Selenium 34

Question 1

This ocean surrounds the pit kearn island

Carn

Answer 1

Pacific
Was a British colony
In between Chile and Australia

Question 2

Wrote riders of the purple sage
1912

Answer 2

Zane gray

Question 3

Land miles in a league

Answer 3

3

Question 4

This sport has a competition for bulldogers

Answer 4

Rodeo
Steer wrestling aka

Question 5

Colonel Jacob schick patented this on Nov 6 28

Answer 5

Electric shaver

Question 6

This song propelled herb alp Bert and the Tijuana brass to fame

Answer 6

The lonely bull

Question 7

This protective outermost portion of the skin is thicker on the palms and soles than it is elsewhere

Answer 7

Epidermis
Latest organ- skin
8lbs?

Question 8

A priceless series of ads claimed there are some things money can’t buy for everything else there’s this

Answer 8

Mastercard

Question 9

“Foreign Affairs” Pulitzer winner

Answer 9

Alison lurie
Fiction

Question 10

Gabrielle Union’s alma mater

Answer 10

UCLA
Nebraska first

Question 11

British actor who played Bilbo Baggins

Answer 11

Ian holm first ?
Martin Freeman is an English actor, known for portraying Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit film trilogy, Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office

Question 12

Cold hearted song
89

Answer 12

Paula Abdul

Question 13

Shakespeare play and character
Lord what fools these mortals be

Answer 13

Puck
Midsummer’s night dream

Question 14

first British author to win nobel prize

Answer 14

Rudyard Kipling

Question 15

A man with a plan
First sitting US presume to leave the US
Bonus he visited this country

Answer 15

Theodore don’t call me teddy Roosevelt
Hot shoes burning down the avenue of Panama
A man with a plan - Van Halen reference?

Behind the bastards-about Panama US relationship?

Question 16

This actress graced the first cover of people magazine in 74 around the time she played this role in the great gatsby

Answer 16

Mia farrow as Daisy Buchanan
Also in Bonnie and Clyde ?

Question 17

Believe it or not song

Answer 17

Joey scarbury
Actual title greatest American hero
Believe it or not in parentheses

Question 18

This character with a redundant name is the narrator of his Lolita

Answer 18

Humbert humbert
Vladimir Nabokov

Question 19

You’ll find horns known as ossicones on this common African animal

Answer 19

Giraffe

Question 20

First us President to travel on official business by plane

Answer 20

FDR

Question 21

Much of Ginsburg’s life is recounted in this excellent 2018 movie

Answer 21

On the Basis of Sex”.

Question 22

The reservoir on the Colorado River known as this , created by this , used to be the largest reservoir in the US.
What is now ?

Answer 22

Lake Mead
Created by Hoover Dam

Located outside Las Vegas, drought and increasing demand for water has shrunk Lake Mead so that now Lake Sakakawea on the Missouri in North Dakota has a larger surface area and volume of water.

Question 23

home of the Wright Brothers :

Answer 23

DAYTON
Dayton is a city in the southwest of Ohio that is famously home to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The city is also referred to as the “Birthplace of Aviation”, as it was in Dayton that Orville and Wilbur Wright built and improved the Wright Flyer. The Wright Flyer made the first controlled and sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Question 24

Apt county for Tangerine, Florida :

Answer 24

ORANGE
Orange County, Florida used to be known as Mosquito County. It was renamed Orange County in honor of the county’s main product. The county seat is Orlando.

Question 25

Artist whose work inspired the art of the game Monument Valley

Answer 25

: ESCHER
M. C. Escher was a graphic artist from the Netherlands. Escher was noted for creating works inspired by mathematics, often works that were physical impossibilities. One such work is “Drawing Hands” (1948) in which a pair of hands emerge from a piece of paper and actually draw themselves. He also created a drawing in which a group of red ants are crawling around a Möbius strip, never reaching the end.

Monument Valley is a computer game that was released in 2014. It was very successful, and was named the best game for the iPad that first year. It is a little unusual in the pantheon of computer game hits in that it was developed not by the big gaming companies, but rather by the relatively small London-based studio called Ustwo.

Question 26

This incredible building known as this was built during WWII, and dedicated on January 15, 1943. It is the largest office building in the world (by floor space) covering an area of about 6.5 million square feet.

Answer 26

Pentagon

As it was built during the war years, a major requirement was that it use a minimum amount of steel. That steel shortage dictated that the building be no more than four stories in height, and hence cover an awful lot of real estate

Question 27

The tailless primates known as this (also “hominoids”) are divided into these two main branches:

Answer 27

apes

gibbons (lesser apes) and hominids (great apes). The hominids are the great apes, and belong to the family of primates called Hominidae. Extant genera that make up the family Hominidae are:

chimpanzees
gorillas
humans
orangutans

Question 28

Tequila plant :

Answer 28

AGAVE
Tequila is a spirit made from the blue agave. The drink takes its name from the city of Tequila, located about 40 miles northwest of Guadalajara.

Tequila comes in four categories, depending on how long it has been aged:

“Blanco” (white) or “plata” (silver) is unaged
“Reposado” (rested) is aged 2 months to a year
“Añejo” (aged, vintage) is aged 1-3 years
“Extra añejo” (extra aged, ultra aged) is aged 3 years or more

Question 29

108 Stark patriarch :

Answer 29

EDDARD
Eddard “Ned” Stark is the protagonist in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy novel “A Game of Thrones”, although his character doesn’t exactly come out on top by the end of the story. Stark is played by actor Sean Bean in the HBO television adaptation of the novel.

Question 30

French word meaning “mischief, injury or wrong”.

Answer 30

Tort

In common law, a tort is a civil wrong that results in the injured party suffering loss or harm, and the injuring party having a legal liability. Tort law differs from criminal law in that torts may result from negligence and not just intentional actions. Also, tort lawsuits may be decided on a preponderance of evidence, without the need of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Question 31

Presidential advisory gp created by President Harry S. Truman in 47

Answer 31

NSC

The National Security Council (NSC) was created by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. It is chaired by the sitting president and meets in the White House Situation Room.

Question 32

was a World and Olympic Champion figure skater from Oslo, Norway who competed in the days when “amateur” sports stars were not paid.

Answer 32

Sonja Henie

Henie made up for her lack of income from competing by developing a career in Hollywood. She was one of the highest-paid film stars at the height of her movie career.

Question 33

Yellow Teletubby :

Answer 33

LAA-LAA
“Teletubbies” is a children’s television show produced by the BBC in the UK and shown over here on PBS. The show attracted a lot of attention in 1999 when Jerry Falwell suggested that one of the Teletubbies characters (Tinky Winky) was a homosexual role model for children.

Question 34

Miracle on Ice” losing team: Abbr. :

Answer 34

USSR
Team USA won the gold medal in men’s hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The victory was a surprising one given the decades-long dominance of the USSR team. The “big result” for the American team was the epic victory against the Soviets, a victory often referred to as the “Miracle on Ice”. The US went on to defeat Finland in the final and secured the gold medal. The moniker “miracle” comes from words uttered by sportscaster Al Michaels, who was calling the game for ABC. He declared, in the final seconds, “Do you believe in miracles?! Yes!”