LL77 Flashcards
When dissolved in water, the chemical compound sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) forms a solution commonly known as what?
(Liquid / Household) BLEACH
A popular children’s book by P.D. Eastman details the activities of a set of anthropomorphic canines—big, little, red, blue, yellow, etc.—who operate various means of transport, some while wearing hats, as they go about the day, ultimately ending up at a big party. What is the title of this book?
GO, DOG, GO!
A predecessor to what still-active rock band was formed by its pre-teen founders as The Broken Combs way back in 1964? Coincidentally, this is the same year that Roy Orbison’s Oh, Pretty Woman and The Kinks’ You Really Got Me were released as singles.
VAN HALEN
There are three NCAA Division I hockey teams whose universities are located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. One is Northern Michigan; name either of the other two.
LAKE SUPERIOR STATE, MICHIGAN TECH
Supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War of the mid-17th century were known by what derogatory name, so called due to their close-cropped hair (contrasting with the long hair of the Royalists/Cavaliers)?
ROUNDHEADS
Darrell Hammond, Norm Macdonald, Rob Riggle, George Hamilton, Rob Lowe, and Reba McEntire are among the actors who have appeared in television ads portraying what corporate mascot?
COLONEL SANDERS
A Bantu dialect term for okra and a Choctaw word for filé are possible (and appropriate) origins for the name of what dish?
GUMBO
What Chicagoan dance lord became, in 1975, the first American to secure a title at the Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships)?
Michael FLATLEY
In early May 2018, what company, with its parent company SCL Group, ceased operations, following a scandal relating to its acquisition and use of personal data about Facebook users?
CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
What island and external federal territory of Australia was visited, and named, by English sea captain William Mynors in December 1643?
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
An agricultural device gives its name to what term for a U-shaped bend in a river? The term is also used for a lake formed when a river bend becomes so sharp that the river cuts through the narrow neck of land in the middle.
OXBOW
Not Tonight Josephine—purportedly (but likely not) once uttered by Napoleon to Empress Joséphine one evening—was the working title of what 1959 comedy film, in reference to a character portrayed by a character portrayed by one of the movie’s main actors?
SOME LIKE IT HOT
New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff’s current nonfiction best seller details the life and career of what late actor and comedian?
Robin WILLIAMS
Of the seven countries on the Central American isthmus between Mexico and Colombia, all but two have coasts on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Name both of the countries that have just one coastline.
BELIZE, EL SALVADOR
What is the term, derived from the Italian for smoke and associated with da Vinci, Giogione, and Correggio, that is used in painting to describe the gradual, soft transition from one tone or hue to another?
SFUMATO
Nineteenth-century French surgeon and anthropologist Pierre Paul Broca is the namesake for a specific area in what organ in humans?
BRAIN
Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev used what Russian term for openness to name a policy introduced in 1986 that relaxed repression on human rights and increased governmental transparency?
GLASNOST
The trade name for a once-popular videotape cassette recorder standard that was introduced in the mid-1970s by JVC/Matsushita is widely known by a three-letter acronym. What do the three letters in that acronym stand for?
VIDEO HOME SYSTEM
The Time Bandit, Cornelia Marie, Saga, Wizard, Northwestern, and (tragically) Big Valley are among the vessels that have been featured on what television series?
DEADLIEST CATCH
The popular skateboard and apparel brand Supreme famously borrowed its logo and aesthetic from the work, such as the graphic pictured here, of what conceptual artist? Click here
Barbara KRUGER
Prompted by the 1902-03 armed intervention of British and German forces in Venezuela to settle debt claims, an amendment to the Monroe Doctrine was issued stating that only the United States may act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere. This supplement is commonly known by what name, after the man who issued it in 1904?
ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
What language, which has an official designation in Ethiopia and is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion, is the second-most commonly spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic)?
AMHRAIC
Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News, Believe in Yourself, Everybody Rejoice (A Brand New Day), and Slide Some Oil to Me are songs from what musical that debuted on Broadway in January 1975?
THE WIZ
In mathematics, the best-known and most commonly used coordinate system for identifying a point in a plane is named after what man, who invented it in the 17th century?
Rene DESCARTES
Pawns, chips, stones, nips, discs, pips, counters, checkers, men, and draughts are different names for the fifteen pieces (per player) in what game, where the object is to bear off these pieces before one’s opponent?
BACKGAMMON
Identify the man in the foreground of this photograph. Click here
INCA
What is the historical name of the empire known natively and contemporaneously as Tawantinsuyu (Empire of the Four Regions)? This better-known name comes from Quechua for king.
Emmanuel MACRON
Pump, Dicky, Skies, Yachty, Uzi Vert: These terms, and many others, are all preceded by what word to form the names of popular American rap artists?
LIL
The term for the cartilaginous flap that covers the opening of the windpipe is one example of the use of what three-letter prefix that indicates above, over, or upon?
EPI
A village in New York’s Hudson Valley, first developed in the 1880s by tobacco scion Pierre Lorillard IV and for many years a country home for members of New York’s social elite, gave its name to what distinctive article of clothing?
TUXEDO
Pictured here is a typical scene from what currently running television series, a reboot of a series that ran from 1985 to 1992? Click here
MACGYVER
A set of six string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed between December 1782 and January 1785, and published in September of that year, were dedicated to—and are commonly named after—what other composer?
Joseph HAYDN
The resolution by the US Congress in August 1964 that authorized President Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War is named after what body of water?
GULF OF TONKIN
The name for what vocation could be considered outdated, as its namesake chemical element (from Latin) has largely been banned for use by its tradesmen for decades?
PLUMBING
After the 2000 Sydney Olympics, various rule changes instituted by what sport’s governing body (to improve the spectating experience) included increasing the ball diameter by 2mm, reducing a game from 21 to 11 points, and preventing the act of ball-hiding?
TABLE TENNIS (PING PONG)
The actor who portrayed fictional mercenary leader Barney Ross in a three-film series during the 2010s has portrayed two other characters in successful multi-film franchises with at least three installments. Give the name of either of these other two characters.
ROCKY BALBOA, JOHN RAMBO
The initial volume of The Grammatical Institute of the English Language, which later came to be known as The American Spelling Book and subsequently The Elementary Spelling Book, was the earliest success and possibly the second-most (but definitely not first-most) important work of what pioneering American author and educator?
Noah WEBSTER
Luanda, Cabinda, Cuanza Sul, Namibe, and Zaire are among the provinces of what African nation?
ANGOLA
What film won the inaugural Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002, and remains today one of only two such Oscar-winners for DreamWorks Animation despite eleven subsequent nominations (the other was Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)? While the film was extremely successful commercially, its sequels are the studio’s highest grossing films.
SHREK
While commonly used in adjective form, what word is, in its noun form, defined mathematically as a variable that approaches 0 as a limit, or a quantity less than any finite quantity but greater than zero?
INFINITESIMAL
The plastic polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), remarkable for its ability to adhere to itself and its low permeability, was beginning in 1953 best known by what brand name? The brand, which still exists today and is now owned by S. C. Johnson & Son, changed its formula in 2004 from PVDC to ordinary low-density polyethylene due to cost, processing, and environmental concerns.
SARAN WRAP
Fantasy gifts in what American retailer’s Christmas Book catalogs have included Yours & Mine Limited Edition Rolls-Royce Dawns, a $20 million submarine, an Arch motorcycle designed by Keanu Reeves, and a live Black Angus bull?
NIEMAN MARCUS
What musician and 27-time Grammy winner (a record co-holder among living artists) is the leader of the bluegrass music band Union Station?
Alison KRAUSS
What is the name of the mausoleum commissioned in 1632 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Arjumand Banu Begum?
TAJ MAHAL
Who designed the work of art in the foreground of this photo? Click here
Filippo BRUNELLESCHI
Classico, Montalbano, and Rùfina are among the eight zones where what Tuscan red wine is produced?
CHIANTI
On one side of the standard Canadian two-dollar coin (toonie) is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, while on the other side is an image of what carnivore?
POLAR BEAR
Early in the game play of Pokémon Go, players join one of three teams that serve as contingents battling to control Gyms within the Pokémon Go world. Name any one of these three color-coded teams, corresponding to red, blue, and yellow, respectively.
VALOR, MYSTIC, INSTINCT
Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the co-founders in 1978 of what corporation, which would finally be dissolved fourteen years later?
WHITEWATER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
C. Bechstein, Bösendorfer, and Blüthner are regarded as three of the Big Four manufacturers of what item? Other producers have included Érard, Baldwin, Weber, and Nordheimer.
PIANOS
Of the hundreds of species of cactus found in the United States, the largest in physical size—and perhaps most iconic, due to its association with the American Southwest and namesake national park in Arizona—has what name?
SAGUARO
Floyd Lawson, Helen Crump, Howard Sprague, Clara Edwards, and Otis Campbell were among the secondary characters in what long-running 1960s television sitcom?
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
What word, the name of small town in the French Seine-Maritime region where its namesake soft cheese is made, is redacted in this image? Click here
NEUFCHATEL
What is the name of the wealthy Baghdadian who, according to legend, discovers the rocs’ eggs and the Valley of Diamonds, is buried alive with his deceased wife, and kills the Old Man of the Sea (among numerous other adventures)?
SINBAD
A lunatic hypnotist, his carnival somnambulist, and various asylum inmates (who may not be what they appear) are central to the plot of what 1920 horror film and classic of German Expressionism?
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
From 1975 until 1979, while under the control of the Khmer Rouge, the present-day nation of Cambodia was known by what name?
(DEMOCRATIC) KAMPUCHEA
Devin Booker, TJ Warren, and Josh Jackson were leading scorers for what NBA team during the 2017-2018 season?
PHOENIX SUNS
Quartz, tridymite, cristobalite, coesite, and stishovite are the five crystalline forms, and opal an amorphous form, of a chemical compound best known by what single word?
SILICA
U.S. Army airmen seeking to be excused from WWII bombing missions due to mental derangement, but judged ineligible as the sanity of such a request proves their fitness, are central to the plot of what novel?
CATCH-22
The images in this montage, all with slight edits, are taken from album covers by what musical group? Click here
FOO FIGHTERS
