Rosebery #1 Flashcards
What North American mammal is known by the scientific name Canis latrans?
coyote
What French village is best known as the location of Claude Monet’s home and garden?
Giverny
Which country’s national union rugby team, called the All Blacks, is known for performing a haka before each match?
New Zealand(‘s)
What Swedish pop group won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and wrote the music that was adapted into the stage show Mamma Mia!?
ABBA
How many sides does a heptagon have?
7
What term is used to describe a “pie slice”of a circle, enclosed by two radii and an arc?
sector
The five regular or Platonic solids are the tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, and which other shape?
cube (or hexahedron)
Which public television show that premiered in 1969 was originally produced by the Children’s Television Workshop and featured Muppet characters created by Jim Henson?
Sesame Street
What question is the title for Sesame Street’s theme song, sometimes also called, “Sunny Days?”
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?
Which Muppet character was originally developed for a training video and television ads, including commercials for Munchos potato chips?
Cookie Monster
As part of a five-year development deal in the wake of public television cutbacks, which television service now owns the first-run rights to Sesame Street?
HBO
Identify the title and author of the novel that begins, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and Prejudice by (Jane) Austen
The world’s busiest airport, as measured by passenger traffic, is located in which U.S. city?
Atlanta
What is the busiest airport in Europe, identified by the International Air Transport Association code LHR?
London Heathrow (prompt on London)
What is the three-letter International Air Transport Association code for Toronto Pearson International Airport?
YYZ
Rome’s largest international airport is named for which Renaissance designer of flying machines?
(Leonardo) da Vinci
What is the medical name for the shinbone?
tibia
What is the medical name for the breastbone?
sternum
What is the medical name for the shoulder blade?
scapula
What is the medical name for the kneecap?
patella
What is the medical name for the thighbone?
femur
What is the medical name for the lower jaw?
mandible
What is the medical name for the collarbone?
clavicle
What is the medical name for the tailbone?
coccyx
What sculpture, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, is unique in that it is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed?
(The or La) Pieta
In which year was the first modern Olympics held, in the city of Athens?
1896
What punctuation mark is a series of dots, used to indicate the intentional omission of words from a text without altering its original meaning?
ellipsis
What famous toy brand name comes from the Danish for “play well?”
Lego
What term, derived from the name from the Roman god of wealth, is used to describe a society that is ruled or controlled by the wealthy?
plutocracy (or plutarchy)
What secondary colour is produced by the combination of red light and green light?
yellow
What Broadway musical, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Elphaba and Galinda and has as its signature song, “Defying Gravity?”
Wicked
Swords, wands, cups, and coins are the four suits of what type of deck of cards?
Tarot
What is the most expensive property on the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly?
Boardwalk
Which children’s board game contains the shortcuts “Rainbow Trail” and “Gumdrop Pass”?
Candyland
How many points is a “Q” worth in Scrabble?
10
Which board game was originally released as La Conquête du Monde?
Risk
I am an 11th century castle, originally constructed by a conqueror. One of my entrances, a water gate entrance from the river, is infamously known as the Traitor’s Gate. I have been a royal residence, an armoury, a treasury, the home of the Royal Mint and the Royal Menagerie. I am perhaps best known as a prison, particularly under Tudor monarchs, and was the site of Anne Boleyn’s imprisonment and execution. What am I?
Tower of London
Deuterium is an isotope of which chemical element?
hydrogen
What is the heaviest element to have stable isotopes?
lead
“Enriched” uranium contains an increased percent composition of which isotope?
(uranium-)235
Which isotope of carbon is referred to as “radiocarbon,” as in radiocarbon dating?
(carbon-)14
Which Canadian political party is colloquially known as the Grits?
Liberal(s)
Who founded the National Fascist Party, or Partito Nazionale Fascista, in 1921?
(Benito) Mussolini
What left-wing Irish republican political party was associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA?
Sinn Fein
What now-defunct American political party was the party o
Whig(s)
Which author’s Three Laws of Robotics were the unifying theme of his robot-based novels, including I, Robot?
(Isaac) Asimov
In which H.G. Wells novel has humanity divided into two groups, the decadent Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks?
The Time Machine
Who is the author of what is often considered the first science-fiction novel, the story of a scientist who creates a sentient humanoid from cadaver parts in an unorthodox experiment?
(Mary) Shelley
What question is the title of the Philip K. Dick novel that inspired the film Blade Runner?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
What does the International Astronomical Union recognize 88 of, described as areas of the night sky, grouped around patterns formed by prominent, relatively bright stars?
constellations
What term is used to describe a prominent pattern or group of stars within a larger constellation such as the Big Dipper within Ursa Major?
asterism
Forty-eight of the 88 constellations were recorded in the Almagest of which ancient astronomer?
(Claudius) Ptolemy
Which is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, often represented as a water snake or sea serpent?
Hydra
Which boxing weight category has a maximum weight limit of 9 stone, or 126 pounds?
featherweight
What modernist architect from Catalonia designed many distinctive buildings in and around Barcelona, including the church of the Sagrada Família?
(Antoni) Gaudi
What is fossilized coniferous tree resin from the Middle Tertiary period better known as?
amber
What mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th century was inspired by a Persian religion?
Mithraism
Name the sailor man who, along with the Jazz Age flapper Betty Boop, was one of the stars of the cartoons produced by the long-defunct Fleischer Studios.
Popeye
From 794 to 1868, what city was home to the Emperor and considered to be the capital of Japan?
Kyoto (or Heian-Kyo)
What Canadian poet, the “Bard of the Yukon,” is best known for his poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee?”
(Robert) Service
What “test” of delayed gratification in children, from the studies of Stanford psychology professor Walter Mischel, was named for the reward typically offered?
(The) Marshmallow (Test)
Whose x-ray diffraction photographs contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA?
(Rosalind) Franklin(‘s)
In West African and Caribbean folklore, who is the trickster who often takes the shape of a spider?
Anansi
What word is an anagram of “senator” and means, “the crime of betraying one’s country?”
treason
What word is an anagram of “roasting” and means, “a person who plays a musical instrument with a keyboard and pipes?”
organist
What word is an anagram of “teacher” and means, “an area of 10,000 square metres?”
hectare
What Mediterranean island nation, one of the world’s smallest and most densely populated countries, became independent of the United Kingdom in 1964?
Malta
The Knights Hospitalier retreated to Malta and became known as the Knights of Malta after which Greek island over which they were sovereign fell to the Ottomans?
Rhodes
Constructed by the Knights and named for the Grand Master who was victorious defending Malta against the Ottomans, what is the capital of Malta?
Valetta
English is one of the official languages of Malta. What is the other, the only Semitic language officially recognized by the E.U.?
Maltese
What instrument is used to represent the character of the duck in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf?
oboe
For which instrument is the jazz musician Louis Armstrong, or “Satchmo,” best known?
trumpet
What wind instrument was developed by Aboriginal Australians and is sometimes described as a “drone pipe?”
digeridoo
I was born in 1867 in Warsaw, where I attended university. In 1891, I moved to Paris to continue my studies and met and married someone who worked in my field. In 1934, I died from health issues caused by extended exposure to the materials in my lab. I am the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Who am I?
Marie Curie
Which English author created the characters Mr. Micawber, Miss Havisham, Uriah Heep, the Artful Dodger, and Ebenezer Scrooge?
(Charles) Dickens
By which name is the retired Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento more commonly known?
Pele
What green leafy vegetable is an essential ingredient in Tomato Florentine soup?
spinach
Who was the first and most prominent signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, whose name became a synonym for one’s signature in the U.S.?
John Hancock
What Latin phrase means “friend of the court” and describes a person who is not party to a case but assists a court by offering information or expertise?
amicus curiae
During the First World War, the city of Berlin, Ontario, voted to change its name to what, after a senior British Army officer?
Kitchener
What runic letter representing the phoneme “th” was common in Germanic and Scandinavian languages, including Old English, and still survives in modern Icelandic?
thorn
What Princess of Power was the sister to He-Man and the star of a 2018 Netflix reboot of the original 1980s cartoon?
She-Ra
What northeastern African country was annexed by Ethiopia after World War II and only won its independence in 1993 after a 30-year war?
Eritrea
What American illustrator is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine?
(Norman) Rockwell
Cinnabar is a mineral ore that is the most common source of which toxic metal?
Mercury
Who is the jackal-headed god associated with funeral rites in Egyptian mythology?
Anubis
The film score, by the composer John Williams, of which 1977 movie was selected by the American Film Institute’s as the greatest American film score of all time?
Star Wars
Which province became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949?
Newfoundland (and Labrador)
