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ANYTHING GOES
Video game maker Sega tested an armadillo, a porcupine, and an old man with a mustache before making which animal its mascot?
A hedgehog
SCIENCE & TECH
Able to detect what humans cannot, Geiger counters measure what?
Radiation
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Before moving to the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XIV lived in which French landmark, once a palace itself?
The louvre
Years after defeating General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which Native American leader joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show?
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Sitting Bull
ANIMALS & NATURE
Voracious carnivores, which animals are blamed for the eradication of Tasmanian devils on the Australian mainland?
Dingos
NUMBERS
In 1970 which entrepreneur gave his famous brand its name because he and his cofounder were new at business?
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Richard Branson
GEOGRAPHY
At more than three million square miles, which desert is larger than the lower 48 U.S. states?
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Sahara Desert
ARTS & CULTURE
Thelma Schoonmaker has edited every film for which director since 1980’s Raging Bull?
Mart in Scorsese
Calgary is in which Canadian province?
Alberta
The Taj Mahal UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in which Indian state?
Uttar predesh
The site of the Bastille prison in France is now home to what kind of building
Opera house
In Norse mythology, what kind of birds did the god Odin send to bring him news from the outside world?
Ravens
Who wrote novels using the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?
Agatha christie
BIOGRAPHIES
In the 2000 edition of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue, Neil deGrasse Tyson was named the sexiest _____ alive.
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astrophysicist
ARTS & CULTURE
A traditional men’s top in western Africa, which garment became a popular fashion choice among members of the Black Power movement in the 1960s?
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Dashiki
MONEY & NUMBERS
Which music group made only one pressing of its album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and sold it for $2 million?
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Wu-Tang Clan
ANYTHING GOES
Though he never achieved one, Pat Riley trademarked the phrase “three-peat” in 1989 while he was coaching which team?
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Los Angeles Lakers
ANIMALS & NATURE
Named for a Tibetan city, which breed of dog first arrived in the U.S. when one was given as a gift by the 13th Dalai Lama?
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Lhasa Apso
GEOGRAPHY
Home to NATO headquarters and the Council of the European Union, which city is often called “the capital of Europe”?
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Brussels
VOCAB
Which of these words, which means “crude” in English, is taken from the French word for “left”?
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Gauche
HISTORY & SOCIETY
In 1998–99 ethnic Albanian and Serb forces engaged in a conflict over control of which territory, once a part of Yugoslavia?
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Kosovo
SCIENCE & TECH
Including their 4 wisdom teeth, adults typically have 12 of which type of tooth, the most of any kind?
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Molars
Which American actress shares her name with Shakespeare’s first wife
Anne Hathaway
In 2011, China banned what plot element in movies and TV shows?
Time travel
Where did Marie-Henri Beyle get the pseudonym Stendhal, under which his books were published?
Town in germany
Which of Charlie Chaplin’s wives later married Erich Maria Remarque and remained with him until death?
Paulette Goddard
Separated by only 41 miles, what two U.S. state capitals are closest to each other?
Boston and Providence
1/16 of a cup
Tablespoon
1/16 of a cup
Tablespoon
Spider woman’s alter ego in the spider verse universe
Gwen Stacy
Gazpacho soup originated where
Spain
served cold
classified as a salad not a soup
What’s the term for a baby hedgehog?
Hoglet
Similar to hedgehogs a baby porcupine is a porcupette
While the popular worldwide manga is a traditional name of comic books from what country
Japan,
the oldest known manga is a scroll from the 12th century that shows animals acting like humans
What NFL team is the only one without a logo on its players helmets
Cleveland Browns
Despite the Cleveland Browns name, their helmets are solid orange with one white and two brown stripes down the middle
Andy Warhol put what food on the cover for this classic 1967 album
Banana
The Velvet Underground and Nico
On original pressings of the Velvet Underground debut album, the banana could be peel to reveal pink banana underneath
NASA name it’s Apollo 10 lunar and command modules after which two cartoon characters
Snoopy and Charlie Brown
Cartoonist Charles Schultz collaborated with NASA on Peanuts comic strips in the 1960s to boost enthusiasm for the upcoming moon landing
This platform chases its routes to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each other’s attractiveness
In 2023, Elon Musk rename Twitter this
X
His passage to India inspired the title of a 1924 novel by this author
Whitman - original poem
Author Forster
A child’s reminiscence was later titled out of the cradle these two words
From his poem
Endlessly rocking
Whitman
In the 19th century, the namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turban straight across the forehead no more Jonty angles
Nahm dar e
Sikhism
Fuso-kyo is a mountain worshiping sect of this religion
Kuhhh yoo
Shinto
One of the differences between these two branches of Islam is how the passage of power was handled after Muhammad’s death
Soon e and She uh
Real life crisis management specialist Judy Smith inspired this character with the same job on scandal
Olivia Pope, Carrie Washington?
And the city, this character was a newspaper, this writing about her experiences
Carrie Bradshaw
Just ask Spindly comedian Daniel, a load of this four letter stuff is garbage subpar
Tosh
Daniel Tosh
Blimey is an alteration of this two word phrase something that the Philistines did to Samson
Blind me
He was blinded
If someone ask you to give me a tinkle on the blower, they’re asking you to do this. Don’t forget.
call them
The Clapham sect was a group of Anglicans that helped abolish this in England
Slavery
In his preface to this collection, Whitman wrote the United States themselves are essentially the greatest power
Leaves of grass
Of this noiseless, patient creature Whitman wrote it launched forth filament filament filament out of itself
Spider
Artists by album
Reasonable doubt
The black album
Jay-Z
Artists by album
Unorthodox jukebox
24Kmagic
Bruno Mars
In 1524 he sighted New York Bay and then bridged the Atlantic ocean once again in 1528 when he was eaten by cannibals in the West Indies
Ver uh zhan o
Verazzano
Bridge
Artists by album
Utopia
AstroWorld
Travis Scott
Artists by album
Awaken my love
Because the Internet
Childish Gambino
Artists by album
Parachutes
X&Y
Coldplay
Part of a Canadian province is in the name of this current that usually meets the Gulfstream around Cape Hatteras
Labrador current
About 1.5% of any quantity of this isotope uranium -238 decays to this element every 100 million years
Uranium goes to lead
Differing by a first letter, one word means to gather data or opinions from a group of people the other to provide goods or service services
Survey and purvey
Large bird of prey is known for plucking fish right out of the water
Osprey
Oz pree
In England, it referred to people of high birth, high social class, wealthy, landowners ranking just below the nobility
Gentry
It’s the difference between your home’s value, and how much you still owe on it
Equity
Once thought to be influenced by the moon’s phases it’s a word for sheer craziness
Lunacy
The guisel library at UCSD nifty and wanderers you really must see honors a man of ozecular fame under this greatly familiarer name
Oh zeck yuh lur
Dr. Seuss
A Cleveland clinic center for brain health isn’t in Ohio, but in this glitzy city, who’s called Frank Gehry long resisted
Ger E
Las vegas
Last name of Niccolo and maffeo , who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai khan
Mah fay o
Nick uh low
Polo
Marco Polo’s dad and uncle
This effect named for an Austrian man manifests itself in receding siren noises and cosmic red shifting expansion
Doppler
This mammalian sounding unit of measurement is equal to Avogadro’s number
Mole
To get a sick motion,blur , you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device
Shutter
His first roll of pictures from a brownie camera was developed at Pillsberry‘s pictures in old Yosemite Village
Ansel Adams
In a few hours Frank Lloyd Wright drew the plans for this getaway right on the bear run river in Pennsylvania
Falling water
Let’s talk Turkey, also known as the church of the divine wisdom this Istanbul structure dates back to the sixth century
Hagia Sophia
High uh sophia
Living up to its name The egg is a performing arts Center at Empire State Plaza in this capital
Albany
It’s a facula that a facula
Is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body
Sun
In 1497 sailing for the British he landed in eastern Canada not sure where anyway not Asia as he thought
John cabot
In 1503 ludovico di varthema dressed as a Muslim and joining a caravan to this holy city with a temple similar to the Colosseum
Var thaim uh
Mecca
A DSLR camera is a digital single lens this
Reflex
The name of the German camera company bears the first three letters of the company early leader Ernst leitz
Lights
Leica
Like uh
A type of lens where the focal length is shorter than the lens’ length is called this partly from Greek for afar
Telephoto
November 3, 1493 give me a sec was a Sunday no I’m not a savant . I just know that’s why this man side of the island of Dominica.
Dome uh neek uh
Columbus
19 century European literature
An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title the year 1805
War and peace
Napoleonic wars
Set in year 1805 see you in a couple days ken
