LL84 Flashcards
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The Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, which became Chesebrough-Ponds and was ultimately acquired by Unilever in 1987, was best known for a product discovered by its co-founder and company namesake in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and first sold in 1870. From the beginning, this product was (and is still today) sold under what brand name?
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VASELINE
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An extra-judicial body of royal councilors and judges, existing from the late 15th century to the body’s abolition in 1641, had what name, after the pattern painted on the ceiling of the room in the Palace of Westminster where the court met?
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STAR CHAMBER
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Kelly Monaco, Drew Lachey, Hines Ward, Rumer Willis, and Adam Rippon are among a group that is most closely associated with what TV show?
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DANCING WITH THE STARS
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Chalk is an organic variety and oolite a precipitate variety of what type of sedimentary rock, composed mainly of calcium carbonate?
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LIMESTONE
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What 6th-century bishop of Paris is remembered today in large part via his namesake suburb of western Paris, and more specifically for that community’s soccer club, which merged in 1970 with Paris FC to become what is today the most successful club in the French Ligue 1?
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SAINT GERMAIN
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What is the current name of the transportation hub located on the site of a former German-American farming community originally named Orchard Place?
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O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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Identify the object that is a pivotal item in one of the stories from Arabian Nights, central to the occupation of Jack in Mary Poppins Returns, and was a love interest of Brick in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
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LAMP
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What 1937 novella begins and ends at a clearing by the Salinas River in California (peaceful at the beginning, tragic at the end)?
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OF MICE AND MEN
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H. Ross Perot, during his candidacy for U.S. President in 1996, and Jesse Ventura, during his campaign for and election as governor of Minnesota, were members of what political party?
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REFORM PARTY
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The special chili associated with the city of Cincinnati, when served three-way, typically involves the chili served on spaghetti and topped with grated cheese. Five-way includes the addition of kidney beans and what other topping?
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DICED ONIONS
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What is the common name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, a movement that is all but extinct today but whose prominent legacy in furniture and handcraft design endures?
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SHAKERS
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What weasel species, also known as a short-tailed weasel in North America and stoat in Europe, has white winter fur that is highly prized for garments (including, with pearls, by a certain lady/tramp)?
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ERMINE
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What Chinese word for path or way is closely associated with a book ascribed to the philosopher Laozi?
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TAO
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Fluorescence is luminescence (emission of light by a substance not due to temperature increase) that ceases once the source of light is removed. Luminescence that persists after the source is removed is known generally by what accompanying term, which—like fluorescence—is rooted etymologically in the name of a chemical element?
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PHOSPHORESCENCE
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In 1965, a conservative alliance was built in Israel around the Liberal party and the right-wing nationalist Herut. The alliance initially took the name Gahal, but in 1973 evolved into a new alliance under what name, by which it is still known today?
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LIKUD
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The Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers are all major league baseball franchises that play home games in stadiums named after (and by) corporations in what industry?
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INSURANCE
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Name the coloratura soprano who, after her retirement from singing, moved on to roles as general director of the New York City Opera, chairwoman of Lincoln Center, and chairwoman of the Metropolitan Opera.
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BEVERLY SILLS
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The interregnum period in Russia between the death of Feodor I in 1598 and the start of the Romanov dynasty with Michael I in 1613, and a period that began in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and ended (nominally) in April 1998 are both timeframes commonly referred to by terms that include what word?
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TROUBLES
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What man, who began a food empire with an ice-cream shop in the Boston area in 1925, is widely credited as inventing the concept of the modern restaurant franchise, with his namesake eateries dominating the interstate highway landscape beginning in the 1950s and becoming the U.S. largest restaurant chain in the 1960s (though today is mostly defunct)?
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HOWARD JOHNSON
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In January 1970, Carol Channing became the first celebrity to perform at what annual event?
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SUPERBOWL (HALFTIME SHOW)
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Name the Basque village that was bombed on April 26, 1937, by Nazi German and fascist Italian forces at the request of Nationalist leader Francisco Franco, in a campaign codenamed Operation Rügen. The horrific event has been artistically depicted on numerous occasions, most famously in the summer of that same year.
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GUERNICA
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The Charlotte-based rapper who recorded the song Suge, the Atlanta-based rapper who recorded the song Yes Indeed, and the rapper who recorded Gucci Flip Flops and first achieved fame via Dr. Phil, all have stage names that contain what word (in various spellings)?
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BABY/BHABIE
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The small version of what common unit of measure is equal to 4.1868 of the SI unit of energy (joules), while the large version is equal to 4,184 joules?
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CALORIE
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The Satavahana, Vakataka, Chalukya, and Rashtrakuta dynasties are among those that ruled in a geographic region named after what plateau, which sits between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats mountain ranges on the Indian subcontinent?
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DECCAN PLATEAU
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A novel that is reportedly the most translated non-religious book in the world (probably now surpassed by The Little Prince, but almost certainly the most translated Italian book) is a story written in the 1880s by Carlo Collodi about what title character?
PINOCCHIO
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The process of boiling a liquid and condensing and collecting the vapor is best known by what term?
DISTILLATION
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Gen. George Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas, 1776, preceded a pivotal Continental Army victory in a battle the following morning that took place in (and is named after) what city?
TRENTON
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Charles Pathé, with his Pathé Freres company, is remembered today mostly as an early 20th-century leader in the world production and distribution of equipment in what industry?
FILM
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The Latin word for trumpet is, in English, a different but related musical instrument. What is that instrument?
TUBA
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What geological term is used for a mountain mass demarcated by faults and fissures, such as the highest point in Antarctica (named after long-time U.S. Representative Carl Vinson)? Another example is what was until recently believed to be the largest volcano on earth, located in the northern Pacific Ocean and named after Texas A&M University (Tamu).
MASSIF
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The disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the tick Ixodes scapularis was first identified in 1975 in and around what New England town?
LYME DISEASE
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The 15th-century French poet and satirist Olivier Basselin was famous for his bawdy drinking songs, which were known by a name—derived from his birthplace—that was later adapted into a term for a theatrical genre that became popular in North America. What is that genre?
VAUDEVILLE
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An Australian soap opera set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a 1990s sitcom set in suburban Detroit, and the first program to air on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim all have titles that contain what word?
HOME
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Umoja (unity), nia (purpose), and imani (faith) are among the principles promoted by activist and academic Maulana Karenga's 1966 creation that has what name?
KWANZAA
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According to legend (and almost certainly false), a man named Robert Johnson sat on the courthouse steps in Salem, New Jersey, in September 1820, and ate what food? It shocked the crowd who had gathered to watch him die a painful death, as Americans at the time (allegedly) considered the now-ubiquitous produce item—beloved in Jersey and its state vegetable— to be poisonous?
TOMATO
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Whose Elements (Στοιχεῖα) postulated, among other things, that it's possible to draw a straight line from any point to any other point, that it's possible to describe a circle with any center and radius, and that all right angles are equal to one another?
EUCLID
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An oscillator executing simple harmonic motion (SHM) generates a wave whose graph of y (vertical diameter) against x (time) is most commonly known by what term?
SINUSOIDAL WAVE/ SINE
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Among the various types of rugs is one whose name comes from the French for caterpillar (which the fabric is meant to resemble). What is that name?
CHENILLE
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Eureka and Lisbon are the two most common varieties in the United States of what fruit crop, grown predominantly in California along with specialty varieties and hybrids such as Variegated Pink and Meyer?
LEMON
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What musical, which debuted at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in October 2008 with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, is the only Broadway musical with a cast composed entirely of teenagers—a cast that included Ariana Grande, who at the time was actually age fifteen?
13
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The name of a community in northern Spain is (or is included in) the names of the seat of Webb County, Texas, and the third-most populous city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, two cities that face each other across the Rio Grande. What is that name?
LAREDO
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What fictional Wessex town provides the setting for the majority of the 1886 Thomas Hardy novel that begins with main character Michael Henchard's sale of his wife and daughter, details his business success and ascent in municipal politics, and ends with his ruin and death?
CASTERBRIDGE
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In Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, a tragic young character named Pecola Breedlove believes that she would be loved if only she had what characteristic, which is referenced in the novel's title?
BLUE EYES (THE BLUEST EYE)
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What was the name (specifically, the cognomen) shared by the Roman patricians and generals who defeated Hannibal in 202 BCE (Africanus Major) and who captured and destroyed Carthage in 146 BCE (Africanus Minor)?
SCIPIO
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What is the title of Bobby Darin's cover of the song from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, which became the crooner's trademark, reaching #1 in the US and earning Record of the Year at the second annual Grammy Awards?
MACK THE KNIFE
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In the interest of player safety, the National Football League in 2019 banned a certain high-energy, full-contact practice drill whose development is credited to legendary college coach Bud Wilkinson, and thus is best known by what geographic name?
OKLAHOMA DRILL
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Of the fifty U.S. state capital cities, which city has by far the largest percentage population designated by the 2010 U.S. Census in the category Black or African American, alone (82%)? Montgomery and Baton Rouge are the next two highest (61% and 55% respectively), while comparative data for Harlem and Hollywood are not available (as they are not independent cities).
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
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What German physicist has numerous extreme measurement units named after him, including a length (equal to 1.616×10-35m), a mass (2.18×10-8kg), and a time (5.39×10-44 seconds), all of which are used principally in quantum theory?
PLANCK
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What Mandinka word, which translates to sultan or king, was used during the Mali Empire of the 13th to 17th centuries as a title for leaders of the Keita Dynasty such as Musa I, who ruled for a quarter-century in the 1300s?
MANSA
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Mizell, Simmons, and McDaniels were the last names of the members of what hip hop trio, whose self-titled debut was the first rap album to be certified gold by the RIAA?
RUN DMC
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Who is, surely, classic literature's best-known short, pot-bellied, rustic, witty, commonsensical, spirituality-free, donkey-riding squire?
SANCHO PANZA
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An audio-visual cable and accessories manufacturing company received a bit of bad news on February 11, 2020, due to an official announcement made that day by World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus regarding disease terminology. What is the name of that company?
COVID
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In a game during the 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament between schools from the Missouri Valley Conference and Big East Conference respectively, the abbreviations of the teams on the on-screen score bug spelled out the name of what actor? (First and last name required.)
BRAD PITT
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The building where Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam is located is named after what pope? Note, the number is not required (it was IV), but correct English spelling of the pope's name is required.
SIXTUS
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The title of what 1986 Walter Hill-directed film is taken from the location where, according to legend, Mississippi Delta Bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for mastery of the blues guitar?
CROSSROADS
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The 1979 autobiography A Time to Heal was written by what politician, who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1948 and served on the Warren Commission after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963?
GERALD FORD
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American author O. Henry coined what term in the story The Admiral, from his 1904 book Cabbages and Kings, describing the country of Honduras (which he fictionalized as Anchuria), where he lived for six months in the late 1890s?
BANANA REPUBLIC
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The Grand National, held at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool annually beginning in 1839, is a National Hunt race that is what specific type of horse race, a term derived in part from the feature that was once used to mark the finish line in such races?
STEEPLECHASE
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A masterpiece of classical antiquity originally sculpted in bronze by Myron around 450 BCE portrays its subject in the midst of what athletic activity?
DISCUS THROW
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Identify the television series where, in a 2007 fourth-season episode titled You Don't Want to Know, a stage magician has a cardiac event while submerged during a Chinese Water Torture Cell act, with his diagnosis ultimately determined to be lupus!
HOUSE MD
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Natalie Merchant was the long-time vocalist and lyricist for what successful alternative rock band, which was perhaps misnamed as the group has never included more than twelve members?
TEN THOUSAND MANIACS
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Fill in the blank in this long-running advertising tagline: The _________'s not Korbel. The tagline's wording is always correct in a certain technical sense, as Korbel has been produced in California since its founding in 1882.
CHAMPAGNE
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Biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, and Owen D. Young are among the works of what investigative journalist and muckraker, who is probably best remembered for her exposés in McClure's magazine and 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company?
IDA TARBELL
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What was the name of the school established by Plato near Athens around 387 BCE? Named after a legendary hero, its name is now a generic term for a learning institution.
ACADEMY
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The World Economic Forum, a not-for-profit foundation that bills itself as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, holds an annual meeting every January in what European municipality?
DAVOS
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What term, which was used as a television brand from 1967 until 2005, is a celestial object defined as a high-luminosity core of an active galaxy?
QUASAR
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In a popular children's book from 1958, the Brown family finds an abandoned bear who has just arrived from Darkest Peru with a note that says, Please look after this bear. Thank you. Where did the family find this bear, naming him after this location?
PADDINGTON STATION
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What 1952 film depicts, in real time, the events of a late morning in a small New Mexico Territory town, beginning at 10:40 AM, with the pending retirement of Marshall Will Kane?
HIGH NOON
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Identify the popular video game, a sequel to a 2008 game officially abbreviated as SARP Battle-Cars, that according to its developer Psyonix is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition.
ROCKET LEAGUE
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What is the term in music and acoustics for a series of frequencies that are integer multiples of a single frequency (termed the fundamental)? They can also be known as partials, and those above the fundamental are sometimes called overtones.
HARMONICS
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The hourglass-shaped bar tool that is used on one end to measure 1.5 oz. (a shot) and on the other end to measure 1 oz. (a pony shot) is most commonly known in the service industry by what term? (Sometimes, the term is preceded by double when used for the tool described here.)
JIGGER
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The Great Triumvirate was a term applied to American legislators who, at various times, all served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and as Secretary of State between the end of the War of 1812 and the early 1850s. Give the last names of these three men, in the correct order, who represented in the U.S. Senate the states of South Carolina, Kentucky, and Massachusetts, respectively.
CALHOUN, CLAY, WEBSTER
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1926's Blue Skies, 1938's God Bless America, and 1942's White Christmas are all works of what Russian-born American composer, who has a total of over 800 songwriting credits to his name?
IRVING BERLIN
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Likely the most-reproduced work in an artistic genre known as Ukiyo-e is a woodblock from circa 1830 by Katsushika Hokusai that depicts what, per the print's popular title?
GREAT WAVE
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Among a group of six 20th-century English aristocratic socialite sisters were authors Jessica, who wrote Hons and Rebels (1960) and The American Way of Death (1963), and Nancy, who wrote Love in a Cold Climate (1949) and edited Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956). What was the sisters' last name?
MITFORD
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The real name of the main character in what comic/tragic television series is never actually revealed during its critically acclaimed two-season run that concluded in 2019, with the character only known by the audience as the show's title through the end?
FLEABAG
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A Joseph Haydn equivalent to Mozart's Köchel, Bach's BWV, and Schubert's Deutsch shares its name with what mile square city in northern New Jersey?
HOBOKEN
78
What game, which was created by William Schaper in 1948 and is today produced and marketed by Hasbro, is without a doubt the most popular game in the genre of plastic bug assembly?
COOTIE / BEETLE etc
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Who are the title characters in the George Gershwin opera set in Depression-era Charleston, South Carolina, and first produced in 1935?
PORGY AND BESS
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What man, along with his family, was an occupant of a Washington, DC residence known as Blair House from 1948 until 1952?
Harry S TRUMAN
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The Motion Picture, The Wrath of X, The Search for Y, The Voyage Home—what two words have been replaced by 'X' and 'Y' in this sequence?
KHAN, SPOCK
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What was the pseudonym of Italian painter Guido di Pietro, a Dominican friar who, through the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, produced a well-known series of frescoes for the monastery of San Marco in Florence?
FRA ANGELICO
83
The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award, which was presented annually to the best relief pitcher in each league in Major League Baseball (as determined by the magazine) until the award's retirement in 2010, was established in 1960 with a name that referenced what occupation, once popularly associated with a team's top reliever?
FIREMAN
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The ensemble cast of what currently running television series includes a New Kid on the Block and a former member of the National Rifle Association board of directors?
BLUE BLOODS
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Per the full title of the strip that cartoonist Dale Messick created in 1940 and drew until 1980, what was the occupation of the impossibly glamorous Brenda Starr?
REPORTER
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Zulu, Xhosa, and Shona are among the languages in a family known by what name? The name became associated in South Africa with apartheid policies, including—by name—segregationist acts that established homelands reserved for self-government and eventual independence for Black Africans.
BANTU
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A forlorn dishwasher from small-town Texas and a petty thief and con man in New York are the main characters in what film, which was rated R for its reissue in 1971?
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
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Forty-five years after its independence, the majority of visitors and foreign aid to the South American country of Suriname still come from what nation?
NETHERLANDS
89
Among the world's very few cold-blooded mammal species is an animal that lives in the deserts of East Africa and is commonly known by a name that is triply inaccurate (as it does have some hair and is not a member of the Talpidae family, though it is a rodent). What is that name?
NAKED MOLE RAT
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2020, what became the full name (city and team name) of the NFL franchise which, among the four teams currently in the AFC West, has gone the longest without winning a division title (having last done so in the 2002 season)?
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS
91
The difference between how words such as programme, centre, offence, and colour are spelled in the US versus many other parts of the Anglophone world results largely from the English language spelling reform efforts of what American, and his Compendious 1806 work?
NOAH WEBSTER
92
The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, raised for service in the Spanish-American War of 1898 by Col. Leonard Wood and Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, was known colloquially by what name?
ROUGH RIDERS
93
Business executive and current international fugitive Carlos Ghosn was, at the time of his initial arrest in November 2018, chairman of an alliance among three automakers (as well as chairman of each individual company). Mitsubishi was one of the three. Name both of the other two.
RENAULT AND NISSAN
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Name the influential monthly series that premiered on MTV in May 1989 and was hosted initially (and most famously) by Cindy Crawford and subsequently by other supermodels such as Rebecca Romijn, Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta, and Molly Sims, until the cancellation of its regular run in 2000.
HOUSE OF STYLE
95
The hexadecimal equivalent to the decimal number 2989 spells the name of what hit album released in 1987?
BAD
96
What was the last name of the baby kidnapped in a 1987 crime farce that is also the location where the kidnapping (by characters Hi and Ed) occurred?
(RAISING) ARIZONA
97
In 1831, Louis Philippe I of France reorganized various light infantry regiments in Algeria as a régiment étranger, which became what is today best known (in English) by what name?
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION
98
An unmarried, newly thirty-five-year-old named Bobby (or Bobbie), portrayed on Broadway over the years by Larry Kert, Boyd Gaines, and Raúl Esparza, is the central character in what Broadway musical, famous songs from which include Getting Married Today, The Ladies Who Lunch, and Being Alive?
COMPANY
99
What was the name of the 19th-century spiritual, literary, and philosophical movement, centered in New England (especially Massachusetts), which was a reaction to American materialism and rationalist conformity and was influenced by Unitarianism and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (among many other things)? The movement valued self-reliance, personal conscience, and an individual's connection to nature.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
100
The chemical law (or principle) which states that equal volumes of all (ideal) gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules was first proposed by (and is typically named after) what Italian chemist?
AMEDEO AVOGADRO
101
Tuna served in sushi restaurants is typically one of two different species: maguro (bluefin) and ahi (yellowfin). The leaner meat from the sides of the tuna (normally served as a default) is known as akami; what is the Japanese term common on sushi menus for the fatty part of the fish, found in the belly area?
TORO
102
What title is shared by a 2012 Taylor Swift album, a comic book-inspired action comedy film from 2010 starring Bruce Willis, and an installment in the Pokémon video game series?
RED
103
In an article from 1994, the New York Times declared a Big Three in the area of online information services. America Online (AOL) and Compuserve were two—what was the third?
PRODIGY
104
Middle schooler Greg Heffley is the main character in what massively successful book series written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney? Subtitles of installments in the series include Rodrick Rules, The Last Straw, and Wrecking Ball.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
105
English race car driver Lewis Hamilton won the 2019 Formula One World Drivers' Championship, his third in a row, sixth overall, and fifth with what carmaker's constructor team?
MERCEDES (MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS MOTORSPORT)
106
What slang word for power and respect is a pivotal (and titular) element in a 1992 film directed by Ernest Dickerson that starred Omar Epps and Tupac Shakur in his debut in a major acting role?
JUICE
107
For most of its history—as a medieval territory, confederation with the Holy Roman Empire, short-lived kingdom, dominion of the Swedish Empire, Governorate of Russia, etc.—the historical area known as Livonia covered area now predominantly within two present-day countries. Name either country.
ESTONIA and LATVIA
108
Of the dozens of singles released by the Rolling Stones in the United States, exactly one has a title which is, in its one-word entirety, a common female first name. What is that title?
ANGIE
109
The first iteration of Billboard magazine's Alternative Songs Chart, originally called Modern Rock Tracks, appeared in September 1988 with a song titled Peek-a-Boo in the #1 slot. What band, which had no actual connection to a Native American tribe and was led by an audacious English musician born Susan Ballion, recorded this song?
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
110
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, agreements from 1972 and 1979 between the US and USSR to limit nuclear weapon proliferation, are known by the acronym SALT. What acronym was used for subsequent nuclear arms reduction talks that began in 1982 and resulted in a July 1991 accord?
START
111
1955's Pather Panchali was the debut of legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the first in his trilogy that tells the coming-of-age story of what young Bengali character, after whom the trilogy is named?
APU
112
The Greek polymath Eratosthenes is remembered for various achievements, including his position as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, his calculation of the earth's circumference, and his mathematical sieve that is used to identify what?
PRIME NUMBERS
113
While the largest island in the Persian Gulf is Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, what is the only independent island nation located in the gulf's waters?
BAHRAIN
114
Name the woman, the first to mount an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, who was chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine from 1973 to 1983, and took the iconic photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that appeared on the January 22, 1981 issue of the magazine—a photo that was taken just a few hours before Lennon's death the previous month.
ANNIE LIEBOWITZ
115
An intensity scale known as the Mercalli Scale, and later the Modified Mercalli Scale, has been made obsolete by modern technology and primarily replaced by what other, logarithmic scale, developed in 1935?
RICHTER SCALE
116
What novel is known in its native language as Война и мир (Vojna i mir)?
WAR AND PEACE
117
Cliff Hangers, a game whose yodeling character has no official name but has been called Hans, Fritz, and Sven among other names, is most closely associated with what television show?
THE PRICE IS RIGHT
118
A term in common law for movable or transferable property shares an etymology with a word commonly used today for certain livestock. What is this legal term?
CHATTLES
119
President Lyndon B. Johnson was given congressional authorization to take conventional military action in Southeast Asia in August 1964 after an alleged North Vietnamese attack on US warships in what body of water (after which the legislative measure was popularly named)?
GULF OF TONKIN
120
The Detroit Pistons NBA franchise was founded in 1941 in what other city, where it played until relocating roughly three hours to the northeast in 1957?
FORT WAYNE
121
The title of what 1964 hit song, by California surf rock duo Jan and Dean, references a particularly dangerous stretch of road (allegedly, a portion of Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills just west of Whittier Drive)?
DEAD MAN'S CURVE
122
Name the small country on the western coast of Central Africa that consists of a mainland region, called Río Muni, and five islands, the largest of which is the site of the country's capital (Malabo)?
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
123
A 1990 novel by Walter Mosley introduces his factory worker-turned-investigator, Easy Rawlins, searching for the elusive and mysteriously devilish Frenchwoman Daphne Monet, who wears what colorful titular garment?
THE BLUE DRESS
124
Widely considered one of the greatest video games of all time is a first-person shooter released for the Nintendo 64 in August 1997 that has been lauded for its realistic shooting experience, innovative single-player missions, and revolutionary split-screen head-to-head deathmatch capability. This game was based on what film, released two years prior?
GOLDENEYE
125
A formal international collaboration in the Southern Cone of South America included coordinated secret intelligence activities, torture, kidnapping, disappearance, and assassination, and was founded by the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1975 (and covertly backed by the US government). It was an Operation codenamed after what large bird, which is native to the area?
CONDOR
126
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom currently has eight great-grandchildren. The youngest, born in May 2019, has a name with the same number of letters as his mother's. What is that child's name?
ARCHIE
127
What is the name for the common tomato-based sauce in Italian cuisine, believed to have been invented in Naples in the mid-twentieth century, that is typically prepared with black olives, capers, anchovies, and red pepper?
PUTTANESCA
128
Give the fourth item missing in the list of the Varna system: Shudras, Vaishyas, Kshatriyas, _________.
BRAHMINS
129
A demonym is a word that denotes natives or residents of a particular place—e.g., Canadian, Chinese, Nigerian, Nigerien, Pakistani, Venezuelan. Correctly spell the demonym that identifies a native or resident of the nation of Cyprus.
CYPRIOT
130
What name is missing in this partial, alphabetized WMO nomenclature list, accurate in 1993 and 1999? ...Floyd, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, _____, Lenny, Maria, Nate...
KATRINA
131
Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), and Snowpiercer (2013) are English titles of films directed and cowritten by what Oscar-winner?
BONG JOON-HO
132
The musician and DJ Norman Cook, who was previously in the bands The Housemartins, Beats International, and Freak Power, and had a solo hit in 1999 with Praise You, is known by what oxymoronic stage name?
FATBOY SLIM
133
The Children of Gebalaawi, The Thief and the Dogs, the Cairo Trilogy, and Miramar are all works of what African novelist, who survived an assassination attempt in October 1994?
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
134
The point on a number line or graph that represents the ordered pair (0,0), where the x and y axes meet, is most commonly known by what word?
ORIGIN
135
Around the year 1180, a thirteen-year-old Mongol boy named Temujin was made chief of his tribe. What word for chief was used as his title, a word that is still common today (in reference to Temujin and others)?
KHAN
136
Prior to its rebranding as Pop in 2015, that cable channel was previously named after what publication, whose function as a channel service had mostly become obsolete?
TV GUIDE
137
The highest mountain range in New Zealand has the name Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, but was given what other common name by Captain James Cook in 1770, in a derivative display of obvious and unsurprising European bias?
SOUTHERN ALPS
138
Sissy Spacek appeared in two films in 1986 that were both adaptations of Pulitzer Prize–winning plays (from 1981 and 1983), in which she portrays (respectively) a killer of an abusive husband and a suicidal daughter. Name either of these plays.
CRIMES OF THE HEART, 'NIGHT MOTHER
139
The most widely used active ingredients in antiperspirants are compounds—usually a chlorohydrate or a zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly—of what metallic element?
ALUMINIUM
140
Of the debt instruments issued within the United States by the U.S. Treasury, the securities issued for maturity in the intermediate time frame—offered in 2-, 3-, 5-, 7-, and 10-year maturities—are most typically known by what name? The closely watched 10-year version is used as a benchmark for calculating mortgage rates.
TREASURY NOTE
141
[Redacted], Way down in Egyptland, Tell old Pharaoh, To let my people go. What three words complete the redacted first line in this African American spiritual?
GO DOWN, MOSES
142
The _______ of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend was the title of a 2007 exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York City, as well as a subsequently published book celebrating the artist's work. In what branch of visual arts, which fills in the blank in the title, did Nevelson achieve the majority of her success?
SCULPTURE
143
Though it is attributed to him, there is actually no historical evidence that what long-serving monarch actually made the declaration which translates to English as I am the state?
LOUIS XIV
144
What roared in the title of a British comedy film from 1959 that starred Peter Sellers as a clumsy field marshal, an opulent grand duchess, and the prime minister of the European Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
145
High ball, middle (or two), quick (or one), shoot, and red are all sets (or plays) commonly used in what sport?
VOLLEYBALL
146
The Treaty of Nanjing, in which the Qing government ceded Hong Kong to Queen Victoria, concluded the first of two wars that are most commonly known by what name?
OPIUM WARS
147
The president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in the 1920s and 30s gave his name to the code of practice adopted in 1930 to control movie content, particularly as it related to sexual morality. What was the name of this code?
HAYS CODE
148
The bird-of-paradise, of the family Paradisaeidae, is found natively on what major island, which has a shape that is said to resemble the bird's (and thus has bird-related names for its northwestern and southeastern extremities)?
NEW GUINEA
149
Certain long, thin, sponge cake cookies, which are made with eggs, sugar, and flour and baked until golden, and which are used for trifles, charlottes, and tiramisu, and sometimes served with ice cream, are often given what anatomical name?
LADYS FINGERS / CATS TONGUES
150
What sort of imaginary creature did James Clerk Maxwell use in an 1867 thought experiment to represent a hypothetical violation of the second law of thermodynamics? The creature's function was to operate a partition between two chambers of gas.
(MAXWELLS) DEMON
