Rosebery #21 Flashcards
In politics, what verb is used to mean “to discontinue a session of parliament without dissolving it” and thus prompting an election?
prorogue (or proroguing)
In the Winnie the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne, what elephant-like character did Pooh imagine was after his honey?
heffalump
Damage to Broca’s or Wernicke’s areas of the brain could result in what condition, characterized by difficulties interpreting or formulating language?
aphasia
By what brand name is C7H5BiO4, or bismuth subsalicylate, more commonly known? It is used to treat temporary discomforts of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract.
Pepto-Bismol
Arancini, stuffed rice balls coated with bread crumbs and then deep fried, are said to have originated on what island, the largest in the Mediterranean sea?
Sicily
What variety of pizza, topped with tomato, mozzarella, and basil, representing the colors of the Italian flag, was named in honour of the Queen of Italy?
(pizza) margherita
Complete the following movie quote from The Godfather: “Leave the gun. Take the BLANK.”
cannoli
What language was originally a German dialect with words taken from Hebrew and other languages?
A. YIDDISH
Yiddish
What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A clumsy or awkward person?”
klutz
What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A sudden, usually temporary, malfunction or irregularity of equipment?”
glitch
What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A fast speech that someone has often said before and that is usually intended to persuade.”
spiel
Rio de Janeiro is the third-largest city by population in South America. What are the first two?
Sao Paulo(, Brazil) and Buenos Aires(, Argentina)
What 23-time NHL All-Star who played with the Detroit Red Wings was nicknamed “Mr. Hockey?”
(Gordie) Howe
“The Flying Tomato” refers to what red-headed many-time-gold-medalist snowboarder?
(Shaun) White
What was the first name of the NBA player known as “Magic” Johnson?
Earvin
What U.S. professional golfer, the first superstar of the sport’s television age, was “The King?”
(Arnold) Palmer
What three-dimensional shape is defined as the set of points that are the same distance from a given point?
sphere
What polygon is used for stop signs in English-speaking and most European countries?
octagon
Sections of which three-dimensional shape form parabolic, elliptical, and hyperbolic curves?
cone
The area of what shape is given as the average of the lengths of the parallel sides times the height?
trapezoid (or trapezium)
What is the more common name of the regular Platonic solid, the hexahedron?
cube
Honeycombs contain prisms of which type of polygon?
hexagon
What type of quadrilateral is also called a diamond, after the suit in playing cards?
rhombus
What adjective is used to describe a triangle that has two sides of equal length?
isosceles
What Nobel-Prize-winning Irish playwright wrote Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, and Pygmalion?
(George Bernard) Shaw
In 2019, who acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne upon the abdication of his father, Akihito?
(Emperor) Naruhito
What unit is defined as the amount of energy necessary to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius?
calorie
Victoria Adams, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm formed which 1990s U.K. pop group?
Spice Girls
In what cooperative board game do players play as the dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations expert, or quarantine specialist?
Pandemic
What major key’s key signature has one sharp, F-sharp?
G (major)
The cognitive bias in which people place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created derives its name from the name of what Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer?
IKEA
The phrase “crème brûlée” contains three different diacritical marks when written down. What mark appears over the “u”?
circumflex
Which Animal phylum was the first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the common ancestor of all animals?
porifera (or sponges)
To which Mammalian order do the families Ursidae, Felidae, and Canidae belong?
carnivora (or carnivores)
Which is the largest of the Mammalian orders, accounting for about 40% of all mammalian species?
rodentia (or rodents)
What type of animals are in the order Lepidoptera, the second-largest order of the class Insecta?
butterflies (and moths)
I was part of the French colonial empire from 1897 to 1960. My flag has two horizontal bands of red and green and a white vertical band. I am the world’s second-largest island country. Over 90% of my wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. My best-known native species are lemurs. What am I?
Madagascar
What movie is the source of the quote, “Are you not entertained?”
Gladiator
What movie is the source of the quote, “Just keep swimming?”
Finding Nemo
What movie is the source of the quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you?”
Brokeback Mountain
What movie is the source of the quote, “Boy, that escalated quickly?”
Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
The wavelength of what type of electromagnetic radiation is between 10 to 400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light but longer than that of x-rays?
ultraviolet (or UV)
What type of optical instrument may be used when some obstacle or condition prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer’s current position?
periscope
What does the acronym “laser” stand for?
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
What term is used to describe the emission of light from a hot object as a result of its temperature?
incandescence
What brownish-orange tint of red hair is named for an Italian painter who would often depict women with hair of this colour?
titian
Sandro Botticelli is best known for his paintings Primavera and one depicting of the birth of which Roman goddess?
Venus
Who invented the technique of sfumato, for softening the transition between colours, which he used such works as the Virgin of the Rocks and the Mona Lisa?
(Leonardo) da Vinci
In what city is the Uffizi Gallery, known for its Italian Renaissance art collection, located?
Florence (or Firenze)
In chemistry, what term is used to describe an element that readily forms cations, or positive ions?
metal
What is the lightest of the “coinage metals” of Group 11 on the Periodic Table?
copper
What metal’s name derives from the Spanish for “little silver?”
platinum
The Washington Monument, when constructed, was topped with a pyramid of what metal, which was then more valuable than gold?
aluminum
In what series of books, written by Diana Gabaldon, does the 20th-century British nurse Claire time travel to 18th-century Scotland?
Outlander
What former revolutionary governed for 37 years as Prime Minister and then President of Zimbabwe?
(Robert) Mugabe
In cricket, how many runs are scored if the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary?
six
The Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics was named for which German physicist?
(Werner) Heisenberg
In what TV show does the Mind Flayer, served by the demogorgons, rule the Upside Down?
Stranger Things
What adjective is used to describe the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, which are not attached to the sternum?
floating
What date in 1941 was “a date which will live in infamy,” marked by the attack on Pearl Harbour?
7 December (1941)
Edward Nygma is the given name of which comic book villain and enemy of Batman?
(the) Riddler
Fiordland National Park is located in which Southern Hemisphere country, on its South Island?
New Zealand
Twenty new moons of what planet were discovered in 2019, bringing its total number of moons to 82?
Saturn
What did Marcel Ravidat and three of his friends discover in a cave in Montignac, France in 1940?
(Lascaux prehistoric cave) paintings
In 1974, when local farmers decided to dig a well on their communal farm in Yang village, they found the first figure of what?
(Xian) Terracotta Army
What was accidentally discovered in 1947 in Qumran, Israel by a young Bedouin shepherd searching for a stray goat?
Dead Sea Scrolls
What children’s novel tells the story of a pig and his friendship with a barn spider?
Charlotte’s Web
Who was the author of Charlotte’s Web?
(E.B.) White
Charlotte was the name of the spider. What was the name of the pig?
Wilbur
What is the first message Charlotte writes in her web?
“Some Pig”
Who led the First Kamchatka Expedition, to confirm the presence of the strait between Asia and America?
(Vitus) Bering
Who led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage and the first expedition to reach the South Pole?
(Roald) Amundsen
What was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole?
(USS) Nautilus
I was born in Bonn in the Holy Roman Empire in 1770. My “conversation books,” which I used in the last ten years of my life, give valuable insights into my thinking and my works. I studied composition with Haydn in Vienna and was a virtuoso pianist. My compositions include nine symphonies. The ninth is known as the ‘Choral’ Symphony. Who am I?
(Ludwig van) Beethoven
The W and Z bosons are the force carriers of which fundamental interaction of nature?
weak (nuclear force or interaction)
In economics, what term is used to describe a market structure in which the market is dominated by a small number of firms?
oligopoly
Who is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, which is constantly under attack by Bowser?
(Princess) Peach
Isabela, Ferdinand, San Cristobal, Santiago, and Santa Cruz are all islands in which Pacific archipelago?
Galapagos (Islands)
In what century were the Wars of the Roses fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks?
15th century (or 1400s)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was written by J.K. Rowling under what pen name?
Newt Scamander
How many inches are in a yard?
36
Who was the Roman goddess of youth, particularly of young men? She now shares her name with the professional soccer team based in Turin, Italy.
Juventus
What is Tim Berners-Lee credited with inventing in 1989 while working at CERN?
(World Wide) Web
What is the informal alimentary nickname of 30 St Mary Axe, a commercial skyscraper in London’s financial district?
(the) Gherkin
What classic toy features a thick, flat gray screen in a red plastic frame with two white knobs on the front of the frame that can be twisted to move a stylus behind the screen?
Etch-a-Sketch
What classic toy features a thick, flat gray screen in a red plastic frame with two white knobs on the front of the frame that can be twisted to move a stylus behind the screen?
endothermic
In the Star Wars universe, what term is used to refer to a Jedi apprentice?
padawan
Who was Prime Minister of Canada at the time of the Red River Rebellion, the North-West Rebillion, and the hanging of Louis Riel?
(Sir John A.) Macdonald
