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IQuiz 3
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 20 novel series by Emile Zola that includes Germinal, L'Oeuvre and Nana | Les Rougon-Macquart |
| Famous epic poem by Derek Walcott | Omeros |
| Author of 1996 novel Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| The black hole photographed by the Event Horizon Telescope, photo shown in 2019 | Messier 87 (in Virgo) |
| First novel by Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out |
| Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner who wrote The Banana Trilogy | Miguel Angel Asturias (won in 1967) |
| Fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in works by HP Lovecraft | Necronomicon |
| Nicknamed The Blue Blazer, Canadian WWF wrestler who died in 1999 during a ring entrance | Owen Hart |
| Name of handheld basket device used in jai alai | Xistera (or cesta) |
| Swedish woman credited as first supermodel | Lisa Fonssagrives |
| Name of spear-throwing item that was popular with Native Americans, equivalent to Woomera in Australia | Atlatl |
| Most successful football club in Chile | Colo-Colo |
| Architect who designed the Bahai Lotus Temple in Delhi | Fariborz Sahba |
| Another name for Tikal Temple I | Temple of the Great Jaguar |
| Tanzanian-born British architect who designed the Nobel Peace Center (Oslo) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington DC) | David Adjaye |
| Rare variety of sapphire named for the Sanskrit for “lotus colour” | Padparadscha |
| Chinese city with an opera house designed by Zaha Hadid, known for its “double pebble” design | Guangzhou |
| Austrian architect who designed the T-Center and the Steinhaus | Gunther Domenig |
| Largest church in Iceland, designed by Gudjon Samuelsson | Hallgrimskirkja (Church of Hallgrimur) |
| First to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor, and year | Otto I (Otto the Great), 962 AD |
| Last Holy Roman Emperor, reigning from 1792 to 1806 | Francis II |
| 1899 work in which Norwegian-US economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” | The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Any external cue that helps synchronise an organism’s biological rhythms to the 24 hour light/dark cycle | Zeitgeber |
| Female ninja | Kunoichi |
| Ocean current named after town in Angola, starts in Southern Ocean and flows northwards up the west coast of Africa | Benguela Current |
| Son of Babur, second Mughal emperor | Humayun |
| Ancient Sanskrit scholar who is considered the father of linguistics | Panini |
| Oldest existing collection of jokes | Philogelos |
| Form of Japanese poetry meaning “linked verses”, eventually gave birth to the haiku | Renku |
| Famous black basalt stone discovered in 1868 and named after a 9th century king of Moab (in Jordan) | Mesha Stele |
| Autonomous police force of Catalonia | Mossos d’Esquadra |
| Israel political party founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon | Likud |
| Israel political party that existed from 2005 to 2015, had Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert as leaders | Kadima |
| Language created in 1879-80 by Johann Martin Schleyer after God told him to in a dream | Volapuk |
| Law that states a magnitude of a sensation is proportional to the intensity of the stimulus causing it (eg lighting candles in a dark vs lit room) | Weber-Fechner Law |
| The theory that changes in behaviour can then become hereditary | Baldwin Effect |
| Manet's favourite model | Victorine Meurent |
| US painter known for his mass production of his works, and copyrighted the phrase "Master of Light" to describe himself | Thomas Kinkade |
| The fastest of Japan's bullet trains/shinkansen, has a name meaning "wish" or "hope" | Nozomi |
| Large rock-cut monastery-temple cave complex in Maharashtra, features the Kailash temple | Ellora Caves |
| Famous 1851speech given by Sojourner Truth in Akron, Ohio | Ain't I a Woman? |
| Real name of Sojourner Truth | Isabella Baumfree |
| Name for a Sumo referee | Gyoji |
| Boston Bruins ice hockey defence player, 2nd best of all time, won two Stanley Cups in 1970 and 1972 | Bobby Orr |
| Wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus but was rejected | Phaedra |
| Female author of South Korean novel The Vegetarian | Han Kang |
| Third member of Second Triumvirate, alongside Octavian and Mark Antony | Marcus Aemilius Lepidus |
| Pyramid in Saqqara designed by Imhotep | Pyramid of Djoser (or Step Pyramid) |
| Father of Khutu who designed the Meidum pyramid | Sneferu |
| in Scientology, Dictator of Galactic Confederacy who brought billions of people to Earth and killed them with hydrogen bombs | Xenu |
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