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Question 1

Harry Bailly, the host of the Tabard Inn in the English town of Southwark, serves as a sort of master of ceremonies for a contest that frames what work of literature?

Answer 1

CANTEBURY TALES

Question 2

What is the name of the infection, shared with its namesake virus, that was first identified as a disease distinct from other disorders such as scarlet fever in 1814 by George de Maton, a German physician?

Answer 2

RUBELLA

Question 3

In what European country is the name of its capital and largest city also its sixth-most popular name for baby girls (per 2017 data)? The name and its cognates are also very popular elsewhere, including Russia, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Note: Name the country.

Answer 3

BULGARIA

Question 4

Dozens if not hundreds of squealing British youths are among the cast (though they were probably not acting) in what lively 1964 musical comedy directed by Richard Lester?

Answer 4

A HARD DAYS NIGHT

Question 5

Of the two chief belligerents in the Peloponnesian War, which was primarily a maritime power?

Answer 5

ATHENS

Question 6

Former MLB pitcher Randy Moffitt, who played for the Giants, Astros, and Blue Jays during his 12-year career that began in 1972, is the younger brother of what trailblazing sports legend (full name required)?

Answer 6

BILLIE JEAN KING

Question 7

A small diamond step cut with straight or tapered edges, popular in engagement ring accent stones, shares its name with a boulangerie staple. What is that name?

Answer 7

BAGUETTE

Question 8

American political figures Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and Zachary Taylor were all members of what political party (the latter two winning the presidency as this party’s nominee)?

Answer 8

WHIG

Question 9

Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Jeanne Gang, and John Hejduk are/were all fellows of an American Institute for individuals in what profession?

Answer 9

ARCHITECTURE

Question 10

In the game of Go, what term is used to describe stones that are threatened with imminent capture? While the term is ancient, it entered the English vernacular in the 1970s thanks in large part to electrical engineer and electronics entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell.

Answer 10

ATARI

Question 11

Highly concentrated melanin is the primary component of what cephalopodic effluence?

Answer 11

SQUID INK

Question 12

Dantley and Wilkins are on the scene, and Ralph Sampson is really mean! This is a line from a 1984 song by rapper Kurtis Blow. What is the name of that song?

Answer 12

BASKETBALL

Question 13

What country, due to its shape, could accurately be described as having its northern coast on the Gulf of Aden and its southeastern coast on the Indian Ocean?

Answer 13

SOMALIA

Question 14

The Dimbleby family of England, in particular brothers David and Jonathan, are most closely associated with what company, headquartered in London’s Marylebone district?

Answer 14

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC)

Question 15

From the group’s founding in 1955 as The Chimes, through its debut Motown release in 1963, and until his departure in 1972, the legendary R&B band The Miracles was led by what vocalist?

Answer 15

SMOKEY ROBINSON

Question 16

A classic version of what dessert consists of a sponge cake soaked in liqueur with ice cream on top, all of which is covered in meringue and served immediately after cooking in a hot oven to caramelize the meringue?

Answer 16

BAKED ALASKA

Question 17

Miu Miu is a fashion brand started by—and still today a subsidiary of—what luxury house? The brand’s name is taken from the nickname of the house’s head designer (who is also Miu Miu’s founder).

Answer 17

PRADA

Question 18

What was the name of the battleship whose crew mutinied in 1905 during the Russian Revolution, subsequently bombarding Odessa before retreating to Romania, where the surviving crewmembers were granted asylum?

Answer 18

POTEMKIN

Question 19

Brenda Mae Tarpley, Norma Deloris Egstrom, Rose Louise Hovick, and 李振藩 are names of three women and a man who are (or were) known by pseudonyms/transliterations that all have what last name?

Answer 19

LEE

Question 20

What independent country is named after the province in the southwestern corner of the Netherlands?

Answer 20

NEW ZEALAND

Question 21

What television series received numerous Emmy nominations in 1995—including for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Claire Danes)—but was nonetheless cancelled after its single, critically acclaimed season?

Answer 21

MY-SO CALLED LIFE

Question 22

What name is missing the from the following titles of novels by Patricia Highsmith? ______ Under Ground, ______’s Game, The Boy Who Followed ______, ______ Under Water.

Answer 22

RIPLEY

Question 23

A vane, rachis, calamus, and barbules are among the components of what biological epidermal appendages?

Answer 23

FEATHERS

Question 24

What phrase, which originally referred to actual prolonged skin irritation, is believed to have first been used in its current and more common form—as a psychological and interpersonal condition—in a 1952 play by George Axelrod (and subsequent 1955 film)?

Answer 24

SEVEN YEAR ITCH

Question 25

Of the eight planets of the solar system, name all of the planets that are typically classified as ice giants.

Answer 25

URANUS and NEPTUNE

Question 26

Billy Wilder had it in the Afternoon, Andrzej Wajda had it in Germany, François Truffaut had it on the Run, and Franco Zeffirelli’s was Endless. What is it?

Answer 26

LOVE

Question 27

The title of a comic strip by Arthur R. Pop Momand, which debuted in the New York Globe in 1913, is the source for what idiomatic phrase, roughly defined as maintaining one’s social level in relation to proximate lifestyles? Momand’s inspiration for the strip was his own rivalry with his neighbors.

Answer 27

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

Question 28

The Yalu River, also known locally as the Amnok, provides a border between what two sovereign states?

Answer 28

CHINA and NORTH KOREA

Question 29

Name the man who ascended to the presidency of Egypt following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981, and served in that position until his resignation during the Egyptian revolution of 2011.

Answer 29

HOSNI MUBARAK

Question 30

While most of his famous and enduring characters have occupations relating to seafaring, Herman Melville’s Bartleby held what other specific, titular profession?

Answer 30

SCRIVENER

Question 31

The formal name of the club known colloquially as the All England Club, located in the Wimbledon district in London, references two lawn sports, with one being tennis. What is the other—a game for which the club was founded in 1868 (though tournaments are no longer hosted there)?

Answer 31

CROQUET

Question 32

BNSF Railway, created via a 1996 merger, is the largest freight railroad network in North America. What do any of the letters in BNSF stand for?

Answer 32

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE

Question 33

What term in mathematics most commonly represents the set of all values that a given function’s independent variable (e.g. x in y=2x) can have?

Answer 33

DOMAIN

Question 34

What adjective, a relative neologism found almost exclusively in scientific contexts, is most commonly used to describe, as a formal term, DNA molecules produced by merging genetic material from two or more different sources via genetic engineering? The word is represented by the first letter in the typical four-letter designation for this type of DNA molecule.

Answer 34

RECOMBINANT

Question 35

Name the country that completes this quote, declared by Juan Guaido on January 23, 2019: Juro asumir formalmente las competencias del Ejecutivo nacional como el presidente encargado de ________.

Answer 35

VENEZUELA

Question 36

Five lines, usually made of amphibrachs and anapests, with two feet in each of the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others, with a strict rhyming scheme of aabba, is a verse form known by a name that is shared with what city?

Answer 36

LIMERICK

Question 37

What is the name of the drink that consists of espresso with a very small amount of milk (the coffee is literally spotted or stained in Italian)? The Starbucks version of the drink is essentially the reverse of this – a latte where espresso is slowly poured over steamed milk (and very often topped with caramel sauce).

Answer 37

MACCHIATO

Question 38

In the ubiquitous TCP/IP computer network protocol abbreviation SMTP, what does the M stand for?

Answer 38

MAIL

Question 39

The collection of poems from 1912 titled Gitanjali (Song Offerings), based on medieval lyrics of devotion, led directly to its author’s Nobel Prize in Literature the following year. Name this Bengali poet, who was the first non-European to win that award.

Answer 39

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Question 40

Howard K. Smith, George Herman, Lesley Stahl, Bob Schieffer, John Dickerson, and Margaret Brennan are among the journalists who have moderated what weekly news and public affairs program that debuted on November 7, 1954?

Answer 40

FACE THE NATION

Question 41

Rachel Whiteread, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Christine Borland, Gillian Wearing, and Michael Landy are among a loosely affiliated group of individuals who have been referred to collectively by what term, based on their relative age, nationality, and shared vocation?

Answer 41

YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS

Question 42

While it had characters named L.A. Joan (Shelley Duvall) and Albuquerque (Barbara Harris), the 1975 Robert Altman film in which they appeared was actually set in (and named after) what other city?

Answer 42

NASHVILLE

Question 43

Alan Shore, Bobby Donnell, Denny Crane, and Ally McBeal are all fictional attorneys who practiced in what city?

Answer 43

BOSTON

Question 44

Name the killer in Halloween, Name the killer in Friday the 13th, and What door am I at? These are all statements/questions posed to a character named Casey Becker during the intense, ten-minute prologue of what 1996 film?

Answer 44

SCREAM

Question 45

What is the most common term in finance for the market, also known as cash market or physical market, where goods, securities, or currencies are available for immediate delivery? It is distinguished from forward or futures markets, where delivery is due at an agreed-upon future date.

Answer 45

SPOT MARKET

Question 46

An Athens-based organization known by the French acronym FIDE, founded in Paris in 1924, formally governs and oversees championships in what competitive activity?

Answer 46

CHESS

Question 47

What former U.S. President served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from July 1921 to February 1930?

Answer 47

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Question 48

In the 1980s, composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang founded a new music collective in New York in an effort to provide community and opportunity for contemporary classical music creators. Perhaps appropriately (given its post-minimalist aesthetic), the group was named ____ on a ____ . Provide either of the words that fill in the blanks.

Answer 48

BANG ON A CAN

Question 49

While it has over a dozen titles in its portfolio, the publishing company American Media, Inc., has been newsworthy recently for what weekly, the title with which American Media was originally affiliated when the company was founded?

Answer 49

NATIONAL ENQUIRER

Question 50

What word is missing from the title The ______ of America, a work published from 1827 to 1838 that collected 435 life-size engravings of 1,065 examples of the word in question? It is considered a classic work in its particular field, and in American art in general.

Answer 50

BIRDS

Question 51

In a 2016 critics poll commissioned by BBC Culture that ranked the 21st century’s 100 greatest films, the 2003 film Oldboy came in at #30, which was the highest placement for any film in what language?

Answer 51

KOREAN

Question 52

What is the common name of the tissue that forms the majority of a tooth’s mass, between the outer enamel and the pulpy core? It makes up the entirety of elephant ivory from tusks.

Answer 52

DENTINE

Question 53

Name any one of the three women who co-authored the popular and massively influential Mastering the Art of French Cooking, published in two volumes in 1961 and 1970.

Answer 53

SIMONE BECK, LOUISETTE BERTHOLLE, JULIA CHILD

Question 54

Rosanna in Texarkana, Eileen in Abilene, Allison in Galveston, and Dimples in Temple are the reasons why, per his 1987 song, country music artist George Strait lives where?

Answer 54

TENNESSEE

Question 55

While singers Florence Austral and Elsa Stralia also chose those professional names to honor their upbringing Down Under, the most famous soprano to do such a thing was what opera superstar of the late Victorian era? She was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1927, became the first Australian to appear on the cover of Time magazine that same year, and appears on the country’s one hundred-dollar note.

Answer 55

NELLIE MELBA

Question 56

Provide any one of the three adjectives that fill in the blanks in this rather depressing quote from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: …the life of man, solitary, poor, _______, _______, and _______.

Answer 56

NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT

Question 57

The term for the lowest level of hell in Buddhism was the stage name used by what Swedish electronic musician and DJ who died in April 2018 at age 28? (Either stage name or real name is acceptable.)

Answer 57

AVICII

Question 58

The domesticated dog is the familiaris subspecies of the animal taxonomically classified by what genus and species?

Answer 58

CANUS LUPUS

Question 59

An extraordinarily ill-advised (and ill-fated) purported episode during the Crusades involved approximately 50,000 individuals from France and Germany setting out to recapture Palestine in the year 1212. Per this woeful event’s common name (which was borrowed by Kurt Vonnegut in the subtitle to Slaughterhouse-Five), most of these 50,000 individuals were what?

Answer 59

CHILDREN

Question 60

The long-running reality series American Pickers, Forged in Fire, Pawn Stars, and Ancient Aliens, as well as the scripted drama series Vikings, are all broadcast on what television network?

Answer 60

THE HISTORY CHANNEL

Question 61

What 1989 film’s title characters, New Yorkers and University of Chicago alumni, are considered to be inspired in part by the film’s director and screenwriter, Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron?

Answer 61

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

Question 62

A successful uprising led by barbarian chieftain Odoacer in 476 is traditionally held as the event that marked the end, most notably, of what?

Answer 62

WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

Question 63

The map projection in which the path of a ship steering on a constant bearing is represented by a straight line was introduced in 1569 by what Flemish geographer?

Answer 63

GERARDUS MERCATOR

Question 64

What is the name of the unit of liquid volume or capacity in the U.S. customary system that is the equivalent of 1/16 of a pint? Note that the answer to this question is two words.

Answer 64

FLUID OZ

Question 65

In 1994, the Boston Symphony named its new concert hall at its summer home in Tanglewood after what man, a 1957 graduate of Tokyo’s Toho Gakuen School of Music who had served as the symphony’s music director for the previous 20 years (and would continue to do so until 2002)?

Answer 65

SEIJI OZAWA

Question 66

Two highly rated television series produced by the BBC—one from 2006, the other from 2016, and both narrated by Sir David Attenborough—consist of episodes featuring various aspects of what (per the series’ titles)?

Answer 66

PLANET EARTH

Question 67

Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a combination of prose and haiku written in the late 17th century, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature by what poet?

Answer 67

MATSUO BASHO

Question 68

What New England Patriots wide receiver won the MVP Award at the 2019 Super Bowl, becoming the first player in history to do so in the same season he was suspended four games for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing substances?

Answer 68

JULIAN EDELMAN

Question 69

For numerous good reasons (including a 1992 acoustic version and the song’s inspiration), the classic rock and roll song Layla is associated with Eric Clapton, but the song was originally released not by Clapton as a solo artist, but by what band, for which he sang and played guitar?

Answer 69

DEREK AND THE DOMINOES

Question 70

A county in northern California (and city and valley) and a state in northwest Mexico have the same name except for one letter. Name both.

Answer 70

SONOMA, SONORA

Question 71

Name the military officer who, in 1933, founded the Nasjonal Samling (National Unity) party, becoming the nominal head of his country’s government in 1942.

Answer 71

VIDKUN QUISLING

Question 72

Often referred to by the shorthand Moon, what is the full title of Eugene O’Neill’s sequel to Long Day’s Journey into Night, telling the story of the final wandering, self-destructive days of James Tyrone?

Answer 72

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN

Question 73

What fictional character’s first appearance was in the 1999 play I Can Do Bad All by Myself and first film appearance was in 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, with most of her subsequent plays and films having titles that included her name?

Answer 73

MADEA

Question 74

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered examples of works in what literary genre, the name of which is a German term that translates to English as novel of education)?

Answer 74

BILDUNGSROMAN

Question 75

Maria Ann Smith, who died in 1870 at age 70 outside Sydney, Australia, survived by her husband, five children, and numerous further descendants, is remembered today for bringing into the world what now-popular food item?

Answer 75

GRANNY SMITH APPLE

Question 76

What was the name of the militia led by Ethan Allen that captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War? The inspiration for the militia’s name was the same as that for the present-day state in whose territory the militia was organized.

Answer 76

GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS

Question 77

Pieter, Jan, Pieter, Jan, Ambrosius, Abraham, and Jan Pieter are among the members of what dynasty of Flemish painters that began in the mid-16th century?

Answer 77

BRUEGEL

Question 78

The story of which Biblical character, the wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), is read during the Jewish festival of Purim, which commemorates the rescue of the Jews from the king’s advisor, Haman (BOO! —HISS!—[rattle])?

Answer 78

ESTHER

Question 79

Human rights campaigner Rigoberta Menchú, who won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, has fought for the rights of indigenous peoples in what country, her homeland, where she ran for president in 2007 and 2011 as a candidate of indigenous political parties?

Answer 79

GUATEMALA

Question 80

The St. Lawrence River, Frobisher Bay, Davis Strait, Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Bay were all discovered by European explorers seeking a route by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By what name was this desired Passage known most commonly, including by these explorers?

Answer 80

NORTH WEST PASSAGE

Question 81

The measure of the ability of a material to store electric charge; a pyrimidine component of DNA and RNA; the third note of the A minor scale; the third-heaviest quark flavor: All of these can be represented by what letter/symbol?

Answer 81

C

Question 82

El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid and El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid are paintings, currently in the permanent collection of the Museo del Prado, by what artist?

Answer 82

FRANCISCO GOYA

Question 83

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozorova are the main characters in what classic play that premiered in 1901?

Answer 83

THE THREE SISTERS

Question 84

Name the anime and film character who is known, among other things, for her mastery of the ancient cyborg martial art Panzer Kunst, and for her superior skills in the sport of motorball.

Answer 84

ALITA

Question 85

While there are hundreds of communities in the U.S. named after presidents, one of the most common place names (shared by around 30 municipalities in total) is the last name of a former president, but none of the communities are actually named after him. What is that common place name?

Answer 85

CLINTON

Question 86

The company Ravensburger AG, founded in the southern German town of Ravensburg, created the first version of its signature product in 1891, has repeatedly produced the world’s largest version of this product, and (by its own account) is the world’s most popular brand of the product. What is the product in question?

Answer 86

JIGSAW PUZZLES

Question 87

What is the first name of the cousin of Dora Márquez (a.k.a. Dora the Explorer) who began starring in his own eponymous animated children’s television program in 2005?

Answer 87

DIEGO

Question 88

A brief period of intellectual and political debate in 1956-57 in Communist China, initiated in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev’s denunciation of Josef Stalin, takes its name from a line in a classical Chinese poem. The name of this campaign (and the line in the poem) references a hundred what?

Answer 88

FLOWERS

Question 89

What British economist’s plan for international monetary institutions, proposed at the 1944 Bretton Woods negotiations on post-war monetary policies, included the creation of an international monetary unit called the bancor? His overall plan was largely rejected in favor of the establishment of the IMF and World Bank.

Answer 89

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Question 90

In classical Greek drama, the ensemble that comments collectively upon the play’s action, often offering the view from society’s perspective, is referred to by what term?

Answer 90

CHORUS

Question 91

What term, which today refers to meaningless speech, has historically referred to a West African god, and originates etymologically from a Mandinka word for a ceremonial masked dancer? It provides the title for author Ishmael Reed’s enduring 1972 novel, in which the author himself defines the term—quoting the American Heritage Dictionary—as a magician who makes the troubled spirits of ancestors go away.

Answer 91

MUMBO JUMBO

Question 92

A Bank in New Jersey, a Deer in Alberta, a Lion in Pennsylvania, a Bluff in California, and a Wing in Minnesota: each of the aforementioned shares what characteristic, per the names of cities in the respective states/provinces?

Answer 92

RED

Question 93

The recording industry abbreviation b/w, which often appeared on (or referred to) specific 45 rpm singles, stands for what phrase?

Answer 93

BACKED WITH

Question 94

Max Schreck portrays the title character in what 1922 German film, subtitled A Symphony of Horror (eine Symphonie des Grauens) and one of the first cinematic representations of Count Dracula in all but name?

Answer 94

NOSFERATU

Question 95

Japan withdrew its membership in the League of Nations in 1933 after it was deemed the aggressor in its 1931 invasion of a region of China. What is either the name of this Chinese region, or the name of the state Japan established there upon occupation?

Answer 95

MANCHURIA

Question 96

The use of what term to denote a certain period in European history was not actually in common usage until 1855, when it was first prominently used by French historian Jules Michelet?

Answer 96

RENAISSANCE

Question 97

The initial sense of what word, originally derived from Arabic and most commonly used nowadays for a certain type of publication, was storehouse, and thus its modern literary usage (dating from the 1730s) is as a figurative storehouse of information?

Answer 97

MAGAZINE

Question 98

The unit of astronomical length known as a parsec, equal to 3.26 light years, is a term derived from what other two words, which factor into the distance on which the unit is based?

Answer 98

PARALLAX SECOND

Question 99

Sinhalese statesman Don Stephen Senanayake was a chief architect of the independence from the British Empire of what island nation, as well as its first Prime Minister?

Answer 99

SRI LANKA

Question 100

In professional basketball in North America, the term since the merger typically means since the combination of what two entities?

Answer 100

NBA and ABA

Question 101

Give the stage name of any one of the members of the hip-hop group Migos, all three of whom have released solo hit studio albums in their own right over the past six months.

Answer 101

QUAVO, OFFSET, TAKEOFF

Question 102

A 1963 film, directed by Stanley Kramer and featuring a star-studded ensemble cast, is likely the most successful film in Hollywood history whose title includes the same word repeated four times. What is that film’s full title?

Answer 102

ITS A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

Question 103

Deneb is a name for the brightest star of what large, northern hemisphere constellation, which is represented as a swan?

Answer 103

CYGNUS

Question 104

What is the term, from the Arabic for beacon, for the tall, slender tower (typically part of or adjacent to a mosque) with a balcony from which Muslims are summoned to prayer five times each day by a religious official known as a muezzin?

Answer 104

MINARET

Question 105

As of February 2019, the Balkan country formerly known provisionally as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is now officially named the Republic of what?

Answer 105

NORTH MACEDONIA

Question 106

What is the usual name for the sauce/condiment that is, in its traditional French (and most common) version, effectively a garlic mayonnaise? Its name is a Provençal portmanteau for its two main ingredients. (Note: diaeresis is not required.)

Answer 106

AIOLI

Question 107

British Anglican priest John Wesley, with his brother Charles, is widely considered responsible in part for the religious revival known as the Great Awakening (a.k.a. Evangelical Revival), and the founder of what Protestant movement (related to his namesake Wesleyan theology)?

Answer 107

METHODISM

Question 108

The title of the 1990 album Songs for Drella, by Lou Reed and John Cale, references an individual who mentored the pair during their time in Velvet Underground. Who is Drella?

Answer 108

Andy WARHOL

Question 109

What word is the English translation of the Spanish mariposa, the French papillon, the Italian farfalla, and the German Schmetterling?

Answer 109

BUTTERFLY

Question 110

What war was referred to contemporaneously by New Englanders, disparagingly, as Mr. Madison’s War?

Answer 110

WAR OF 1812

Question 111

Trevor Noah debuted as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on September 28, 2015, replacing Jon Stewart, whose tenure as host began in January 1999. Stewart replaced what comedian and former sports anchor, who hosted the show’s premiere in July 1996?

Answer 111

CRAIG KILBORN

Question 112

The symbol cwt is the abbreviation for what unit of mass used in various systems of measurement? In the imperial system, it is equal to 112 lb.

Answer 112

HUNDRED WEIGHT

Question 113

The now-popular casino card game baccarat is the cousin of a once-popular casino card game known colloquially as Shimmy, which was displaced by baccarat in American casinos by the late 1950s. What is the actual, three-word name for Shimmy?

Answer 113

CHEMIN DE FER

Question 114

Kosoko Jackson’s A Place for Wolves and Amélie Wen Zhao’s Blood Heir are debut novels by their respective authors that were each abruptly withdrawn from scheduled publication in 2019. These works are categorized within what genre, which received its own New York Times bestseller list in December 2012?

Answer 114

YOUNG ADULT

Question 115

In a baseball box score, the abbreviation pr (or PR) next to a player’s name stands for what?

Answer 115

PINCH RUNNER

Question 116

A town in southern Zambia, an island in the center of Victoria Falls, a number of rapids in the Congo River between Matadi and Kinshasa, and a mountain range on the northeast border of Lake Malawi in southern Tanzania are all named after what Scottish physician and missionary?

Answer 116

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Question 117

Name any of the three bands of which David Crosby, Stephen Stills, or Graham Nash were members of most immediately prior to their eponymous debut release as a trio in 1969.

Answer 117

THE BYRDS, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, THE HOLLIES

Question 118

A pivotal 1916 insurrection in Dublin, where well over 1,000 Irish nationalists took up arms against British rule, and which led to the proclamation of an Irish Republic (and eventually, an independent Irish state), began on what holiday—after which the event is commonly named?

Answer 118

EASTER

Question 119

Parian, Pentelic, and Carrara (Luna) are different types of what specific artistic material? Famous works created in this material (and which include this material in their name) are named after Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.

Answer 119

MARBLE

Question 120

Trista Rehn, Ali Fedotowsky, Andi Dorfman, and Becca Kufrin are all women who have appeared on what two reality television series? Note, two answers are required.

Answer 120

THE BACHELOR, THE BACHELORETTE

Question 121

Whose 1994 memoir, written as a letter to (and named after) her comatose daughter Paula, tells the story of the mother’s extraordinary life—a childhood in Peru, Bolivia, Lebanon, and Chile; exile from her Chilean homeland following a 1973 coup; her career as a journalist and writer; and more?

Answer 121

ISABEL ALLENDE

Question 122

The films Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999), 50 First Dates (2004), Source Code (2011), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014) all feature a central conceit that was previously used in what enduring comedy film from 1993?

Answer 122

GROUNDHOG DAY

Question 123

A method of investigating the behavior of economic processes that are too complex for possible analytical solutions, instead using randomized initial positions to obtain numerical results and a resulting range of outcomes and probabilities, is a simulation named after what European tourist spot?

Answer 123

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

Question 124

What is the physiological term for the wavelike muscular contractions that pass along tubular organs, such as what propels food through the esophagus into the stomach?

Answer 124

PERISTALSIS

Question 125

A British chicken dish, consisting of cooked pieces of chicken in a curried mayonnaise sauce, was created for and named after an event that occurred on June 2, 1953. What is the straightforward name of that dish?

Answer 125

CORONATION CHICKEN

Question 126

The Florida counties of Escambia, Walton, and Okaloosa; the Oklahoma counties of Beaver, Cimarron, and Texas; and the Texas counties of Potter, Dallam, and Deaf Smith are all within regions of their respective states that are known by what term?

Answer 126

PANHANDLE

Question 127

Harlem-born musical artist Teddy Riley, through his work as a songwriter and producer and as a founding member of the groups Guy and Blackstreet, is considered the father of a contemporary strain of R&B that is known by what three-word name?

Answer 127

NEW JACK SWING

Question 128

Among cattle, generally speaking, a non-castrated adult male is a bull, a castrated male raised for beef is a steer, a castrated male trained as a draft or riding animal is an ox, an adult female that has given birth is a cow, and a young unweaned bovine of either sex is a calf. What is the most common term for a young female who has not borne a calf of her own?

Answer 128

HEIFER

Question 129

What is the term for the mathematical property, applicable to addition and multiplication (but not subtraction or division), that states that a given operation’s result is independent of the order of the numbers/objects in the operation? For example, 3 + 5 = 5 + 3 and 2 x 6 = 6 x 2.

Answer 129

COMMUTATIVE

Question 130

Enosis (Greek for union) was the name given in the 1950s to a campaign for the union of Greece with what other country?

Answer 130

CYPRUS

Question 131

The most important commercial crab of the Pacific Northwest (and Oregon’s state crustacean) is named after a community on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington State. What is that name?

Answer 131

DUNGENESS

Question 132

Sisters with the first names of Lana and Lilly are a filmmaking partnership whose first major (and still highest profile) Hollywood success is what film trilogy?

Answer 132

MATRIX

Question 133

In economics, seigniorage is defined as the profits made by a ruler or government from the production of what?

Answer 133

MONEY

Question 134

Most traditional water softeners remove hardness from water by replacing harmful calcium and magnesium ions with ions from what alkali metal element?

Answer 134

SODIUM

Question 135

Following the cancellation of the sitcom Roseanne in May 2018, ABC ordered what spinoff series, featuring the same cast of characters (sans Roseanne) who are left to deal with the character Roseanne’s death due to a drug overdose?

Answer 135

THE CONNORS

Question 136

Events that occurred in the evening of October 20, 1973, involving Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshaus, Robert Bork, Archibald Cox, and others, quickly thereafter became known by what three-word phrase?

Answer 136

SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE

Question 137

German butcher Johann Georg Lahner produced the all-pork sausages named after his hometown of Frankfurt before moving, in 1798, to a new city, where he began to make similar sausages made from a mixture of beef and pork (which quickly became popular in their own right). To what city did he move?

Answer 137

VIENNA

Question 138

A conflict began in early 2015 and is still ongoing between an armed insurgency movement known as Houthi and the government of what country, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi?

Answer 138

YEMEN

Question 139

What dynamic and charismatic entertainer was featured wearing an eyepatch on the cover of his debut album released in 1955, after a car accident the previous year resulted in the loss of his left eye?

Answer 139

SAMMY DAVIS JR

Question 140

What, according to the title of Flannery O’Connor’s short story masterpiece first published in 1953, is A Good Man?

Answer 140

HARD TO FIND

Question 141

The narrow, five-to-seven-kilometer wide Isthmus of Perekop connects what peninsula to the mainland of Eastern Europe?

Answer 141

CRIMEA

Question 142

What is the common name of the flowering plant Salvia hispanica, a species of the mint family native to central and southern Mexico, whose seeds were popular for a time in the 1980s (and still sold today) as pets?

Answer 142

CHIA

Question 143

An important figure in La Navidad has a name that is a near-homonym for dark lowland plains (note plural) on the Moon. What is either name?

Answer 143

MARIA/MARIA

Question 144

The PGA Tour’s championship trophy, first won in 2007 by Tiger Woods, is a Cup that has, since its inauguration, been sponsored by (and named after) what corporation?

Answer 144

FEDEX

Question 145

What is the name for the most common type of cheese, similar to chhena, that is used in traditional South Asian cuisines, often coupled in popular dishes with palak (saag), khoya, or mattar?

Answer 145

PANEER

Question 146

The title characters in the current Netflix television series Grace and Frankie previously appeared together as two-thirds of a trio of stars in what 1980 comedy film?

Answer 146

9 TO 5

Question 147

Among the numerous works in the seventy-year career of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, perhaps the most famous—currently the subject of an exhibition traveling through North America—involve cube-shaped rooms whose walls are all lined with what?

Answer 147

MIRRORS

Question 148

Give the name of either the Indonesian statesman and nationalist who was his country’s first, post-revolution president, or the general who succeeded him in 1967 and served until his own presidency collapsed in 1998.

Answer 148

SUKARNO, SUHARTO

Question 149

The men’s professional soccer league Major League Soccer (MLS) expanded to twenty-four teams for the current 2019 season with the addition of the team that plays its home games in what Midwestern city?

Answer 149

CINCINNATI

Question 150

What is the last name of the hard-boiled Chicago detective, from the works of novelist Sara Paretsky and first appearing in 1982’s Indemnity Only, who is known to friends as Vic and to only a select few by her given name, Victoria?

Answer 150

WARSHAWSKI