LL83 Flashcards
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The Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman are branches of what marginal sea of the Indian Ocean?
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ARABIAN SEA
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Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is located within the state of Oceania, which is itself one of the three major powers (along with Eurasia and Eastasia) in what novel?
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NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR
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A cover version of Steve Winwood’s 1986 hit single Higher Love was recorded but unreleased (except as a bonus track in Japan) until it was remixed by the Norwegian DJ Kygo in 2019 and posthumously released as a single in June. Who recorded this cover back in 1990?
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WHITNEY HOUSTON
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German engineer Tobias Schmidt, working with French physician Antoine Louis, invented and built the prototype for a device first known as a louisette. This device was later (and is still today, perhaps unfairly) known by what other name, after another French physician and politician who proposed its broader use in 1789?
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GUILLOTINE
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Identify the city missing from this complete list: 1/A: Boston; 2/B: New York; 3/C: Philadelphia; 4/D: Cleveland; 5/E: Richmond; 6/F: Atlanta; 7/G: Chicago; 8/H: St. Louis; 9/I: Minneapolis; 10/J: Kansas City; 11/K: Dallas; 12/L: ____________.
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SAN FRANCISCO
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A model known as CIECAM02, designed in 2002 by the Vienna-based International Commission on Illumination to accurately model human color perception, defines six dimensions of color appearance, five of which are brightness, lightness, colorfulness, chroma, and saturation. The sixth dimension, which CIECAM02 defines as the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow, is what three-letter word?
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HUE
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Give the last name of any one of the three men who had, as of November 1, 2019, launched formal challenges against President Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election.
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WELD, WALSH, SANFORD
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All of the faces of a polyhedron known as a regular dodecahedron are what shape?
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(REGULAR) PENTAGON
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Lithuanian-born Abraham Cahan was a founder in 1897 of what Yiddish-language newspaper, which was a vital resource for many Jewish immigrants as it reached a circulation of over 275,000 by the early 1930s?
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THE FORWARD (THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD)
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Name the television program that aired on CBS nearly every weekday morning at 8:00 a.m. from October 3, 1955, until the fall of 1981, making its final broadcast in December 1984.
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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A Narragansett language term for boiled whole kernel corn begat the English word for what dish, which has multiple variations but is commonly a stew of lima beans and corn?
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SUCCATASH
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A rusty, decaying mansion, ponderously framed of oaken timber and located in an unidentified New England town, has been the home of the Pyncheon family for 160 years in what 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
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THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
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Henk van Os, Ronald de Leeuw, Wim Pijbes, and Taco Dibbits are the four most recent directors of a national art institution best known both locally and internationally by what name?
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RIJKSMUESEUM
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The liquid part of blood (i.e., blood minus the blood cells) is plasma. What is the term for blood plasma from which fibrinogens and clotting factors have been removed?
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SERUM
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Julius Nyerere served from 1962 to 1964 as president of what African nation, during which time he successfully negotiated a union with Zanzibar (and subsequently served in the same role in the new state of Tanzania until 1985)?
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TANGANYIKA
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What was the name of the offshore drilling rig operated by BP that exploded off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010, ultimately resulting in what some reports estimated at 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico?
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DEEPWATER HORIZON
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The two oldest teams in the National Football League that have not relocated to another state have met at least once (and usually twice) every year but two since 1921. They are scheduled to meet for the 200th time on December 15, with that game’s home team holding a 98-95-6 lead in the series and a 16-4 lead since 2010. Name either of these two teams, whose founders and looong-time coaches were charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
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CHICAGO BEARS and GREEN BAY PACKERS
18
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The block of Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue has an alternate honorific name celebrating what 1989 film, which was shot in its entirety on that block during the previous summer?
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DO THE RIGHT THING
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Who is the only basketball head coach to win both an NCAA tournament championship and an NBA championship (in 1988 and 2004, respectively)?
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LARRY BROWN
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With its 14th season that premiered in September 2019, what television series tied The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action sitcom in American TV history (and extended its lead among such series that include the name of a city in their titles)?
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ITS ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
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The term in biology for material inside a cell’s nucleus, within the nuclear membrane, is the nucleoplasm. Likewise, what is the term for everything else in the cell— that is, all the stuff within the cell membrane surrounding the cell’s nucleus?
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CYTOPLASM
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What is the common name for the oil from the seeds of flax (also known simply as flax oil or flaxseed oil), which is historically the most common medium in oil painting?
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LINSEED OIL
23
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What is the name (in English) for the confederation of sovereign nations established following a momentous 1991 summit in the Belorussian oblast of Brest?
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CIS (COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES)
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In a victory (both legal and spiritual) for the indigenous Anangu people, rules are in place as of October 26, 2019, banning the climbing of what, with violators facing fines of up to A$630?
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ULURU
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The term brazier, which is a container for holding burning coals while cooking, has been used over the years in the branding of select restaurants within what chain (particularly those locations that serve a regular fast-food menu featuring burgers, chicken, and french fries)?
DAIRY QUEEN
26
The plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues played on Broadway, in 1983 and 1985 respectively, in a theatre named after whom (appropriately)?
NEIL SIMON
27
Among the Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen) collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm areThe Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and a tale with a title sometimes translated to The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn what? By the end of the story, despite numerous ordeals, he still hadn't learned it.
FEAR
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One U.S. state has a city whose name is that of an Academy Award-winning film (for Best Original Song), and another city whose name is that of a Tony-winning musical (for Best Musical). What is that state?
VARIOUS: AL, GA, IL, IA, KS, TN, TX, ND
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What English phrase translates to Arabic as saba al-khayr, to Mandarin Chinese as zao shang hao, to Hebrew as boker tov, and to Russian as dobraye utra?
GOOD MORNING
30
Water in which the hydrogen atoms, 1H, are replaced by the heavier isotope deuterium, 2H, is most commonly referred to as water described by what adjective?
HEAVY WATER
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What word appears in the titles of a 1972 Charles Grodin film and a 2007 Ben Stiller remake (they're each the titular Kid) and in the title of a 1986 Clint Eastwood film (he fought on the Ridge)?
HEARTBREAK
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On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, / And where is that band who so vauntingly swore / Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand. These are the first lines of the second, third, and fourth (and final) verses, respectively, of the song that has what name?
STAR SPANGLED BANNER
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Emmanuel Macron and Archbishop Joan Enric Vives i Sicília are the current ex officio co-heads of what European diarchic principality?
ANDORRA
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The first in a series of highly anticipated 90-minute programs that aired over four consecutive weeks in May 1977 became the highest-rated news interview program in television history at the time. Name either the interviewer or the interviewee in this historic series.
David FROST / Richard NIXON
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It is as yet an unproven conjecture that there exist infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by two. These special prime numbers (e.g., 17 and 19, or 1019 and 1021) are sometimes known as prime pairs but are best known as what?
TWIN PRIMES
36
What was music legend Patsy Cline's first #1 song on Billboard magazine's country music singles chart, the title of which describes what she does each time I see you again?
I FALL TO PIECES
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Joan Crawford won her only Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying a character who was later played by Kate Winslet in a 2011 HBO miniseries. What was the name of this titular anti-heroine, who originated in the 1941 novel of the same name by James M. Cain?
MILDRED PIERCE
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What is the instrument, common in many everyday machines, that measures angular speed, and in particular the number of revolutions (per unit of time) made by a rotating shaft? The name was coined by Bryan Donkin, a British engineer credited as the instrument's inventor.
TACHOMETER
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The Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Constabulary, a force established by the British government to help the royal police break the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, was known colloquially by what name, after the makeshift uniforms they wore? Due to their notorious tactics and brutal legacy, one should probably never order a drink by this name in the Republic of Ireland, despite the fact that it is traditionally made with a beloved Irish beverage.
BLACK AND TANS
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What, according to Virgil, was commissioned by Ulysses (who was inspired in a dream by Athena), constructed by the Greek craftsman Epeius, conveyed by Sinon, and questioned by Laocoön?
WOODEN HORSE OF TROY/ TROJAN HORSE
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Since January 26, 2009, all four of the permanent (as opposed to acting) US Ambassadors to the UN have been women. Name either one of those ambassadors who were appointed the position by President Barack Obama.
SUSAN RICE, SAMANTHA POWER
42
Pine Valley, NJ; Oakmont, PA; Mullen, NE; Kohler, WI; Medinah, IL; and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL are all linked in their association with what sport?
GOLF
43
Ocean waves, electromagnetic waves, and stadium crowd waves are all most often referred to as what type of wave, so-named because the waves' periodic disturbances are at right angles to the direction of propagation?
TRANSVERSE
44
A small bowl, classically circular and white with a fluted exterior, which is often used to serve condiments and garnishes alongside an entrée, soufflés, or single-serve portions of larger dishes, takes its name from a similarly spelled French dish baked and served in such a container. What is that name?
RAMEKIN
45
The country of Ecuador is named after its location straddling the equator. Through what other two South American countries does the equator pass?
COLOMBIA, BRAZIL
46
What U.S. President, born in West Branch, Iowa, to parents Jesse and Hulda in August 1874, was the first president born west of the Mississippi River?
Herbert HOOVER
47
The Winnipeg Jets' Rick Dudley, the Toronto Maple Leafs' Wilf Paiement, and Montreal Canadiens' Joe Lamb, Desse Roche, and Leo Bourgeault are among the very few players in the history of the National Hockey League to wear jersey number 99. Name one other.
Wayne GRETZKY
48
What Sirius XM Satellite Radio station, focused on 90s Alternative and Grunge, is named after a song by Nirvana (and not an element of the periodic table)?
LITHIUM
49
Name the British peer who served as the Crown's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1798 to 1801 and as its Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William (a.k.a viceroy of India) from 1786 to 1793, though he is best remembered stateside for his actions in Virginia in 1781.
CHARLES CORNWALLIS
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What mathematical term is used to designate a trapezoid (in the UK, a trapezium) having its two non-parallel sides of equal length? Such a shape is also sometimes referred to as a regular trapezoid.
ISOCELES
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1942's Woman of the Year was the first, Keeper of the Flame was the second later that same year, and 1957's Desk Set was the eighth of the nine total films that starred what two Hollywood legends?
KATHERINE HEPBURN, SPENCER TRACY
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In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the what?
SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
53
Corundum, a mineral form of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) naturally transparent in its pure state, is perhaps best-known (and most desired) in its impure varieties. Give the name of either of the two primary varieties of corundum.
RUBY, SAPPHIRE
54
What national capital is the most populous predominantly English-speaking city in the Caribbean?
KINGSTON
55
At the Grammy Awards ceremony held in February 1976, Album of the Year winner Paul Simon proclaimed, I'd like to thank XXXXX, who didn't make an album this year. What artist, whose name is redacted in this quote, would go on to win the award again the next year?
STEVIE WONDER
56
The standard interpretation of quantum mechanics associated with the ideas of Niels Bohr is named after what city, where Bohr established the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1921?
COPENHAGEN
57
Of Canada's ten provinces and three territories, which is by far the largest as measured by total land area?
NUNAVUT
58
What is the legal term for the procedure through which a document is determined to be a valid will? The term is also used for the court that makes this determination.
PROBATE
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Identify either one of the professional sports teams (including city) currently in any of the four major professional North American sports leagues—MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL—whose name (e.g. Yankees, Cowboys) is also a book of the Old Testament. Note, both city and team name are required.
SACRAMENTO KINGS, LOS ANGELES KINGS
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In 962, Pope John XII declared what palindromically named Teutonic king as emperor, an act marked by many historians as the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire?
OTTO
61
In 1938, innkeeper Ruth Graves Wakefield invented a cookie recipe using small pieces of semisweet chocolate in a brown-sugar dough. What name did she give to these cookies, after the Massachusetts inn she and her husband owned (and in whose restaurant the cookies were first made)?
TOLL HOUSE COOKIES
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A 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue led eventually to the foundation of what republic in 1804?
HAITI
63
The Bridal Chorus (aka Here Comes the Bride), the march often played at weddings during the bride's formal entrance, is from an 1850 opera by whom?
RICHARD WAGNER
64
Novelist Gillian Flynn, a former feature writer and television critic for Entertainment Weekly, has penned three full-length novels, all of which have two-word titles, and all of which have been adapted into full-length films or television miniseries. Give any one of these three titles.
SHARP OBJECTS, DARK PLACES, GONE GIRL
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The Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets are all based on the 22-letter, consonant-only alphabet of what ancient civilization originally situated in modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, whose people spoke a Semitic language similar to Hebrew?
PHONEICIAN
66
A pioneering art-rock band whose earliest lineup included a Bryan and a Brian, the biggest pop duo to emerge from Sweden in the late 1980s, and the 1978 major-label debut single by a multimillion-record-selling rock trio all have names that begin with what three letters?
ROX
67
1971 was a landmark year for syndicated music programs for targeted audiences, with Hee Haw, The Lawrence Welk Show, and what long-running show aimed at African American viewers all entering first-run national syndication that year?
SOUL TRAIN
68
A fictional species of immortal cyborg hero-warriors known as the Toa, who protect the Matoran from danger and safeguard the Great Spirit Mata Nui, form the basis for what line of toys produced and marketed by Lego beginning in the early 2000s?
BIONICLE
69
Steam cleaning raw sugar in a centrifuge, which results in a light-brown sugar with a coarse grain and subtle molasses flavor, is a process that gives what sugar its name?
TURBINADO
70
The highly poisonous and colorless acid hydrogen cyanide was once more commonly known as an acid described by what seven-letter adjective? The name references a former European state and is derived from the name of the blue pigment from which hydrogen cyanide was first isolated.
PRUSSIC (ACID)
71
Although it has been referred to formally as Day of the Sun since 1997, April 15 has been a public holiday in North Korea since 1968, celebrating the birthday of what man? (Note, full name is required.)
KIM IL SUNG
72
Probably published without permission (and certainly without attribution), I taste a liquor never brewed and A narrow Fellow in the Grass are titles given to two of the fewer than a dozen of what poet's works published during her lifetime?
EMILY DICKINSON
73
The longest river in the United States flows into the second-longest river in the United States just a few miles north of what major city?
ST LOUIS
74
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose; Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life; and What I Know for Sure are books by what author, who is probably better known for her success in other media?
OPRAH WINFREY
75
From its early days in the 18th century, through the formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and into the present day, the House of Saud has maintained an allegiance to a Sunni Islam sect best known by what name, after the theologian and native of Central Arabia who founded it in the 1740s?
WAHHABISM/ WAHHABI
76
What was the title of Kanye West's 2004 debut studio album, which he named (in part) in reference to his withdrawal from Chicago State University six years earlier?
THE COLLEGE DROPOUT
77
In chemistry, this term refers to a continuous solid phase in which particles are embedded; in geology, it's a fine-grained rock in which coarser-grained material is embedded; in mathematics, it's a set of quantities in a rectangular array. What is the word in question?
MATRIX
78
According to the work's popular title, what was the name of the person for whom Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor for Piano in 1810?
ELISE
79
What two-word phrase is most commonly used for the special type of loan, limited to homeowners at least 62 years of age, that permits the homeowner to remove a portion of the home's equity and convert it to cash?
REVERSE MORTGAGE
80
What is the name for the slightly sour and spongy flatbread, made from a mixture of teff flour and water, that is used both as a platter and an eating utensil in Ethiopian cuisine?
INJERA
81
According to a popular folk song, there was a farmer had a dog who shared a name with what game? (Note, complete and correct spelling is required.)
BINGO
82
An archaic word that the Oxford English Dictionary defines as to move with force or impetus is rarely used today, except, in adjective form, in the title of a classic 1840s novel. What is that word?
WUTHERING / WUTHER
83
Serbia is a country in Southeastern Europe, whereas the mostly ethnic Serb Republika Srpska is one of two political federations within what other country?
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
84
The becquerel, which is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, replaced two non-SI units of radioactivity and radioactive decay in common usage for much of the 20th century. Identify either of these non-SI units, both of which were named after Nobel Prize winners.
CURIE, RUTHERFORD
85
A type of roll invented in Vienna (and thus also known as a Vienna roll) is believed to have been given a name in honor of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria in the 19th century. What is that name?
KAISER ROLL
86
What geographic term, derived from Greek and used since classical times, was the title of a 1961 work by the French geographer Jean Gottmann in specific reference to the extended metro area in the Northeast United States between Boston and Washington (later referred to as BosWash)?
MEGALOPOLIS
87
An international association of artists from the mid-20th century living in Europe (specifically, in Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), who aimed to promote organic experimentation and free expression of the unconscious, had a name it shared (coincidentally) with what specific type of venomous reptile?
COBRA
88
Yellow is the musical note C-sharp, blue is E, red is A, and green is also E (but one octave below blue) in what game launched in 1978?
SIMON
89
Phobos and Deimos were twin sons of what god of ancient Greece? (Note, you may also answer with the name of the god's Roman counterpart, with whom the sons may be more closely associated today.)
ARES / MARS
90
What is the name of the titular Mobile Suit (a manned robot) in a popular anime series that debuted in Japan in 1979 and spawned an iconic international multimedia franchise of the same name that continues to produce in abundance among various formats to this day?
GUNDAM SUIT
91
A list of seven locations began in 1940 with Singapore, continued in 1941 with Zanzibar, and ended in 1962 (after a ten-year hiatus) with Hong Kong. Give any one of the other four locations that complete this list.
MOROCCO, UTOPIA, RIO, BALI
92
The Vltava River (also known as the Moldau) runs through what European national capital city?
PRAGUE
93
According to its official American Society, there are formally thirteen descriptive divisions of what spring flower, which is also known botanically as narcissus and is within the amaryllis family? Among these classifications are Trumpet, Large-Cupped, Triandrus, and Jonquilla.
DAFFODIL
94
In June 2015, a one-night-only concert of what musical, based on the life of Marilyn Monroe (and unrelated to Fox News) and taken from the show-within-a-show on the canceled TV series Smash, was performed in the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway?
BOMBSHELL
95
A fraud perpetrated by a group associated with President Warren Harding known as the Ohio Gang involved the siphoning of oil, intended for the U.S. Navy, to the Mammoth Oil Company. What was the name of the oil field in Wyoming in which this oil was located?
TEAPOT DOME
96
What velvet-voiced R&B singer, who started the first Patti LaBelle fan club in the early 60s and began his career as a backing vocalist for Bette Midler, David Bowie, Barbra Streisand, and others, achieved multiplatinum solo success with the albums Never Too Much, Give Me the Reason, Power of Love, and Dance with My Father?
LUTHER VANDROSS
97
A tax on calls over free internet-based messaging services such as WhatsApp, announced in October 2019, added to growing popular resentment over various economic and public sector corruption issues and triggered mass protests across what country, ultimately leading to the resignation of its prime minister on October 29?
LEBANON
98
Two armchairs and a coffee table in front of a black backdrop provided the simple setting for what weekly author interview series, which was hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and ran on the network from 1989 to 2004, becoming the longest-running author interview program of its kind in U.S. TV history?
BOOKNOTES
99
The radical Chinese leaders Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's third wife), Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Zhang Chungqiao, all of whom rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution, are, as a collective group, most widely known in English today by what term?
GANG OF FOUR
100
What was the name of the video game console released by Nintendo in 2001, its sixth generation, which succeeded the Nintendo 64 and was succeeded by the seventh-generation Wii in 2006?
GAMECUBE
101
Charles Bogle, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, and Otis Criblecoblis were writing pseudonyms of what legendary performer, whose portrayals included Mr. Micawber, Larsen E. Whipsnade, Egbert Sousé, and Prof. Eustace P. Mcgargle?
WC FIELDS
102
The celebrated museum of applied arts founded in London's Marlborough House in 1852 to house items displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 is named after what two individuals?
VICTORIA AND ALBERT
103
The first American spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011 launched in a nonpiloted test flight from Cape Canaveral in March 2019. This vessel, known as Crew Dragon, was designed and manufactured by what private company?
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES (SPACE X)
104
What American-born rock star, who primarily sang and played bass guitar on her solo hits from the early 1970s (including Can the Can and Devil Gate Drive), also played Leather Tuscadero on the television series Happy Days? Her surname derives from an Italian name meaning four eyes that was shortened when her paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States.
SUZI QUATTRO
105
Identify the type of tea, traditionally a black tea flavored with bergamot, whose recipe was (according to probably fictional lore) given as a gift from a grateful Chinese official to a future British prime minister in the early 1800s?
EARL GREY
106
What Haruki Murakami novel's title, first published in Japan in 1987 with an English translation released outside Japan in 2000, was taken from the title of a song—a favorite of a character named Naoko— by The Beatles, off the Rubber Soul LP?
NORWEGIAN WOOD
107
Untitled Film Stills, Rear Screen Projections, Disasters, and Fairy Tales are among the series of photographic tableaux staged by, directed by, shot by, and starring (often heavily disguised) what American artist?
CINDY SHERMAN
108
The Dutch Revolts, which occurred off and on beginning in 1567, were a struggle by the Netherlands to achieve independence from what other nation, with independence finally recognized formally at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?
SPAIN
109
Name the member of the U.S. House of Representatives who made news in March 2019 for filing a lawsuit seeking $250 million in damages from Twitter for, in part, its failure to police accounts that included one claiming to be run by an unhappy cow living on the congressman's farm?
DEVIN NUNES
110
What operatic superstar was known simply as La Divina (or perhaps, in her parents' native language, Το Θείο)?
MARIA CALLAS
111
A drug prescribed to treat anemia is probably better known for its illegal use by athletes in endurance events (especially cyclists, including Lance Armstrong). By what three-letter abbreviation is this drug known?
EPO
112
The 1978 peace agreement reached between President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel is best known by what name, after the facility where the settlement was negotiated?
CAMP DAVID ACCORDS
113
Identify the poker variation, played with seven cards dealt to each player from a 52-card deck plus one joker, that is based on and named after a Chinese domino game?
PAI GOW POKER
114
The names of what two 80s hair metal bands, when combined, phonetically describe most accurately the substance with which Violet (Lily Tomlin) accidentally spiked Mr. Hart's (Dabney Coleman's) coffee in the movie 9 to 5?
RATT POISON
115
In Latin, plural nouns in the first declension (which are mainly feminine) and in the nominative case (usually the subject of a verb) typically end with what two letters?
AE
116
Hormonal Mike, studious Carol, and adorable little Ben were the kids of psychiatrist Jason and Long Island Daily Herald reporter Maggie on what television sitcom that debuted on ABC in September 1985?
GROWING PAINS
117
John Melendez, Jackie Martling, Gary Dell'Abate, and Fred Norris—these individuals are closely associated with what other man (and his namesake programs on all media)?
HOWARD STERN
118
Name the soccer team that has finished at the top of the German Bundesliga table every season since 2012–2013, and that has finished no lower than fourth (and that placement only once) since 1995.
BAYERN MUNICH
119
Among the possible causes of what medical condition are Meniere's disease, vestibular neuritis, medication side effects, acrophobia, and, nominally, from finding out that Kim Novak was both Madeleine and Judy?
VERTIGO
120
Dar as-Salam, an Arabic phrase which translates as abode of peace, is the name of the most populous city and former capital of Tanzania (as Dar es Salaam) and is also included (as Darussalam) in the official name of what small nation in Southeast Asia?
BRUNEI
121
What kind of ham is a sandwich spread made with ground cooked ham, salt, sugar, and spices, and sold in small round cans featuring the oldest food trademark still in use in the United States?
DEVILED HAM
122
What is the name of the largely indigenous rebel group that revolted against the NAFTA treaty beginning in 1994, capturing several towns in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas that it controls to this day?
ZAPATISTAS (EZLN)
123
What American rock band released the album In Time in 2003, a compilation that includes tracks spanning the group's move to Warner Bros. in 1988 (and the Green LP) through 2001 (Reveal)—the period of the band's greatest commercial success?
REM
124
In statistics, a series of random events in which the probability of a given event is determined only by its predecessor is known as a chain named after what Russian mathematician?
ANDREI MARKOV
125
One of the most famous works by French painter Jacques-Louis David features the limp, bloodied body of what fellow revolutionary?
JEAN-PAUL MARAT
126
Salvation, Genisys, and Dark Fate are partial titles of the three most recent installments of what film franchise?
TERMINATOR
127
Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley were the fictional station president and station manager of what television network, which moved to NBC in 1981, and featured such programs as Mel's Rock Pile, The Happy Wanderers, and Great White North?
SCTV
128
During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson became a national hero for commanding U.S. forces that repelled a British attempt to seize what city in 1815, two weeks after the signing of a peace treaty at Ghent?
NEW ORLEANS
129
What word, used colloquially to refer to a person's nose, is the scientific term for the trunk of an elephant as well as for the elongated feeding and sucking organ of some invertebrates?
PROBOSIS
130
In architecture, the Greek term for structural supports taking the place of columns or pillars that are sculpted in the form of a man is atlantes. What is the equivalent Greek term for these supports sculpted in the shape of a woman?
CARYATIDS
131
The Israeli actor Topol, who portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film version of Fiddler on the Roof, also played Dr. Zarkov in what other film, whose main hero at one point only had fourteen hours to save the earth?
FLASH GORDON
132
The interbank market is the money market in which banks borrow or lend among themselves. One interest rate at which funds are offered to first-class banks is called LIBOR. What does the L in this abbreviation stand for?
LONDON
133
In 1917, a porcelain urinal was infamously submitted to an exhibition held by the Society of Independent Artists in New York. The work was titled Fountain and inscribed with the year and a name (which was not the name of the artist who created the piece). What was that name inscribed on the piece?
R. MUTT
134
A young Truman Capote provided the inspiration for the character Dill in what novel, whose author was a long-time friend of Capote's (and was, in turn, an inspiration for Idabel in Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms)? Note, name the novel.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
135
Marilyn, a blonde and conventionally attractive art student at Westbury College, was considered the unfortunate physical outcast by her family in what TV sitcom?
THE MUNSTERS
136
What term, which means way of the warrior and is comparable to the European notion of chivalry, is used for the courage, loyalty, piety, self-control, etc., that defines the code of conduct of the samurai class?
BUSHIDO
137
What is the largest and most populous (by far) among all the islands that make up the French overseas collectivity known as French Polynesia?
TAHITI
138
Dr. Dre's classic 1992 rap album The Chronic is well remembered for its immense success and enduring hit singles, but also for extensively featuring what other artist, who would launch a successful solo career with his own quadruple-platinum debut album a year later?
SNOOP DOGG
139
Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, whose title character is a barker who participates in a robbery gone wrong, forms the basis for what 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
CAROUSEL
140
What baseball player finished his MLB career with 3,089 hits, ranking him 24th all-time despite making his major league debut in 2001 at the age of 27 (by which age future teammate Alex Rodriguez had already boasted nearly 1,300 hits)?
ICHIRO SUZUKI
141
Beginning in 1508, Martin Luther taught theology at the namesake university of what German city, whose name today is also that of a Lutheran-affiliated college in Ohio?
WITTENBERG
142
Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, and Martin Kove reprise the roles they originated on the big screen in 1984 in an episodic series currently available on YouTube Premium. What is the name of this present-day series?
COBRA KAI
143
Castries is the capital and largest city of what Caribbean nation, which sits in the Windward Islands between Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the only sovereign nation in the world named after a historical woman?
ST LUCIA
144
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 101 in D Major, composed in 1794, has what nickname, after the rhythmic two-note sequence that repeats throughout the second movement?
CLOCK SYMPHONY
145
The pronunciations of the state of Nevada, the Idaho city of Boise, and the NYC thoroughfare Houston Street are considered a kind of linguistic password that distinguishes locals from nonlocals. They are geographic examples of a term derived from Hebrew, which originated in the Book of Judges as a way for Gileadites to identify Ephraimites attempting to return to their conquered territory. What is this word?
SHIBBOLETH
146
The lost and hidden (and fictional) Incan city of Parapata is central to the plot of a 2019 film that features the first live-action film appearance of what title character?
DORA THE EXPLORER
147
What Japanese word completes this series: sweet, salt, bitter, sour, _________.
UMAMI
148
The Princely States were more than 500 principalities and kingdoms, with rulers of various faiths, that existed from the 1850s until 1947, the majority of which located in what present-day country?
INDIA
149
The Peloponnesian War is the setting for the eleventh and most recent main installment in what video game series, which began in 2007 with a game set in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade?
ASSASSINS CREED
150
Musician Dick Dale, who passed away in March at the age of 81, and whose biggest hit song was 1963's Misirlou, was known as The King of what type of guitar? This sobriquet was referenced in the title and opening track from his second studio album, also from 1963.
SURF GUITAR
