LL79 Flashcards
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The luminous and sometimes audible electric discharge projecting from the end of a pointed object (e.g., the wing of an airplane, spire, or mast of a ship) during an electrical storm is a phenomenon most commonly named after what individual, the patron saint of sailors?
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ST ELMO
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What was the first and is still the only NFL team to appear in four consecutive Super Bowl games? The team did not appear in any Super Bowls before the streak and has not appeared in any since the streak ended.
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BUFFALO BILLS
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The three-age system of epochs, as established by Danish antiquarian Christian Jürgensen Thomsen and still common today for the division of prehistory into discrete periods, names these periods based on the materials used for tools and weapons during each time. What are these three materials, in order from earliest to most recent?
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STONE, BRONZE, IRON
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During what television series’ opening credits does the main character sometimes pratfall over an ottoman and other times step around it with a satisfied grin?
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THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
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The Four Asian Tigers rose to prominence in the 1960s with high growth economies focused on exportation, rapid industrialization, and high rates of savings, and today remain among the world’s most advanced economies. Name any one of these Four Asian Tigers.
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SOUTH KOREA, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN
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Identify the prolific American writer, dubbed by Booker T. Washington in 1909 as the first representative poet of my race and his race’s poet laureate, who published numerous books of poetry, short story collections, and novels (including The Sport of the Gods and Lyrics of Lowly Life) before his death from tuberculosis in 1906 at age 33.
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Paul Laurence DUNBAR
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A best-selling 2000 novel by Myla Goldberg tells the story of the esoteric and fracturing Naumann family, with a focus on eleven-year-old Eliza as she navigates through what titular season?
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BEE SEASON
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What acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film could credibly hold the record for most critical reviews that include the word claustrophobic?
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DAS BOOT
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The name of what African country is contained as a word in the names of two other African countries?
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GUINEA
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The structure of the human brain responsible for olfaction (the sense of smell) has roughly what shape, which is normally included in the name of the structure itself?
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BULB
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What document, arguably one of the most influential works in the 20th century, fell into decades-long obscurity not long after its initial publication, following (and due to) the failure of the European revolutions of 1848?
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COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
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While a crime is legally defined as conduct that is prohibited and has punishment prescribed by law, what is the corresponding term for a wrongful act (other than breach of contract) that harms another and for which courts impose civil liability?
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TORT
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The electrical measuring device that combines a voltmeter, an ammeter, and an ohmmeter (and sometimes other tools) is most commonly known by what name, appropriately so given its various uses?
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MULTIMETER
14
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What is the formal term for a chapter of the Quran, of which there are a total of 114?
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SURAH
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The names of Alfred Hitchcock film characters Sam Loomis (Psycho) and Tom Doyle (Rear Window) were later used, as a tribute, for characters in what 1978 film, which also starred the daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh?
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HALLOWEEN
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During the 220 years of the unified Achaemenid Empire’s existence, the empire had a total of 13 kings. Give the name (regnal number not required) of either the first, who founded the empire, or the last, who was defeated by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.
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CYRUS, DARIUS
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What is the name of the trigonometric function that is defined as the ratio of the length of an angle’s hypotenuse to the length of its opposite side (i.e., the reciprocal of its sine)?
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COSECANT
18
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The Tigers, Lions, Giants, Hawks, Buffaloes, Fighters, Dragons, Swallows, and Carp are names of professional clubs in a league playing what sport?
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BASEBALL (Japan)
19
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The Croissan’wich is a breakfast sandwich innovation introduced in 1983 by what fast food restaurant chain?
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BURGER KING
20
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A German noble family known as the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis was, in 16th-century Europe, instrumental in the development of what type of service, which is at the center of a popular modern board game named after the family?
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POSTAL SERVICE
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What term was historically used for an educational institution whose primary function was the training of teachers? The term endures in the name of the Illinois city where that state’s main teachers’ college was founded in 1857 (and remains today, now called Illinois State University).
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NORMAL SCHOOL
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A wealthy textile industrialist and philanthropist born at sea in 1836, while his parents were en route to the United States from France, has a name that lives on today in the name of an American performing arts conservatory that is widely considered one of the world’s premier institutions of its kind. What is that name?
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JUILLIARD
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Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles, and Julie Rogers were television characters who were known collectively, at various times, by what name?
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CHARLIE’S ANGELS
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What color represents the highest level (Hazardous) on the EPA’s Air Quality Index, is included in the name of pop music band whose last five studio albums have reached the top 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and is the name of a student newspaper at the University of Chicago?
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MAROON
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The cities of New York, Venice, Berlin, Las Vegas, and Bilbao are current or previous homes to art museums established by what foundation (after which the museums are all named)?
GUGGENHEIM
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Two Grammy Awards, a Nobel Peace Prize, and over a dozen honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degrees are among the laurels bestowed upon what individual?
BARACK OBAMA, JIMMY CARTER
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Isaac, Taylor, and Zac are the names of the three brothers who form what namesake music group whose eleventh studio album, a symphonic double-album titled String Theory, was released on November 9, 2018?
HANSON
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Give the first and last names of the composer, piano virtuoso, and former child prodigy of the Romantic era, née Wieck, who was one of the first pianists to perform the now-standard practice of playing from memory.
CLARA SCHUMANN
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With an estimated population of more than 140 million, what island is the world's most populous, though only the fifth-largest in its country in area?
JAVA
30
The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, who promulgated it in October 1582, reformed the pre-existing calendar slightly, and one way of doing so was by altering the rule for leap years (no Feb. 29 in years divisible by 100, unless also divisible by 400). This corrected the previous calendar proposed and enacted by (and named after) whom?
JULIUS CAESAR
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The theory that bodily disorders can be caused by abnormalities or imbalances in the musculoskeletal system, and that these disorders can be remedied by various manipulative techniques, forms the basis for what system of medicine founded by Andrew Taylor Still in the 1870s, which has similarities but distinct differences from chiropractic?
OSTEOPATHY
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There are three U.S. states with no natural borders, only surveyed borders (i.e., mostly straight lines, with occasional slight kinks). Two are Colorado and Wyoming. What state is the third?
UTAH
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What was the name of the band formed by Bob Marley, in 1963, with a group of childhood friends from West Kingston, Jamaica, that included Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston? The band was so named because, as Marley reportedly stated, we started out crying.
THE WAILERS
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The traditional recipe for the British dish bubble and squeak, as well as a common version of the Irish dish colcannon, both call for what two primary ingredients?
POTATO & CABBAGE
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What is the verb used to describe the action in soccer (association football) where a player covers a specific opponent closely in order to prevent that opponent from receiving the ball? The word is also the first name of the American who became, in 2014, the first to referee a knockout stage match in FIFA World Cup competition.
MARK
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Life Among the Lowly is the alternate title of what massively popular 1852 novel?
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
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While governor of the Indiana Territory, future U.S. President William Henry Harrison defeated Shawnee chief Tecumseh's forces in 1811 at what battle, whose name would serve as a nickname for Harrison during his presidential campaign?
TIPPIECANOE
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Name the mountain range that runs from the Golfe de Gascogne in the west to the Golf del Lleó in the east.
PYRENEES
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A photo of seven-year-old twin girls from Roselle, New Jersey, was among the works featured in 1972's Venice Biennale by what photographer (the first such artist to be featured at the exhibition), who committed suicide the previous year?
DIANE ARBUS
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Jamie Starr, Alexander Nevermind, and Christopher Tracy, who are all credited as songwriters of hit pop music singles, are among the pronounceable pseudonyms of what prolific music legend?
PRINCE
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1968's Something to Answer For, by English novelist P.H. Newby, and 2018's Milkman, by Northern Irish author Anna Burns, are respectively the first and the most recent winners of what prestigious literary prize, which today comes with an award of £50,000?
MAN BOOKER PRIZE
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In geometry, what type of curve can be defined as the set of all points on a plane whose distance from two fixed points (often denoted as F1 and F2) add up to a constant?
ELLIPSE
43
Booths operated by a non-profit known as the Theatre Development Fund, including its flagship in the heart of Times Square, which offer discount admissions to Broadway shows, are prominently branded by what four letters?
TKTS
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The applied science of hydraulics involves the behavior of liquids, their mechanical properties, and uses in engineering. What is the equivalent term for the applied science that meets this definition replacing liquids with gases?
PNEUMATICS
45
A basalt slab was found in 1901 at the site of the ancient city of Susa on which was inscribed a code of laws enacted by (and today named after) what Babylonian king?
HAMMURABI
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A 1935 Leni Riefenstahl film is widely considered one of the most effective pieces of propaganda and iconography of its kind. What is the name of this influential and infamous work, which documented the second Nazi Party Congress, held in Nuremberg the previous year?
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
47
A piste 46 feet long and around six feet wide constitutes the playing area in what sport?
FENCING
48
Azar Nafisi's 2003 bestseller subtitled A Memoir in Books narrates the author's teaching, forming a book club, and Reading Lolita in— and eventually emigrating from—what city?
TEHRAN
49
Give the full name missing in this chronological list: Apollo Creed, Apollo Creed, __________, Ivan Drago, Tommy Gunn, Mason Dixon.
CLUBBER LANG
50
In the mid-19th century, Frenchman Maurice Grey invented a steam-driven mill for pulverizing and sifting the seeds of what plant? Doing so enabled him to build a successful food company and a brand that still bears his name today.
MUSTARD
51
Cape Breton Island makes up approximately 19% of the total land area of what Canadian province, with most of the remainder on the province's peninsular mainland?
NOVA SCOTIA
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Name any one of the three corporations led by CEOs Mary Barra, Jim Hackett, and Michael Manley.
GENERAL MOTORS, FORD MOTOR COMPANY, FIAT CHRYSLER
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Now or Never—Are we to live or perish for ever?, a pamphlet written and issued by Muslim nationalist Choudhary Rahmat Ali in early 1933, shortly after the conclusion of conferences organized to discuss constitutional reforms in India, contains the first documented use of what name?
PAKISTAN
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The 1976 NCAA Men's Basketball champion Indiana Hoosiers are the most recent Division I men's basketball team to finish the season undefeated, but at the time it was not such a remarkable feat, as four of the prior twelve champions were undefeated. All four of those were teams representing what school?
UCLA
55
David Davis, Dominic Raab, and Stephen Barclay are British politicians who have served as Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for what purpose, in a role that was created in July 2016?
BREXIT / EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION
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In 1977, after years of negotiations, President Jimmy Carter received congressional approval to relinquish control of what, which had originally been formulated via the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty in 1903?
PANAMA CANAL ZONE
57
What common term from Japanese cuisine combines a term for gloss and one for grilling?
TERIYAKI
58
In the mid-1980s, Brooklyn-born rappers Cheryl James and Sandra Denton achieved stardom in what R&B group, which, despite its name, was actually a trio (with DJ Spinderella)?
SALT N PEPA
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The television characters Latka Gravas, Cooter Davenport, Kaylee Frye, and David Puddy all held, at one time or another, what occupation?
MECHANIC
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What term is used most often in science and engineering to describe the strength of a material regarding its capacity to be stretched/elongated? The term is used in opposition to compressive strength (the capacity of a material to be compressed), and this type of strength determines a material's ductility.
TENSILE
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The short-lived Fox network drama Gracepoint was an adaptation of what British drama series, which also starred David Tennant and featured Olivia Colman in the role held by Anna Gunn in the American counterpart?
BROADCHURCH
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Janet Gaynor and Fredric March appear, as an aspiring movie actress and an alcoholic whose movie career is waning, in the original 1937 version of what film?
A STAR IS BORN
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What company, whose current headquarters sit across the river from the Loop in downtown Chicago, was incorporated in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products Co.?
BOEING
64
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the U.S. government's forced relocation of a set of native tribes that inhabited the southeastern U.S. and were dubbed (ethnocentrically and rather offensively) the Five Civilized Tribes, so named due to their relative adaptation to the European lifestyle. Two of these tribes were the Cherokee and the Creek; name any one of the other three.
CHICKASAW, CHOCTAW, SEMINOLE
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While it (like many alloys) contains a certain amount of copper, and though the word itself comes from a term for zinc, the alloy pewter is actually composed mostly (from 85% to 99%) of what other element?
TIN
66
Give either the current, romanized name of the major port city on the Pearl River in South China where Cantonese is spoken (and in fact was once known as Canton), or the province in which the city is located?
GUANGZHOU/GUANGDONG
67
In November 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau traveled to an island within the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, in violation of Indian law, where he was killed by members of an indigenous Andamanese hunter-gatherer tribe known by what name?
SENTINELESE
68
In the card game Hearts, the strategy by which a player attempts to take all the hearts and the queen of spades in one deal, thereby gaining no points while every other player gains 26 (or else having one's score reduced by 26), is best known by what term?
SHOOT THE MOON
69
Gateshead Hall, Lowood Institution, Moor House, and Thornfield Hall, all fictional locations in the north of England, are settings for what 1847 novel?
JANE EYRE
70
During the period of their French mandate between the two world wars, Syria and Lebanon were commonly referred to as what States? The term in question has been used to refer in general to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, from western Greece to Egypt.
LEVANT (STATES)
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A shallow strait called simply The Narrows divides the two islands of what tiny independent Caribbean state, the western hemisphere's smallest (in both area and population), which was sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1493?
ST KITTS AND NEVIS
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The programmable device designed by computing pioneer Charles Babbage in the 1830s, which was never actually built but introduced many of the concepts of computer science, was known as what Engine?
ANALYTICAL
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The continuous random movement of particles suspended in a fluid as they collide with the molecules of the fluid is a phenomenon explained by Albert Einstein in 1905, but observed in 1827 by a Scottish botanist, after whom it is now named. What is that name given to this phenomenon?
BROWNIAN MOTION
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What is the name of the performing arts centre, the largest such complex in Europe and a prominent example of Brutalist architecture, which is located in the City of London, and serves as a home to the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as a namesake library, art gallery, and cinema?
BARBICAN CENTRE
75
A nearly seven-foot-tall marble sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite, now housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, was found by a peasant in 1820 on what Greek island?
MILOS/MILO
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Heteronyms are words that have a different pronunciation and meaning from one another but the same spelling. An adjective that can describe a set of angles that total 360 degrees and a verb that can mean to state in a prescribed order different forms of a given verb (based on its person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, and/or voice) are heteronyms that share what spelling?
CONJUGATE
77
In typical versions of the game Dungeons & Dragons, one of nine different alignments is assigned to player characters based on the choices made by players on the axes of a 3x3 grid. One axis spans from Good to Evil, with Neutral in between. What are the two ends of the other axis, also with Neutral in the middle? (Note: two answers are required.)
LAWFUL, CHAOTIC
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What country gained independence in 1948 under Prime Minister U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 military coup led by Ne Win?
BURMA/MYANMAR
79
The Lion and the Jewel, Death and the King's Horseman, A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, and The Trials of Brother Jero are works of what Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate?
WOLE SOYINKA
80
Irma S. Rombauer, a hostess and homemaker from St. Louis, self-published in 1931 the first edition of an eventual bestseller that became one of the most popular reference books of its kind in the United States, and remains today a classic. What is that book's title?
JOY OF COOKING
81
The structure that is formed by giving 1/2 twist to a flat strip of paper and joining the ends together, creating a surface with only one side and one edge, was reportedly discovered by and is named after what German mathematician?
AUGUST MOEBIUS (MOEBIUS STRIP)
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During the Russian Civil War that followed the 1917 October Revolution, forces of the new Soviet regime were known as the Red Army, while opposing anti-Bolshevik forces were associated with and known by what other color?
WHITE
83
The names of the four musical acts that recorded the songs Love in the First Degree, Good Feeling, Point of Know Return, and Say What You Want all have what in common, most distinctively?
US STATES
84
An organization abbreviated the WSSA (the WCSA until 2005) is the international governing body overseeing events (including 3-3-3, 3-6-3, and Cycle events in the Individual, Doubles, and Relay categories) for what sport, which was first developed by Wayne Godinet in 1981?
SPORT STACKING/ SPEED STACKING/ CUP STACKING
85
The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act were laws passed in 1774 by the British parliament as punishment for the Boston Tea Party protest the previous year. These laws were referred to in Britain as the Coercive Acts, but the colonists (combining them with the contemporary Quebec Act) referred to them most often by what other adjective?
INTOLERABLE
86
Prior to taking the job he occupied on the television series in which he appeared for three seasons, beloved sitcom character Ernie Pantusso held what other occupation?
(BASEBALL) COACH
87
In 1994, a 100-year-old painting was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo. In this painting, recovered a few months later, the subject is captured in the midst of a what (per the work's title)?
SCREAM
88
Chinese literary scholarship has generally designated a particular set of works as the Four Classic Novels, which are considered the most widely read, studied and acclaimed works of pre-modern Chinese fiction. Give the most common English name for any one of these four novels, which are attributed to Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, Wu Cheng'en, and Cao Xueqin, respectively.
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS,
WATER MARGIN,
JOURNEY TO THE WEST/MONKEY,
DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER/STORY OF THE STONE
89
Small-time criminals Dean Keaton, Michael McManus, Fred Fenster, and Todd Hockney are four of the five title characters in what 1995 film?
USUAL SUSPECTS
90
A group of native peoples of the U.S. Pacific Northwest gives its name to different winds in the area and on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, as well as to various geography, flora and fauna in the region, and also to a long-serving military transport helicopter. What is that name?
CHINOOK
91
Beat 2-3 eggs per person in a large mixing bowl. Add chopped ham or bacon, green pepper and onion to taste. Pour mixture into hot frying pan. Fold to form omelet. These words are engraved on a plaque in the sidewalk near 1565 California Street in what city?
DENVER
92
The FDIC's 1984 intervention with (and rescue of) Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company gave rise to what colloquial phrase, coined by Congressman Stewart McKinney during subsequent hearings over the event? The phrase rose again in 1998 with regard to the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, and entered common parlance during the 2008 financial crisis.
TOO BIG TO FAIL
93
Juicy J's Kamasutra, Cashflow Harlem's Want My Love Back, Ozuna's La Modelo, Pardison Fontaine's Backin' It Up, G-Eazy's No Limit, and DJ Snake's Taki Taki are all songs featuring what artist?
CARDI B
94
The Mohs scale of hardness for minerals uses samples of matter for each number on the scale, with a maximum of 10 represented by diamond, and a minimum of 1 represented by what other mineral?
TALC
95
The overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 and self-appointment of Laurent Kabila as president led to the renaming of what African nation? (Either the previous name or a disambiguated current name are acceptable.)
ZAIRE / DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
96
The New York Times bestselling 1997 book Brain Droppings, which includes the author's famous riffs on a place for my stuff and baseball and football, is the work of what stand-up comedian?
George CARLIN
97
The Americano, Boulevardier, Negroni, Jasmine, and Old Pal are cocktails that are all made with what liqueur?
CAMPARI
98
Sammi Giancola, Michael Sorrentino, Jenni Farley, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, and Vinny Guadagnino were among the cast members of what television series that debuted in December 2009?
JERSEY SHORE
99
On October 29, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft en route to Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, crashed thirteen minutes after takeoff from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, killing all 189 passengers and crew on board in what is to-date the deadliest commercial aviation incident of 2018. The flight was operated by what Indonesian airline?
LION AIR
100
Bruce Almighty, Cinema Paradiso, Gremlins, Home Alone, Look Who's Talking, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are all films that include within them a clip (though not necessarily the same clip) from what other film?
ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE
101
What specific word has been extracted from this sentence, whose earliest documented appearance is in a February 1885 edition of The Boston Journal: A quick brown fox [BLANK] over the lazy dog.
JUMPS
102
Which of the six states of Australia is the smallest in area, and approximately one-fourth the size of the second-smallest?
TASMANIA
103
A 43-foot tall topiary sculpted by American artist Jeff Koons in 1992, as well as a series of five large and colorful balloon sculptures by the same artist (one of which sold for $58.4 million in 2013), are all of what type of animal?
PUPPY/DOG
104
In botany, for leaves that are divided into many small leaflets arranged in rows along either side of a common mid-rib (like many ferns), an individual leaflet is known by what term? The term is also used for the external part of an ear in mammals.
PINNA
105
Name the trailblazing director and Academy Award nominee who, in 2010, created the independent film distribution and resource collective African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (known originally as AFFRM and now branded as ARRAY), after her debut full-length feature film I Will Follow was unable to acquire distribution for wide release via traditional means?
AVA DUVERNAY
106
What do the novels The Trial, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Last Tycoon, The Man with the Golden Gun, A Moveable Feast, and The Pale King have in common, most notably?
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
107
What 1994 song has appeared on a Billboard songs chart every year it's been eligible, including 2018, though it is not (yet) one of its artist's 18 number-one singles on the Hot 100 singles chart (the most by any solo artist in history)? Note: Name the song, not the artist.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU
108
Ships entering the Strait of Gibraltar from the Atlantic Ocean toward the Mediterranean Sea first pass, on their starboard side, what city, famous for its diversity, espionage activities, tourism, and citrus?
TANGIER
109
In beer brewing, what is the term for the sweet, amber liquid—a combination of malt extracted from barley during the mashing process and water—to which hops are added while boiling, and that the yeast will later ferment to produce alcohol?
WORT
110
Andrea McArdle became, in 1977, the youngest actor ever to be nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as the title character of what musical, in a role she originated on Broadway earlier that year?
ANNIE
111
The greatest landslide in a U.S. Presidential election since 1820 (when James Monroe ran virtually unopposed) occurred in the 20th century, when the winning candidate garnered 523 electoral votes (all but eight) and 60.8% of the popular vote. Identify either the Democratic or Republican nominee in this election.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, ALF LANDON
112
What ornamental design pattern, though commonly named after the Scottish town where shawls bearing the design were produced, actually originated in Persia, using a motif known as boteh (bush)?
PAISLEY
113
The release of Cookie Lyon from prison, after serving seventeen years for drug dealing, is a central event in the January 2015 pilot episode of what television series?
EMPIRE
114
The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wolves of the Calla, and Song of Susannah are among the titles of novels in what series of books, the last volume of which was released in 2004 (and shares its name with the series itself)?
THE DARK TOWER
115
A particular accounting convention, used only in the United States, assumes that a firm uses materials (or sells inventory) in the reverse order they were placed in stock, therefore the inventory that enters its stores most recently is the earliest to leave. What is either the name or the four-letter abbreviation used for this accounting convention?
LAST IN FIRST OUT
116
What unit of mass, now obsolete, is the mass that will have an acceleration of one foot per second squared when a force of one pound in weight is exerted upon it? It is equal to approximately 14.6 kg in SI units, and 32.2 lb in US customary units.
SLUG
117
The headline DEAD UNDER HIS CAB appeared in a May 1900 edition of the Memphis, Tennessee newspaper The Commercial Appeal, above a story reporting on an accident on the Illinois Central Railroad in Vaughan, Mississippi. What was the name of the legendary train engineer who died in this accident (heroically, per contemporary reports) and was the only fatality?
CASEY JONES
118
The body of water known as the Sargasso Sea has no land boundaries, but rather is located entirely within what other body of water?
ATLANTIC OCEAN
119
Architectural examples of what visual art style, which originated in France in the early 20th century and gets its name from an international exposition held in Paris in 1925, include the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and 30 Rockefeller Center in New York, The Hoover Building and Florin Court in London, the Eastern Columbia Building and Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Board of Trade and Palmolive Building in Chicago?
ART DECO
120
What influential pop punk band uses as its name the alias of Rod Runtledge, the young ward of billionaire playboy Claude Kane III on The Simpsons?
FALL OUT BOY
121
Among the many additional characters released by Mattel in their line of dolls that started in 1959 with Barbie are Barbie's first best friend (in 1963), her younger sister (1964), first African American friend (1968), and current California Dream best friend (1988). Give the first name of any one of these four characters.
MIDGE, SKIPPER, CHRISTIE, TERESA
122
The transformation of Japan into a centralized modern state with a policy of industrial development is largely a result of the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 and eventual formal restoration of imperial rule under the emperor known today by what name?
MEIJI
123
Rocka Rolla (1974), British Steel (1980), Screaming for Vengeance (1982), Defenders of the Faith (1984), and Painkiller (1990) are among the classic albums from what heavy metal band, whose latest is 2018's Firepower?
JUDAS PRIEST
124
What is the rough British equivalent of the American Main Street, such as is used in London in Camden, Marylebone, Sutton, and Kensington? The term is a specific name of streets in these areas, and also is used in general to refer to a primary business/shopping thoroughfare.
HIGH STREET
125
On the television series Survivor, immediately before extinguishing the flame on the torch of the newly eliminated castaway, host Jeff Probst normally utters what four-word catchphrase?
THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN
126
What are the names of the three children in the famous Eugene Field poem, published in 1889, who sail off one night in a wooden shoe to fish for herring?
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, NOD
127
Sucrose, known colloquially as common table sugar, is technically a disaccharide sugar, with each of its molecules made up of two simple sugar units. What are the names of these two monosaccharides?
GLUCOSE AND FRUCTOSE
128
Retired NYC detective Joe Leland travels to Los Angeles to visit his daughter, Stephanie Leland Gennaro, who is attending the holiday party of her employer, the Klaxon Oil Corporation. This is the set up for the Roderick Thorp novel Nothing Lasts Forever, which was later adapted into what film?
DIE HARD
129
The title character, having been forced into an arranged marriage, fatally stabs her new husband on their wedding night, then emerges bloodied from her bedroom and wanders among the wedding guests singing il dolce suono in the famous mad scene of what Italian opera?
LUCIA DE LAMMERMOOR
130
What is the only South American country that lies completely south of the Tropic of Capricorn?
URUGUAY
131
What is the name for the document, legally required and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which outlines a given mutual fund's investing goals and strategy, fees and expenses, and other information relevant to potential investors?
PROSPECTUS
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A once-popular dance originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s and was memorialized in song by Ma Rainey and Spike Jones (and on stage by August Wilson). This dance, and a jazz standard by Jelly Roll Morton, are named after a former Detroit neighborhood (controversially razed in the 1950s in the name of slum clearance) itself named for its rich, dark marsh soils? What is that name shared by the dance and the neighborhood?
BLACK BOTTOM
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What dynasty, descended from the French counts of Anjou, ruled England from 1154 to 1485? Lancaster and York were two branches of the family, which was ousted by Henry VII of the House of Tudor.
PLANTAGENET
134
Bobby Moynihan, Kate Micucci, Kate McKinnon, and Kenan Thompson have voiced (respectively) the characters Hal the Dog, Daisy the Bunny, Squeeks the Mouse, and Ronald the Cat, all friends of Taran Killam's title character, in what children's TV series currently airing on PBS Kids?
NATURE CAT
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In November 2018, prior to a series of restrictions disclosed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, what company, which has over 70% of domestic e-cigarette market share, announced suspension of retail sales of its flavored e-cigarette pods and an end to promotions on social media?
JUUL LABS
136
What Dutch American villager and legendary master of repose is quite possibly literature's best known fictional American Revolution-era Loyalist?
RIP VAN WINKLE
137
Jelawat, Prapiroon, Maria, Jongdari, Shanshan, Soulik, Cimaron, Jebi, Mangkhut, Trami, Kong-rey, Yutu, Usagi, and Man-yi are all names of what?
2018 PACIFIC OCEAN TYPHOONS
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What Romanian, the 2018 French Open Champion, is currently ranked number one on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, in a spot she has held since October of last year?
SIMONA HALEP
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The Penny Black, Treskilling Yellow, Basel Dove, St. Louis Bears, and the Statue of Liberty replica located at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas are all items relevant in what avocation?
STAMP COLLECTING
140
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, karate competitions (Kumite and Kata) will be included as medal events for the first time, joining what other two Asian martial arts in the official Olympic program?
JUDO and TAE KWON DO
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Darién National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site that sits on the border of what two countries?
PANAMA & COLOMBIA
142
Pop culture writer Jen Chaney's 2015 book As If! is an oral history celebrating the twentieth anniversary of what movie, told by the film's director, cast, and crew?
CLUELESS
143
What is the full name of the television producer whose production company, QM Productions, had at least one series running on network television from its founding in 1960 until the cancellation of Barnaby Jones in 1980?
QUINN MARTIN
144
Which is the only one of the eight traditional parts of speech in English missing from the following sentence: My little dog and I run quickly to the park.
INTERJECTION
145
Name the French Benedictine monk of the 17th and 18th centuries who remains known today by virtue of the essential improvements he introduced to the méthode champenoise style of wine production?
DOM PERIGNON
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An invention in the 1740s of a means to store static electricity, which permitted experiments with more powerful charges (and was used shortly thereafter by Benjamin Franklin), was what type of jar, named for the Dutch city where it was discovered by Pieter van Musschenbroek?
LEIDEN
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What is the two-word phrase for the genre of art whose masters through history have included Louise Moillon, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne—numerous works from the latter of whom include the phrase in their titles?
STILL LIFE
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Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, The Blue Angel, Dishonored, The Scarlet Empress, Blonde Venus, and Witness for the Prosecution are all films which featured what Hollywood star?
MARLENE DIETRICH
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There are four poetic feet in classical meter which are disyllabic (i.e., the feet are each made up of two syllables). They are most commonly known as iamb, trochee, pyrrhus, and what fourth?
SPONDEE
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What was the name used for the enormous traveling caravan combining a circus, menagerie, and collection of freaks presented by P. T. Barnum beginning in 1871? The term was borrowed and altered slightly to describe the NFL's St. Louis Rams teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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