Rio Former Brazil Capital

Question 1

Oldest of tennis, four grand slam tournaments and the only one played on grass

Answer 1

Wimbledon

Question 2

What color are snowflakes?

Answer 2

Clear
snowflakes are totally clear, but the way they scatter light makes them look white

Question 3

They hit film and musical. Mamma Mia was based on the songs of this band.

Answer 3

ABBA
Originally a live stage musical the film adaption of Mamma Mia used ABBA music and grossed over 61 million worldwide

Question 4

The fourth estate is a very old nickname for this field of work

Answer 4

Journalism
The traditional European three states of the realm were the clergy commoners and nobility. The free press is the fourth estate.

Question 5

Shia and Sunni are two branches of this religion

Answer 5

Islam
Shia and Sunni are the two main sects of Islam though there are further variants around the world

Question 6

The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens took their team name from

Answer 6

A poem by a Edgar Allan Poe
In a pole readers of the Baltimore Sun overwhelmingly voted for their football team to be named the ravens

Question 7

What is it hard to do while sneezing

Answer 7

Keep your eyes open
Closing your eyes while sneezing as in autonomic reflex meeting your body does it automatically

Question 8

Leveraging the success of The Blind Side, which actress reportedly earned more than $70 million for her role in Gravity (2013)?

Answer 8

Sandra Bullock

Question 9

Joel Gray welcomed both Tony and Oscar for playing the Cabaret character who went by this job description

Answer 9

Master of ceremonies
MC

Question 10

And Bancroft scored a ton and an Oscar for playing her in the miracle worker

Answer 10

Annie Sullivan

Question 11

2 decades after winning an Oscar Lila Kedrova got a 1984 Tony for the same role in this play without the Greek in the title

Answer 11

Zorba

Question 12

At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Australian athlete Raygun was widely mocked for imitating which animal during her breakdancing routine?

Answer 12

Kangaroo

Question 13

Use in optics at least since Newton this word with ERR within, it refers to the failure of rays to come to a focus

Answer 13

Aberration

Question 14

Rusting and photosynthesis are basic examples of these reactions a word, combining oxidation and reduction

Answer 14

Redox reactions

Question 15

Term for a process with no assistance like gas, expanding into a vacuum or for one who does crazy things on the spur of the moment

Answer 15

Spontaneous

Question 16

A 1952, Tony and a 1956 Oscar went to Yule Brenner for a monarch in this beloved musical

Answer 16

The king and I

Question 17

José Ferrer got the inaugural best actor Tony in 1947 and an Oscar in 1951 for playing this swashbuckling character

Answer 17

Cyrano duh Bergerac
Sear no

Question 18

Don’t get those knickers in a twist in 2015 The Royal undies of Elizabeth the second’s great great grandma this woman fetched $16,000.

Answer 18

Victoria

Question 19

Renowned for fearlessly doing his own stunts during his six decades of acting, which action star is terrified of needles?

Answer 19

Jackie Chan

Question 20

Inventor James Dyson revolutionized the household cleaning industry in 1983 by introducing the first vacuum that was…

Answer 20

Bagless

Question 21

Despite repulsive, electrical forces atomic nuclei keep it together thanks to the force described with this adjective

Answer 21

Strong force

Question 22

A reverie du jour
Rev we e do jour

Answer 22

Daydream

Question 23

A storymaker like Aesop or just a liar

Answer 23

Fabulist
Fab u list

Question 24

We’re the same four letters as a word for lack of knowledge it means personal humiliation

Answer 24

Ignominy
Ig nuh Minnie

Question 25

Toxic bacterial poisoning often from improperly canned foods

Answer 25

Botulism

Question 26

Scientifically a prism separates white light into the colors of this

Answer 26

Spectrum

Question 27

A known known he was definitely secretary of defense under Republican presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries

Answer 27

Rumsfeld

Question 28

Before William Rogers was Nixon Secretary of State he was attorney general in this administration. Nixon was also part of.

Answer 28

The Eisenhower administration

Question 29

President cabinet She did hard labor in 2001 and motored over to transportation in 2017

Answer 29

Elaine Chow

Question 30

The Martin D 18 E guitar that this late front man used on MTV unplugged was bought in 2020 for $6 million

Answer 30

Kurt Cobain

Question 31

In 2016 the anti mag nuh trek ref 4113 watch from this Geneva based company timed out and went for 2.5 million

Answer 31

Rolex

Question 32

Let’s have a side of this British painter ;his three studies of Lucian Freud fetched 142 million Loo see in froyd

Answer 32

Bacon

Question 33

This European city has only been a national capital since the 1250s before that you visited the king in co Im bruh or ghee muh rishhhh

Answer 33

Lisbon

Question 34

In 1803 we liked the neighborhood and the square footage 530,000,000 acres so the US paid 15 million to make this real estate deal

Answer 34

Louisiana purchase

Question 35

By George, he was Nixon’s man at treasury as well as labor and Reagan’s at state

Answer 35

George Schultz

Question 36

James Schlesinger was defense secretary for Nixon and Ford and Carter named him the first secretary of this new department

Answer 36

Department of energy

Question 37

19th century Americans Among those who attended his 1864 funeral, where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott and Franklin Pierce

Answer 37

Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce was Bowden college schoolmate

Question 38

Choosing to remain anonymous, which author published her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, with the byline “By a Lady”?

Answer 38

Jane Austen

Question 39

Once home to Benedict Arnold, this was the official residence of George Washington in which former capital of the United States?

Answer 39

the President’s House in Philadelphia

Question 40

The only territory where gambling is legal in China, which city regularly generates more gaming revenue than all of Nevada?

Answer 40

Macau

Question 41

Along with being a source of food and clothing fiber, which animal’s dung was used as heating fuel by Andean people?

Answer 41

Alpaca

Question 42

Define demure

Answer 42

reserved, modest, and shy (typically used of a woman). "a demure young lady" modestly dressed woman might be described as