Volta Electric Battery

Question 1

Lake Tahoe location

Answer 1

California and Nevada

Question 2

Greek god often depicted with winged sandels and helmet

Answer 2

Her meees
Messenger of thr gods

Question 3

Nicki Minaj 5th studio album

Answer 3

Pink Friday 2

Question 4

In 23 French mustard teamed up with this candy to release a limited edition mustard

Answer 4

Skittles

Question 5

Classic book tells the story of a young boy who traveled to earth from his solitary home in a distant asteroid where he lives with only a single rose for company

Answer 5

The little prince
De sant ex uh puh re

Question 6

series of cars were produced from 1959 to 2005. The model name comes from a French coach building term “This phrase described a shortened ), four-wheel carriage used around town

Answer 6

Coupe de __: classic Cadillac : VILLE
Cadillac’s de Ville

French coach building term “coupé de ville”

Question 7

Insect-preserving resin :

Answer 7

AMBER
Amber’s technical name is “resinite”, reflecting its composition and formation. Amber starts out life as soft sticky tree resin but then under high temperature and pressure from overlying layers of soil, it fossilizes. The sticky resin can trap organisms or other plant matter, and this material can sometimes remain virtually intact inside the amber fossil giving us a unique gift from the past.

Question 8

Insect-preserving resin :

Answer 8

AMBER
Amber’s technical name is “resinite”, reflecting its composition and formation. Amber starts out life as soft sticky tree resin but then under high temperature and pressure from overlying layers of soil, it fossilizes. The sticky resin can trap organisms or other plant matter, and this material can sometimes remain virtually intact inside the amber fossil giving us a unique gift from the past.

Question 9

This has been in the modern Olympic Games since day-one, with American Robert Garrett winning the gold in the first games in 1896.

Answer 9

Shot put

Question 10

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” is a traditional folk song from Jamaica. It is sung from the standpoint of dock workers unloading boats on the night shift, so daylight has come, and they want to go home. The most famous version of “Day-O” was recorded by him , in 1956.

Answer 10

Harry Belafonte

Question 11

” is a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin that was a 1963 hit for the Chiffons. The title of the song was inspired by the famous aria “Un bel di””) from his opera “Madama Butterfly”.

Answer 11

One Fine Day

Puccini’s

Question 12

group of oysters is commonly referred to as a this

Answer 12

bed”, and oysters can be farmed in man-made beds. The largest body of water producing oysters in the US today is Chesapeake Bay, although the number of beds continues to dwindle due to pollution and overfishing. Back in the 1800s, most of the world’s oysters came from New York Harbor.

Question 13

Novelist who created the fictional police inspector Armand Gamache :

Answer 13

PENNY
Canadian author Louise Penny writes mystery novels, and is especially known for her series of crime fiction featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny won the prestigious Agatha Award for the Best Novel for four years running, from 2007 through 2010.

Question 14

” is a comedy-drama series centered on an emergency room nurse at a hospital in New York City. The lead character is played by Edie Falco, who also played Tony Soprano’s wife on “The Sopranos”.…

Answer 14

Nurse Jackie

Question 15

Red-hatted figure in Travelocity ads :

Answer 15

GNOME
Travelocity is an online travel agency that started doing business in 1996. The company got a lot of exposure as the sponsor of the US version of the reality show “The Amazing Race”. Travelocity’s mascot, the Roaming Gnome, made quite a few appearances on the show.

In English folklore, the fairy’s anti-hero is the diminutive gnome, an evil ugly character. Although the charastics of gnomes vary in folklore, typically they are described as diminutive humanoids who live underground. Over the centuries, the gnome has become more lovable. We now have garden gnomes, and even the Travelocity Gnome.

Question 16

Group before millennials :

Answer 16

X-ERS
The term “Generation X” originated in the UK where it was the name of a book by Jane Deverson. Her book detailed the results of a study of British youths in 1964, contrasting their lifestyle to those of previous generations. It was Canadian author Douglas Coupland who was responsible for popularizing the term, with his more successful publication “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”. By one definition, Gen-Xers were born between 1961 and 1981.

Question 17

The verb “to this describes the action of seeking to influence toward a desired action. The term comes from the frequenting a part of the legislature in order to solicit members.

Answer 17

lobby”

Question 18

is a sword with a curved blade and a relatively large hand guard. It is thought that the term originated with the Hungarian verb “szabni” meaning “to cut”.

Answer 18

saber (sometimes “sabre”)

Question 19

is a company founded in 2012 that is known for its sponges that are shaped like a smiley face. The founder, Aaron Krause, appeared on the show “Shark Tank”, looking for funding. He made a deal with one of the sharks, Lori Greiner, to hand over a 20% equity stake for $200,000. Since then, Scrub Daddy has had sales of over $500 million!

Answer 19

Scrub Daddy

Question 20

Japanese room divider :

Answer 20

SHOJI
A shoji is a door, window or room divider in Japanese architecture. A shoji consists of translucent paper stretched over a wooden frame.

Question 21

Steve McGarrett in this original show was played by Jack Lord, and “Danno” Williams was played by James MacArthur

Answer 21

Hawaii 5-0

Question 22

The verb “” can mean “to make light of”, and more specifically “to criticize using polite language”.

Answer 22

to mince

William Shakespeare used the term in such a sense in a couple of his plays, although the derivative expression “mince words” was first used in print in Benjamin Disraeli’s first novel “Vivian Grey”, published in 1826:

Your Lordship’s heart is very warm in the cause of a party, which, for I will not mince my words, has betrayed you.
So, to mince words is to moderate one’s language while still giving criticism. The related phrase “minced oath” describes a euphemistic phrase used to replace a more profane phrase, e.g. “gosh” for “God”, “heck” for “hell”.

Question 23

Rivendell resident :

Answer 23

ELF
Rivendell is a location occupied by Elves in Middle-earth, the fictional realm created by novelist J. R. R. Tolkien.

Question 24

Figure skating great TODD
who won the men’s singles in the Worlds in 1996.

Answer 24

Eldredge

Todd Eldredge is a retired figure skater

Question 25

The original “this” was an officer in ancient Rome who had responsibility for taking population count ”, as well as supervising public morality

Answer 25

censor

Question 26

She is a central character in the “Star Wars” universe who first appeared in 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. She is trained as a Jedi by Luke Skywalker and his sister Princess Leia Organa.

Also who played

Answer 26

Rey

In honor of her mentors, she takes the name Rey Skywalker, and eventually becomes “The Last Jedi”. Rey is played by British actress Daisy Ridley.

Question 27

These are the chain of mountains running the length of the Italian peninsula. The highest peak of the range is the Corno Grande, which rises to over 9,500 feet

Answer 27

Apennines

Question 28

The North Frigid Zone lies north of this

Answer 28

the Arctic Circle

Question 29

The North Temperate Zone lies between these

Answer 29

the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer

Question 30

This lies between the two Tropical Circles

Answer 30

Torrid Zone

Question 31

The South Temperate Zone lies between the

Answer 31

Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle

Question 32

This lies south of the Antarctic Circle

Answer 32

South Frigid Zone

Question 33

” is a pastel on paper drawn by Mary Cassatt in about 1898. It shows a young girl in a white dress with a pink sash sitting in a chair. It can be seen at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.

Answer 33

The Pink Sash

Question 34

In 11 this lead singer of the killers was part of the I’m a Mormon campaign

Question 35

An audio oscillator wqs the first product from this park who founded one of the original Silicon Valley startups in 39

Answer 35

Hewlett and Packard

Question 36

The tile of this ray brad berry novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with by the pricking of my thumbs

Answer 36

Something wicked this way comes

Question 37

First note of a scale bringing harmony to a piece of music

Answer 37

Tonic

Question 38

Eurasia
Zvartnots international airport serves this capital and has the code evn all letters found in this city’s name

Answer 38

Yeravan
Armenia

Yer uh vhan