LL79 Flashcards
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?
ST ELMO
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.
BUFFALO BILLS
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?
STONE, BRONZE, IRON
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?
THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
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.
SOUTH KOREA, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN
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.
Paul Laurence DUNBAR
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?
BEE SEASON
What acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film could credibly hold the record for most critical reviews that include the word claustrophobic?
DAS BOOT
The name of what African country is contained as a word in the names of two other African countries?
GUINEA
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?
BULB
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?
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
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?
TORT
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?
MULTIMETER
What is the formal term for a chapter of the Quran, of which there are a total of 114?
SURAH
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?
HALLOWEEN
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.
CYRUS, DARIUS
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)?
COSECANT
The Tigers, Lions, Giants, Hawks, Buffaloes, Fighters, Dragons, Swallows, and Carp are names of professional clubs in a league playing what sport?
BASEBALL (Japan)
The Croissan’wich is a breakfast sandwich innovation introduced in 1983 by what fast food restaurant chain?
BURGER KING
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?
POSTAL SERVICE
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).
NORMAL SCHOOL
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?
JUILLIARD
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?
CHARLIE’S ANGELS
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?
MAROON
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life Among the Lowly is the alternate title of what massively popular 1852 novel?
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
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
Name the mountain range that runs from the Golfe de Gascogne in the west to the Golf del Lleó in the east.
PYRENEES
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A piste 46 feet long and around six feet wide constitutes the playing area in what sport?
FENCING
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
Give the full name missing in this chronological list: Apollo Creed, Apollo Creed, __________, Ivan Drago, Tommy Gunn, Mason Dixon.
CLUBBER LANG
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
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
Name any one of the three corporations led by CEOs Mary Barra, Jim Hackett, and Michael Manley.
GENERAL MOTORS, FORD MOTOR COMPANY, FIAT CHRYSLER
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
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
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
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
What common term from Japanese cuisine combines a term for gloss and one for grilling?
TERIYAKI
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
The television characters Latka Gravas, Cooter Davenport, Kaylee Frye, and David Puddy all held, at one time or another, what occupation?
MECHANIC
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
