Used BR118 Flashcards
- What are you most likely to do with aïoli (EYE-oh-lee)?
A. Apply it to a bee sting
B. Use it to clean oxidation off old tools
C. Eat it.
C. It’s Garlic mayonnaise from Provence.
- What is the capital of South Dakota?
A. Cheyenne
B. Pierre
C. Fargo
B. Pierre
- If a person is an iconoclast, what adjective would likely best describe her?
A. Religious
B. Humble
C. Cynical
C. Cynical
- Three major institutions were simultaneously shut down by computer glitches recently. Which of these institutions was NOT one of the three?
A. American Airlines
B. NY Stock Exchange
C. Wall St. Journal
A. American Airlines. United Airlines was the third.
- According to Fortune magazine, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was the best known woman in America in the 1940s. Who was second?
A. Tokyo Rose
B. Betty Crocker
C. Betty Grable
B. Betty Crocker, born in 1921 in a promotional contest for one of the companies that became General Mills.
- Follow-up question: who played Betty Crocker on the radio beginning in 1927, in the first hit radio cooking show?
A. Mary Pickford
B. Gloria Swanson
C. Different women who auditioned in each of the local markets the show played in.
C. Different local women, each billed as Betty Crocker in her hometown radio show
- What is I-X-T-L-E (pronounced IKST-lee)?
A. A made-up word created for Scrabble and Words with Friends.
B. Larger than a Van Dyke, smaller than a goatee
C. A fiber used in making carpets
C. Fiber from the Yucca plant
- Which two baseball teams had the most representatives on the 2015 All-Star game?
A. Kansas City and St. Louis
B. St. Louis and the New York Yankees
C. Kansas City and the New York Yankees
A. Kansas City Royals (7 players) and the St. Louis Cardinals (6 players).
- At almost 15,000 feet, the Matterhorn is one of the tallest peaks in that European Alps. What two countries’ borders does it straddle?
A. Switzerland and Italy
B. Switzerland and Luxembourg
C. Switzerland and France
A. Switzerland and Italy
- What car company introduced the easily explodable Pinto during the 1970s?
A. General Motors
B. Plymouth
C. Ford
C. Ford
- What did Otto Titzling invent?
A. The pretzel
B. The Volkeswagen
C. The brassiere
C. Titzling is a fictional character who was described as the inventor of the bra in the 1971 book “Bust Up: The Up-Lifting Tale of Otto Titzling”
- What is a kier – spelled K-I-E-R, pronounced KEER?
A. A large vat for dying fiber or yarn.
B. A barley beer with a shot of Scotch
C. A small breed of Siamese cat
A. A large vat for dying fiber or yarn.
- What would you be exploring if you followed the Bright Angel Trail down to the Colorado River?
A. Oregon Trail
B. Grand Canyon
C. Colorado Rockies
B. Grand Canyon
- Where are a snail’s reproductive organs?
A. Its head
B. Its antennae
C. Its shell
A. Head
