Rosebery #15 Flashcards
What term is used to describe any genetic condition in which an extra copy of a chromosome is present in the cell nuclei, causing developmental abnormalities?
trisomy
In which team sport, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, do players use a wooden stick to hit a small ball between the opponents’ goalposts?
hurling
What American science fiction author’s Navy career influenced his writing, most notably the space marine classic “Starship Troopers?”
Robert A. Heinlein
What term was coined in the 1890s to characterize the sensational journalism of the circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst?
yellow journalism
What poet’s best-known work is the untitled poem from “Spring and All” that is often referred to as “The Red Wheelbarrow?”
William Carlos Williams
What T.S. Eliot poem, the first of his to be professionally published, opens with a quotation from Dante’s Inferno, and “Let us go now, you and I?”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
What African-American poet is actually best known for her series of autobiographies, the first of which was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Maya Angelou
What king of the Franks was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800?
Charlesmagne
What Gallic leader was defeated by Julius Caesar at the siege of Alésia?
Vercingetorix
What name was given to the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of John Calvin and were persecuted by the Catholic government?
Huguenots
Who was the Premier of the Vichy regime during World War II, today widely regarded as a traitor and Nazi collaborator?
Marshal Philippe Pétain
If two six-sided dice are rolled together, identify both the most likely sum of the two dice and the probability that that sum occurs?
7 and 1/6
What Japanese word is used to describe a person who has a near-obsession with Japanese pop culture products and aesthetics?
otaku
What Japanese adjective can be translated as “cute” or “adorable” and is exemplified by characters like Hello Kitty?
kawaii
What type of manga, its name translating as “few years,” is aimed at boys and features action and adventure stories? Examples include Dragon Ball and Naruto.
shonen
What word, from the Japanese for “strange beast,” is used for the film genre that features giant monsters attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle?
kaiju
On the periodic table, what element is below sodium and to the left of calcium?
potassium
On the periodic table, what element is above sulfur and to the right of nitrogen?
oxygen
On the periodic table, what element is below copper and above gold?
silver
On the periodic table, what element is to the right of iron and to the left of nickel?
cobalt
On the periodic table, what element is below beryllium and to the right of sodium?
magnesium
On the periodic table, what element is above chlorine and to the right of oxygen?
fluorine
On the periodic table, what element is below carbon and above germanium?
silicon
On the periodic table, what element is below tin and to the left of bismuth?
lead
What British animation studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, such as “Shaun the Sheep?”
Aardman Animations
What is the name given to a composite organism that arises from a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a kind of algae?
lichen
The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best players who play which position in Major League Baseball?
pitcher
The “High Roller” in Las Vegas is currently the world’s tallest example of which type of amusement ride?
Ferris wheel
What two-word Latin phrase does A.D. stand for when used in dates?
Anno Domini
In which serious sleep disorder does a person stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, which may mean that they may not get enough oxygen?
(sleep) apnea
Which Canadian province was the last to concede the right to vote to women, holding out until 1940?
Quebec
What process is characterized by changes including blebbing, cell shrinkage, and nuclear chromosomal DNA fragmentation?
apoptosis
Howard Shore won three Academy Awards for his work on which 2000s film trilogy? His award for the song “Into the West” was shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.
The Lord of the Rings
What pop music group was commissioned to write the music for Saturday Night Fever?
The Bee Gees
What singer-songwriter has scored eight Disney-Pixar films and won his first Academy Award for “If I Didn’t Have You” from Monsters, Inc.?
Randy Newman
What 1992 soundtrack holds the record for the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time? Its best-known song is “I Will Always Love You,” sung by star Whitney Houston.
The Bodyguard(: Original Soundtrack Album)
I am a megacity with a population of over 9 million and with over 9 million more inhabitants living in close proximity. I lie on a river just south of where that river branches into a delta. My Tahrir Square was the focal point of a 2011 revolution. In the modern era, I was founded by the Fatimid dynasty and my official name means “the Conqueror” in Arabic. What am I?
Cairo
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index tied to the value of just how many large, publicly owned companies based in the U.S.?
30
In 1945, in an effort to replicate the success of Victory Bonds, the Government of Canada offered the first what?
Canada Savings Bonds
By market capitalization, what is the largest stock exchange not located in North America?
London (Stock Exchange)
What type of digital asset, first released in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin
During the colonial years, what was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (or the Five and then the Six Nations) known as?
Iroquois League
What phrase is used to describe the forced relocation of many southeastern U.S. indigenous tribes, including the infamous Cherokee Nation relocation in 1838?
Trail of Tears
Although the term originally applied to to French-speaking mixed-race families, what people were recognized as a distinct aboriginal people under the Constitution Act of 1982?
Metis
What term is associated with Navajo speakers recruited during WWII by the Marines to serve in their communications units, although Cherokee and Choctaw peoples served during WWI?
Code Talkers
What type of paint is also called opaque watercolor? It was used by Henri Matisse to create his series of Blue Nudes.
gouache
Historically, what water-soluble binding material has been mixed with coloured pigments to create the fast-drying painting medium known as tempera?
egg
What art medium, sticks of powdered pigment with a binder, was popular with 19th-century French artists, especially portraitists and also Degas, who later used it as his primary medium?
pastel(s)
What is the name of the sticks of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base that are used in quick drawings and underdrawings on paintings?
conte (sticks or crayons)
Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer, often described as the father of which field of physics, in part for his work on the efficiency of heat engines?
thermodynamics
In what famous thought experiment is entropy decreased by an entity controlling a small door between two chambers of gas?
Maxwell’s Demon
Which law of thermodynamics, expressed by Maxwell as, “All heat is of the same kind,” states that if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other?
Zeroth
What property of a thermodynamic system is equal to the system’s internal energy plus the product of its pressure and volume?
enthalpy
Rosenborg, Amalienborg, and Christiansborg Castles are all found in what European capital city?
Copenhagen(, Denmark)
What TVO children’s show character would only ever appear to one of the hosts? The other host would always just miss him.
Polkaroo
What is the other name given to the citric or tricarboxylic acid cycle that releases stored energy and produces ATP and carbon dioxide?
Krebs (cycle)
By what name did Medieval and Early Modern Europeans refer to the North African Berbers and Muslim Europeans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean?
Moor(s)
The special relativistic linear transformations from one coordinate frame in space time to another frame that moves at a constant velocity are named after which Dutch physicist?
Hendrik Lorentz
What National Park is bordered by the Ikorongo, Grumeti, Maswa, and Maasai Mara Reserves as well as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Loliondo Game Control Area?
Serengeti (National Park)
Whose first published short story was “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?”
Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)
What comic book character was first portrayed in movie serials by Kirk Alyn, in feature films by George Reeves, and in big-budget films by Christopher Reeves?
Superman
In what Olympic sport did both Princess Anne and her daughter, Zara Phillips, compete?
Equestrian
What Austrian composer, the son of another composer of the same name, was known as “The Waltz King?”
Johann Strauss (II)
What is the tallest and most common of the species of camel? It has one hump on its back.
dromedary
What type of electrical component has low resistance in one direction and high resistance in the other?
diode
What inflammatory disease of the intestine was the cause of death of King John, King Edward I, King Henry V, and Sir Francis Drake, among others?
dysentery
What fictional character, played by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in film adaptations, is the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider?
Lara Croft
What character is the main antagonist of Nintendo’s Mario franchise, first appearing in the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros.?
Bowser (or King Koopa)
Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a character in which video game series, appearing as the main character in the second, third, and fourth of the series?
Assassin’s Creed
What Street Fighter icon, the “strongest woman in the world,” is notable for being the first playable female character in a fighting game?
Chun-Li
What lunar mare was the landing site for the Eagle Apollo 11 Lunar Module?
(Sea of) Tranquility (or Mare Tranquilitatis)
On which planet are the continents of Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra located?
Venus
The names of the surface features of which moon are typically derived from the names of mythological figures associated with the Sun, fire, or volcanoes?
Io
I was born in Wisconsin in 1867 but spent much of my life in South Dakota and Missouri. I was the second of four daughters; my only brother died in infancy. After losing everything in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, I started writing autobiographical novels of my life as a pioneer. The 1970s and 80s TV series “Little House on the Prairie” was loosely based on my novels. Who am I?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
What spice. derived from the stigmas and styles of the Crocus sativus and used to season and colour food, has historically been among the world’s most costly spices by weight?
saffron
What is the Latinized name of the Mandarin Chinese “Master Kong,” the philosopher who is a traditional deity in Daoism?
Confucius
What U.S. television channel was launched on August 1, 1981 with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll?”
MTV
What small tropical and subtropical tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water is characteristic of the mangal biome?
mangrove
What car company took its name from the “god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia?”
Mazda
What character, created by Baroness Orczy, was an English aristrocratic and apparently dimwitted fop who secretly disguised himself and rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine?
The Scarlet Pimpernel
In Marxist theory, what term is used to describe the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and therefore must sell their labor power for a wage or salary?
proletariat
What type of domestic rabbit is bred for the long fibers of its coat that are gathered by shearing, combing, or plucking and used in wool production?
angora
In which country did the sport of ski jumping begin, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
Norway
What composer and lyricist’s stage musicals include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods?
Stephen Sondheim
What federal agency has as its motto, “Maintiens le droit?”
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (or RCMP)
What is the title of the Disney animated feature film that is an adaptation of the story of Rapunzel?
Tangled
Which acid cannot be stored in glass bottles because it will eat through the glass?
hydrofluoric (acid)
What were the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers renamed when team was sold and relocated to Winnipeg?
(Winnipeg) Jets
