LL78 Flashcards
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1852’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases is the best-known and most enduring work of what English physician and philologist?
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Peter Mark ROGET
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What percussion instrument of Central America, associated particularly with Guatemala and also used in Africa (where it originated), is similar in appearance to a xylophone and consists of wooden slabs with gourds or other resonators beneath them for amplification?
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MARIMBA
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What is the last name shared by the French-Italian astronomer who studied the division in Saturn’s ring system that now bears his name, and the French-born American fashion designer largely responsible for what became known as the Jackie Look?
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CASSINI
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Among the many cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea, which cultivar is the most common and popular one that is named after a European capital?
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BRUSSELS SPROUTS
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A bridge that was once the longest twin-span suspension bridge in the world is one of dozens of stationary vehicular crossings of its namesake river, but it is the only such crossing between what two U.S. states?
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NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE
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Wonderboy, an inanimate object created as a result of a lightning strike, plays a central role in what 1984 film (and the 1952 novel on which it was based)?
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THE NATURAL
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The I Promise School opened its doors on July 30, 2018, to 240 at-risk third- and fourth-graders in what city?
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AKRON, OHIO
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The Camp David Accords of 1978, named for the presidential retreat where they were negotiated in secret, were signed at the White House with President Jimmy Carter as witness. What two men were the signatories to these agreements, which led to their sharing of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize?
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Menachem BEGIN, Anwar SADAT
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Pictured here are the Burghers of what city? Click here
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CALAIS
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What word is redacted in this image? Click here
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MICROWAVE
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What is the world’s largest country by area in which Spanish is the majority language?
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ARGENTINA
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What is the musical term most commonly used for the gradations of relative loudness or softness with which music is performed? Some of its more important markings are p, pp, mp, f, and cresc.
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DYNAMICS
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Max Roach, Joe Morello, Elvin Jones, Cindy Blackman Santana, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Kenny Clarke, and Jack DeJohnette are all names of jazz musicians famous for their skill on what instrument?
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DRUMS
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The host of the original Star Search in the 1980s and ’90s, a long-time co-host of the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, Dick Clark’s co-host on TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes, and a spokesperson for the American Family Publishers sweepstakes—any of these was arguably the second-most-prominent show business job held by what man?
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ED MCMAHON
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A split in rugby football in 1895 resulted in two separate forms of rugby, both of which evolved further to become two wholly separate sports. The names of the sports are Rugby _____ and Rugby _____. Please provide the two words missing from the respective blanks.
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LEAGUE, UNION
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What was, until August 1883, the largest island in the Sunda Strait, between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra?
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KRAKATOA
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What name is shared in Greek mythology by one of the sea nymphs known as the Nereids, one of the Graces (with Aglaea and Euphrosyne), and one of the Muses (the Muse of comedy)? The name is also used (with a different pronunciation) by a popular Mexican musical artist and Queen of Latin Pop.
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THALIA
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The Iron Brigade, Philadelphia Brigade, Excelsior Brigade, and Irish Brigade fought during the U.S. Civil War within the Union’s principal army in the Eastern Theater, which was commonly known as Mr. Lincoln’s Army but was formally known as the ‘Army of’ what body of water?
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POTOMAC
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Identify either the structure that became the world’s tallest in 1889 (a distinction it held until the Chrysler Building’s completion in 1930) or the landmark overtaken as the world’s tallest in 1889. Both structures are iconic, and the weight of the taller of the two is one-eighth that of the shorter.
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EIFFEL TOWER, WASHINGTON MONUMENT
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In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first feature film role, in which he was credited as Arnold Strong, he portrayed Hercules visiting—per the 1970 film’s title—what location?
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NEW YORK
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In modern Broadway history, a few musicals have had titles that include a slash (/): 1980’s A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, 1988’s Romance/Romance, 2014’s If/Then, and what fourth, a 1995 musical based on a 1982 film of the same name (and with the same director and lead actress)?
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VICTOR / VICTORIA
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What term can be used in geometry for the region of a circle bounded by an arc of the circle and a chord that connects the endpoints of the arc, and also for the portion of a sphere included between a pair of parallel planes that intersect the sphere? Note, while these are common uses of the term in question in geometry, they are not the most common.
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SEGMENT
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The chemical compound sodium bicarbonate, when sold in grocery stores, is more commonly labeled as what?
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BAKING SODA
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The 1938 Munich Agreement, which led to Neville Chamberlain’s now-infamous declaration of peace for our time, authorized Nazi Germany’s annexation of Czechoslovakian territory that is best known by what name?
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SUDETENLAND
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In 1894, Favrile was registered as a trademark by what American decorative artist, who also patented its production process that same year and remains inextricably linked with its aesthetic?
LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
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Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea by area, and Jamaica is the third largest. What is the name of the Caribbean's second-largest island?
HISPANIOLA
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What three words fill in the blanks in this quote, Article II Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution? The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other _______ _______ and _______.
HIGH, CRIME MISDEMEANOURS
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The very first website, which was devoted to the World Wide Web project itself, was hosted on a NeXT computer at the site of an international organization known by what acronym?
CERN
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Give either the Italian or the Japanese 2018 equivalent of the British Silverstone, the French Le Castellet, the German Hockenheim, the Belgian Stavelot, and the United States' Austin.
MONZA, SUZUKA
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... So begins the first stanza of what poem?
THE RAVEN
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An event known as Crufts, which is hosted annually in the United Kingdom and was founded by Charles Cruft in 1891, is an exhibition centered around the judging of what?
DOGS
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Until his retirement in 1973, Willy the Hillbilly was the advertising mascot for what product, which still exists today with the same name but a sharply different marketing strategy?
MOUNTAIN DEW
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Atoms that have the same atomic number (i.e., the same number of protons) but a different number of neutrons are referred to by what term, from the Greek for equal and place (as they occupy the same position on the periodic table)?
ISOTOPES
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The Sir Christopher Wren Building, the oldest college building still standing in the United States, sits on the campus of what university, the original home of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and the nation's second-oldest institution of higher education (after Harvard)?
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
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Though he was essentially the group's lead singer, Ralph Tresvant had arguably the least prolific post-breakup musical career of all the primary members of what 1980s R&B group?
NEW EDITION
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The Harry Vardon Trophy, Claret Jug, Wanamaker Trophy, and Bob Jones Award are all honors earned through excellence in what sport?
GOLF
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The outline in this image, which looks vaguely like the United States (maybe?), is actually that of what island republic? Click here
CYPRUS
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What nickname (usually for a male) is also used as a term for the well-marbled primal cut of beef from the neck, shoulder blade, and upper arm? In the 19th century, the word was commonly used as a slang term for any food.
CHUCK
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Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard play the title characters in what 1989 film, one of the last mainstream films before the creation of the NC-17 classification to be assigned an X rating by the MPAA (which was not accepted, as it was released theatrically without a rating) ?
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER
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The words Goodbye, kids were the first words spoken by Clarabell the Clown—and the last words spoken by anyone—on what children's television program?
HOWDY DOODY
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The Ethiopian Empire, which existed in East Africa until Haile Selassie's deposal in 1974, was known by what other name, taken from the Arabic term for the people who occupied it during empire's founding in the 13th century?
ABYSSINIA
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Many profit-sharing and 401(k) plans offer different schedules that determine the percentage of the account balance owned by the employee at different intervals. What is the legal term commonly used—and used officially by the Internal Revenue Service—for ownership in these scenarios? It derives, ultimately, from a Latin term for garment.
VESTING / VESTMENT
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The infectious disease known as whooping cough is known by what other name (which it shares with the bacterium that causes it)?
PERTUSSIS
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The letter e is expressed in International Morse Code by a single dot, in Braille by the pattern ⠑, and in American Sign Language by the handshape where all four fingers are bent and hooked, with the thumb opposed and fully closed so that its length touches the fingernails of the other fingers. What consonant is expressed in International Morse Code by a single dash, in Braille by the pattern ⠞, and in ASL by the handshape where the fingers are curled into a fist, with the thumb under the index finger, so that the thumb tip protrudes between the index finger and the middle finger?
T
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The heart, liver, and lungs of a calf or sheep chopped up with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasoning, and boiled in a sheep's stomach, is a traditional preparation of what dish, which is historically served during a Scottish celebration known as Burns supper?
HAGGIS
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What is the name of this young woman, per the work's title? Click here
CHRISTINA
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Name the woman who swept the four apparatus titles and thus also won the women's all-around title in dominant fashion at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Boston in August 2018.
Simone BILES
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The artist born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948 in London, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after his conversion to the Muslim faith, performed under what name during the peak of his commercial success in the 1970s?
CAT STEVENS
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Viewers of the 2007 NBC reality series subtitled You're the One That I Want! chose Max Crumm and Laura Osnes to play the main characters in what Broadway revival that opened later that year?
GREASE
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What is the word used to categorize birds, colloquially known as perching birds, that belong to the avian order that makes up more than half of all living birds, including all songbirds (swallows, larks, cardinals, crows, wrens, finches, orioles, etc.)? The term is derived from the Latin word for sparrow.
PASSERINE (PASSERIFORMES)
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The character Jules Maigret, who appeared in over 80 novels by author Georges Simenon, held what profession?
INSPECTOR / DETECTIVE / POLICE COMMISSIONER
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A member of a preeminent British comedy group, a notorious murderer from the 1980s, a prolific American fruit-planter, and the only player to have died from an injury received during a major league baseball game all share what last name?
CHAPMAN
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A hypercube is an object resembling a cube but having an arbitrary number of dimensions (ordinarily, more than three). What is the most common term used for a four-dimensional hypercube, having sixteen corners (or vertices)?
TESSERACT
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What term for a particular type of house originated as a house for a European in India, usually one story surrounded by a veranda and with a thatched roof to protect from the sun?
BUNGALOW
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Pictures at Eleven, The Principle of Moments, Shaken 'n' Stirred, and Now and Zen (which features the single Tall Cool One, later featured in a Coca-Cola commercial) were the first four solo albums from what Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee?
Robert PLANT
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J.S. Bach's Concerto in A minor, Beethoven's Concerto in D major, op. 61, Mozart's Concerto in A major, K. 219, and Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D major, op. 35 were all written for what instrument?
VIOLIN
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In botany, this is the term for a tiny opening in the epidermis of a plant (especially abundant on leaves). In biology, it's any opening in a body, like the oral cavity of a nematode. In medicine, it's an opening in a body surface created by a surgical procedure. What is this term?
STOMA
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The CW Television Network, which began airing in September 2006, was created through a joint venture that resulted in the shutdown of what other two networks?
UNITED PARAMOUNT NETWORK (UPN), THE WB
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Though he never visited North America himself, Sir Walter Raleigh made two attempts to found an English colony on the continent, both of which were on what island (and both of which were unsuccessful)?
ROANOKE ISLAND
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What word appears most often on a standard Scrabble board?
SCORE (also DOUBLE, QI)
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Give the names of the two men who previously held the position that has been held since 2014 by engineer and business executive Satya Nadella.
Bill GATES, Steve BALLMER
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A 1946 book by John Hersey, initially published as a full-issue article in an August 1946 issue of the New Yorker magazine, describes the harrowing experiences of six individuals the previous year in what city, after which the book is named?
HIROSHIMA
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After the defeat of Cassius and Brutus at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BCE, the Roman Republic was primarily ruled by two men—Octavian in the west, and what other man in the east? This arrangement lasted until the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, and Octavian's subsequent supremacy (and eventual ascension as the first Roman Emperor).
MARK ANTHONY
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For three consecutive years in the 1980s, players from what Major League Baseball team won the American League Rookie of the Year Award (José Canseco in 1986, Mark McGwire in 1987, and Walt Weiss in 1988)?
OAKLAND ATHLETICS
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The work of art formally titled La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) is a painting of (but, according to its included text, not actually) what object?
PIPE
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Veins in the human body carry deoxygenated blood, with two exceptions. One exception is the umbilical vein, which is present during prenatal development and transports oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. What is the other exception—the only vein (actually four in number under normal conditions) that carries oxygenated blood and is present in all humans?
PULMONARY vein
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Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Salamanzar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar, in addition to being Biblical kings, are also names for different sizes of what?
(WINE) BOTTLES
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A 1933 James Hilton novel, which allegedly became in 1939 the first mass-market paperback, featured a utopian world that was FDR's source for the name of his presidential retreat (Shangri-la, later Camp David). What is the title of that novel?
LOST HORIZON
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Mass production of steel from molten pig iron began in the mid-19th century upon the invention of a process named after its prolific English inventor, who patented it in 1856. What is the name of this process, by which compressed air is blasted through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities?
BESSEMER process
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Male film characters who get to be female for a short time, and from this brief experience believe themselves able to understand and sympathize with women and represent their perspective to the world, have been said by critics to display a syndrome named after the title character in what 1982 movie?
TOOTSIE
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What single word fills in the blanks in the following phrases, all significant in art history: ______Carré, ______ d'Automne, ______ des Indépendants, ______ des Refusés?
SALON
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What is the plainly and accurately descriptive name used, in English, for the massive withdrawal of the Chinese Red Army from southeastern to northwestern China in 1934-35, which had the essential effect of establishing Mao Zedong as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
THE LONG MARCH
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While many of the actors who played the title characters in 2001's Ocean's Eleven have had successful television careers, only one starred in his own, namesake sitcom. Who is that actor, whose series aired on Fox from 2001 to 2006?
BERNIE MAC
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The Temple of the Tooth, which houses a sacred relic comprised of the left cuspid of the Buddha, is located within the palace of the former Kingdom of Kandy in what island nation, where over 90% of its Sinhalese population practices Buddhism?
SRI LANKA
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In 1976, Sumitomo Credit Service, Carte Bleue, Chargex, Barclaycard, and other licensees of a multinational credit card program known as the International Bankcard Company (IBANCO) formed a new association, in conjunction with the domestic National BankAmericard Inc., while retaining the original programs' distinctive blue, white, and gold coloring scheme. What was the name of this new company, which still exists today?
VISA
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While the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol, the amendment was enforced by what 1919 federal act, sponsored by and named after a Congressman from Minnesota?
VOLSTEAD ACT
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The title of a George Peele poem from 1590, written on the occasion of the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight, Sir Henry Lee, and sung to her during Lee's final jousting tournament, provides the title for what 1929 Ernest Hemingway novel?
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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Name any one of the three most abundant elements in the earth's crust (making up roughly 47%, 28%, and 8% by weight, respectively).
OXYGEN, SILICON, ALUMINIUM
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In the general elections of 1995, incumbent Alberto Fujimori handily defeated former United Nations Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to retain the presidency of what country?
PERU
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What term for fans of a work of art who romantically pair major characters in that work is believed to have originated with The X-Files, and fanfiction writers who detail a romantic union between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully?
SHIPPER
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What Yiddish term is used for the rendered chicken fat that is stirred into chopped liver and added to latkes and kugel, and whose preparation results in a crispy byproduct known as gribenes?
SCHMALTZ
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Two actors from the television series Friends appeared in multiple episodes of the first season of NYPD Blue. One was Robert Costanzo, who played Joey Tribbiani, Sr., and mafioso Alphonse Giardella. Who was the other actor, whose Josh 4B Goldstein died tragically in NYPD Blue's fourth episode?
David SCHWIMMER
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The name for certain cuttlefish (and the genus in which they are classified) is used for a pigment derived from the fish's ink. The pigment was once commonly used for pen drawings and diluted colored wash painting, and the term is now used for a common photographic technique. What is that name/term?
SEPIA
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For a body orbiting the earth, the closest and furthest points of the orbit from earth are the perigee and apogee. What are the equivalent terms for the closest and furthest points of a body's orbit from the sun? (Note, correct spelling is required.)
PERIHELION, APHELION
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For her three works in the Broken Earth series (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), what American novelist has won the science fiction literary award known as the Hugo Award (in the Best Novel category) for three years running?
N.K. JEMISIN
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On the evening of August 20, 2018, protestors toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier named Silent Sam that stood since 1913 on the northern edge of the campus of what university?
University of NORTH CAROLINA
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In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. This text appears on a poster—popular in American college dorm rooms occupied by males and in homes of artists featured on MTV Cribs—for what 1983 film, a remake of a 1932 Howard Hawks classic?
SCARFACE
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The disease beriberi is caused by the absence in one's diet of vitamin B1, a vitamin that is also known commonly by what name?
THIAMINE
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Name the man who became Japan's War Minister in 1940 and Prime Minister in 1941, serving the latter role until 1944. He was hanged as a war criminal in December 1948.
HIDEKE TOJO
90
List the three races of the U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in order from shortest to longest in distance (i.e., length of the track).
PREAKNESS STAKES, KENTUCKY DERBY, BELMONT STAKES
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Lomond, Awe, Maree, Morar, and Tay are among the largest of the geographical features that are known in their native Scotland (and native Scottish Gaelic and Scots languages) by what term?
LOCHS
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According to the lyrics of a hit country music song from 2018 by the duo Dan + Shay, the narrator is reminded of his ex-love when he tastes what liquor, which provides the song's title?
TEQUILA
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LeBron James is the NBA's #2 all-time career scorer among active players, with 31,038 points. What player is just ahead of him in first, and sixth all-time among all players, with 31,187? The player in question is signed for the 2018-19 season with his current (and only) team, which will set an NBA record for most seasons with the same team.
Dirk NOWITZKI
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Transvaal Republic president Paul Kruger, the German spa town of Ems, President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring, and German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann are all, historically speaking, associated by name with what specific type of dispatch?
TELEGRAM
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From when Kelly Ripa replaced Kathie Lee Gifford in 2001 on the syndicated morning talk show that would be renamed Live with Regis and Kelly, until today, she has had three permanent co-hosts. The first was Regis Philbin—name both of the other two.
Michael STRAHAN, Ryan SEACREST
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A series of letters written by a young African American woman named Celie to God (interspersed with letters to and from other human characters) form the structure of what Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
THE COLOR PURPLE
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An Anglicized Muscogee Creek word for town begins the names of cities in Florida and Alabama. What is that word, whose five letters also begin the name of a river in Mississippi (a river whose name means river of the rock in Choctaw)?
TALLA
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Name the 19th-century musician and composer who is the conventional image of the quintessential Romantic artist—a fastidiously accoutered dandy who was exquisitely mannered, abandoned by his mistress, and died of consumption, after being exiled as a young man from the homeland that now considers him a national hero.
Frederic CHOPIN
99
Rhonda Britton (The Rabbit Lady), Steve Wilson (The Tourism Chief), Ronald Reagan, Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, and Bob Eubanks all appeared in what 1989 film?
ROGER & ME
100
The title of a Muddy Waters tune from 1950, itself a cover of an old Delta blues song called Catfish Blues recorded by Robert Petway in 1941, inspired the name of what rock and roll band?
THE ROLLING STONES
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Name the theatre star who originated (on Broadway) the roles of Precious in Steel Pier, Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Glinda in Wicked?
Kristin CHENOWETH
102
Identify the Italian dish, literally bone (with a) hole, which is a stew of veal shanks in white wine with tomatoes and onions, usually served with pasta or rice.
OSSO BUCO
103
Who replaced Malcolm Turnbull on August 24, 2018, as Prime Minister of Australia?
SCOTT MORRISON
104
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, who pulls back the curtain to reveal that the Wizard is just a blustery man talking into a microphone?
TOTO
105
The Caspian Sea is bordered by five countries: Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and what fifth?
AZERBAIJAN
106
Brandy was a hit in the UK in 1971 for the song's co-writer, Scott English, but became, under a slightly altered name, a much greater hit (and first US #1) in 1974 for what other artist?
Barry MANILOW
107
Canis Major Dwarf, Segue 1, Sagittarius Dwarf, Ursa Major II Dwarf, Triangulum II, and Large Magellanic Cloud are names of different celestial objects known as what?
GALAXIES
108
What is the name of the mountain fortress in the Judaean desert, perched atop a plateau 1,300 feet above the western shores of the Dead Sea, that was fortified between 37 and 31 BCE and is now a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site?
MASADA
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Most of the works of the late 18th-, early 19th-century English painter George Stubbs, as well as many of the significant works in the career of American painter Susan Rothenberg, feature what as their subject, which is also featured in numerous works (and their titles) of German painter Franz Marc?
HORSES
110
The first credited acting role for Henry Golding, a Kuala Lumpur-based correspondent for the BBC program The Travel Show, was as a leading character in what feature film?
CRAZY RICH ASIANS
111
Name the title character of the ribald satire by Aristophanes who, outraged by the destruction of the Peloponnesian War, convinces her fellow Athenian women to seize the city-state's treasury, occupy the Acropolis, and withhold carnal relations from their spouses until the war ends.
LYSISTRATA
112
Who was British Prime Minister for most of the duration of the American Revolutionary War? He shared a name, in a sense (perhaps a straining sense), with one of the belligerents in another war that would begin roughly eight decades later.
LORD NORTH (FREDERICK NORTH)
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What is the common term for the thick, dark brown, uncrystallized residue, similar to black treacle, obtained from cane or beet sugar during the refining process?
MOLASSES
114
Miami-based record producers Mike Triay and Carlos de Yarza, working collectively as the Bayside Boys, are largely responsible for Billboard magazine's #1 single for 1996, their remixed version of what song?
MACARENA
115
Bullitt, Cumberland, Fayette, Jefferson, and Knox are among the 120 counties in what U.S. state?
KENTUCKY
116
British actors Alex Lawther and Ewan McGregor played the same title character in different films, from 2017 (a biographical drama) and 2018 (a fantasy drama). What is the name of that character?
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
117
A man named Ahmed Bey Zogu, and better known as Zog, served as Prime Minister (1922-24), President (1925-28), and King (1928-39) of what country? The latter position is one that had previously been offered, reportedly, to former English cricketer C.B. Fry.
ALBANIA
118
There are two basic methods of accounting generally recognized (and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service) for recording business activity. One is the cash method, where revenue and expenses are reported when cash is received or paid out. What is the common name for the other method, which records activity as it happens (e.g., when a product is delivered to a customer), even if cash has not changed hands?
ACCRUAL
119
Name the composer, widely regarded as both the father of the symphony and of the string quartet, whose London Symphonies and Paris Symphonies are among his prodigious output of 106 symphonies and 68 string quartets.
JOSEPH HAYDN
120
The title of what 1927 novel refers to the specific type of animal to which the main character, a lonely middle-aged intellectual named Harry Haller, likens himself, as he labors to confront a bourgeois society he both hates and needs?
STEPPENWOLF
121
British fashion designer Sarah Burton, who has served as creative director for the Alexander McQueen fashion house since McQueen's death in 2010, shot to international fame when it was revealed the following year that she had designed the widely lauded and influential bridal gown worn by whom?
KATE MIDDLETON
122
Important historical expulsions in the capital of Bohemia (in modern-day Czechia) in 1419 and 1618, which led to the Hussite Wars and the Thirty Years' War respectively, are known today by a term that they share. What is that term?
DEFENESTRATIONS
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In the NATO phonetic alphabet (officially, the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet), A is represented by Alfa, B by Bravo, and Z by Zulu. Another letter is represented by a word that is a popular sport. What is that word?
GOLF
124
What is the most common Italian parallel to the Turkish raki, the French pastis, the Greek ouzo, and the Eastern Mediterranean arak?
SAMBUCA
125
The 1929 film Blackmail, widely regarded as Britain's first talkie, was the tenth film from what director, who would go on to direct an additional 45 feature films during his illustrious career?
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
126
Pine Valley, Pennsylvania; Llanview, Pennsylvania; Oakdale, Illinois; Port Charles, New York; and Genoa City, Wisconsin, are all fictional cities associated with a specific television genre known by what term? The term arose in the 1930s to describe certain radio dramas.
SOAP OPERA
127
What noun appears in the titles of a 1927 novel by Willa Cather, a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, unfinished autobiographical novel from 1957 by James Agee, and a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen?
DEATH
128
Romano is the best known and most popular variety of what Italian hard-pressed cheese, made from the milk of a ewe (from which it gets its name)?
PECORINO
129
Texans Coby Cotton, Cory Cotton, Cody Jones, Garrett Hilbert, and Tyler Toney are members of an entertainment/sports group whose main YouTube channel has over 34 million subscribers, and the five men now star in a television series on Nickelodeon that features the group. What is the group's name?
DUDE PERFECT
130
Name the Greek king of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE who is remembered today (historically and linguistically) for his campaigns at Heraclea and Asculum, where he emerged victorious despite massive losses.
PYRRHUS
131
What is God, according to the title of a recent hit song by Ariana Grande?
A WOMAN
132
Founded in 1910 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a company named Penn has, from its beginning, manufactured what specific sporting equipment, of which it is America's #1 seller? Excepting similar and accessory items, this is the only thing Penn produces.
TENNIS BALLS
133
In its history, the United States Mint has issued for general circulation two different one-dollar coins—both since the retirement of the Eisenhower dollar in 1978—that depict on the obverse (heads side) women who existed in real life. Name both of these historical figures.
SACAGEWEA / Susan B ANTHONY
134
Two African national capitals are among the closest in the world, separated by a river and with about five miles between their respective town centers. Name either of these capital cities.
BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA
135
The term from computer graphics for an image that is stored in memory by using a map to record data (e.g., intensity, color) for every pixel that comprises the image is known as bitmap, and also by what other term? Unlike vector graphics, it becomes ragged and loses resolution when resized. The word in question has the same origin as the term for the implement used to draw musical staff lines.
RASTER
136
According to a line in the show's theme song (the fifth line, to be exact), where precisely was the title character born and raised on the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
WEST PHILADELPHIA
137
Mars, the Bringer of War and Neptune, the Mystic are the first and last movements of a work by what English composer?
GUSTAV HOLST
138
What is the common term for the simple device used in casinos, for games such as blackjack, where the cards are placed after shuffling, and whose purpose is to hold multiple decks of cards and facilitate dealing? In some European casinos it is also known as sabot.
SHOE
139
The limit of (1 + 1/n)n as n approaches infinity is a number that is known as Napier's constant, but is more commonly named (and represented symbolically) after what other individual?
Leonard EULER
140
Blue Period, Blue Moods, Blue Haze, and Kind of Blue are all albums by what musical artist?
Miles DAVIS
141
In the 1920s and 1930s, a revolutionary and guerrilla leader named Augusto César Sandino directed a rebellion against United States military occupation of what country, where he remains a national hero?
NICARAGUA
142
The company founded in 1910 on New York's Fifth Avenue as Red Door salon, which retains a red door as its corporate logo (and name of its signature fragrance), is today named after its founder, a Canadian businesswoman born Florence Nightingale Graham. What is that name, shared by the company and the woman?
Elizabeth ARDEN
143
In what language is the following sentence written? Tämä kieli kuuluu uralilaisten kielten itämerensuomalaiseen kieliryhmään. Äidinkielenään sitä puhuu 4,9 miljoonaa ja toisena kielenään 0,5 miljoonaa ihmistä.
FINNISH
144
The Blind Banker, The Reichenbach Fall, The Empty Hearse, and The Final Problem are names of episodes from a crime drama series that debuted on the BBC in July 2010. What is the title of that series?
SHERLOCK
145
A spice used in the Middle East and India (particularly in naan), also known as kalonji, black caraway, black cumin, or onion seed, has a name that is also the first name of a famous cooking show host, cookbook author, and television personality. What is that name?
NIGELLA
146
With over 23 million residents, what self-governing state is the most populous such entity, by far, that is not a member of the United Nations? From 2004 until 2010, it was home to the world's tallest building.
TAIWAN
147
Beale fired—Obscenities Provoke Record Calls is the headline and subhead of a fictional 1975 edition of the New York Daily News that appears in what film?
NETWORK
148
There are two foundational stitches in knitting. The first is known simply as knit. What is the second, where the working yarn comes from the front side of the needle, and the needle enters the front of the stitch from right to left? Originally, the term referred to gold and silver thread used for embroidery.
PURL
149
Discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the first round of which concluded in 1972 and the second in 1979, and which were aimed at restricting the production and deployment of nuclear weapons, were known by what four-letter acronym?
SALT
150
In the darts games 301 and 501, a player's final throw, to achieve a score of exactly zero (the object of the game), must have what characteristic?
FINISH ON A DOUBLE
