Rosebery #8 Flashcards
Which chemist was assisted in his research by his wife, who took over the publication of his Elementary Treatise on Chemistry after he was guillotined in the French Revolution?
(Antoine) Lavoisier
The cult of which major Egyptian goddess – a mother, protector, and cosmic deity – spread across the Roman Empire and influenced early Christianity?
Isis
What American e-commerce and cloud computing company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 in Seattle, Washington?
Amazon(.com, Inc.)
In Canada, what term is used to describe an electoral district within a municipality, used in local government elections?
ward
What character speaks the line, “If we shadows have offended,/Think but this, and all is mended,/That you have but slumber’d here/While these visions did appear?”
Puck
What character speaks the line, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/
To the last syllable of recorded time?”
Macbeth
What character speaks the line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears./I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?”
Mark Antony
What is induced to contract by the the movement of actin microfilament proteins against myosin, often in response to electrical impulses transmitted by motor nerves?
muscle(s)
What term is used to describe the fibrous connective tissue, made of collagen, that usually connects skeletal muscle to bone?
tendon(s)
What term describes any circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required?
sphincter
In which part of your body are your gastrocnemius and soleus muscles located?
calf (accept lower leg, prompt on leg)
The biathlon is an Olympic sport that combines which two sports? At the Winter Olympics in 1924, it was called military patrol.
cross-country skiing and (rifle) shooting
In which Ancient Roman military formation would the legionaries align themselves and their shields to form a packed formation covered with shields on the front and top?
testudo (or tortoise)
Henry V’s victory at Agincourt against a much larger French force can largely be attributed to his soldiers’ use of which weapon, which decimated the French calvary?
(English) longbow
What Australian bushranger gang leader and folk hero constructed his own suit of bulletproof armour to wear in shoot-outs with the police?
Ned Kelly
What type of weapon was Warwolf, believed to have been the largest of its kind, created in Scotland by order of King Edward I of England during the siege of Stirling Castle?
trebuchet
What is the most populous city in New South Wales?
Sydney
What is the most populous city in Illinois?
Chicago
What is the most populous city in New Brunswick?
Moncton
What is the most populous city in Bavaria?
Munich
What is the most populous city in Texas?
Houston
What is the most populous city in the Yukon?
Whitehorse
What is the most populous city in Catalonia?
Barcelona
What is the most populous city in Tibet?
Lhasa
What word, from the Latin for “twilight,” is used to describe animals like deer and rabbits that are active primarily during dawn and dusk?
crepuscular
Often used as an example as a MacGuffin, what small statuette provided both the title and the motive for intrigue in Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 detective novel?
Maltese Falcon
Who painted Salvator Mundi, which holds the record for the highest price of any work of art sold at auction?
(Leonardo) da Vinci
What mathematical curve is described as the locus of points that are equidistant from a line called the directrix and a point called the focus?
parabola
When referring to an electroluminescent light source, what does LED stand for?
light-emitting diode
What popular card game contains Skip, Reverse, Draw, and Wild cards?
Uno
What Canadian-born architect designed the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto but is perhaps best known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain?
(Frank) Gehry
The earliest definitive fossil evidence of angiosperms, or flowering plants, dates to which geologic period?
Cretaceous
Whose works were, for many years, mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers, such as Ravel’s arrangement of his Pictures at an Exhibition?
(Modest) Mussorgsky(‘s)
Which composer was also a virtuoso pianist and is best known for his piano concertos and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini?
(Sergei) Rachimaninoff
Which Romantic composer was a medical doctor and made important contributions to the field of organic chemistry? One of his best known compositions is the opera Prince Igor.
(Alexander) Borodin
Which 20th century composer composed the ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring?
(Igor) Stravinsky
I am a fruit that is produced by a variety of different species of plants, many of them hybrids. I am produced primarily in India and Mexico. My varieties include kaffir, Persian, and Key. I was part of the daily ration of British sailors, who were nicknamed for me. What am I?
lime
In which of the three major types of rock are fossils most commonly found?
sedimentary
What type of metamorphic rock is composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite, and commonly used as a building material?
marble
What type of volcanic rock consists of rough-textured volcanic glass that is porous enough to initially float on water?
pumice
What is iron pyrite, or iron (II) sulfide, commonly nicknamed because of its metallic luster and yellow colour?
fool’s gold
What brand name is associated with the slogan, “I’m Lovin’ It?”
McDonald’s
What brand name is associated with the slogan, “It Keeps Going, and Going, and Going. . . ?”
Energizer
What brand name is associated with the slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”
The New York Times
What brand name is associated with the slogan, “A Diamond Is Forever?”
De Beers
Which American novel concludes, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past?”
The Great Gatsby
Which classic novel of adolescent angst and alienation was, for twenty years, the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States?
The Catcher in the Rye
Which novel was the only novel published by its author until Go Set a Watchman, believed to be an earlier draft of the novel, was published in 2015?
Go Set a Watchman
Which dystopian novel introduced the terms thoughtcrime, doublethink, Newspeak, and Big Brother?
1984
Often considered to be the beginning of Australia’s and New Zealand’s national identity, which campaign was a failure for the Allies and the only major Ottoman victory of World War I?
Gallipoli (accept Dardanelles)
In July 1914, in response to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to which nation?
Serbia
What was the nickname given to the German M-Gerät siege howitzer, one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded?
Big Bertha
Which Canadian army doctor wrote the poem “In Flanders Fields,” published in Punch in December 1915 and still recited on Remembrance Day today?
(John) McCrae
In fluid dynamics, whose principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure?
(Daniel) Bernoulli(‘s)
What 70s and 80s television show, one of the highest-rated in U.S. television history, followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed in South Korea?
MASH
Which city, one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in Europe with a history dating back almost 3000 years, is nicknamed, “The Eternal City?”
Rome
What Russian physiologist, the first Russian Nobel Laureate, is known primarily for his work in classical conditioning, especially with dogs?
(Ivan) Pavlov
To the nearest gram, what is the mass of one mole of water, or H2O?
18 (grams)
In which sport do two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding rocks across the sheet towards the house?
curling
Which French artist, when his ill health prevented him from painting, created cut paper collages, or decoupage, with the help of assistants?
(Henri) Matisse
Which kingdom of eukaryotic organisms does a mycologist study? It includes yeasts and molds.
fungi
What fictional character has been portrayed onscreen by Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr., and Benedict Cumberbatch, among many others?
Sherlock Holmes
In which historic building, restored after reunification, does the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, meet?
Reichstag
What is the simplest alkane, the main constituent of natural gas, with a chemical formula of CH4?
methane (or carbon tetrahydride)
What term describes any organic compound in which a hydroxyl functional group is bound to a carbon? Examples include ethanol and methanol.
alcohol
What do chemists call a molecule has the same number of atoms of each element, but has a different arrangement of the atoms?
isomer
Which London street is famous simply for its pedestrian crossing that featured on the cover of a Beatles album that shares its name with the street?
Abbey Road
Who was the Beatles’ first drummer, playing with the group from 1960 to 1962?
(Pete) Best
In which 1964 film, directed by Richard Lester, did The Beatles play themselves in a mock-documentary?
A Hard Day’s Night
What is the actual title of the Beatles’ 1968 album known as the “White Album?”
The Beatles
In which year did Nunavut officially enter Confederation?
1999
Which company was the de facto government of Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory until it relinquished its claims in 1870?
Hudson’s Bay Company
All together, the three Canadian Territories comprise how many House of Commons electoral districts?
3
I was born and raised in the Austrian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1884. Despite some successes that earned me a considerable amount of money, I died in poverty and relative obscurity. I worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before striking out on my own. I am best known for my contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity system. Who am I?
(Nikola) Tesla
Which part of the limbic system in the brain is involved in the processing of memory and emotional responses, including fear, anxiety, and aggression?
amygdala
What was the capital city of Clovis, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty and the first king to unite the Franks?
Paris
Which pair of shoes, permanently on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, were supposedly worn by Judy Garland while filming The Wizard of Oz?
(Dorothy’s) ruby slippers
What type of race consists of a 3.86 km swim, a 180.25 km bicycle ride and a marathon 42.20 km run, raced in that order and without a break?
Ironman (triathlon)
Which Old Indo-Aryan language, related to Greek and Latin, is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism?
Sanskrit
The Tiffany lamp is considered one of the icons of which art and decorative arts movement of the late 19th and early 20th century?
Art Nouveau
Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what term is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?
geyser
What American writer achieved some success as a mystery author before deciding to write young adult fantasy-mythological fiction, starting with The Lightning Thief?
Rick Riordan
What distant region of the Solar System consists mainly of small bodies but also includes the dwarf planets Pluto, Haumea and Makemake?
Kuiper Belt
What is the least common multiple of 15 and 42?
210
What common household pet is a member of the relatively rare taxonomic order Lagomorpha?
rabbit
Johnny Weissmüller, the star of the Tarzan films of the 30s and 40s, was previously well known as a five-time Olympic gold medalist in which sport?
swimming
What is the only city with a population of greater than 1 million to be 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time?
Auckland(, New Zealand)
What Sesame Street character, originally introduced as Big Bird’s imaginary friend, was revealed to the rest of the cast as real in Season 17?
(Mr.) Snuffleupagus (or Snuffy)
