LL81 Flashcards
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The Mishnah and the Gemara are the two components of what central text in Rabbinic literature?
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TALMUD
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Plugs, spoons, jigs, spinners, and bugs are all related items used during what outdoor activity?
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FISHING
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A view to the east from the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence—a stylized scene prominently featuring a cypress tree with the village center in the background. This actually describes several post-impressionist paintings, but of those, the one that is by far the most famous has what title?
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THE STARRY NIGHT
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What city, created from the consolidation of its two namesake towns in 1913, is the most populous in the United States whose common name contains a hyphen? Its minor league baseball team is the Dash, in (slightly inaccurate) reference to the symbol.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA
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How much money you got? How many problems you got? How many people done doubted you? What is rapper 21 Savage’s answer to these and many other questions, from the lyrics (and title) of his recently released song?
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A LOT
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The culinary vegetable known as the sunchoke, sunroot, or topinambour, is also known as an artichoke that is named after what city (though it is neither an artichoke nor related to the city in any way)?
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JERUSALEM
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The largest storm system on Jupiter (and in the entire solar system), which rotates once every six days and is large enough to contain three Earths, is best known by what straightforward three-word name?
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GREAT RED SPOT
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The authors of the children’s books Possum Magic and The Slave Dancer, the founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers), and a popular anthropomorphic Roald Dahl character all share what last name?
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FOX
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Father Mayer and sons Nathan and James led the Frankfurt, London, and Paris branches (respectively) of what banking family, likely the wealthiest and most famous of the 19th century?
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ROTHSCHILD
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The territorial extent of the historical region known as al-Andalus varied over time during the roughly 800 years of its existence that effectively ended in 1492, but it was always confined to what peninsula?
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IBERIA
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What term is most often used to refer to all numbers that can be represented on the number line? The complete set includes all natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and irrational numbers.
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REAL NUMBERS
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What African country is named after a product that was effectively banned from international commercial trade in 1989?
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COTE D’IVOIRE, IVORY COAST
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Denzel Washington has been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor) a total of eight times. Name either of the two films for which he has won the award.
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GLORY, TRAINNING DAY
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The score sheet for what Milton Bradley game contains rows such as Aces, Twos, and Threes in its Upper section, and 3 of a Kind, 4 of a Kind, and the game’s namesake in its Lower section?
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YAHTZEE
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I hate to see the evening sun go down / I hate to see the evening sun go down / It makes me think I’m on my last go-round. These are the first three lines of what W.C. Handy song (as sung by Bessie Smith), whose title is also the name of a major professional sports franchise in the U.S.?
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ST. LOUIS BLUES
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After the independence declarations in 1991 and 1992 of Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed, consisting of what two remaining republics?
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MONETEGNERO, SERBIA
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What three-word Latin phrase, which first appeared in French as je pense, donc je suis in René Descartes Discours de la Méthode from 1637, appeared later in his 1644 book Principia Philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy)?
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CORGITO, ERGO SUM
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What dish from southern France, often consisting of baby anchovies and sardines eaten raw, has a name which is used for an unrelated—and very different—dish in Québec?
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POUTINE
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The May 2013 finale of the American TV sitcom The Office featured the wedding of what two characters? (First names acceptable.)
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ANGELA (MARTIN), DWIGHT (SCHRUTE)
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The Committee of State Security in the Soviet Union, a political security agency and police force formed in 1954 and dissolved in 1992, was known by what initialism?
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KGB
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Sunrise, Sunset, and Midnight—These are three half-titles of films directed and co-written by Richard Linklater. What word completes the titles of these three films?
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BEFORE
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Fill in this blank from Rule 3, Section 2, Article 6 of the 2018 Official Playing Rules of the National Football League: A _____ is the touching of a loose ball by a player in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain possession of it.
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MUFF
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What is the first letter of the alphabet that is not the first (or only) letter of a symbol on the periodic table of elements? It is one of only two such letters (the other is Q).
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J
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During a May 20 campaign event for the approaching European elections, the divisive British politician and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage was hit by protester Paul Crowther with what novel weapon? The weapon’s name became Twitter’s top trend in the U.K. by the end of the day.
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MILKSHAKE
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What African-American spiritual, written by Wallace Willis in the mid-1800s and recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Louis Armstrong, and Eric Clapton, is frequently cited not simply as a celebration of release into heaven, but also of the aspiration (or plan) to be carried home to freedom via the Underground Railroad?
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT
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An Anglo-Saxon god of war, the chief god of Norse mythology, a Norse god of thunder, the foremost goddess of Norse mythology, and a Roman god of agriculture are among a group that give their names to what septet?
DAYS OF THE WEEK
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What is the English translation of the French Les Nymphéas, which is the title given to a series of around 250 oil paintings by Claude Monet?
WATER LILIES
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The Congo River and a remote trading post deep in the jungles of central Africa run by a corrupted ivory trader provide settings for the flashback story told in what brisk, 80-page 1899 novella?
HEART OF DARKNESS
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Until the announcement in May that Norah O'Donnell had been named anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, the anchor news desks at the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) were occupied by three men with one-syllable last names. Give any one of those three names.
GLOR, HOLT, MUIR
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Currently, there are two administrative divisions of China known formally as special administrative regions, formed in 1997 and 1999 pursuant to declarations signed in the previous decade. What are the names of these two SARs?
HONG KONG, MACAU
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Raisins, candied lemon peel, and orange, all contained within raised dough enriched with egg yolks, make up what Italian cake, a specialty of Milan that is traditionally served during the Christmas season?
PANETTONE
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In the mid-1800s, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais founded an artistic Brotherhood named after what other painter, who had died nearly 330 years prior?
RAPHAEL
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During his career, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed three ballets. Two are The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. What is the third, also based on a fairy tale?
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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What term best fills in the blank in this series: Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, __________, Hominidae, Homo, H. sapiens?
PRIMATES
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Sock it to me, The Joke-Wall, The Party, and The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award were among the recurring sketches that appeared on what comedy television series?
(ROWAN & MARTIN'S) LAUGH-IN
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An iconic line from the movie Jaws, #35 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, was reportedly ad-libbed by Roy Scheider and not in the original screenplay. It begins with You're—how does the line end?
GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT
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What term from biology and soil science, not to be confused with a certain Levantine condiment, is defined as the dark, thick material produced when organic matter decays?
HUMUS
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In the 2018-19 NBA season, there were two players from Slovenia, one of whom was Miami Heat guard Goran Dragić. Name the other, a finalist for the 2018-19 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award.
LUKA DONCIC
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A cube-shaped building, about 43 feet high and covered at times with black cloth embroidered in gold, is the most famous and important landmark of what city?
MECCA
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What term is generally used for a watercraft with two parallel and equal-sized hulls? The term is derived from a Tamil word for tied wood.
CATAMARAN
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In December 1986, scientists encountered a lethal, 2-meter-wide mass that they dubbed the elephant's foot in what present-day country?
UKRAINE
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Name the comedian who is missing from this otherwise complete list (randomly ordered): Steve Harvey, Ray Combs, Richard Karn, Richard Dawson, John O'Hurley.
Louie ANDERSON
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In many role-playing games, the gamemaster controls entities commonly referred to as NPCs. What do the letters in NPC stand for, most often?
NON-PLAYER CHARACTER / NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTER
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Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion is commonly known as the Law of what? The term was first used in this context by Johannes Kepler earlier in the 17th century.
INTERTIA
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Actor Joe Rosario's hairy hands and arms—but not face—appeared on the cover of a best-selling collection of autobiographical essays from 2011 by what comedian?
Tina FEY
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What word is missing from this true mathematical statement: Twelve is congruent to 60 ______ 8 because both 12 and 60 have 4 as a remainder when divided by 8.
MODULO
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At 26 years of age, South Carolina delegate Edward Rutledge was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence in the summer of 1776. What 70-year-old was the oldest?
Benjamin FRANKLIN
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Charlie Townsend in Charlie's Angels, Mrs. Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory, Vera Peterson in Cheers, and Maris Crane in Frasier—all of these characters are distinctive in a particular manner that is also shared by what character in Magnum P.I.?
ROBIN MASTERS
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A François Truffaut film of the French New Wave has an English title that seems nonsensical. In actuality, it's a literal translation of its French title, referencing an idiom that translates more figuratively into English as run wild or raise hell. What is that English title?
THE 400 BLOWS
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a seminal work in the field of urban planning, was written in 1961 by what tenacious New Yorker (and foe of Robert Moses)?
Jane JACOBS
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The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the British government and chieftains of what indigenous people, recognizing the people's land rights and rights as British subjects in return for recognition of Queen Victoria's sovereignty over the people's homeland?
MAORI
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Memory wire, dead-soft wire, and tiger-tail are materials most commonly used in the making of what?
JEWELLERY
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Granite, Anthem, Pinnacle, and TerraPro are all names of models produced by what US-based truck manufacturer, founded in 1900 as a maker of buses?
MACK
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The plaques in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for inductees Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, and Tim Raines depict the players wearing the hat of what team?
MONTREAL EXPOS
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Give any common name for the first item in an ordered list that is followed by Chhogori, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, and Dhaulagiri?
MOUNT EVEREST / SAGARMATHA / CHOMOLYUNGMA
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Name the rock guitarist who has been called the Space Cowboy, the Gangster of Love, and Maurice (for some odd reason), and has helmed his namesake band since 1966.
Steve MILLER
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Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven and Ralph Vaughan Williams were given titles that are also the name for a literary genre which includes Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, John Milton's Lycidas, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs. What is that title/genre?
PASTORAL
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Offred, Ofglen (Ofstephen/Ofjoseph), and Ofwarren (Ofdaniel) are names of characters from what current television series?
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
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What is the term for the force (or effect) that causes winds to deviate to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere? It is named after the French engineer who described the physical phenomenon in 1835.
CORIOLIS force
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The plot of a certain sexually provocative 1973 novel involves its protagonist Isadora Wing's literal and metaphorical fear of what?
FLYING
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According to the title of a 2011 film, who was the first Avenger?
CAPTAIN AMERICA (Steve Rogers)
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NH3 is the chemical formula of what colorless, pungent-smelling gas?
AMMONIA
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1973's Across Asia on the Cheap was the first book by travel writers Maureen and Tony Wheeler, who founded what travel guidebook publisher? Once owned by the BBC, it inspired the television series Globe Trekker.
LONELY PLANET
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Identify either of the individuals whose names fill in the blanks in the title of the 1964 play first published in German under the title Die Verfolgung und Ermordung _________ dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des _________.
Jean-Paul MARAT, MARQUIS DE SADE
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Rice, saffron, and olive oil are the three basic ingredients of what traditional Spanish (and specifically Valencian) dish, whose name is derived from that of the cookware in which it is prepared?
PAELLA
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The majority of the area of the African region known as Yorubaland (approximately 75%) lies within what present-day nation, where the Yoruba people today make up about one-fifth of the population?
NIGERIA
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Going Home, Silhouette, and Songbird are among the songs on the multi-platinum 1989 live album by what artist?
KENNY G
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Ship of Fools, the greatest-selling American novel of 1962, was the only novel by what short story master, whose Collected Stories won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1966?
Katherine Anne PORTER
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While the Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and others are also common, what breed, which originated in the Netherlands and is identifiable by her black-and-white markings, is the most common dairy cow breed in the United States?
HOLSTEIN (FRIESIAN)
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What scientific term was, until recently, defined as the quantity of an element or compound that has the same number of particles as twelve grams of Carbon-12?
MOLE
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Name either of the two teams that finished at the top of the table in the English Premier League for the 2018-19 season, separated by a single point in the standings and 25 points clear of third-place Chelsea.
MANCHESTER CITY / LIVERPOOL
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Nelson Mandela was the first (post-apartheid) President of South Africa, and Cyril Ramaphosa is the fifth (and current) holder of the position. Name both the man who succeeded Mandela in 1999, and the man who preceded Ramaphosa, leaving office in 2018. (Note, two answers are required.)
Thabo MBEKI / Jacob ZUMA
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In 2000, who became the first (and remains today the only) non-citizen of the United States to win the Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year?
Shania TWAIN
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In computing, a control total of the correct digits in a particular set of data, which can be used in future comparisons to detect errors, is usually referred to by what compound word?
CHECKSUM
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Bob Falfa, Colonel Lucas, John Book, Capt. Alexei Vostrikov, Linus Larrabee, and President James Marshall are among the film characters (but certainly not the most famous film characters) portrayed by what Hollywood acting legend?
Harrison FORD
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What group, initially formed by a committee that included Roger Baldwin, Helen Keller, and Jane Addams to assist U.S. citizens prosecuted for opposing World War I, has argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other private organization?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU)
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Walla Walla, Washington; southern California's Imperial Valley; Lake Mattamuskeet in North Carolina; and the Hawaiian island of Maui: These locations share a link, culinarily and agriculturally, that is also shared most prominently by what Georgia city?
VIDALIA
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The Signature Challenge, Technical Challenge, and Showstopper Challenge are the three individual competitions within each episode of what reality television series? (Note, either the series' original title or the title under which it has aired in the United States is acceptable).
THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF / THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW
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Arabic, Hebrew, and Maltese are all modern languages within a language classification whose name is also applied to a group of peoples of the Middle East who, according to the Bible, were descended from (and named after) a son of Noah and younger brother of Japheth. What is that classification?
SEMITIC
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The labor theory of value, a major pillar of traditional Marxian economics, which states (in a nutshell) that the value of a good can be measured by the number of labor hours required to produce it, was organized at length in 1817's On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, the most famous work of what English classical economist?
David RICARDO
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What was the symbol of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, founded in Alabama in 1965 by activist Stokely Carmichael? The symbol was subsequently used (graphically and by name) for another organization, influenced by the LCFO, that was founded in Oakland a year later.
BLACK PANTHER
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The American companies D. Gottlieb & Co. (founded 1927), Williams Manufacturing (1943), and Bally Manufacturing (1932) were initially formed to produce what type of machine, for which they became famous as industry leaders until the 1980s? A video version of the machine in question was first released in 1977.
PINBALL
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What is the artistic term defined as a monochrome painting (or other work) completed entirely in shades of gray, frequently modeled in a decorative manner to imitate sculpture or stone relief?
GRISAILLE
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Wayne Messam, John Delaney, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang, and Eric Swalwell are names of individuals within a relatively large group that includes exactly one person of Indian and Jamaican ancestry. Who is that person?
Kamala HARRIS
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What is the term in mathematics for the operation or number that leaves others unchanged when combined with them? In multiplication, it is one, while in addition, it is zero.
IDENTITY (ELEMENT)
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The virtual eradication of yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone was made possible in part by the research of what physician, army surgeon, and former military hospital namesake, who showed that the disease was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito?
Walter REED
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The #1 game by global downloads in the iOS App Store and Google Play for 2018 is described by its maker, Voodoo Games, as an exciting adventure of the bouncing ball through the...tower labyrinth. What is the name of that game?
HELIX JUMP
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The neurotic Captain Queeg is a literary character who commanded what naval warship, until being relieved of his command by Lt. Steve Maryk?
USS CAINE
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The Battle of Balaclava, which occurred in October 1854 during the Crimean War, is remembered today for what failed military action, which was famously commemorated in verse six weeks later?
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Arrays of houses, usually of the Victorian or Edwardian era, whose exteriors are decorated in various colors to enhance their architectural detail, are commonly referred to by what feminine term? The term was first used to describe the Victorian houses of Postcard Row in San Francisco, and has also been applied to Charleston's Rainbow Row and a set of houses in Baltimore's Charles Village.
PAINTED LADIES
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This Will Be, from the 1975 album Inseparable, was the first hit single in the career of what artist, whose most celebrated hit would be a duet released sixteen years later?
NATALIE COLE
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During a commencement speech given on May 19, 2019, the billionaire investor Robert F. Smith pledged that he and his family would pay off student loans for the current graduating class at what college?
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
93
Galena, a mineral that is the chief ore of lead, consists of molecules containing one lead atom and one atom of what other element, which also occurs naturally in cinnabar, gypsum, and pyrite?
SULFUR
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What economic term, also known colloquially as spillover effect and formalized as a concept by British welfare economist Arthur C. Pigou in the 1930s, refers to a cost (negative) or benefit (positive) incurred/received by a third party who has no control over the cost/benefit's creation. A positive example could be the benefit to a beekeeper from a nearby apple orchard, while a negative one could be the cost to society of air pollution.
EXTERNALITY
95
The Vietnamese statesman who participated in Ngo Dinh Diem's 1963 overthrow and served as president of South Vietnam from 1967 until the end of the war in 1975 has the first name (family name) of Nguyen. What is his given name (last name)?
THIEU
96
A certain popular and enduring 1983 comedy film had a screenplay written by John Hughes based on his short story titled Vacation '58, which first appeared in the September 1979 issue of what magazine? (Note: name the magazine.)
NATIONAL LAMPOON
97
What type of institution is named for the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne from Greek mythology?
MUSEUM
98
Meat Lover's is a federal trademark registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1989 by what restaurant chain?
PIZZA HUT
99
The acronym radar is formed from the word radio with what other two words (plus and)?
DETECTION / DIRECTION, RANGING
100
Name the northern India city, of great cultural and religious significance and the holiest of the Hindu Sapta Puri (seven holy pilgrimage sites), which is also famous internationally for its 88 sets of steps (known as ghats) leading to the banks of the River Ganges.
VARANASI (BENARES)
101
In December 2004, guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott was shot and killed while performing for the group Damageplan in Columbus, Ohio, and his brother Vinnie Paul (Abbott) died of natural causes in June 2018 at age 54, at the time the drummer for the band Hellyeah. They both achieved their first and greatest level of success while playing together for what other heavy metal group?
PANTERA
102
Though many individuals left sooner (and are celebrated today for doing so), a bugle call from the U.S. Fifth Cavalry at noon on April 22, 1889, formally began an event commonly named after the location where the event transpired. What is that location?
OKLAHOMA
103
Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall, and Ed Begley are among the dozen credited cast members of what 1957 Sidney Lumet film?
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
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Diekirch, Clervaux, Grevenmacher, and Esch-sur-Alzette are among the twelve cantons of what European Grand Duchy?
LUXEMBOURG
105
The title of what very highly rated twitch platformer game released in 2018, while a female first name, is not the name of the main character (which is actually Madeline), but rather the mountain on Vancouver Island that Madeline attempts to climb during the game's story. What is that title?
CELESTE
106
Helper, cytotoxic, and regulatory (or suppressor) are different types of immune cells (lymphocytes) identified by a single letter. This letter is used as it is the first letter of the organ in the immune system where the cells mature. What is that organ?
THYMUS
107
John D. Rockefeller's consolidation of oil refineries and chartering of Standard Oil in 1870 made what city that era's center of American petroleum production? Using the city's transportation advantages (lakeside location and railroad access), the company would remain there until moving 400 miles east to New York in 1885.
CLEVELAND
108
The plant of what (perhaps surprisingly) extremely expensive spice is native to Mexico, but made its way to Madagascar by 1840, where 80% of the world's supply is now produced?
VANILLA
109
In March 2018, Nickelodeon announced a reboot of what television series, which will have Josh (played by Joshua Dela Cruz) filling the role previously held in the original series by Steve and then Joe?
BLUE'S CLUES
110
In scientific notation, a number is written as the base number times ten raised to a power. This base number is known as the significand, and sometimes also by what other term, which is also used for the fractional part of a common logarithm?
MANTISSA
111
Pat McGrath, Charlotte Tilbury, Lisa Eldridge, John Chambers, Bobbi Brown, and Kevyn Aucoin are all people who achieved a level of fame and success as what type of artist?
MAKEUP ARTIST
112
Located in northeast Arizona and extending into New Mexico and Utah, and occupying a land area the size of West Virginia, the largest federally recognized Native American Reservation (in both area and population) is the Nation of what tribe?
NAVAJO (DINÉ)
113
The Billboard #1 hit Lady from 1980, recorded by Kenny Rogers, augured well for the about-to-explode solo career of what R&B star who penned it, and ultimately recorded his own version in 1998?
Lionel RICHIE
114
The remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement in Newfoundland, believed to provide evidence of the first presence of Europeans in North America, is an archaeological site named L'Anse aux what?
MEADOWS
115
The Paraná River provides Atlantic Ocean access to what landlocked country?
PARAGUAY
116
Declan Hannon, Cillian Buckley, Cian Dillon, Kevin Moran, Colin Fennelly, and Eoin Larkin are among the captains of recent championship teams in the world's largest league playing what sport?
HURLING
117
Fill in the blanks, in order, in these last lines from a Shakespeare play: For never was a story of more woe / Than this of ______ and her ______.
JULIET, ROMEO
118
What TV series, which centered on the Glenoak, California, family of Protestant Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie, was the last network broadcast series produced by the Aaron Spelling's Spelling Television Inc. before his death in June 2006?
77TH HEAVEN
119
What distributed document search and retrieval internet protocol, a predecessor to the World Wide Web ultimately overtaken by HTTP, has a name that references the Midwestern university where a team led by Mark McCahill developed the program in 1991?
GOPHER
120
What is the Spanish translation of the Italian word cane?
PERRO
121
What Niçoise dish, whose name is related to the French verb meaning to stir up, was once defined formally as a ragoût of aubergine with tomatoes, courgettes, and sweet peppers, though today it is often applied to any similar stew made with vegetables?
RATATOUILLE
122
Twenty-five acres of aluminized polypropylene material and nearly ten miles of cord (of the same material) were used, for fourteen days beginning in June 1995, to hide what building from public view?
REICHSTAG
123
What is the term, from Latin for shield, used in medieval England for the payment made by a knight to the king in exchange for military service? It was cause for a revolt in the early 13th century and was addressed in the Magna Carta.
SCUTAGE (ESCUTAGE)
124
What is the three-word title of the Broadway musical that is based on the story of the Temptations and features the group's music and lyrics (and is named after one of their most iconic hits)?
AIN'T TOO PROUD
125
In the gritty drama television series Wentworth, which is award-winning and critically acclaimed in its homeland of Australia and has grown in popularity globally (including in the United States via Netflix and Prime Video), the titular facility Wentworth is a what?
PRISON
126
What Eastern Michigan city is named after a Greek nationalist who served as an officer in the Russian army and as a leader in the movement seeking Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s?
YPSILANTI
127
As designated by the national government, there are two indigenous groups in Australia, one of which is the Aboriginal people. The other is a native people whose homelands are the islands in what waterway, after which the group is today formally named?
TORRES STRAIT
128
The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, and The Memorandum are plays written by what Velvet Revolutionary?
VALCLAV HAVEL
129
The title of what 1913 Willa Cather novel comes from a poem by Walt Whitman, where he enthusiastically endorses America's bold and adventurous westward expansion?
O PIONEERS!
130
What was the reptilian nickname—applied derisively but subsequently embraced—that was given to northerners during the U.S. Civil War suspected of insurgent activities on behalf of the Confederacy?
COPPERHEADS
131
A heartbeat, a helicopter noise, a cash register, and a cacophony of alarm clocks are among the sound effects on what rock album from 1973?
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
132
Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, and Kim Walker all appeared in the same 1989 film playing characters with what first name?
HEATHER
133
What word, initially an Irish term for an outlaw (and specifically a Catholic outlaw), originated as a political term to refer to a supporter of the heir to the throne of England, Ireland, and Scotland—James II of England? The term endures in Britain to denote an individual who is ideologically conservative and politically center-right.
TORY
134
Of the fourteen countries with which China shares an international land border, the longest by a significant margin (measured by either continuous border or total) is the border with what other country?
MONGOLIA
135
Name the Academy Award-winning film that was shot over a period of 36 days in the winter of 1953-1954 among the docks, rooftops, bars, and a historic church in Hoboken, New Jersey?
ON THE WATERFRONT
136
The slogan Quality. _______. Squared. (redacted here) appears on the North American packaging of the German company Ritter Sport. What is Ritter Sport's main product (which fills in that blank in the slogan)?
CHOCOLATE
137
What is the word typically used for a plane figure whose regular version has all sides of equal length (like all regular polygons) and all interior angles of 108°?
PENTAGON
138
The origin for the term for what artistic movement, represented by the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Eduardo Paolozzi, and others, is credited separately to British artist John McHale, and critic Lawrence Alloway, both members of what was known as the Independent Group?
POP ART
139
A Seinfeld episode highlights the page-to-screen changes of a particular book when George, having joined a book club but too lazy to read and having watched the movie instead, comments on the romantic coupling at the end, only to be reminded (or informed) that the narrator was gay. What 1958 novella was the club discussing?
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
140
Between 1816 and 1825, most of Spanish South America achieved independence under the leadership of two primary libertadores, subsequently breaking into nine separate countries. One was Simón Bolívar; who was the other? Argentina's highest recognition for officials from foreign countries is named in his honor.
JOSE DE SAN MARTIN
141
The country of Dream Land on a star-shaped planet called Popstar is the homeland of what flexible and cheerfully voracious video game character?
KIRBY
142
The name for what Irish cúige (province) has been used historically for various political parties that support Northern Ireland's union with Great Britain?
ULSTER
143
Cal Trask, Jim Stark, and Jett Rink are the three credited feature film roles of what Hollywood legend?
James DEAN
144
Losartan, eprosartan, irbesartan, telmisartan, and valsartan are medicines prescribed predominantly (and indicated primarily) to treat what condition?
HYPERTENSION / HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
145
Two best-selling children's picture books by Adam Rubin, the original published in 2012 and its sequel in 2017, discuss dragons' unexpected love for what food?
TACOS
146
The gist of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution can be summed up by a phrase that is the name of one of the 40 spaces on a standard Monopoly board. What is that phrase?
INCOME TAX
147
A geographical region that has been historically referred to as Barbara, Bilad al Barbar (Land of the Berbers), and Jasiiradda Soomaali (in Somali) is sometimes referred to in English by the abbreviation HOA. What do the letters HOA stand for?
HORN OF AFRICA
148
Name the painter who, though included in exhibitions with the Impressionists in the 1870s and 1880s, was not very well-known in her home country until her Modern Woman mural was displayed at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Mary CASSATT
149
What film, which opened in February of last year, was the top grossing film in the United States in 2018, with its $700 million in total gross putting it just ahead of Avengers: Infinity War and nearly $100 million ahead of #3 Incredibles 2?
BLACK PANTHER
