Rosebery #2 Flashcards
What is the largest object in the asteroid belt, classified as a dwarf plant?
Ceres
What Australian island was originally called Van Diemen’s Land by the Dutch explorer for whom the island was ultimately named?
Tasmania
What is the title of the William Ernest Henley poem that concludes, “I am the master of my fate,/I am the captain of my soul?”
Invictus
Who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen and the subject of the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody?
Freddie Mercury
During which geologic time period did dinosaurs first appear?
Triassic
Jack Horner discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs cared for their young when he discovered a nesting ground of which dinosaur?
Maiasaurus (or Maiasaura)
Near which peninsula is the Chicxulub impact crater associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Yucatan
Who was the more famous partner of the animator Ub Iwerks, with whom he worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company and then Universal Studios before founding the independent studio that bore his name?
Walt Disney
What was the Disney Studio’s first character to feature in his own series and to which Disney later lost the rights to Universal Studios?
Oswald (the Lucky Rabbit)
What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to be distributed, which was also Disney’s first synchronized sound cartoon?
Steamboat Willie
What was the first feature-length animated film and the first animated film to be awarded an Oscar?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Which two islands are linked by the Seikan rail tunnel, the longest rail tunnel in the world and part of the Shinkansen network?
Honshu and Hokkaido
What number between 1 and 10 is “perfect” in that it is equal to the sum of its factors excluding the number itself?
6
What is the smallest three-digit prime number?
101
What is the greatest common factor of 65 and 91?
13
A Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. What is the smallest Mersenne prime?
3
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Samuel Clemens?
Mark Twain
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Theodor Geisel?
Dr. Seuss
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Mary Ann Evans?
George Eliot
What is the more well-known pen name of the author David John Moore Cornwell?
John le Carre
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Charles Dodgson?
Lewis Carroll
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Eric Blair?
George Orwell
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Daniel Handler?
Lemony Snicket
What is the more well-known pen name of the author Francois-Marie Arouet?
Voltaire
What term is used to describe a tropical cyclone that develops in the Northwestern Pacific Basin?
typhoon
Which former Canadian professional hockey player and coach was nicknamed “The Great One?”
(Wayne) Gretzky
What cousin to Queen Elizabeth I was often considered to be her rival and was also the mother of her successor?
Mary, Queen of Scots (or Mary Stuart)
prompt on “Mary”
hat punctuation mark is more informally called a “bang?”
exclamation mark (or exclamation point)
Which element is also known by the name “kalium,” from which its chemical symbol is derived?
potassium
In a game of Hearts, which face card costs the player winning the trick containing it 13 penalty points?
Queen of Spades
What U.S. Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr?
(Alexander) Hamilton
Which iconic Canadian animal is a Castor canadensis?
(North American or American or Canadian) beaver
Who was the proconsul and military general who was victorious in the Gallic Wars before returning to Rome across the Rubicon, provoking a civil war?
(Gauis) Julius Caesar
Which of the seven hills of Rome is the most central and is the site on which Romulus is said to have founded Rome?
Palatine Hill
What city was was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and not rediscovered until 1599?
Pompeii
Which Roman emperor moved the capital to Byzantium and renamed the city after himself?
Constantine (I)
I am a medical disease that has been known for all of human history and is still responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. My symptoms include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. I am caused by parasitic single-celled microorganisms belonging to the Plasmodium group. Although I can be treated with medications such as quinine, the best strategy for controlling me involves mosquito nets. What am I?
malaria
What is the SI derived unit, named for an English physicist, used to measure force?
Newton
What is the SI derived unit, named for a French mathematician and physicist, used to measure pressure?
Pascal
What is the SI derived unit, named for a Serbian-American electrical engineer, used to measure magnetic flux density?
Tesla
What is the SI derived unit, named for a French engineer and physicist, used to measure electric charge?
Coulomb
What monstrous wolf is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events of Ragnarök?
Fenrir
What is the name of the hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin, where the valkyries take warriors who have died in combat?
Valhalla
What type of animal are Odin’s Huginn and Muninn, often depicted perching on his shoulders?
raven(s)
Who composed the operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, based loosely on characters from Norse mythology and best known for the “Ride of the Valkyries?”
(Richard) Wagner
What comic strip, drawn by Scott Adams, is known for its satirical office humor and features a often-micromanaged engineer as its title character?
Dilbert
What cartoon character, created by Bill Watterson, was sometimes drawn as a stuffed tiger and sometimes as a living, anthropomorphic tiger?
Hobbes
The DreamWorks Animation film of the same same was adapted from what comic strip featuring RJ the raccoon, Verne the turtle, and Hammy the squirrel?
Over the Hedge
In the long-running comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis, what is the name of the yellow-furred, brown-eared dog?
Odie
What field of study, sometimes known as the “dismal science,” concerns the production, distribution, and consumption of goods?
economics
What fundamental work of classical economics was written by Adam Smith at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
The Wealth of Nations
Who was the author of Das Kapital, a critique of the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production?
(Karl) Marx
What mathematician was controversially awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work on game theory?
(John Forbes) Nash (Jr.)
What Canadian signer-songwriter’s most famous song was “Hallelujah?”
(Leonard) Cohen
What is the second-largest art museum in the world, part of which is housed in the Winter Palace of the Russian tsars?
(State) Hermitage (Museum)
Which element derives its name from the Latin for “violet” because of the colour of its vapour?
iodine
In which long-running BBC television show do the protagonist’s adversaries include the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Weeping Angels?
Doctor Who
The South Asian ascetic Siddhārtha Gautama of the 5th century BCE is better known by what title?
Buddha
What word, borrowed from German, means, “pleasure derived from another’s misfortune?”
schadenfreude
The bulbs of which flower were the commodity involved in the first recorded speculative bubble, which collapsed in 1639 in the Dutch Republic?
tulip
What document is the first and most well-known part of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982?
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In 2013, the existence of the Higgs boson was confirmed by LHC experiments. What does LHC stand for?
Large Hadron Collidor
What American comedian, writer, actor, and director is also a rapper performing under the stage name Childish Gambino?
(Donald) Glover
Dry ice is the solid form of which molecular compound?
carbon dioxide
What term is used to describe the transition of a substance directly from a solid to a gas without passing through an intermediate liquid phase?
sublimation
Which element never forms a solid at standard pressure, no matter what the temperature?
helium
Which southeastern U.S. state has coastlines on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?
Florida
What island and city is the southernmost point in the continental United States?
Key West
What city is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the continental United States?
St. Augustine
What National Park swampland near the city of Miami is also a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Everglades (National Park)
What country was host to the first Winter Olympics in 1924?
France
Which Olympic sport involves “plummeting head-first down a steep and treacherous ice track on a tiny sled?”
skeleton
Cindy Klassen won a Canadian record of six Olympic medals in which sport?
speed skating
I was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1871 and studied in San Francisco, London, and Paris. A Canadian university was renamed for me, more than 30 years after my death. Although also a writer, I am best known as an artist and achieved success relatively late in life after coming into contact with the Group of Seven. I was one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style, and my work was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Who am I?
Emily Carr
What is the first person plural present indicative tense form of the irregular French verb être?
sommes
Teosinte, native to Central America, is believed to be the parent plant of which modern grain?
corn (or maize)
Of which country was Queen Lili’uokalani the last reigning monarch, before she was forced to abdicate by pro-American forces?
Hawaii
Which brass instrument, named for a marching band director, is the more-easily-carried cousin to the tuba, bent into a circle that fits around the body of the musician?
sousaphone
Who was the U.S. game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson?
(Gary) Gygax
The collective noun “clowder” is used to describe a group of what kind of animal?
cat(s)
What artifact, currently housed in the British Museum, was instrumental in the translation of hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
What American businessman developed the world’s first moving assembly line for cars in 1913?
(Henry) Ford
How many hours behind Greenwich Mean Time is the Eastern Time Zone in which most of Ontario is located?
5
What computer programming language, currently one of the most popular languages for beginning programmers, was named after a British sketch comedy series?
Python
The Toronto City Airport on the Toronto Islands is named for which World War I flying ace?
Billy Bishop
Which Shakespearean comedy features the characters Hero, Claudio, Beatrice, and Benedick?
Much Ado About Nothing
For which simple tool would you need to specify whether you need a Phillips, Robertson, hex, or slot drive head?
screwdriver
What prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England consists of a ring of standing stones, some arranged in a post and lintel construction?
Stonehenge
