LL82 Flashcards
Name the sport that has been an official women-only Olympic sport since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, though its solo event was discontinued after 1992 and it is now only competed among duets and teams.
ARTISTIC SWIMMING / SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
The 1956 U.S. Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle upheld lower court rulings on the unconstitutionality of statutes regarding segregation on city buses. The case’s named defendant, W.A. Gayle, was mayor of what city?
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
Give the first name of either of the adopted sons of the fictional millionaire widower and president of Trans Allied, Inc., who resided at 900 Park Avenue in New York.
WILLIS, ARNOLD
The title of a series of articles written in 1971 by Don Hoefler, a correspondent for the trade newspaper Electronic News, is the source for what geographic name?
SILICON VALLEY
Pop stars Rita Ora, Dua Lipa, Bebe Rexha, and Ava Max, all of whom are citizens of either Great Britain (the former two) or the United States (the latter two), each have parents who claim what ethnicity?
ALBANIAN
A version of the law of conservation of energy expressed as ΔU=Q-W, which states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant (a change in internal energy of a system is equal to the heat added minus the work done), is commonly referred to as the first law of what?
THERMODYNAMICS
HD 114762 b, which is over 125 light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and was discovered in 1989, is believed to be one of the first (if not the very first) celestial body of its type to be detected. Since then, over 4,000 more have been discovered, mostly via NASA’s Kepler space telescope. What is the common name for this type of celestial body?
EXOPLANET / EXTRASOLAR PLANET
One (in 1948-58), 57 (1954-58), 5-B (1989), and 60 (2006-07)—per titles of different television series, these are all numbers of what?
STUDIOS
What is the term, which translates to holding truth, that was coined by Mahatma Gandhi for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance?
SATYAGRAHA
A flirtatious young innocent from Schenectady who dies young in Rome of malaria and a wealthy young woman from Louisville who perpetrates a vehicular hit-and-run are two separate literary characters that go by what name?
DAISY
What American businessman co-founded, with Henry Wells and others, the company that would eventually form American Express? He later served as the Civil War-era Mayor of Buffalo (and namesake of a city 920 miles to the west).
William FARGO
What is the portmanteau term, allegedly coined in 2000 during a game of Carcassonne, for a human-shaped piece used in that game and others such as Agricola, Pillars of the Earth, and Stone Age?
MEEPLE
What word did Edward Lear coin in an 1870 poem to describe the spoon the Owl and the Pussycat used to dine on mince and slices of quince?
RUNCIBLE
All four songs by the band Air Supply to peak in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 chart have included what word in their titles?
LOVE
CH2O2, which is the simplest organic compound with a carboxyl group (COOH) and is present in the stings of some bees, stinging nettles, and ants, is commonly known by what name?
FORMIC ACID / METHANOIC ACID
Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated two days before the attacks of September 11, 2001, was a military and political commander of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, an anti-Taliban association better known by what name?
NORTHERN ALLIANCE
What 1997 film, featuring the actors who starred in the TV series Kenan & Kel, was based on a recurring skit from the Nickelodeon variety show All That?
GOOD BURGER
Stipulating that Armenia is in Asia, there are currently two European countries that share a land border and also begin with the same letter (in English). What are those two countries?
LATVIA, LITHUANIA
The Horizon Festival, which has (thus far) been held in Colorado, Northern Italy/Southern France, Australia, and Scotland/Northern England, is a fictional music and street racing jamboree that appears in what racing video game series?
FORZA
Name the woman who assumed the role, on July 1, 2019, of White House Communications Director (the sixth person to serve in the role during the current administration) and also White House Press Secretary (the current administration’s third).
Stephanie GRISHAM
What is the sobriquet commonly assigned to King Ethelred of England, whose reign began in 978? The epithet is actually a mistranslation of a word meaning ill-advised, though arguably it fits, considering he was placed on the throne as a pre-teen.
UNREADY
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is located, appropriately, in the capital city of what U.S. state? (Note, name the state.)
NEW MEXICO
The oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach includes over 200 works of a type of composition known as what? A multi-movement work predominantly for voices with instrumental accompaniment, it is usually shorter than an oratorio.
CANTATA
What 2002 Broadway musical is based on a film from 1988 and centers around a fictional local teenage dance show in Baltimore from 1962?
HAIRSPRAY
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future, published in 1991, was written by what former Encyclopedia Britannica editor, NBC Today show correspondent, Columbia University English instructor, and U.S. Congress subcommittee confessor?
Charles VAN DOREN
Swedish-born Ingvar Kamprad, who was raised on a farm named Elmtaryd near Agunnaryd and who passed away in 2018 at age 91, is best remembered today for founding what?
IKEA
What is the most common English name for the body of water that is known as Chosŏn Tonghae (Korean East Sea) in North Korea and Donghae (East Sea) in South Korea?
SEA OF JAPAN
According to the lyrics of a popular rock song released in 1995, despite all of his rage, Billy Corgan was still just a what?
RAT (IN A CAGE)
The siemens, the SI derived unit of electric conductance and admittance (the reciprocal of resistance in ohms), is also known by what three-letter semordnilap?
MHO
The sweet treat lokum, a gel of starch and sugar flavored with nuts and fruit invented (according to legend) in the 18th century by Ottoman confectioner Haci Bekir, is best known in the West (and in Western fantasy literature) by what other name?
TURKISH DELIGHT
The graph of a quadratic function has a shape that is most frequently referred to by what mathematical term?
PARABOLA
The Fars Province is the fifth-largest and fourth-most populous of the thirty-one provinces of what country?
IRAN
O my Luve’s like a ________ / That’s newly sprung in June; / O my Luve’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly play’d in tune. What three-word phrase fills in the blank?
RED RED ROSE
Cattle, sheep, and goats are among the ungulates that have a four-compartment stomach. Give the common name of any one of these four compartments.
ABOMASUM, OMASUM, RETICULUM, RUMEN
Harris K. Telemacher, Phil Connors, Brick Tamland, and—per the title of a 2005 film—David Spritz are all film characters who held what occupation?
WEATHERMAN / METEOROLOGIST
What was the repetitive two-word phrase used by colonial authorities for the anti-colonial and anti-settler uprising among the Kikuyu and other native groups in Kenya in the early 1950s?
MAN MAU
The second-largest lake in all of Latin America, after Lake Titicaca, is known locally as Cocibolca and shares a common name with the country in which it is located. What is that country?
NICARAGUA
Identify the 1st-century BCE Roman engineer, author of an influential treatise on architecture, who was celebrated in a famous and enduring drawing from the late 15th century.
VITRUVIUS
What well-known method for teaching violin to young children is named after its founder, who wowed Japanese audiences in the mid-20th century with his extremely young but proficient string orchestras?
SUZUKI method
The ice cream cone, Dr Pepper, puffed wheat cereal, the hamburger, the hot dog, peanut butter, iced tea, the club sandwich, and cotton candy are all (with varying degrees of credibility) believed to have been first popularized at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major event held in 1904 in what city?
ST. LOUIS
What is the term used for the coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mainly of quartz (between 10%—60%) and alkaline feldspar (at least 35%)? It’s commonly encountered in everyday life and likely the most abundant igneous rock found on the earth’s surface.
GRANITE
A central plank of the campaign of Andrew Yang, running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, is his proposed Freedom Dividend, to address the country’s growing wealth inequality and job instability. The Freedom Dividend is an example of a social program known as UBI. What do the letters in UBI stand for?
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
What film became, in August 2019, the highest-grossing film domestically of all time with an MPAA rating of G?
TOY STORY 4
The rules of a game known alternately as In Between, Acey Ducey, or Between the Sheets provide the fundamental basis—with the addition of Family Feud-style toss-up questions—for what game show?
CARD SHARKS
1996’s Reasonable Doubt was the debut studio album by what rap artist, as well as the debut release by the artist’s independent Roc-A-Fella Records imprint?
JAY-Z (SHAWN CARTER)
The process of forcing milk through tiny holes, breaking the milkfat into tiny globules, in order to prevent the cream from rising to the top, is known as what?
HOMEGENIZATION
A UK £2 coin having an edge inscribed with the phrase A Spark of Being was issued last year in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of what novel?
FRANKENSTEIN
Harriet Powers, a folk artist born into slavery in rural Georgia, is acclaimed today for using traditional appliqué techniques to record Biblical tales, local legends, and celestial events in her works. What type of work were her pieces? The term in question fills in the blanks in the following, her two works (from 1886 and 1898) that are still extant: Bible _____, Pictorial _____.
QUILT
What New York Yankees catcher holds the record for having played in the most World Series (and thus also, perhaps, experiencing the most déjà vu all over again in the World Series), with fourteen?
YOGI BERRA
A new branch of chemistry known as electrochemistry was facilitated by Alessandro Volta’s 1800 invention of the voltaic pile, which is today better known as a what?
(ELECTRIC) BATTERY
Anzac Cove (Anzak Koyu) is the current name of the site where Allied forces landed, in 1915, in a campaign against the Turks on what peninsula?
GALLIPOLI
The children’s magazine published since 1967 by the National Wildlife Federation has what name, after the raccoon character who works to preserve the environment in the magazine’s stories with his friends Boomer Badger and Scarlett Fox?
RANGER RICK
German composer Paul Hindemith’s comic opera Neues vom Tage caused controversy in 1929 for a scene that featured what everyday household item, which remains relatively rare in opera (but not in singing as a whole, defined broadly)?
BATHTUB / SHOWER
While the wording of the declaration is attributed mostly to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, the Doctrine that asserted the American continents…are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers is most associated with, and named after, what other man?
James MONROE
The world’s largest national park, and largest officially protected area that is predominantly land, takes up 45% of the island it is on and is larger than all but 30 countries of the world. Established in 1974, the park is one of six under the domain of what country?
DENMARK
Around the time Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was developing a monolithic integrated circuit, electrical engineer Jack Kilby developed a hybrid integrated circuit (and patented miniaturized electronic circuits ) in 1959 while employed by what Dallas-based technology firm?
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
A stock trade order, typically used for a large quantity, which is to be withdrawn if not executed immediately and completely, is commonly known by what rhyming phrase?
FILL OR KILL / FILL IT OR KILL IT
Teenaged identical twins Tamera and Tia Mowry played teenaged identical twins Tamera Campbell and Tia Landry on what sitcom that aired from 1994 to 1999 (first on ABC, and later on The WB)?
SISTER, SISTER
In 1968 and 1969, two now-legendary country music live albums were released, by the same artist, with titles preceded by the artist’s name and starting with the preposition At. Give a location where either of these albums were recorded, per their titles.
FOLSOM PRISON, SAN QUENTIN
What was the last name of the technician who pioneered the activity of adding everyday sound effects to film during post-production, while working for Universal Studios during the transition from the silent cinema era to sound?
FOLEY
