LL77 Flashcards
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When dissolved in water, the chemical compound sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) forms a solution commonly known as what?
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(Liquid / Household) BLEACH
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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?
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GO, DOG, GO!
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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.
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VAN HALEN
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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.
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LAKE SUPERIOR STATE, MICHIGAN TECH
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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)?
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ROUNDHEADS
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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?
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COLONEL SANDERS
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A Bantu dialect term for okra and a Choctaw word for filé are possible (and appropriate) origins for the name of what dish?
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GUMBO
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What Chicagoan dance lord became, in 1975, the first American to secure a title at the Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships)?
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Michael FLATLEY
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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?
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CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
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What island and external federal territory of Australia was visited, and named, by English sea captain William Mynors in December 1643?
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CHRISTMAS ISLAND
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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.
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OXBOW
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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?
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SOME LIKE IT HOT
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New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff’s current nonfiction best seller details the life and career of what late actor and comedian?
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Robin WILLIAMS
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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.
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BELIZE, EL SALVADOR
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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?
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SFUMATO
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Nineteenth-century French surgeon and anthropologist Pierre Paul Broca is the namesake for a specific area in what organ in humans?
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BRAIN
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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?
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GLASNOST
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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?
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VIDEO HOME SYSTEM
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The Time Bandit, Cornelia Marie, Saga, Wizard, Northwestern, and (tragically) Big Valley are among the vessels that have been featured on what television series?
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DEADLIEST CATCH
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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
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Barbara KRUGER
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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?
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ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
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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)?
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AMHRAIC
23
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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?
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THE WIZ
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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?
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Rene DESCARTES
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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
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Identify the man in the foreground of this photograph. Click here
INCA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Luanda, Cabinda, Cuanza Sul, Namibe, and Zaire are among the provinces of what African nation?
ANGOLA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who designed the work of art in the foreground of this photo? Click here
Filippo BRUNELLESCHI
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Classico, Montalbano, and Rùfina are among the eight zones where what Tuscan red wine is produced?
CHIANTI
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Devin Booker, TJ Warren, and Josh Jackson were leading scorers for what NBA team during the 2017-2018 season?
PHOENIX SUNS
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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
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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
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The images in this montage, all with slight edits, are taken from album covers by what musical group? Click here
FOO FIGHTERS
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From April 1983 to July 1985, a tennis duo—who won 20 career doubles Grand Slam titles together—went on a record-setting streak of 109 matches without a defeat. Name either of these women, both members of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Martina NAVRATILOVA, Pam SHRIVER
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What is the last name of the fictional persona invented by Washington Irving in 1809 to narrate his satirical A History of New York? This name became a term for Dutch-Americans residing in New York (and later, for any New Yorker).
KNICKERBOCKER
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What Russian-ized version of the current name of Russia's second-largest city was that city's official name from September 1914 to January 1924?
PETROGRAD
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Name the singer, actress, and Goddess of Pop who starred in the 1969 film Chastity and co-hosted a variety show on CBS beginning in 1971 before hosting a show of her own (after separating from her co-host) in 1975, all during a recording career that now spans six decades.
CHER
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The Hegira is the name for Muhammad's secret departure from Mecca in 622, with Abu Bakr, to live among the people of Yathrib, founding the first Muslim community. The city of Yathrib was later renamed what?
MEDINA
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What English word, derogatory (and arguably offensive) in modern usage, comes from the name for a secretive gang of murderers and robbers devoted to the Hindu god Kali? The term has been embraced by hip-hop artists such as Tupac Shakur, who formed a group whose name included the word and also had it tattooed on the right side of his abdomen.
THUG
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For many years, the school of economic thought most closely associated with monetarism was named after what American university, the home of noted monetarist Milton Friedman from 1946 to 1977?
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Now this is your last chance. If one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped...you're fired! This quote, uttered by a stern factory supervisor, kicks off a classic scene in sitcom history from what television series?
I LOVE LUCY
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What character, likely opera's most famous valet, was on the staff of philandering 18th-century Spanish Count Almaviva, as was his beloved wife Susanna (as the Countess's maid)?
FIGARO
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The Saga of an American Family is the subtitle of what 1976 historical fiction Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway best seller?
ROOTS
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Name the object that traveled approximately 43 million miles from October 4, 1957, until January 4, 1958, much of that time at around 18,000 miles per hour.
SPUTNIK 1
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The echidnas and platypus of Australia and New Guinea, who lay eggs and have a single opening for reproduction and elimination of waste, are the only living members of the most primitive of three conventional groups of mammals (in comparison to placentals and marsupials). This group is known as—and is categorized within the mammalian taxonomic order of—what?
MONOTREMES
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Zuckerman Bound, a collection that includes the trilogy The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, and The Anatomy Lesson, along with the novella The Prague Orgy, is the work of what late American novelist?
Philip ROTH
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The Volga, Ural, and Kura Rivers all discharge into what body of water?
CASPIAN SEA
75
What is the name for any of various bacteria having a round or ovoid form, including those that cause strep throat, some forms of pneumonia and meningitis, and staph infections?
COCCUS / COCCI
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Name any one of the U.S. states that were not one of the original thirteen British colonies but became a state in the 18th century.
VERMONT, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE
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Whose witch is pictured here? Click here
(MARIA GAETANA) AGNESI
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Though she did not star in the film (having died seven years earlier), Rita Hayworth plays an important role (of sorts) as a plot element in what 1994 film?
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
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In Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll first used what term to describe words that are composed of parts of two or more words? Examples are found throughout Jabberwocky and include mimsy (flimsy and miserable), galumphing (gallop and triumphant), and chortled (chuckle and snort).
PORTMANTEAU
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What was the name of the top-grossing summer caravan musical tour in 1997, the first to achieve this distinction with a lineup of all female-led acts?
LILTH FAIR
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The Bronze Age civilization that developed on the island of Crete roughly 5000 years ago and lasted for nearly two millennia is named after a legendary king. What is that name (either the king's or the civilization's)?
MINOS / MINOAN
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What is the name of the nonprofit organization that was the appellant in the landmark 2010 case before the U.S. Supreme Court where the majority held that, under the First Amendment, corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited? The organization's name has become shorthand for the case itself.
CITIZENS UNITED
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What is the name for the scientific study of how matter behaves at very low temperatures, including approaching absolute zero?
CRYOGENICS / CRYOPHYSICS
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What country has the greatest ratio of height (north/south distance) to width (east/west distance) in its contiguous land territory, with 2,653 miles between its northernmost and southernmost points but only 221 miles at its widest?
CHILE
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Jātaka is the name for any of numerous popular tales of virtue illustrating the former lives of what individual?
GUATAMA / SIDDHARTHA BUDDHA
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Who appeared in 31 films from 1956 to 1969, first as Clint Reno and finally as Dr. John Carpenter, with Pacer Burton, Tulsa McLean, Chad Gates, Steve Grayson, and Lucky Jackson among the roles in between?
ELVIS PRESLEY
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What is the current name of the music hall on West 125th Street in New York's Harlem neighborhood that opened in 1914 as the whites-only Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater?
APOLLO THEATER
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What is the common, Romanized four-letter name of the Empress Dowager who rose from the position of third-rank concubine of Emperor Xianfeng to essentially rule China, autocratically and ruthlessly. for most of 47 years beginning in 1861? (Please note that correct spelling is required for this question.)
CIXI
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The subjects in what famous painting are often assumed to be husband and wife, but were meant by the artist to represent a father and daughter, and were in reality the artist's sister and dentist?
AMERICAN GOTHIC
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The twin children on the televison series Black-ish are named after the subjects of a song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in October 1982. What are their names?
JACK AND DIANE
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What everyday object, a compound machine consisting of two wedges connected by two levers, appears in the titles of a fantasy film from 1990 and a 2006 cinematic memoir, and was also central to the plot of the 1991 thriller Dead Again?
SCISSORS
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Shockley, Fairchild, Cypress, National, and Lattice are partial names of companies that were (or are) in the business of developing and/or manufacturing what specific product? The product in question is contained in the full name of each corporation.
SEMICONDUCTOR
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Who appeared onstage to perform the opening theme's closing note during regular episodes of the television series The Muppet Show?
GONZO (THE GREAT)
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A British dish consisting of savory cheese sauce poured over toast and served hot has what name, a misnomer of sorts as there is nothing evidently leporine about it?
WELSH RABBIT (RAREBIT)
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A valuable slab of black basalt was found by a French soldier during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt in 1799 at Fort Julien, which is located on the west bank of the Nile about 3 miles northwest of what small Egyptian port city?
ROSETTA
96
What musician was a member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets (and gave up his seat to The Big Bopper on the fatal 1959 plane crash that also killed his boss and Ritchie Valens) before becoming a part of the Outlaws country music clique in the mid-1970s and The Highwaymen supergroup in the 1980s?
WAYLON JENNINGS
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Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon, and Claudio Chiappucci were the Tour de France runners-up in 1986, 1989, and 1990. Who won the race all three of these years and remains today the only American cyclist to have won the Tour (officially at least)?
Greg LEMOND
98
A critical and popular hit play from 1988 by Wendy Wasserstein, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, chronicles the life of the title character and the world around her. What is that character's first name?
HEIDI
99
Stipulating that Australia is a landmass and not an island, three of the world's six largest islands (by land area) contain territory that is a part of what country?
INDONESIA
100
Identify either of the films that fill in the blanks in the following list. Dirty Harry, _______________, The Enforcer, _______________, The Dead Pool.
MAGNUM FORCE, SUDDEN IMPACT
101
What spice is most closely associated with the cuisine of Hungary and is the namesake for one national dish and dominant seasoning for another (goulash)?
PAPRIKA
102
What two words are missing from the following title of a Walt Whitman poem, which was untitled in 1855's Leaves of Grass and later appeared as Poem of the Body before acquiring this present title (which is also now the poem's first line): I _______ the Body _______.
SING, ELECTRIC
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Around two dozen U.S. cities and towns, the largest of which is in Ohio, have a name that is also a term for a member state of the Swiss Confederation. What is that name/term?
CANTON
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What is the most common, three-word name for the largest object ever put into Earth's orbit by humans?
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
105
A specially prepared cornmeal dough usually stuffed with sweet or savory fillings and steamed inside a trimmed corn husk or banana leaf—this describes, most commonly, what dish? Zacahuiles are giant ones, while norteños are a smaller variety.
TAMALE
106
This is the face of whom, per the work's title? Click here
VENUS
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A category of satire that criticizes with gentle laughter (as opposed to bitter condemnation) takes its name from what 1st-century Latin lyric poet—also famous for his Odes—whose influential Satires were infused with warmth and charm?
HORACE
108
Name the political machine, originally a club incorporated in 1789, that 100 years later was a dominant and corrupt force in New York City politics?
TAMMANY HALL
109
What is the title used for the military dictator who served as de facto ruler of Japan for most of the years from the late 12th century until the mid-19th century, when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to Emperor Meiji in 1867?
SHOGUN
110
In a famous 1961 action adventure film, a group of Allied and Greek commando specialists are assembled by British intelligence to destroy Nazi artillery cannons concealed within the solid rock of what fictional Greek island?
NAVARONE
111
Shape of You, Perfect, Castle on the Hill, Don't, and Photograph are recent pop smashes from what English singer/songwriter?
ED SHEERAN
112
A common name for the flowering plant pictured here, when one letter is added, becomes the name of a chemical element discovered by Saxon chemist Clemens Winkler in 1886. What is either of those names (the flower or the element)? Click here
GERANIUM / GERMANIUM
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The city of Malmö, Sweden, sits about 18 miles (and a 45-minute drive, depending on traffic) from what national capital city?
COPENHAGEN
114
Hadouken! is a special attack move (and exclamation) used by characters, including Ryu and Ken, from what video game series?
STREET FIGHTER
115
A Mesopotamian goddess of war, justice, and sexual love has a name that, particularly in the West, is more associated today (unfortunately for her) with a massive Hollywood flop that Roger Ebert described as a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy. What is that name?
ISHTAR
116
What word from acoustics, synonymous with tone quality or tone color, is defined as the character of a sound, distinct from its pitch and intensity? It's what makes two sounds with the same pitch and intensity distinguishable from each other.
TIMBRE
117
The populist political parties the Five Star Movement and the League, having earned the most votes in the general election held on March 4, 2018, formed a coalition government that is now in place in what country?
ITALY
118
The novels The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie, which are ordered here by plot chronology and all feature fictional frontiersman Natty Bumppo, are collectively known as what Tales, after a nickname used for Bumppo in The Pioneers (the first novel published)?
THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES
119
Name the stadium, located in its namesake London neighborhood, that is owned by the English Football Association and serves as home pitch for England's national team?
WEMBLEY Stadium
120
Identify the Anglican cleric—the Bishop of Johannesburg beginning in 1985 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996—who was named chair of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995.
Desmond TUTU
121
This Pittsburgh-area medical clinic sits at the former site of what restaurant? Click here
PIZZA HUT
122
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, Bo Diddley, and Sonny Boy Williamson II were among the artists who recorded for what Chicago-based blues and R&B record label? The label was not named after a game (as might be assumed, especially considering the label's logos), but rather is an Anglicized version of the founding brothers' Polish last name.
CHESS RECORDS
123
Eleven properties in the standard U.S. version of the board game Monopoly have names that include U.S. states. One state appears twice. Which one?
PENNSYLVANIA
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What is the term used in the theory of general relativity for a point of infinite density and infinitesimal volume, at which space and time become infinitely distorted? They are believed to exist at the center of black holes, and the Big Bang theory suggests that one existed at the beginning of the universe.
SINGULARITY
125
This is a screenshot from what game show? Click here
TIC TAC DOUGH
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Ships operated by what cruise line have names ending with of the Seas (for example, Symphony of the Seas, Navigator of the Seas, and Empress of the Seas, among many others)?
ROYAL CARIBBEAN
127
La Goulette, Khereddine, Sidi Bou Said, and Carthage Hannibal are names of train stations on a railway that serves the metro area of what capital city?
TUNIS
128
A scene in a season five episode of Happy Days, which first aired in September 1977, is the inspiration for what now-common pejorative idiom?
JUMP THE SHARK
129
Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti is a manuscript published in 1901 with text, drawings, and prints by what post-Impressionist?
Paul GAUGUIN
130
What is the name for the cosmetic pictured here, known in some parts of the world as rimmel after the French-born perfumer who developed the modern version in the 19th century? Click here
MASCARA
131
The military program announced by President Reagan in March 1983, which promoted funding for a shield of laser and particle-beam weapons in outer space that would eliminate oncoming ICBMs before they could reach the U.S., was known derisively as Star Wars, but formally by what three-word name?
STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE
132
Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane won Tony Awards in 2018 for their performances in what play, in roles originated on Broadway in 1993 by Stephen Spinella and Ron Leibman?
ANGELS IN AMERICA
133
Who began his acceptance speech after winning the Best Actor Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1970, If I'd have known that, I'd have put that patch on 35 years earlier, having won the award for the first time for his 139th film?
John WAYNE
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Brummie is a term used for a person from what city, as well as the name for a local dialect?
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
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The scientific device pictured here was invented by, and is named after, what American physicist of Dutch descent? Click here
Robert VAN DE GRAAFF
136
Encaustic painting is most often used as the name of an artistic technique where pigments are mixed with what medium before being applied to the rigid support material (usually wood)?
WAX
137
U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs, U.S. Rep. Gerald R. Ford, and former CIA Director Allen Dulles were among a group of seven men who, beginning in late 1963, were collectively known most commonly by what name?
WARREN COMMISSION
138
With only one of its nine letters a vowel, what word—sometimes the name for a section of a CV/resume (or perhaps, probably more often, a topic of discussion in a job interview)—is widely considered the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel?
STRENGTHS
139
Compression of the median nerve that passes through the wrist to supply the thumb side of the hand can produce, most commonly, a medical condition best known as what?
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
140
What Mexican state, which is bordered by New Mexico and Texas to the north, is that country's largest state by land area?
CHIHUAHUA
141
Adam Arkin, Hector Elizondo, Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, and Christine Lahti were among the stars of what CBS medical drama that aired, during its first season, on the same night and time as its more successful first-season NBC rival ER (and was also set in the same city)?
CHICAGO HOPE
142
What term, used in mathematics to designate a specific value in certain arithmetic operations, is used commonly in finance for a payment of income by a company to its shareholders?
DIVIDEND
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The items in this montage (not pictured to scale) were all produced specifically for preparing or serving what vegetable? Click here
ASPARAGUS
144
What Serbian nationalist and revolutionary, who died in prison in 1918, is by far history's best-known (and most consequential) individual associated with a terrorist organization known as the Black Hand?
GAVRILO PRINCIP
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What American bandmaster and composer, known as the March King, was leader of the United States Marine Band for 12 years beginning in 1880 before leaving to found his own successful touring band?
John Philip SOUSA
146
What 1931 crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, produced early in the sound era, is one of the earliest and most influential of what came to be known as gangster movies? Given the subject matter and plot, it's probably not the inspiration for a similarly named restaurant chain.
LITTLE CAESAR
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Identify the mythological hero in this illustration, taken from the logo of a European football (soccer) team. Click here
AJAX
148
The U.S. federal statute known colloquially as Obamacare and often shortened to the Affordable Care Act has a full name that is abbreviated PPACA. What do the letters PP in this abbreviation stand for?
PATIENT PROTECTION
149
Reprise Records, a still-existing record label now owned by Warner Music Group, was formed in 1960 by what musical artist, who served as its CEO and Chairman of the Board and also released his LP Ring-a-Ding-Ding! through the label in 1961?
Frank SINATRA
150
John H. Johnson, founder of the Johnson Publishing Company and the first African American to appear on the Forbes 400, achieved much of his prosperity via the publication of what magazine, his first major success, which he began in 1945?
EBONY
