Stalin Gerogia

Question 1

is often ranked as the world’s most valuable soccer team, and is one of the most widely supported sports teams on the planet.

Answer 1

Real Madrid

Real Madrid is a professional soccer team based in Madrid, Spain. The team name translates as “Royal Madrid”

Barça” is the nickname of the soccer club FC Barcelona (Futbol Club Barcelona). Barcelona is one of the most financially successful football clubs in the world in terms of revenue, along with the likes of Manchester United, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

Question 2

2 largest component of natural gas

Answer 2

methane.
Ethane’s main use is in the production of ethylene, a compound that is widely used in the chemical industry.

Question 3

Southernmost Great Lake :
Also borders

Answer 3

ERIE
Lake Erie borders four US states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan) and one Canadian province (Ontario).

Question 4

this team the oldest, continuously-run, professional football team in the whole country.

Answer 4

Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals were founded in 1898 as the Chicago Cardinals

Question 5

is a thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour.

Answer 5

Soba

In Japan, the word “soba” tends to describe any thin noodle, in contrast with the thicker noodle called “udon”.

Question 6

pistachio is a small tree that produces some very tasty seeds. We see the seeds in grocery stores labeled as “nuts”, but botanically they are termed “

Answer 6

drupes”. Drupe or nut, they’re delicious …

Question 7

” is Spanish for “health”, and is used as a toast.

Answer 7

Salud!

Question 8

is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California, and lies just across the US-Mexico border from San Diego.

Answer 8

Tijuana

Tijuana is also the most westerly of all Mexican cities. A lot of Tijuana’s growth took place in the twenties as tourists flocked south of the border during the days of prohibition in the US. One of the many casinos and hotels that flourished at that time was Hotel Caesar’s in the Avenida Revolución area. Hotel Caesar’s claims to be the birthplace of the now ubiquitous Caesar Salad.

Question 9

Baltimore oriole park

Answer 9

Oriole Park is home to the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The full name of the stadium is Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The name “Camden Yards” is used because the ballpark is built on land that was once used as the rail yard for B&O Railroad’s Camden Station.

Question 10

is a genus of trees and shrubs that is also known as thorntree, whistling thorn and wattle.

Answer 10

Acacia - in A savanna (also “savannah”) is a grassland. If there are any trees in a savanna, by definition they are small and widely spaced so that light can get to the grasses allowing them to grow unhindered.

The acacia is the primary food source for the giraffe in the wild, with the animal eating the leaves high in the tree, leaves that are inaccessible to competing species. The natural gum from two species of acacia tree is known as gum arabic, which is used in the food industry as a stabilizer.

Question 11

Animal sidekick in “Frozen” :

Answer 11

SVEN
“Sven” is a Scandinavian name. “Sven” is derived from the Old Norse word for “young man” or “young warrior”.

Question 12

are a genus of snakes with exceptionally long anterior teeth. Like all of this genus, they are nonvenomous snakes. The long teeth are used to penetrate layers of feathers so that they better grip birds, which make up most of their diet.

Answer 12

Tree boas

Question 13

is the process of creating holes in the soil to aid in the growth of the grass. The spiking of the soil severs the roots of the existing grass, which causes the blades to multiply and hence thickening the lawn.

Answer 13

Lawn aeration

Question 14

is an American actor who is famous for playing Jin-Soo Kwon on “Lost”. Kim moved on to play one of the leads on the CBS remake of “Hawaii Five-O”, portraying the character Chin Ho Kelly.

Answer 14

Daniel Dae Kim

Question 15

was introduced to the world in 1953, and was named after the small maneuverable warship.

Answer 15

The Chevrolet Corvette

warship called a corvette

The “Vette” has legs. It is the only American sports car that has been around for over 50 years.

Question 16

She is perhaps best-known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1957’s “The Three Faces of Eve”, and for being married to Paul Newman. While in her 50s, she spent ten years working towards a bachelor[s degree, and eventually graduated in 1990 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York alongside her daughter Clea.

Answer 16

Joanne Woodward

Question 17

” is the French word for the Christmas season, and ultimately comes from the Latin word for “birth” (natalis)..

Answer 17

Noël

“Noel” has come to be used as an alternative for “Christmas carol”

Question 18

Actor is best known for playing Marshall on the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”. He is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, and performed a wedding ceremony on “The Tonight Show” in 2010.

Answer 18

Jason Segel

Question 19

is a beverage company that uses real fruit juices to flavor its products. The name “” is the term used for sea spray that is blown from waves in high winds.

Answer 19

Spindrift

Question 20

is the largest city in Brazil. It is also the city with the highest number of helicopters in the world. This is partly driven by the horrendous traffic jams, but also by the wealthy having a very real fear of being kidnapped on the city’s streets.

Answer 20

São Paulo

Question 21

is the capital city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which is located in the south of the country.

Answer 21

Oaxaca (officially “Oaxaca de Juárez”)

Question 22

the first Democratic US president
And founder

Answer 22

The modern-day Democratic Party was founded in 1828, when supporters of Andrew Jackson broke away from the former Democratic-Republican Party during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. That date makes the Democratic Party the oldest voter-based political party in the world. Andrew Jackson became the first Democratic US president, in 1829

Question 23

is a section of a chromosome that is responsible for a particular characteristic in an organism.

Answer 23

A gene

For example, one gene may determine eye color and another balding pattern. We have two copies of each gene, one from each of our parents, with each copy known as an allele.

Question 24

is the largest inland city in the state of California. It was named for the many ash trees that lined the San Joaquin River, as “it ” is the Spanish for “ash tree”.

Answer 24

Fresno

Question 25

are the King and Queen of the Fairies in this Shakespeare play

Answer 25

Oberon and Titania are the King and Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

Question 26

Disney princess with six sisters :

Answer 26

ARIEL
In the 1989 Disney animated film “The Little Mermaid”, the title character is given the name “Ariel”. In the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen that dates back to 1836, the Little Mermaid is given no name at all. There is a famous statue of the unnamed Little Mermaid sitting in Copenhagen Harbor, in Andersen’s homeland of Denmark.

Question 27

are used as replacements for the much less-efficient tungsten light bulbs. I replaced all of my tungsten Xmas lights many years ago and saved a lot on my electricity bill.

Answer 27

light-emitting diode (LED) is a specialized form of semiconductor that when switched on releases photons (light). LEDs were used in early digital watches, and are getting more and more popular even though their use in electronic equipment is fading away.

Question 28

The expression “” is used to mean “whatever way we do this, we’ll get the same result”. The phrase has been used since the 1100s and probably even earlier than that.

Answer 28

all roads lead to Rome

The expression arises because the ancient Roman road system had all major roads radiating from Rome like spokes on a wheel.

Question 29

” is a 1967 song released by the Turtles. It was destined to become the group’s biggest hit, and their only US number-one.

Answer 29

Happy Together

Question 30

Actor and singer biggest break came when he originated the title role in the Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen”. He played the same role in the 2021 big-screen adaptation, which was co-produced by father Marc .

Answer 30

Ben Platt’s

Question 31

Licorice Pizza” director, to fans :

Answer 31

PTA
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson goes by his initials “PTA”. One of his most famous films is 2007’s “There Will Be Blood”, which he both wrote and directed. PTA has been in a relationship with comedian and actress Maya Rudolph since 2001, and the couple have four children together.

Question 32

the battle at the start of the American Revolution

Answer 32

Battles of Lexington and Concord

The first Boston Marathon was held way back in 1897 to celebrate Patriots’ Day, which commemorates this battle

Question 33

Several dishes in Indian cuisine bear the name “makhani”. “Makhani” is a Punjabi word meaning “

Answer 33

butter”. A popular example is murgh makhani, which also goes by the English name “butter chicken”.

Question 34

This fabric can be used as upholstery, as wallpaper, or even as a fabric for clothing. The name “” comes from the French word for “canvas, linen cloth”.

Answer 34

Toile

Question 35

According to Tolkien, these are small humanoids that live in his fantasy world of Middle-earth (also called “Mordor”). They are very ugly and dirty, and are fond of eating human flesh.

Answer 35

Orcs

Question 36

Greek verb means “to gnash the teeth Greek root that gives us this word “” meaning to chew.

Answer 36

masticate

Greek verb “mastichein”

Mastic is also used in varnishes that might perhaps protect an oil painting. It is from this usage that the name “mastic” was applied to commercial preparations used as protective coatings or adhesives.