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Starred Study 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He may have determined why the sky is blue, aka The sky is blue because of the dispersion of light called this "scattering" named for a British baron | Rayleigh |
| Colombia and Venezuela lay competing claims to this dish of maize flatbread stuffed with various fillings | Arepas |
| One half of a pair of structures stands in front of Paris's Place de la Concorde, the other at this archaeological site over 2000 miles away | Luxor Obelisks |
| Traditional duvets (or comforters) were stuffed with this material, considered the softest variety of duck feather | Eiderdown |
| Before they were the Scarlet Knights, Rutgers used this fighting rooster from the Canterbury Tales as their mascot | Chanticleer |
| A triangle, along with a theorem, a law, and a programming language are named after this French mathematician | Pascal |
| Beyoncé both portrayed this singer on film in "Cadillac Records" and performed her song "At Last" at Barack Obama's inaugural ball | Etta James |
| From the Latin for "humped," this adjective refers to the lunar phase between half full and full | Gibbous |
| Visible from Earth, these large plains got their Latin name because early observers thought them to be seas | Mare/ Maria |
| Subtitled "In Search of America," this was John Steinbeck's account of his road trip around the USA alongside the titular canine companion | Travels with Charley |
| The first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe, he lends his name both to a popular ornamental plant and an autonomous region in Oceania | Bougainville (Bougainvillea is the flower and Bougainville is not yet a country, but an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that is on the path to potential independence, with a target date of September 2027) |
| In ancient manuscripts, this symbol was used to mark a questionable passage; today, it's used to show division in math | Obelus |
| Leo Baekeland "cooked up" this first completely synthetic plastic in 1907 | Bakelite |
| 4 different elements were named after this Swedish town, including Erbium and Terbium | Ytterby |
| The last lanthanide on the periodic table, it's derived from the Latin for Paris, not a string instrument | Lutetium |
| C: This "gliding" dance technique named for how one foot appears to be pursuing the other | Chasse |
| Ballet and French give us this term for a couples dance (step of two) | "Pas de deux" (two-step) |
| With the same name as a pair of bones on top of the skull, this lobe of the brain specializes in language perception and spatial awareness | Pareital lobe |
| The occipital lobe in the back of the brain devotes most of its use to this sense | Sight |
| The two letter abbreviation at the start of this experimental CIA program's name is a cryptonym referring to the Office of Technical Service | MK Ulutra |
| In 1890 this senator's Anti-Trust Act was passed | Sherman |
| Named for a senator & a House representative, this 1930 tariff act put pressure on the financial recovery | Smoot-Hawley |
| To enforce Prohibition came this act to regulate the manufacture, etc. of alcohol & "promote its use in scientific research" | Volstead Act |
| The Anti-Union Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 known as This-this congressman overcame the veto of Harry Truman OR In 1947 Congress passed this act named for 2 politicians that banned using union dues in national election campaigns | Taft-Hartley |
| Word meaning chief sea | Archipeligo |
| For this title dead guy in a Leo Tolstoy novella, the unlikely cause of his death is hanging curtains | The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness. |
| Atlanta airport | Hartsfield-Jackson |
| Also used for bodies and evidence, this 2-word Latin term is used to describe an artifact found in its original resting place or where it was first deposited | In situ |
| Fancy name for a kitchen trash heap built up over time & indicating the former presence of a human settlement | Midden |
| Books that are one word titles of places... often family sagas... "Chesepeak" or "Klondike" | James Michener also wrote South Pacific... David Mccullough is the guy who did the historic biographies like 1776, John Adams, Teddy, Truman, etc and narrated documentaries like Civil War which is Ken Burns |
| Amsterdamn airport | Schipol (pronounced Skip hole) |
| Bruno Mars is the artist with the most entries in the top 100 with 6, but he's only a feature on | 74 "Uptown Funk"; it's credited to this producer |
| This long-serving Zimbabwean president was deposed in 2017 while an army spokesman sat at a news desk announcing there was not a coup | Mugabe |
| This is a numerical self-help bestseller by Stephen Covey which is subtitled "Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" | 7 Habbits of Highly Effective People |
| Venezuelan conductor. He is the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is scheduled to become the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026 | Dudamel |
| Japanese woman who is hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk has said that ensuring the Japan-U.S. alliance is her top diplomatic priority. | Sanae Takaichi |
| Fast Car by | Tracy Chapman |
| professional football team from Bavaria, who play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system.They are the most successful club in German football and are among the world's most decorated, having won a record 34 national titles, | Bayern Munich |
| Word definition: a quick return thrust following a parry. OR a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism. | Riposte |
| Majority of US House of Representatives is | 218 (435 total) |
| idiom from the biblical Book of Daniel, referring to a hidden weakness or fatal flaw in a person or institution that appears strong or powerful. The phrase describes an idol that tumbles | Feet of clay |
| Summer I turned Pretty by | The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by American author Jenny Han a |
| Wuthering Heights by | Emily Bronte |
| American filmmaking duo. They began their career as directors of music videos but won oscars for Everything Everywhere All at Once... share a first name | Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) |
| is both a North African slow-cooked stew and the conical, earthenware pot it is cooked in | Tagine |
| "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man"... he also did "The River" with Duke Ellington | Alvin Ailey |
| This many-headed giant sired up a storm of monsters, including Cerberus and the Hydra | Typhon |
| Rondo a Capriccio in G major is a showstopping piano piece better known as "Rage Over a Lost" this | Penny |
| Antigonous is the unlucky victim of the Bard's most infamous stage direction, "Exit, pursued by a bear", in this work | The Winter's Tale |
| Spiny proteins give this virus a crown-shaped appearance, allowing it to penetrate and infect healthy cells | Coranavirus |
| 1996 Toni Braxton sad love song | Unbreak my heart |
| Canadian World's Fair years held in Vancouver and Montreal | Vancouver= Expo 86... Montreal= Expo '67 which is where the team name comes from |
| This most populous city and former capital of the Philippines is named after the nation's second president | Quezon City |
| This former host of "Rock & Roll Jeopardy!" has been snuffing out torches of eliminated "Survivor" contestants since 2000 | Jeff Probst |
| Minimalism is intrinsic to this "-core" film movement that emphasizes naturalistic (and perhaps indistinct?) dialogue and focuses on relationships between young adults | MumbleCore (Greta Gerwig) |
| In contrast to a tornado, a severe windstorm that moves in a fairly straight path is referred to by this Spanish word | Derecho |
| The earliest known description for one of these devices that measure wind speed came from Italian polymath Leon Alberti in 1450 | anemometer |
| Seeking to prevent trade barriers, this 1944 agreement, named for the New Hampshire town where it was signed, established the IMF | Breton Woods |
| After serving as a torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral, this composer put out roughly 100 works in the following twenty months before his own death at the age of 31 | Franz Schubert (They're buried near each other first in Wahring then Vienna) |
| This British fashion house is known for using skulls in its designs, like on the scarf shown here | Alexander McQueen |
| Also a type of wrench, this is a twisting force that causes rotation | Torque |
| This university has produced many elite NFL wide receivers recently, including Justin Jefferson, Ja'Marr Chase, and Malik Nabers | LSU |
| David Letterman has donated millions to this alma mater of his in Muncie, which then named its Communication and Media Building for him | Ball State |
| This soft Italian cream cheese is used in tiramisu | mascarpone |
| To make this French dish named after the two sisters who served it at their hotel, caramelize apples in butter and sugar, add pastry crust, and bake | tarte Tatin (Tatin sisters) |
| Sometimes confused with taro, this purple yam is used in many desserts, such as Filipino halo-halo | Ube |
| The Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent under this emperor, in part due to his victories in the Dacian Wars | Trajan |
| This Christian denomination which refuses blood transfusions believes that exactly 144,000 people will go to heaven | Jehova's Witnesses |
| In 1990: He's sworn in as the first Black mayor of New York City | David Dinkins |
| was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. | Dick Turpin |
| like a liquid yet hardens upon application, often used to fill gaps in tiles or to function as reinforcement in existing structures | Grout |
| SONGS: 1. A Thousand Miles by 2. Everywhere 3. Unwritten | 1. Vanessa Carlton 2. Michelle Branch (you're everywhere to me, like sitting creepy in a tree branch) 3. Natasha Bedingfield (feel the rain on your skin when you're bedding in a field) |
| Traditional Swedish carved horse | Dala Horse |
| The world's first adhesive postage stamp, it was issued on May 6, 1840 but is not rare; over 68 million were printed & a million survive (Queen Victoria is on it) | Penny BLack |
| Here's one of the rare U.S. airmail stamps known as this biplane because of a printing error | Inverted Jenny |
| This state, the only one to border all the other Australian mainland states, has a capital city named after a Queen of England | South Australia (Adelaide) |
| Worried about an asteroid doing you in like the dinosaurs? Use this scale, named after the city where it was finalized and not a car or an Eastwood movie, to see how threatening the object might be | Torino Impact Scale |
| The top score on this sting pain index is a 4, shared between a tarantula hawk species, a bullet ant, and a species of wasp known as Synoeca septentrionalis | Schmidt Index |
| who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France... first French Socialist President | Mitterand |
| dysfunctional team of MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) 2. British spy thriller television series based on the BLANK series by BLANK | Slow Horses based on Slough House by Mick Herron |
| THIS play by THIS AUTHOR focuses on Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius in his fifties and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. | Proof by David Auburn |
| Italian for "from the head", it means to repeat a piece of music from the beginning | Da Capo |
| interred near the organ, an honor bestowed upon him in recognition of his musical brilliance after his death in 1695... Fairy Queen and Dido's Lament Composer | Purcell |
| Pink Newspaper This British newspaper is the FTSE, or "footsie" index | Financial Times |
| There are men, women & planets in the title of this bestseller about relationships by THIS AUTHOR | Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray |
| Thailand's most popular sport is this martial art with a 2-word name | Muay Thai |
| You got me a ticket to Brazil to learn this "new tendency" dance? | Bossa Nova |
| Popular in the 1940s, this Brazilian dance was based on the African Batuque | Samba |
| Reggae came out of Jamaica; this popular '50s style came from a samba-like style of Trinidad | Calypso |
| In the early '90s, it was billed as Brazil's "forbidden dance" | Lambada |
| Victor Hugo's play about this woman popularized her image as a poisoner, though there's no real evidence she was one | Lucrezia Borgia (sister to Cesare... Alexander Borgia was pope) |
| Rodrigo (father of Lucrezia and Cesare) became this pope | Alexander VI (He was a Borgia) |
| Machiavelli fittingly referred to the young duke Borgia of this name as the new this | Cesare Borgia (New Prince) |
| In 1895 this black educator delivered the THIS Compromise speech about improving the lot of African Americans | Booker T Washington and Atlanta Compromise |
| , commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022 HIS PARENTS ARE? | Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos son of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos |
| 1. Latin for "death"goives this term for the lessening value of assets or debts over time 2. Economic term "death pledge"...."death" "death pledge" property | Amortization and Mortgage |
| an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. | Pastiche (unlike parody it's an homage not mocking... like Mona Lisa with someone else) |
| Construction on the Great Pyramid at this Mesoamerican city, also a brand of hot sauce, began around 200 B.C. & lasted 1,000 years...did it have a wooden cap? | Cholula |
| In 2022 a shortage of chili peppers led to Huy Fong Foods halting production of this, also known as rooster sauce | Sirachha |
| A BYU study on microscopic worms revealed that there are 57 billion of these roundworms for every living human | Nematodes |
| Segmented Worms called | Annelids |
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