amphibole series?

Answer 166

ASBESTOS

Question 167

Name the American author and member of the Algonquin Round Table who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1924 novel So Big and also wrote the novels Show Boat (which became a popular Kern-Hammerstein musical), Cimarron, and Giant (both adapted into successful Hollywood films)?

Answer 167

EDNA FERBER

Question 168

The contemporary English visual artist Tracey Emin first achieved public acclaim (and notoriety) for her confessional installation works, including a 1998 exhibition piece which featured what title object of hers, stained and disheveled with detritus littered before it?

Answer 168

BED

Question 169

What programming language, a common business-oriented language declining in popularity but still in wide use on legacy mainframe applications, was developed in 1959 based on machine-independent programming language design work by legendary computer scientist Grace Hopper?

Answer 169

COBOL

Question 170

St. Augustine began the mass conversion of England to Christianity in 597 in what town, which would be the site of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket 573 years later?

Answer 170

CANTERBURY

Question 171

The Greek mythological figure Hippomenes, also known as Melanion, is mostly remembered for defeating whom in a footrace (but only with the help of Aphrodite's golden apples)?

Answer 171

ATALANTA

Question 172

What type of gazelle, native to southern Africa, has been used as a name for South Africa's national sports teams, particularly cricket and rugby?

Answer 172

SPRINGBOK

Question 173

What is the two-word term most commonly used for the member of a film crew who serves as the assistant to the gaffer (master electrician)? The same term is also used for the assistant to the key grip, who is in charge of lighting and rigging.

Answer 173

BEST BOY

Question 174

According to the title of a 1973 Alice Childress young-adult novel that tells the story of a 13-year-old African American boy's descent into delinquency and drug addiction, a hero ain't nothin' but a what?

Answer 174

SANDWICH

Question 175

As of 2015, in both Canada and the United States, Golden Color/Delicate Taste, Amber Color/Rich Taste, Dark Color/Robust Flavor, and Very Dark/Strong Flavor are classifications, all categorized within Grade A, for what food product?

Answer 175

MAPLE SYRUP

Question 176

Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. This is an English translation of an expression that is regularly represented by what initialism?

Answer 176

INRI

Question 177

Sakartvelo is the official native name for the mountainous Transcaucasian nation that is known in the West as what?

Answer 177

GEORGIA

Question 178

The force produced on an object moving in a north-south line on the Earth's surface, due to the angular velocity of the Earth as it rotates from west to east, is known as what? Due to the Earth's relatively slow rate of rotation, this force mainly affects the flow of air in the atmosphere.

Answer 178

CORIOLIS FORCE

Question 179

A mythical and mysterious village in the Scottish Highlands, invisible to the outside world save for one enchanted day every hundred years, provides the setting (and the title) for what popular 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical?

Answer 179

BRIGADOON

Question 180

Fabiana Luperini, Chris Froome, Jeannie Longo, Bradley Wiggins, Nicole Cooke, Fabian Cancellara, and Marianne Vos are all athletes who have achieved success in what sport?

Answer 180

(CYCLING

Question 181

The characters on the animated sitcom Family Guy frequent The Drunken Clam, a bar whose name is possibly in reference to the fictional town in which the show is set. What is the name of that town?

Answer 181

QUAHOG

Question 182

The paintings pictured here, as well as more than 50 works by Rembrandt and dozens by Vincent Van Gogh (including one that sold for $71.5 million in 1998), all share, most prominently, what distinction? Click here

Answer 182

SELF-PORTRAITS

Question 183

What was the name given to the ecclesiastical court established by the Roman Catholic Church, beginning with Pope Gregory IX in 1231, whose jurisdiction was the prosecution of heresy?

Answer 183

INQUISITION

Question 184

The iamb is the metrical foot consisting of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable (as in the words belong, exist, and impeach). What metrical foot consists of the reverse—one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable (as in planet, nugget, and learned)?

Answer 184

TROCHEE

Question 185

In analytical chemistry, the technique used to find the concentration of one compound in a solution by determining the quantity that will react with a defined amount of another compound in solution is known as what?

Answer 185

TITRATION

Question 186

The whites-only restriction of this Harlem night club was limited to the patrons, as it's largely remembered for featuring the most popular black entertainers of its day, including the four-year Prohibition-era residence of Duke Ellington and his band. What was the name of this legendary venue?

Answer 186

COTTON CLUB

Question 187

Highclere Castle, a Jacobethan-style estate built between 1838 and 1878 as the scenical country seat of the Earl of Carnarvon in the English county of Hampshire, may be more widely known today for an association it's had with another entity since 2010. By what name is this other entity known?

Answer 187

DOWNTON ABBEY

Question 188

What name do these two items share? Click here

Answer 188

OLD FASHIONED

Question 189

What was the phrase which headlined the famous open letter written in 1898 by novelist Émile Zola to Félix Faure, the president of the French Republic, in defense of falsely accused Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus?

Answer 189

J'ACCUSE

Question 190

A defensive player known as a libero, who is subject to special substitution rules and wears a different color shirt from other team members, was introduced in international competition in 1998 in what sport?

Answer 190

VOLLEYBALL

Question 191

Among the historical markers of what imperial dynasty of China, which ruled from 1368 to 1644, are legal reform and the fine quality of the porcelain produced during its period?

Answer 191

MING

Question 192

The term documentary may have been first used in a cinematic context in a 1926 New York Sun review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. Despite that, Flaherty is better remembered today for what earlier film, which, like Moana, is more accurately described as a work of docufiction.

Answer 192

NANOOK OF THE NORTH

Question 193

How many square inches are in one square yard?

Answer 193

1296

Question 194

What is the title of this song? Click here

Answer 194

POP GOES THE WEASEL

Question 195

What is the name of the muscles highlighted in this diagram? Click here

Answer 195

LATISSIMUS DORSI (LATS)

Question 196

English historian and scholar Edward Gibbon claimed to have been inspired to write his masterpiece, widely regarded the greatest historical work written in English, during a 1764 trip to what city?

Answer 196

ROME

Question 197

What is the expression, popularized in the 20th century but introduced by Adam Smith in 1759 and elaborated further in 1776, that serves as an analogy for the way in which the function of markets allows economic activity, motivated by self-interest, to be coordinated for societal benefit, without any central organization?

Answer 197

INVISIBLE HAND

Question 198

What man—a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State—is the only career officer in the United States Army ever to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer 198

George MARSHALL

Question 199

An aubade is defined as a morning song. What contrasting and complementary term has been used for evening music, such as to describe Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik or his work commissioned for the wedding of Marie Elisabeth Haffner?

Answer 199

SERENADE (also acc. NOCTURNE)

Question 200

Prior to its independence in 1946, Jordan (officially The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) was from 1921 a British protectorate with a similar sounding name. What was that name, preceded formally by Emirate of?

Answer 200

TRANSJORDAN

Question 201

What did the disciple Judas give to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane following the Last Supper, as famously depicted in multiple works of art?

Answer 201

A KISS

Question 202

All living members of the taxonomic order of animals known as Proboscidea are known commonly as what?

Answer 202

ELEPHANTS

Question 203

For much of human history, money was accepted by users because it consisted of materials which were themselves valuable. Most modern money, however, is inherently valueless, but circulates only because the state establishes its value. What Latin term is used for this latter type?

Answer 203

FIAT MONEY

Question 204

What is the word for the miniature choux pastry balls, also simply called cream puffs, that are an essential part of wedding celebrations in France, where they are assembled into a croquembouche? The name comes from the diminutive of a French term synonymous with gain?

Answer 204

PROFITEROLES

Question 205

Identify the woman in this photograph. Click here

Answer 205

Brie LARSON

Question 206

1.5 oz. of white rum, 0.5 oz. of simple syrup, and 1 oz. of lime juice: This is a recipe for a cocktail named after what small village and beach that US troops stormed at the end of the nineteenth century?

Answer 206

DAIQUIRI

Question 207

What is the precise four-word sentence that completes this famous television opening narration? In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

Answer 207

THESE ARE THEIR STORIES

Question 208

On two separate occasions in NFL history, the starting quarterback for the Super Bowl-winning team retired after that game, never playing again in the NFL. What team won the Super Bowl in both of those instances?

Answer 208

DENVER BRONCOS

Question 209

The name of a Haitian Creole mythological character who kidnaps children and eats them for breakfast (which translates to English as Uncle Gunnysack) was used for a brutal civil militia created in 1959 by Haitian dictator François Papa Doc Duvalier. What was that character's name?

Answer 209

TONTON MACOUTE

Question 210

A subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners is constructing the controversial 1,172-mile-long underground oil pipeline from the Bakken shale oil fields in the far north central United States to the Patoka oil tank farm in south central Illinois. What is the name of this subsidiary company (as well as the pipeline itself)?

Answer 210

DAKOTA ACCESS (LLC)

Question 211

1999's The Green Mile was the third Best Picture Oscar nominee in six years with roles played by Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise. What were the first two?

Answer 211

FORREST GUMP, APOLLO 13

Question 212

This image is taken from what video game franchise? Click here

Answer 212

HALF-LIFE

Question 213

Name the Portuguese diplomat who replaced Ban Ki-moon on January 1, 2017, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Answer 213

Antonio GUTERRES

Question 214

In December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined $14 for refusing to obey orders of a bus driver, by declining to give up her bus seat to a white man in what city?

Answer 214

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA

Question 215

Chyme is a substance associated with (and produced in) what bodily organ?

Answer 215

STOMACH

Question 216

A (real-life) fashion magazine, aimed towards plus-size women, that existed from 1997 to 2001, and the (fictional) trendy fashion and lifestyle magazine that employed the title character on the television series Ugly Betty had the same name. What name did these magazines share? It is, incidentally, not the title that appears most often in the history of magazine publishing.

Answer 216

MODE

Question 217

Giovanni's Room, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, and If Beale Street Could Talk are among the novels written by what American author during his decades-long residence in France, where he moved at age 24 in protest against inhumane conditions and racial discrimination in America?

Answer 217

James BALDWIN

Question 218

The pungent odor and hot taste of what condiment, an essential ingredient in cocktail sauce and a Bloody Mary, is due to a substance called sinigrin that, when broken down by enzymes, liberates a volatile oil containing sulfur? The condiment is prepared from its namesake root vegetable, a member of the crucifer family (which also includes wasabi, turnip, cabbage, and mustard).

Answer 218

HORSERADISH

Question 219

In the 4th century, the Goths split into two groups, one becoming bound by treaty to the Roman Empire, the other joining the Huns. These two branches—one of which was led by Alaric in the sacking of Rome in 410, and the other of which conquered the Italian peninsula under Theodoric the Great in 493—are most commonly known today by what two names?

Answer 219

VISGOTHS, OSTROGOTHS

Question 220

Better Git It in Your Soul and Goodbye Pork Pie Hat are among the better-known compositions of what tempestuous and legendary bandleader, who is widely considered the greatest double bassist in the history of jazz music?

Answer 220

Charles MINGUS

Question 221

While the board game Reversi was invented in the 1880s, a slightly modified modern version was patented in Japan in 1971 and is marketed and sold under what trademarked name?

Answer 221

OTHELLO

Question 222

Of the seven nations on the isthmus of Central America (thus not including Mexico), Belize is, by far, the least populous. Which of the seven is, by far, the most populous, with more than twice as many residents as the country in second place?

Answer 222

GUATEMALA

Question 223

What Swedish-based producer of cargo carriers and transport equipment takes its name from a classical term for a location in the extreme north, beyond the boundaries of the known world? It's also the former name of the northern Greenland town of Qaanaaq.

Answer 223

THULE

Question 224

A pagan community's alleged abduction of a young girl on a surreal and remote Scottish island, and its investigation by a devout (and, as it turns out, virgin) police sergeant, propel the plot of what 1973 British horror film, widely considered a classic of the genre?

Answer 224

THE WICKER MAN

Question 225

What is the term for the curved shape of a liquid's surface in a thin tube, caused by the cohesive and adhesive effects of surface tension? With most liquids, it is concave (curving downward from the sides), but with highly viscous liquids such as mercury, it is convex.

Answer 225

MENISCUS

Question 226

What is the term commonly used for the modernizing reformers in the early 20th-century Ottoman Empire who, with the support of Enver Pasha and other army officers, rebelled against and ultimately deposed Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1908, reviving the brief experiment in constitutional government the sultan had implemented and quickly suspended three decades earlier?

Answer 226

YOUNG TURKS

Question 227

A cornerstone of French cuisine is what thickening agent for basic sauces, first made by cooking flour and butter together until a brownish tint was obtained? The recipe remains the same today, though the desired color can vary.

Answer 227

ROUX

Question 228

What title completes the following unordered set: Götterdämmerung, Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, ____________.

Answer 228

SIEGFRED

Question 229

What historian and sociologist—the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard—co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909?

Answer 229

W.E.B.DU BOIS

Question 230

Sadiq Khan, a 46-year-old son of Pakistani immigrants, was elected in 2016 as Mayor of what metropolis, becoming the first ethnic minority and first Muslim to hold the position in its sixteen years of existence?

Answer 230

LONDON

Question 231

Seven of the English language's coordinating conjunctions are referenced in the mnemonic FANBOYS. Which of the seven is represented by the letter S?

Answer 231

SO

Question 232

Bridgetown, named for a primitive, Arawak-built bridge over the Careenage (or Constitution River) and a later bridge constructed by British settlers, is the capital of what island nation?

Answer 232

BARBADOS

Question 233

The adventures (and misadventures) of a group of Californians in a working-class factory district provide the vignettes that make up what episodic 1945 John Steinbeck novel?

Answer 233

CANNERY ROW

Question 234

A rock festival series, which was initiated by the Beastie Boys and began with a two-day event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in June 1996 (continuing in other locations over the next few years), was organized to raise money and promote awareness for what movement?

Answer 234

TIBETAN INDEPENDENCE

Question 235

A fictional criminal mastermind (and unfortunate ethnic stereotype), who appeared in stories by British author Sax Rohmer, has a name which lives on today in the area of grooming. What is that name?

Answer 235

FU MANCHU

Question 236

Name any one of the three 1990s sitcom kids who were the children of Danny Tanner and Pam Katsopolis Tanner.

Answer 236

DJ, STEPHANIE, MICHELLE

Question 237

What American artist's 1952 painting Mountains and Sea, pictured here, was her first professionally exhibited work and is today likely her best-known, though she would continue to produce pieces into the 21st century? Click here

Answer 237

Helen FRANKENTHALER

Question 238

Name any one of the British monarchs (with regnal number) who are members of the dynasty originally known as the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Answer 238

EDWARD VII, GEORGE V, EDWARD VIII, GEORGE VI, ELIZABETH II

Question 239

A player landing in one of the 12 'Roll again' spaces continues the turn by rolling the die again and Any number of tokens may occupy the same space are quotes within the Continuation of Play section of the Master Game—Rules of Play for what game?

Answer 239

TRIVIAL PURSUIT

Question 240

Identify any one of the three properties (by name, not letter) in the equation that defines what is commonly known as Newton's Second Law.

Answer 240

ACCELERATION, (NET) FORCE, MASS

Question 241

Name the woman who wrote the newspaper column My Day six days a week from 1935 until 1962 (the year she died) in addition to serving as the Office of Civilian Defense co-chair from 1941-42, a delegate to the UN General Assembly beginning in 1945, and the inaugural chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, as well as many other roles.

Answer 241

Eleanor ROOSEVELT

Question 242

In finance, what is the most common term for the fixed, pre-arranged price—also known as exercise price—at which an option to buy or sell the underlying security can be exercised by the option's owner?

Answer 242

STRIKE PRICE

Question 243

I Get Around, Keep Ya Head Up, Dear Mama, and California Love/How Do U Want It were among the hit singles released in the 1990s by what hip-hop legend?

Answer 243

2PAC (TUPAC SHAKUR)

Question 244

What is the mathematical limit of the expression in this image? (Note, the first decimal place is sufficient if expressing the answer as a number.) Click here

Answer 244

e/2.7/EULEUR'S NUMBER

Question 245

Kowloon, which comprises the Kowloon Peninsula and a district called New Kowloon, is within the metropolitan area of what major world city?

Answer 245

HONG KONG

Question 246

What word, used recently in New York Times articles to describe the singing and dancing skills of the stars in La La Land, the recent performance of investment management company BlackRock's stock funds, and the play of Houston Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler, is derived originally from a Latin word meaning halfway up a mountain?

Answer 246

MEDIOCRE

Question 247

In September 2015, a research study led by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha was released that revealed that the proportion of infants and children in the study group with elevated blood lead levels had nearly doubled since April 2014. The study participants were patients at Hurley Children's Hospital, where Dr. Mona serves as program director for pediatric residency, and which is located in what U.S. city?

Answer 247

FLINT, MICHIGAN

Question 248

The 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer was the first on-screen pairing of what soon-to-be couple, who would wed shortly after filming and appear together in feature films nine additional times while remaining married until the husband's death in 2008?

Answer 248

Paul NEWMAN, Joanne WOODWARD

Question 249

Although there are dozens of French cheeses with protected designations, what blue or white King of English Cheeses, made under strict specifications in the counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire, is among the relatively few English cheeses to enjoy certified legal protection?

Answer 249

STILTON

Question 250

From July 1983 until a final concession of defeat in May 2009, a civil war was waged in Sri Lanka between the Buddhist Sinhalese majority government and the minority Hindu rebels of what ethnicity?

Answer 250

TAMIL

Question 251

In engineering, what is the term for a watertight chamber built to surround an object, such as a bridge foundation, that would otherwise be submerged in the water, allowing for construction in a dry environment?

Answer 251

CAISSON / COFFERDAM

Question 252

The titles of a 1984 song recorded by Bruce Springsteen, a 1964 song by Martha and the Vandellas, a 1986 song by Lionel Richie, and a 1976 song by AᗺBA all begin with what word?

Answer 252

DANCING

Question 253

In the card games Vieux Garçon (Old Boy) and Schwarzer Peter (Black Peter), one black Jack is removed and the loser is the player who ends the game with the other in hand. An Anglophone variation removes the Queen of Hearts. This variation (as well as that card) is known as what?

Answer 253

OLD MAID

Question 254

Name either the activist and spiritualist who was the Equal Rights Party's nominee for U.S. president in 1872 (despite being 34 years old and ineligible to vote) or the African American social reformer and former abolitionist who was her choice for vice presidential running mate.

Answer 254

Victoria WOODHULL, Frederick DOUGLASS

Question 255

What company, the largest independent television production company at the time of its 1967 sale and rebranding as Paramount Television, took its name from those of its co-owners, who were themselves the stars of its first successful television project starting in 1951?

Answer 255

DESILU

Question 256

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone...a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. This quote, in the author's own words, is describing what iconic character?

Answer 256

EBENEZER SCROOGE

Question 257

What is the title of the painting being painted in this photograph? Click here

Answer 257

GUERNICA

Question 258

A group of 20th-century British middle- and working-class authors, which included, most prominently, the playwright John Osborne and novelist Kingsley Amis, was known collectively as what sort of young men?

Answer 258

ANGRY

Question 259

What number fills the fifth and final blank in this sequence of triangle numbers? 0, 1, 3, 6, ___, ___, ___, ___, ___.

Answer 259

36

Question 260

Venezuela was, in September 1960, among the five founding members of what intergovernmental economic association?

Answer 260

ORGANIZATION OF THE PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES (OPEC)

Question 261

All Fives, Bergen, Blind Hughie, Cyprus, and Matador are all games using what gaming implement?

Answer 261

DOMINOES

Question 262

George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Vaslav Nijinsky, Léonid Massine, and Sergei Prokofiev were among the many proteges of what Russian dance impresario and titan of Western ballet?

Answer 262

Sergei DIAGHILEV

Question 263

The opening scene of a television drama series shows its main character stating into the camera, There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong. Or useless pain. The sort of pain that's only suffering. I have no patience for useless things. Moments like this require someone who will act. To do the unpleasant thing. He says this as he calmly strangles a dog that has just been hit by a car, foreshadowing behavior and an attitude that would continue through four seasons (so far). What is the series?

Answer 263

HOUSE OF CARDS

Question 264

What is the legal term for the order by a judge that demands that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine the legality of the imprisonment?

Answer 264

HABEAS CORPUS

Question 265

What is the name of the man in this photograph? Click here

Answer 265

RODRIGO DUTERTE

Question 266

Grand Island, Fremont, Hastings, Papillion, and Bellevue are among the ten most populous cities in which U.S. state?

Answer 266

NEBRASKA

Question 267

Unripe berries of pimenta genus trees of the Caribbean, Honduras, and Mexico, are ground into a powder that is commonly used to season sausages, pickles, desserts, and Cincinnati-style chili. Known as Jamaica pepper, it is sometimes mistaken for a mixture due to its odor (reminiscent of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves) and is most often sold and marketed under what other name?

Answer 267

ALLSPICE

Question 268

The 1879 Dual Alliance between the German and Austro-Hungarian empires assured benevolent neutrality in the case of attack from any power, with the exception of one, an attack from which the alliance guaranteed greater reciprocal protection. What common foe was that exception?

Answer 268

RUSSIA

Question 269

In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven young women and three young men meet in a church in Florence and escape from the city to the hills of Fiesole, telling stories during ten days of the trip. These stories form the collection of tales that make up what masterpiece of classical Italian literature?

Answer 269

THE DECAMERON

Question 270

The chart-topping 2016 single Panda was the debut release from Brooklyn-born rap artist Sidney Royel Selby III, who goes by what oddly spelled stage name? (Correct spelling is not required.)

Answer 270

DESIIGNER

Question 271

Duracell, Wella, Covergirl, Clairol, Natural Instincts, Nice N' Easy, and Max Factor are among the brands sold off in recent strategic divestments by what American consumer goods giant?

Answer 271

PROCTOR&GAMBLE

Question 272

The titles of a 2016 country music hit single by Maren Morris and a separate 2016 country hit by Carrie Underwood both contain the last name of the artist who recorded the 2016 country hits Record Year and Kill a Word. What is that word/last name?

Answer 272

CHURCH

Question 273

The four-part poem by Federico García Lorca, written in Spanish in 1935 as Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejía, is an evocative elegy of Lorca's friend, who died (per the poem's unremitting refrain) at five in the afternoon. What was Ignacio's occupation, which is included in a common English title of the poem?

Answer 273

BULLFIGHTER

Question 274

As a result of an 1899 treaty between Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, the eastern islands of an archipelago once known as Navigator Islands—specifically, those east of 171 degrees west longitude—were assigned to the U.S., while the western islands were assigned to Germany, and since that time the latter have become an independent democratic nation. Give the name that the American possession, the independent nation, and the island group as a whole have in common.

Answer 274

SAMOA

Question 275

Pahoehoe and aʻa are two primary forms of what substance?

Answer 275

LAVA

Question 276

Tom Powers, played by James Cagney and partially based on the real-life mobster and Al Capone-rival Earl Hymie Weiss, was the title character of what 1931 talkie? The phrase in question had recently become popularized by law enforcement in reference to organized crime figures of the day.

Answer 276

THE PUBLIC ENEMY

Question 277

What Jewish holiday, which is also known as the Feast of Dedication, commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greeks and the 165 BCE rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem?

Answer 277

HANUKKAH

Question 278

What was the first name of the only son of author A. A. Milne and his wife Daphne de Sélincourt?

Answer 278

CHRISTOPHER (Christopher Robin Milne)

Question 279

The subjects for discussion in the first inter-allied conference of World War II attended by Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill included the coordination of allied military landings in France with the Soviet offensive on Germany, Russian entry into the war against Japan, and a post-war international organization. This conference took place in November and December 1943 in what Asian capital, after which it is named?

Answer 279

TEHRAN

Question 280

What term is used in music for the fifth tone of the diatonic scale, as well as for the chord with this fifth pitch of the scale as its root?

Answer 280

DOMINANT

Question 281

Name the actor and comedian who appeared as a panelist more than 600 times in the top right seat (from the viewer's perspective) in various incarnations of the game show Match Game?

Answer 281

CHARLES NELSON REILLY

Question 282

The championship game of the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament, which is credited as ushering in the modern era of college basketball, was the last college game for what two now-Hall of Famers? (Note: name both players.)

Answer 282

LARRY BIRD, MAGIC JOHNSON

Question 283

By virtue of its status as a center for the information technology industry—and headquarters of the major IT multinational corporations Infosys and Wipro—what capital of the southwestern state of Karnataka is nicknamed the Silicon Valley of India?

Answer 283

BANGALORE (BENGALURU)

Question 284

This is a screenshot of an iconic osculation that occurs in what film? Click here

Answer 284

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

Question 285

Urban realism was the subject matter for what informal group of American artists active in the early 20th century? The name of their school was allegedly coined by a hostile critic (but adopted by the artists) and derived from a particular item in a gritty scene drawn in 1915 by George Bellows.

Answer 285

ASHCAN school

Question 286

What is the anatomic term most often used to describe the area of the human body located at or near the part of the back lying between the lowest ribs and the hips, and also for the five spinal vertebrae in this area? It is where the needle is inserted for a spinal tap puncture.

Answer 286

LUMBAR

Question 287

A diplomatic incident arose between the United States and France in 1797 when three French agents solicited a bribe from American agents sent to negotiate an end to maritime hostilities that were threatening to evolve into a full-scale war. This scandal is known by what name?

Answer 287

XYZ AFFAIR

Question 288

The ancient Greeks had four words for love: storge (familial love), philia (love in friendship), agape (higher, selfless, transcending love), and what fourth, which is love based on desire and passion?

Answer 288

EROS

Question 289

In the United States, bacon is made from pork belly while Canadian bacon is made from the loin of the pig. In Great Britain, the belly bacon is known as streaky bacon, while cuts that include both belly and loin can be referred to as back bacon but most often appear on British breakfast menus as slices known as what?

Answer 289

RASHERS

Question 290

Pictured here is the cast for what television series? Click here

Answer 290

THIS IS US

Question 291

Although in common usage the word is now often associated with children, what term is used in fine arts for a preparatory sketch or design for a picture to be transferred to a fresco or tapestry?

Answer 291

CARTOON

Question 292

Pferd and Ross are German words that both translate to English as what?

Answer 292

HORSE

Question 293

The city-state of Sparta was the hegemon of a geographically based alliance that included Tegea, Elis, Corinth, and others, and is known historically as what league? The league would emerge victorious in a war against the Athens-led Delian League toward the end of the 5th century BCE.

Answer 293

PELOPONNESIAN league

Question 294

What London thoroughfare, named for the stream (now subterranean) that used to flow nearby, is synonymous today with English journalism and the newspaper business (and, to a separate degree, demon barbers)?

Answer 294

FLEET STREET

Question 295

What characters are the official mascot of the animation film production company Illumination Entertainment, which released the hit 2016 films Sing and The Secret Life of Pets?

Answer 295

MINIONS

Question 296

In American football, the referee presses his or her palms together above the head, pointed straight up, to signal what play?

Answer 296

SAFETY

Question 297

What is the geographical term for two places on the surface of the globe which are diametrically opposite to each other? Example pairs include the North and South Pole; Madrid, Spain and Weber, New Zealand; and the French commune of Gatteville-le-Phare and an uninhabited subantarctic island group that has this term as its name.

Answer 297

ANTIPODES

Question 298

A particular device used to measure the diameter or thickness of an object has a name which is also used for the part of a disc brake assembly that presses the brake pad against the disc. What is that term?

Answer 298

CALIPER

Question 299

A work by John Webster, an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, deals affectingly and tragically with a disastrous marriage between the titular noblewoman and a commoner. This play, per its title, is set in the court of what duchy on the Italian peninsula?

Answer 299

MALFI (AMALFI)

Question 300

A dish created by Auguste Escoffier in 1892, that today can consist of poached peach halves placed on a bed of vanilla ice cream and coated with raspberry purée, was named after what Australian soprano?

Answer 300

Dame Nellie MELBA

Question 301

In music notation for stringed instruments that are played with a bow, an abbreviation for what Italian term is typically found above notes that are meant to be plucked with the fingers or thumb instead of bowed?

Answer 301

PIZZICATO

Question 302

While Trōia was its common Latin name, the ancient Asia Minor city of Troy was also known, especially in a poetic context, by what other Latin name?

Answer 302

ILIUM

Question 303

Pictured here is a regulation ball used in what sport? Click here

Answer 303

HANDBALL

Question 304

An ambitious and innovative 1941 nonfiction book with text by James Agee and photos by Walker Evans, documenting the daily lives of Depression-era tenant farmers, has an ironic title which calls to Let Us Now Praise whom?

Answer 304

FAMOUS MEN

Question 305

The water-soluble B-complex vitamin B9, often advised as a supplement for pregnant women to help prevent neural tube defects, is known by what name?

Answer 305

FOLIC ACID / FOLATE

Question 306

On November 17, 1968, the telecast of a game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders was cut short on the east coast, infamously, to broadcast the start of what television film?

Answer 306

HEIDI

Question 307

The leaves of what palm native to Madagascar are used to produce the ribbon pictured here? Click here

Answer 307

RAFFIA

Question 308

What is the name of the northern arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Sweden on the west and Finland on the east?

Answer 308

GULF OF BOTHNIA

Question 309

One factor in the VCR format war that led to VHS dominance was its availability to be licensed to any manufacturer that was interested, whereas for years, the manufacture of Betamax was limited to one company. What was that company, which developed the Betamax format in 1975?

Answer 309

SONY

Question 310

The effect of certain forces on an object varies by the ___________ of the distance between the object and the source of the force. What two words (sometimes joined by a hyphen) fill in the blank in this principle from physics? These two words also provide the name of the law defined by the statement.

Answer 310

INVERSE SQUARE

Question 311

In 1897, breakfast cereal titan Charles W. Post erroneously believed that the maltose sugar in his newly invented granular wheat cereal was glucose. According to this account, he misnamed this cereal what, after an older name for glucose and after the cereal's flavor after toasting?

Answer 311

GRAPE-NUTS

Question 312

Name the French director who is perhaps as known today for his romances as for his film work, thanks in no small part to his tendency to cast his wives in sex-symbol roles, including Annette Stroyberg in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu...créa la femme, and Jane Fonda in Barbarella.

Answer 312

Roger VADIM

Question 313

What name precedes the following phrases in titles of television series? House of Payne; Meet the Browns; Love Thy Neighbor.

Answer 313

TYLER PERRY

Question 314

As of the 1860 U.S. Census, what was the most populous city in what would become the Confederate States of America? It was roughly four times more populated than the CSA's second-largest city, Charleston.

Answer 314

NEW ORLEANS

Question 315

The supposed fossilized human-like remains presented by Charles Dawson beginning in 1912, which were exposed in 1953 as a forgery, are known by a name referencing the village in East Sussex, England, where the bone fragments were discovered. What is that village?

Answer 315

PILTDOWN

Question 316

Give any one of the three rhyming titles that comprise American bohemian writer Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, all of which were initially banned in the U.S. but ultimately published in 1965.

Answer 316

SEXUS, PLEXUS, NEXUS

Question 317

Blonde d'Aquitaine, Simmental, Limousin, Charolais, and Belgian Blue are all continental European breeds of what?

Answer 317

CATTLE

Question 318

French business magnate Bernard Arnault is the Chairman and CEO of a luxury goods conglomerate whose name is oddly complicated but is typically reduced to an initialism referencing some of the company's many brands. What are those initials?

Answer 318

LVMH

Question 319

The modern system of binomial nomenclature of organisms (e.g., Homo sapiens, Lama glama, Pandion haliaetus) was introduced in 1735 by what Swedish naturalist?

Answer 319

Carl LINNAEUS

Question 320

Out of the Buddha's fundamental teachings arose two different main forms of Buddhism. Give the name of either, which translate roughly as Teachings of the Elders and The Great Vehicle.

Answer 320

THERAVADA, MAHAYANA

Question 321

What U.S. state's Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805 and led by Thomas Eakins in the 1880s, is the first and oldest art museum in the United States?

Answer 321

PENNSYLVANIA

Question 322

The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper published in Illinois whose single issue, printed in early June 1844, led ultimately to the killing of what man by a mob later that month?

Answer 322

Joseph SMITH

Question 323

Entering the 2017 Formula One motor racing season, what European automaker's team is the three-time defending champion of the Constructors' Championship?

Answer 323

MERCEDES-BENZ

Question 324

A 1917 recording by a New Orleans ensemble consisting of Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Larry Shields, Henry Ragas, and Tony Sbarbaro is widely considered the first jazz record. This group of musicians dubbed themselves the Original ____ Jazz Band with what word filling in the blank?

Answer 324

DIXIELAND

Question 325

Earlier this month, five activists were detained in Moscow as they attempted to deliver a petition to Russia's prosecutor general that called for an investigation into the status and treatment of gay people in what Russian republic?

Answer 325

CHECHNYA

Question 326

Name the actor who, before hitting it big, played a young EMT named Ace on the television series E/R, a carpenter on The Facts of Life, a plastics plant foreman on Roseanne, and a detective (and husband to Sela Ward's Teddy) on Sisters?

Answer 326

George CLOONEY

Question 327

An 1846 treaty between the British and US governments established an international boundary along the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains, separating British North America and an American region that gave its name to the treaty. What was this name that the region was known by at the time?

Answer 327

OREGON (COUNTRY)

Question 328

Created by Scotsman John Arbuthnot in 1712 and later popularized via the periodical Punch in the middle and late 19th century, what was the name of the personification of England and English character represented usually as a stout and jovial figure with a Union Jack waistcoat?

Answer 328

JOHN BULL

Question 329

What is, by far, the most populous country on the continent of Africa?

Answer 329

NIGERIA

Question 330

Methanol (methyl alcohol, CH3OH) is a natural byproduct of the distillation of what organic material, which gives the alcohol another name by which it is widely known?

Answer 330

WOOD

Question 331

What is the name of the yellow, lemon-scented essential oil, obtained from the leaves of the tropical grass Cymbopogon nardus, that is commonly used as an insect repellent or in perfume?

Answer 331

CITRONELLA

Question 332

¿Cuál es el nombre, en español, del país que limita con México al norte?

Answer 332

(LOS) ESTADIOS UNIDOS (DE AMERICA)

Question 333

There are two main branches of calculus. One is differential calculus, which is the study of the rate of change of functions through the use of derivatives and differentials. What is the most common term for its inverse, the other main branch?

Answer 333

INTEGRAL

Question 334

The Battle of Cannae, which took place in southern Italy in 216 BCE, is remembered for the tactical brilliance that resulted in victory for what legendary military general?

Answer 334

HANNIBAL

Question 335

Reggae artists Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, and Burning Spear were all, at one time, signed to what record label, which was sold to PolyGram in 1989 and is today a division of Universal Music Group? This appropriately named label was founded in 1959 in Jamaica.

Answer 335

ISLAND RECORDS

Question 336

The first three lines of the chorus in the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, based on Julia Ward Howe's poem, are what three-word line, repeated?

Answer 336

GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH!

Question 337

The solo recital—both the term and the type of piano concert—is widely credited to what 19th-century Hungarian virtuoso, who undoubtedly revolutionized the art of performance and created the model for concert pianists that remains in place today?

Answer 337

Franz LISZT

Question 338

What is the name, in English, of the structure, which was initially completed in the year 691 and sits adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque within the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), that serves as the holiest Muslim shrine in the city of Jerusalem?

Answer 338

DOME OF THE ROCK

Question 339

In each year from 1983 to 1988, the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series was won by one of the two stars of what TV series?

Answer 339

CAGNEY & LACEY

Question 340

Tiger Williams, Dale Hunter, Tie Domi, Marty McSorley, and Bob Probert are the top five in the history of the National Hockey League in what statistic?

Answer 340

PENALTIES (IN MINUTES)

Question 341

Certain pharmaceuticals indicated for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders work by inhibiting the activity of a particular family of enzymes. The drugs, which include Marplan, Nardil, and Parnate, are best known collectively by what abbreviation?

Answer 341

MAOIs

Question 342

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and a titular tragic Young Lady from a (very long) epistolary 1748 novel share what first name?

Answer 342

CLARISSA

Question 343

What George Bernard Shaw play, a comic spoof of militarism first produced in 1894, takes its four-word title from the first line of Virgil's Aeneid?

Answer 343

ARMS AND THE MAN

Question 344

A February 28, 1994, air battle near Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where four Serb fighter planes were shot down within a designated no-fly zone, marked the first-ever military combat engagement in the 45-year history of what?

Answer 344

NATO

Question 345

In March 2008, Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree declaring Father Michael McGivney a Venerable Servant of God, placing the American priest on the path toward sainthood (he would be the first US-born priest canonized, if successful). Fr. McGivney founded what Catholic fraternal service organization, now the world's largest?

Answer 345

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Question 346

Of the twelve horses who have won thoroughbred racing's triple crown, two had names that included the names of major American cities. One horse was Omaha in 1935—who was the other?

Answer 346

SEATTLE SLEW

Question 347

Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level on Earth. What is the highest mountain in the world outside Asia?

Answer 347

ACONCAGUA

Question 348

What is the term used for the pollen-producing organ of a plant, usually consisting of a saclike anther on the tip of a flower filament?

Answer 348

STAMEN

Question 349

What fictional amateur detective, a shrewdly intelligent elderly busybody of independent means with an unsentimental understanding of human nature, lived in the cozy English village of St. Mary Mead?

Answer 349

JANE MARPLE

Question 350

Thank you for all your continued patience and understanding. We apologize for what all of our guests and staff went through over the last 24 hours and will work tirelessly to make this right. Please check our official social media channels ([redacted]) for further important updates. This quote concludes a statement that appeared on April 29, 2017, on the home page for what fledgling (to put it charitably) music festival?

Answer 350

FYRE festival

Question 351

The principle that the volume of a gas times its pressure is constant at a fixed temperature is named after what chemist, who first published the discovery in 1662?

Answer 351

Robert BOYLE

Question 352

This self-portrait is the work of what French painter of the Ancien Régime, who served for a time as the official portraitist of Marie Antoinette? Click here

Answer 352

ELIZABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN

Question 353

A 2017 animated film subtitled The Lost Village is a reboot not connected to two previous films from this decade that also feature what characters?

Answer 353

THE SMURFS

Question 354

A reconditioned 1985 Broadway revival of what 1965 Neil Simon play featured Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno in the play's title roles?

Answer 354

THE ODD COUPLE

Question 355

What is the title of the three-hour multi-perspective epic film from 1962 that recreates the events of June 6, 1944?

Answer 355

THE LONGEST DAY

Question 356

While polio is its more common abbreviation, what is the full name of the highly communicable (and eradicable) infectious disease caused by the poliovirus of the Enterovirus genus?

Answer 356

POLIOMYELITIS

Question 357

Lionel was the first practicing Jewish MP in Britain's House of Commons and loaned his government the money to buy the Suez Canal. His son Nathan was the first Jewish peer and financially backed Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company. Nathan's son Walter received the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which stated the British government's support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. These three men shared what last name, as members of a family influential in both political and economic affairs starting in the 18th century?

Answer 357

ROTHSCHILD

Question 358

Along with being titled after the first names of their female main characters, the television series Flo, Gloria, Tabitha, Daria, Phyllis, Rhoda, Maude, and Kendra all share, most prominently, what other particular distinction? 1956's The Adventures of Champion is, arguably, the first series to hold the distinction in question.

Answer 358

SPIN-OFFS

Question 359

Since 2000, men who have held the number one spot in the Official World Golf Ranking have represented Australia, England, Germany, Northern Ireland, the United States, and what Pacific island nation?

Answer 359

FIJI

Question 360

I'm the One by DJ Khaled, Despacito (Remix) by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, Cold Water by Major Lazer, and Let Me Love You by DJ Snake are all recent pop hits with what singer credited as a featured artist?

Answer 360

Justin BIEBER

Question 361

What answer fills in the blank in the title of a Brian Eno-produced new wave album from the late 1970s? Q: Are We Not Men? A: _______!

Answer 361

WE ARE DEVO

Question 362

An activist campaign by the Irish National Land League in 1880 forbade the Irish from supplying provisions to an unpopular local British land agent in County Mayo. From this event originated what word used to describe the tactic, after the name of this ostracized land agent?

Answer 362

BOYCOTT

Question 363

A 1909 expedition to Africa sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, which resulted in thousands of specimens (including dozens of big game animals) collected for American natural history museums, was led by what man, who arranged the expedition in part to give room to new U.S. President W.H. Taft?

Answer 363

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Question 364

Mexoryl SX, AvoTriplex, and Helioplex are tradenames of chemical formulations developed for use in what type of consumer product?

Answer 364

SUNSCREENS

Question 365

What critically acclaimed 1994 film was a box-office bomb on its initial release but has gone on to extreme popularity (and a #1 all-time ranking on imdb.com), thanks in part to frequent airings on the TNT cable network in the late 1990s and subsequent widespread accolades?

Answer 365

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

Question 366

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez; Saturn Devouring His Son and The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya; The Knight with His Hand on His Breast by El Greco; Jacob's Dream by José de Ribera; Children on the Beach by Joaquín Sorolla; and Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit by Juan Sanchez Cotan are works housed in what art museum?

Answer 366

MUSEO DEL PRADO

Question 367

In 1985, former University of Kansas star Lynette Woodard became the first woman to join what team as an official member?

Answer 367

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS

Question 368

Melting butter in hot water, adding flour, cooking that mixture until smooth, beating in eggs one by one, and piping through a forcing bag—this is a method for preparing what type of pastry, used for making éclairs, beignets, churros, and French crullers?

Answer 368

CHOUX

Question 369

Vesta is the brightest (from the Earth's perspective) and Ceres—at least until its formal reclassification in 2006—was the largest of the celestial bodies that are known as what?

Answer 369

ASTEROIDS

Question 370

Pisa, Lucca, Arezzo, Livorno, and Siena are among the provinces in what Italian region, which also includes the city of Florence?

Answer 370

TUSCANY

Question 371

What is the name of the painting technique, similar (and related) to divisionism, which is closely associated with the French post-impressionist Georges Seurat, and perhaps most closely associated with his A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

Answer 371

POINTILLISM

Question 372

The symbol pictured here is used in the field of geometry specifically to denote that two items—such as line segments, circles, triangles, or angles—are what? Click here

Answer 372

CONGRUENT

Question 373

Till earth and heaven ring is the second line of a famous poem by James Weldon Johnson that, once it was set to music, was adopted as the official song of the NAACP and is widely considered the Black National Anthem. What is the poem's first line, which also serves as its title?

Answer 373

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Question 374

Cape Spear, the easternmost point in Canada, is located on the Avalon Peninsula of what large island?

Answer 374

NEWFOUNDLAND

Question 375

The alleged corrupt bargain of 1824-1825 resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams as U.S. President by the House of Representatives and the appointment of what House speaker and Kentuckian as secretary of state?

Answer 375

Henry CLAY