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Question 1

Spanish X :

Answer 1

BESO
In Spanish, a “beso” (kiss) is an “indicación de afecto” (display of affection).

Question 2

Actor was a Harvard University student before he dropped out to pursue his acting career. He was just 12 credits shy of graduating when he left to star in the movie “Geronimo: An American Legend”. Despite not having completed his degree, Harvard later awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2013 for his humanitarian work through his co-founding of Water.org, an organization that provides clean water and sanitation to people in developing countries.

Answer 2

Matt Damon

Question 3

is a specified locale used for an event. The term “” came into English via French from the Latin “” meaning “to come”.

Answer 3

A venue

Latin “venire”
So, a “venue” is a place to which people “come” for an event.

Question 4

Lake famous for its fabled “monster

Answer 4

Scotland’s Loch Ness is famous for its fabled “monster”, referred to affectionately as “Nessie”. The loch is the second-largest lake in the country (Loch Lomond is the largest). Loch Ness takes its name from the River Ness that flows from the loch’s northern end.

Question 5

Back in the 1930s,he was working at the DuPont Chemical Company, and from DuPont obtained inflexible pieces of polyethylene slag. He purified the slag and shaped it into unbreakable containers. He added airtight lids with a “burping seal” that provided tight seals similar to that provided by the lids on paint cans.

Answer 5

Earl Tupper

He called his new product Tupperware

Question 6

To be in this is to have an unpaid obligation or debt. The term “” came into English from the Old French “” meaning “behind”.

Answer 6

arrears

Old French “ariere

Question 7

FDR’s party :

Answer 7

DEM
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 8

” is a comedy-drama series co-created by and starring Jason Segel. He plays a therapist who breaches ethical principles by intervening in their lives in order to help them solve their problems. Segal’s character works with a senior therapist played by Harrison Ford. Good stuff, I thought …

Answer 8

Shrinking

Question 9

Oppenheimer” is an epic 2023 film starring him in the title role. The movie follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, from his student days right through World War II and beyond.

Answer 9

Cillian Murphy

Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film has an amazing ensemble cast that includes:

Matt Damon (General Leslie Groves)
Robert Downey Jr. (Lewis Strauss)
Josh Hartnett (Ernest Lawrence)
Kenneth Branagh (Niels Bohr)
Tom Conti (Albert Einstein)
Gary Oldman (Harry S. Truman)

Question 10

is a delicious spicy soup served in Thai restaurants. It is usually described as “hot and sour”, and I love it …

Answer 10

Tom yum

Question 11

is a single-person meal that is eaten quite commonly in Japan.
can be purchased as a take-out meal, or it may be packed at home

Answer 11

bento

. A bento is usually sold as a “bento box”.

Question 12

item of clothing was named for an island in the Channel Islands off the coast of France. The island was famous for its knitting trade during the Middle Ages.

Answer 12

Jersey

Question 13

is the world’s oldest annual marathon, outside of the Olympic event.

Answer 13

The Boston Marathon
The first Boston Marathon was held way back in 1897 to celebrate Patriots’ Day, which commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution.

Question 14

In the storyline of this story , an Ethiopian princess brought into Egypt as a slave. Radamès is an Egyptian commander who falls in love with her, and then complications arise!

Answer 14

Aida” is a celebrated opera by Giuseppe Verdi that is based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. Mariette also designed the costumes and stages for the opening performance. The opera was first staged in 1871 in an opera house in Cairo.

Question 15

The French word for “bent” is “

Answer 15

plié”. In the ballet move known as a plié, the knees are bent. A “demi-plié” is a similar move, but with less bending of the knees. A fondu is similar to a plié, except that only one leg remains on the ground.

Question 16

QED stands for the Latin “

Answer 16

quod erat demonstrandum” meaning “that which was to be demonstrated”.

Question 17

Male and female deer

Answer 17

male deer is usually called a buck, and a female is a doe. However, the male red deer is usually referred to as a stag. The males of even larger species of deer are often called bulls, and the females called cows. In older English, male deer of over 5 years were called harts, and females of over 3 years were called hinds. The young of small species are known as fawns, and of larger species are called calves. All very confusing …

Question 18

is a range of charcoal barbecue grills that have been produced since 1974. The company is based in Atlanta, and hosts an annual” barbeque festival just outside the city.

Answer 18

The Big Green Egg

Eggtoberfest” barbeque festival

Question 19

The current design of the Canadian National Flag, known as “

Answer 19

the Maple Leaf”, has been in place since 1965. The design made its first appearance on February 15th of that year, and so that date is celebrated annually as National Flag of Canada Day.

Question 20

Ted Lasso” is a marvelous sports-comedy TV show about an American college football coach who moves to the UK to manage an English soccer team. The title character is played very admirably by

Also other coach

Answer 20

Jason Sudeikis. Sudeikis first played Lasso in a series of TV commercials commissioned to promote NBC’s coverage of the British Premier League. The character became so popular that he inspired a whole TV series. Great stuff, and highly recommended …

Actor, comedian and writer Brendan Hunt plays Coach Beard on the hit TV show “Ted Lasso”. Hunt is also a co-creator of the show, and writes for it.

Question 21

Wonder Woman” is a superhero TV show starring

Answer 21

Lynda Carter in the title role. The first season was set during World War II, and aired on ABC. The second and third seasons moved to CBS, and was set in the late seventies. The show title was also modified, to “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman”.

Lynda Carter is perhaps best known for playing the title role in the TV show “Wonder Woman” that originally aired in the 1970s. Prior to landing the part, Carter had won the Miss World USA beauty pageant in 1972, representing her home state of Arizona.

Question 22

Actress is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the TV medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”. That gig has paid well.

Answer 22

Ellen Pompeo
Pompeo was ranked third in the “Forbes” list of highest-paid TV actresses in 2017, with Sofia Vergara (from “Modern Family”) and Kaley Cuoco (from “The Big Bang Theory”) holding the first and second spots respectively.

Question 23

Ohio River serves as border between the states

Answer 23

Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia

Kentucky -Illinois, Indiana and Ohio

The Ohio River contributes more water to the Mississippi than does any other tributary and drains an area of 203,900 square miles (528,100 square km).

Question 24

Frank ghery won in and IM pei in

Answer 24

Prisker price

Question 25

It is the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, after Paris, and is located just to the north of the confluence of the Rhône and Saône Rivers.

Answer 25

The city of Lyon in France is sometimes known as “Lyons” in English

Question 26

Composer/conductor Lukas :

Answer 26

FOSS
Lukas Foss was an American composer, born as Lukas Fuchs in Berlin in 1922. He was a lifelong friend of fellow composer Leonard Bernstein.

Question 27

was an astronomer active during the Renaissance and was the first person to propose that the Earth and the planets revolved around the Sun.

Answer 27

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 28

is the process of prioritizing patients for treatment, especially on the battlefield. The term “” is French and means “sorting”.

Answer 28

Triage

Question 29

This type of scroll is a handwritten copy of, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Answer 29

Torah

(also “Sefer Torah”)

Question 30

A US pint and imperial pint ounces

Answer 30

US comprises 16 fluid ounces, and an imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces. The term “pint” comes into English via Old French, ultimately from the Latin “picta” meaning “painted”. The name arose from a line painted on the side of a beer glass that marked a full measure of ale.

Question 31

is an American actress, one who first experienced real celebrity after playing Helena Slomova in the miniseries “Holocaust” in 1978. She had the leading role in “Yentl” on Broadway, a role later played by Barbra Streisand on the big screen. She also appeared in the 1985 movie version of “Brewster’s Millions” alongside Richard Pryor.

Answer 31

Tovah Feldshuh

Question 32

Peyton’s production company

Answer 32

Omaha Productions. And airs on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The show premiered in 2021, and In its first season averaged 1.1 million viewers, which was more than double the viewership of the traditional Monday Night Football broadcast on ABC. The Manningcast was also the most-watched program on ESPN+ in its first season.

Question 33

Trouble” is a 2003 song recorded by this singer. The accompanying music video features appearances by actor Jeremy Renny and the Pussycat Dolls.

Answer 33

Pink

Question 34

The Lake Poets were a group of Romantic poets who lived in the Lake District of northern England in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The three most prominent members of the group were

Answer 34

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

Question 35

is a winter event in which participants plunge into really, really cold bodies of water. Such swims are a New Year’s Day tradition in Canada, and in the US are often used to raise money for charity.

Answer 35

A polar bear plunge

Question 36

” is a term used to distinguish between the current form of an object and the original form. For example, we tend to call the original guitar an “acoustic guitar” to differentiate it from today’s “electric guitar”. Similarly, we now say “cloth diapers” and “film cameras” when referring to the originals.

Answer 36

Retronym
Snail mail also

Question 37

In the world of music, this is a curved line that connects neighboring notes that are to be played smoothly, without separation.

Answer 37

slur

Question 38

The Rams of the Atlantic 10, briefly :

Answer 38

URI
The University of Rhode Island (URI) was chartered as an agricultural school back in 1888. Rhody the Ram was chosen as the school’s mascot in 1923, a nod to URI’s agricultural past. As a result, the school’s sports teams are known as the Rams. URI’s main campus today is located in the village of Kingston, with smaller campuses in Providence, Narragansett and West Greenwich.

Question 39

is an indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey that formed in 1984 as the husband/wife duo Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley. The band’s name translates from Spanish as “I have it”, and was chosen with reference to a baseball anecdote.

Answer 39

Yo La Tengo

Elio Chacon was a baseball player from Venezuela, the seventh person to play in the Majors from that country. There’s a story that Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn was always running into Elio Chacon in the outfield, because he would call for the ball in English, and Chacon only understood Spanish. Ashburn started to call for the ball in Spanish “Yo la tengo!” (I’ve got it!), at which point he’d be run down by left fielder Frank Thomas who only understood English!

Question 40

is produced in the US, although the operation is owned by the Campari Group headquartered in Italy.
first hit the shelves in 1992 when it was created by an entrepreneur from San Francisco, California.

Answer 40

Skyy Vodka

Question 41

Violin’s lack :

Answer 41

FRET
A fret is a metal strip embedded in the neck of a stringed instrument, a guitar perhaps. The fingers press on the frets, shortening a string and hence changing the note played. The note increases by one semitone as a finger shortens a string by one fret.

Question 42

Cereal promoted by the Creme Team :

Answer 42

OREO O’S
Oreo O’s cereal was made by Post from 1998 to 2007. The pieces of cereal were basically O-shaped (like Cheerios) but chocolate-flavored, dark brown in color and with white sprinkles on them. Oh, and lots of sugar.