Rosebery #7 Flashcards
In the 1860s, the ruins of which ancient city were excavated by Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann near Çanakkale in eastern Turkey?
Troy
What is the number “five” in German? It follows eins, zwei, drei, vier.
fümf
The busiest airport in Asia, identified by the International Air Transport Association code PEK, serves which large city?
Beijing
What fictional Great Dane solves mysteries with Shaggy, Fred, Velma, and Daphne?
Scooby-Doo
Which Celtic fall festival was a time when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed – and is the source of many Halloween customs?
Samhain (pronounced “sow-in”)
What goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann, associated with the spring, was Christianized and made a saint in the Catholic church when Christianity was introduced to Ireland?
Brigid (or Brigit)
What creatures from Scottish folklore could change from seal to human form by shedding their skin and could be trapped in human form if their sealskin was stolen?
selkie(s)
The populous capital city of which country is located in a valley surrounded by high plateaus and the Popocatépetl volcano?
Mexico
What was the earliest (known) Mexican civilization, noted today for its artwork, including its colossal stone heads?
Olmec(s)
Which Mexican peninsula lies on the Pacific tectonic plate, separated from the rest of Mexico by a rift zone?
Baja California
On which Mexican island can you find the world’s busiest cruise ship port, Puerta Maya?
Cozumel
What are the two series, belonging to the sixth and seventh periods on the Periodic Table, that appear in two rows beneath the rest of the table?
Lanthanide(s) and Actinide(s)
or Lanthanoid and Actinoid
What song premiered at the 1964 New York World’s Fair’s UNICEF pavilion before becoming the theme song to a Disney Parks ride named for the song?
It’s a Small World (After All)
What Disney song, the first to win an Academy Award, became a Disney icon and is often heard accompanying the Disney logo? It was originally written for Pinocchio.
When You Wish Upon a Star
Which song, written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and sung by the character of Sebastian the crab, was the first Academy Award winner of the “Disney Renaissance?”
Under the Sea
What song, originally performed by Idina Menzel in her vocal role as Queen Elsa, was one of the best-selling songs of 2014?
Let It Go
Who was the author of “Don Quixote?”
(Miguel de) Cervantes
Who was the author of “Crime and Punishment?”
(Fyodor) Dostoyevsky
Who was the author of “The Count of Monte Cristo?”
(Alexandre) Dumas
Who was the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude?”
(Gabriel) Garcia Marquez
Who was the author of “Anna Karenina?”
(Leo) Tolstoy
Who was the author of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame?”
(Victor) Hugo
Who was the author of “The Metamorphosis?”
(Franz) Kafka
Who was the author of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?”
(Stieg) Larsson
What type of animal would you find inhabiting an apiary?
(honey) bee(s)
What term is used to describe an official of a political party whose task is to act as the party’s “enforcer” by encouraging fellow legislators to vote according to the official party policy?
whip
The 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Einstein “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of” which effect?
photoelectric
A. PHOTOELECTRIC (EFFECT)
28. What artist of the early 20th century, known for his paintings of the Ontario landscape such as “The Jack Pine,” tragically died of drowning at the age of 39?
(Tom) Thomson
What river flows through more capital cities than any other river? It flows through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade.
Danube
What alkane, with the molecular formula C3H8, is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, but is compressible to a transportable liquid and commonly used in barbeques?
propane
Which band holds the record for the most Grammys won by a group, receiving its first in 1988 for The Joshua Tree?
U2
What weather phenomenon is marked on weather maps with a red line of semicircles pointing in the direction of travel?
warm front
To which genus within the Felidae family do the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard belong?
panthera
What species of cat shows an unusually low genetic variability that is believed to be the result inbreeding following a genetic bottleneck during the last ice age?
cheetah
Which cat has the widest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, stretching from the Yukon to the southern Andes?
cougar (or puma or mountain lion)
What hybrid offspring of two different species of large cats is the largest of all known extant felines?
liger
I was opened to the public in May of 1937. Because of my proximity to a major fault line, I have been extensively retrofitted to withstand seismic events. Prior to my construction, the only connection from the downtown to Sausalito was a ferry service. I am painted International Orange to enhance my visibility in the fog that is a frequent occurrence in San Francisco. Who am I?
Golden Gate Bridge
What movie was top of the box office in 1985 and featured a plutonium-powered DeLorean as a time machine?
Back to the Future
What character, created by John Hughes, regularly broke the fourth wall to explain his thought processes during his senior skip day adventure on the streets of Chicago?
Ferris Bueller
Who directed four of the top ten box office movies of the 1980s: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the three Indiana Jones films?
(Steven) Spielberg
What 1984 supernatural comedy launched a media franchise, including a sequel, two animated series, video games, and a 2016 reboot?
Ghostbusters
What nickname, given to the Parliamentarians who fought against the Royalists in the English Civil War, was at first a term of derision, mocking their closely-cropped hair?
Roundhead(s)
The Confederate attack on which fort in the middle of Charleston harbour is considered the first battle in the American Civil War?
(Fort) Sumter
In which country’s 20th century multi-party civil war were the two largest combatant groups the loosely-allied White Army and the Red Army fighting for the Bolshevik cause?
Russia(‘s)
What general, supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, was victorious in the Spanish Civil War and ruled the country until his death in 1975?
(Francisco) Franco
What late 15th century mural painting is housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan?
The Last Supper
What Renaissance artist was known not only for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro but also for his violent behaviour, at one point having to flee into exile after committing murder?
Caravaggio
Twenty-five years after having finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo returned to the chapel to paint what fresco, covering the entire altar wall?
The Last Judgment
Which rival of Michelangelo was commissioned to paint frescoes in the papal palace, one of which was The School of Athens?
Raphael
What is the full name of the independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for the space program that is most often known by the acronym NASA?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. What was the name of the Soviet mission that launched him into space?
Vostok 1
Who was one of the first people to orbit the Moon and later commanded the Apollo 13 mission that had to abort its planned Moon landing after the explosion of an oxygen tank?
(Jim) Lovell
Before Spirit and Opportunity in the 2000s, what was the first rover to trundle over the surface of Mars, in July 1997?
Sojourner
the name of its lander was Pathfinder
How many edges does a cube have?
12
Alliteration occurs when words have the same initial sound. What is it called when words have the same sound, particularly the same vowel or dipthong sound, within in the words?
assonance
What Venetian Baroque composer’s best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons?
(Antonio) Vivaldi
What is the name the Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara Anangu people give to the large sandstone rock formation that is also known as Ayers Rock?
Uluru
According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, as an isolated system moves toward thermal equilibrium, what physical quantity is maximized?
entropy
Depicting the final days of Willy Loman, what stage play by Arthur Miller was the recipient of both the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play?
Death of a Salesman
In chemistry, what term is used to describe different structural forms of an element, such as graphite and diamond for carbon?
allotrope(s)
What queen, regarded by many as the first great woman of recorded history, ruled Egypt as one of its most successful pharaohs for twenty years in the fifteenth century B.C.E.?
Hatshepsut
Which nebula, designated M1 in the Messier catalogue, corresponds to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054?
Crab (Nebula)
What vegetable, called a courgette in British English, is a summer squash that is usually harvested when still immature?
zucchini
What term is used to describe pressure waves with frequencies of greater than 20 kilohertz, which would be above the range of human hearing?
ultrasound
How many times more intense, in watts per square metre, is a sound of 40 dB compared to a sound of 20 dB?
100
What snail-like structure in the inner ear converts the vibrations of sound waves to electrical signals that are sent to the brain?
cochlea
What sports implement, used in different forms in a variety of sports, can be described as a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings is stretched tightly?
racquet
A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets. A set is won by the first side to win how many games (by a margin of at least 2)?
6
Which racquet sport is the fastest in that the object struck by the racquet has the highest top speed compared to the objects struck in other racquet sports?
badminton
What racquet sport is named for a property of the ball used in that the ball has a relatively low coefficient of restitution, especially at the pro level?
squash
Spell the plural of “crisis.”
C R I S E S
Spell the plural of “phenomenon.”
P H E N O M E N A
Spell the plural of “larva.”
L A R V A E
I created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support that might otherwise go to my socialist political opponents. I was a member of the traditional Junker elite and did not trust democracy, preferring a system of bureaucracy in which power was held by the Junkers. My annexation of Alsace-Lorraine led to anti-Germanic sentiment in France and helped set the stage for the First World War. I became a hero to German nationalists who built many monuments to me honoring me as the founder of the new Reich. Who am I?
(Otto von) Bismarck
In rowing, who does not hold an oar but sits in the bow or the stern of the boat while verbally and physically controlling the boat’s steering, speed, and timing?
coxswain
What is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for “farmer,” used to refer to the descendants of the then Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries?
boer
In 1828, what organic compound did Friedrich Wöhler synthesize from inorganic starting materials, thus contradicting the widely-held belief of vitalism?
urea
Originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993 and featuring spell, artifact, and creature cards, what was the first trading card game?
Magic: The Gathering
In Euclidean geometry, what is the sum of the interior angles of any triangle?
180 degrees
Who wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which revolutionized macroeconomic theory, during the Great Depression in the 1930s?
(John Maynard) Keynes
Which disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which can infect humans via fleas?
(bubonic) plague (or Black Death)
What American-born Canadian children’s author wrote “The Paper Bag Princess” and “Love You Forever?”
(Robert) Munsch
What is the northernmost region of Finland, often associated with Father Christmas and reindeer, which are native to the region?
Lapland (or Lappi)
Which co-founder of Apple Inc. designed the Apple I personal computer?
(Steve) Wozniak
What English composer is best known for the operettas he wrote with W. S. Gilbert, including “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Pirates of Penzance?”
(Sir Arthur) Sullivan
In which Canadian province is the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil bed located?
British Columbia
What epic poem opens by invoking the “heavenly muse” to sing, “Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world?”
Paradise Lost
What role is the actor Anthony Daniels best-known for portraying, although you never see his face?
C-3PO
