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Starred Study 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Billed as one of several "Fight[s] of the Century" was a 1938 fight that ended in Joe Louis's victory over this German boxer | Max Schmelling |
| This boxer handed down a brutal TKO to Jake LaMotta in their final bout, thereafter called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" of boxing | Sugar Ray Robinson |
| Thomas Burberry patented this waterproof fabric in 1888 that soon after found use in the British trench coats of World War I | Gabardine |
| Ferment me once and get some wine; ferment me twice, and get this "sour wine" also known as acetic acid | Vinnegar |
| He chaired two commissions which issued recommendations for administrative changes in the federal government | Hoover |
| Cher, who shares a last name with former USC football coach Steve (who was fired after repeated public intoxication incidents) | Sarkisian |
| This department store declared bankruptcy in 2000, 61 years after Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created for its Christmas booklets | Montgomery Ward |
| In URL, a web address | Uniform Resource Locator |
| This novella is about Gustav von Aschenbach's obsession with a boy he sees while on vacation on the Lido | Death in Venice by Thomas Mann |
| This fever spread by mosquitos in tropical regions has made some appearances in the southern US, but fortunately this is one of the diseases that Albert Sabin helped develop a vaccine against | Dengue |
| VZV stands for this virus, which causes chickenpox, shingles, and other infections | Varicella zoster (virus) |
| The 1991 eruption of this volcano in Luzon formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze | Mount Pinatubo |
| Latin for "little moon", it's the moon-shaped white part of a fingernail | Lunula |
| This "E" river is over 1000 km long and travels through much of Bohemia | Elbe |
| This Latin phrase refers to a depiction in art of Christ wearing a crown of thorns | Ecce Homo (behold the man) |
| When a leader hasn't actually been elected, he might be deemed this 2-word type from Latin | De facto |
| If someone says this 3-word phrase, you might have been a little loose-lipped during happy hour | In vino veritas |
| All aboard! Hobbyists & collectors, for the 125th anniversary in 2025 of this model train maker | Lionel |
| Proving that the ice packs rest on water, not land, this U.S. submarine passed under the Arctic in 1958 | Nautilus |
| Damon Albarn co-created Blur & this band known for "Feel Good Inc." | Gorillaz... like Godzilla and animation focused |
| Classic hot sauce/ buffalo sauce named after a color | Frank's Red Hot....The Frank Tea and Spice Company was founded in 1896 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1917, |
| Words for 150 and 250 anniversaries | 1. sesquicentennial 2. Semiquincentennial |
| American prime-time soap opera that aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964, to June 2, 1969... based on a similar British show different location (NAME SECOND SHOW TOO) | 1. Peyton Place and 2. Coronation Street |
| The biggest lake in Hungary | Lake Balaton |
| French professional football club based in Paris. Founded in 1970 | Paris Saint Germaine |
| Ukraine's longest river, it bisects the country before emptying into the Black Sea...fourth longest in Europe and runs through Kyiv | Dneiper |
| "There are no wire hangers ever" for this "Mommie Dearest" & screen legend (played by Faye Dunaway once)... and her daughter name | Joan Crawford is the snob mom, Christina Crawford is the daughter, and Cindy Crawford is a model |
| 1. weightlifting move explosively lifts a weight from the shoulders to an overhead position. 2. weightlifting lifting a barbell from the ground to an overhead position fluid 3. a weight lifting a barbell from the ground to an overhead position fluid | 1. Jerk (think it's short, it's just shoulders to up)... you can also split it 2. Clean, you've done these 3. Snatch (snatch that all the way) |
| 1. the French term for a dessert made of beaten egg whites and sugar (like airy marshmellow), 2. a partner dance originating from the Dominican Republic, known for its simple, marching basic step and consistent, upbeat rhythm | Merenge and Merengay |
| The world's first production plutonium reactors were at this site that still has a lot of cleanup to do (near Richland Washington) | Hanford |
| In "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" this Sleater-Kinney & "Portlandia" singer/actress explores finding herself in music (she's a top-ranked guitarist) | Carrie Brownstein |
| What rock band, whose longtime lineup consisted of Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker, and Carrie Brownstein, is named after a road (and exit off I-5) in Lacey, WA? | Sleater-Kinney |
| Kyle MacLachlan was the clean-cut FBI agent investigating a murder in the very strange title town of this series | Twin Peaks... he was also in Blue Velvet and Showgirls and Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your Mother and Portlandia (the mayor) with Fred Armisen |
| Literally "mix mix" in Tagalog, this double talk dessert combines shaved ice, condensed milk, jackfruit & other sweets | Halo-Halo |
| Near Chichén Itzá, Ik Kil is one of these sinkholes with a Mexican Spanish name | Cenote |
| Used to be a Calypso singer, but now is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), an organization which combines black nationalism and Islamic teachings | Louis Farrakhan |
| He established the notorious People's Temple & was responsible for over 900 deaths at a compound in Guyana | Jim Jones |
| 1. 1985 this well-dressed guy became boss after the murder of his boss Paul Castellano, (n Boss of Bosses )2. was an Italian gangster in the Five Points Gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the 20s and 30s | John Gotti (Teflon Don is nickname) and Lucky Luciano |
| A sound and a station in Antarctica bears the name of this naval officer, first name Archibald | McMurdo |
| When paper turns yellow over time, it’s because of this polymer mixing with oxygen, it’s also bonded with cellulose in the makeup of wood | Lignin |
| Literally “deceives the eye”, this French term is for pieces of art that make you think they’re 3-D, coined by Louis-Leopold Boilly, used by many American artists | trompe-l'œil (TROMP LOY) |
| Also a Hungarian cavalry in the 1400s, busby wearing hussars in England committed this massacre, named after “Waterloo” in a Mancunian square in 1819 | Peterloo ( at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people were killed and 400–700 were injured when the cavalry of the Yeomen charged into a crowd of around 60,000 demanding reform of parliamentary representation.) |
| Cold Cream | |
| From the greek for “salt”, It’s also known as rock salt or sodium chloride | Halite |
| In “A Man in Full”, Jeff Daniels’s Character boasts his horse almost won this “cup”, a race for thoroughbred horses with over 25 million dollars in prize money | Breeder's Cup |
| He’s famous for calling “Down goes Frazier!”, his memoir "I Never Played the Game”, and being an original host of “Monday Night Football” | Cosell |
| This American astronomer discovered pluto | Tombaugh |
| Prince Albert of Monaco’s bride wore these from Swarovski, with the logo of a swan | Crystals |
| In 2002 this artist was honored with a pedestrian "Bridge of Glass" for the opening of the Museum of Glass in his native Tacoma | Chihuly (one eyed dude glass flowers and gardens)... Chihuly Garden and Glass is right near the Space Needle |
| TV: 1. Host of Big Brother 2. What the weekly winner is called | Julie Suzanne Chen Moonves 2. Head of Household (HOH) |
| This tuber is also known as the Mexican turnip & packs a watery crunch | Jicama |
| "Vesti la giubba" means this and is an Aria from Pagliacci which stars THIS character | Put on the clothes and Canio (Pagliacci means clowns) |
| For the whole century, Dejima, a Dutch-controlled island off this port city, was Western lands' only window into Japan | Nagasaki |
| Japan's second largest city | Yokohama |
| It's another name for the pharyngeal tonsils | Adnoids |
| In mythology & Shakespeare, he's the brother of Hector who isn't Paris | Troilus |
| like this WNBA legend and first to dunk in a league game | Lisa Leslie |
| This type of floor is made up of a mosaic of wood pieces, often set in geometric or even herringbone patterns; the Boston Celtics are known for dominating on their home court version | Parquet |
| Dickens dully delighted in alliterative titles, like with this first novel, whose best known title has a 2-word alliteration, and whose fuller title has three (we'll take either); the action is inspired by Dickens's career as a journalist | What are the Pickwick Papers / The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club |
| You're Tearing me Apart!' James Dean yells to his parents in this movie that inspired much of teen culture to follow | Rebel Without a Cause |
| This second lightest metal on the periodic table is often used in consumer electronics, alloyed with copper, and offer both high strength and high conductivity | Berylium |
| E: Latin plural for mistakes in a text OR Corrigenda are fixes to an article from an author who made a mistake; this Latin plural refers to fixes of editorial goofs | Errata or singular Erratum |
| At the end of this novel, Newland Archer looks up at the apartment of the love of his life & heads back to his hotel | Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Martin Scorcese did a film with Daniel Day Lewis as Archer and Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfiefer) |
| Thunderstorms & temperature inversions can cause this sudden change in wind speed or direction, often creating turbulence | Wind Shear |
| March 27: She wins a Tony for her role as "Peter Pan" | Mary Martin |
| This author's "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" was adapted into a Canadian cartoon series in the 2000s AND The first book of this Jeff Brown series begins with a large heavy bulletin board falling on the main character | Louis Sachar and Flat Stanley |
| Though he made a name for himself with "Back to the Future", it wouldn't be until "Forrest Gump" that he would get an Oscar | Who is Robert Zemeckis? |
| The deepest lake in North America, it's named after a First Nations group | Great Slave Lake (Great Bear Lake is more northern and bigger if you don't count Superior it's the biggest) |
| Named for the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada, this mountain is second only to Denali for the tallest in North America | Mount Logan |
| The name of this city likely either comes from moscâstani-sîpiy, meaning "warm place by the river", or the fact that said river looks like part of an animal's skull | Moosejaw |
| From the Latin, it's a "joyful" term for a tightrope walker | Funambulist |
| 2 years before Waterloo, Napoleon suffered a beatdown in this Saxon city during the Battle of the Nations | Leipzig |
| In 2025, the opera Carmen turns 150, meaning it's celebrating this milestone | ses·qui·cen·ten·ni·al |
| "No 1 hits from this artist include Dreamlover My All We Belong Together Always Be My Baby Honey Vision Of Love Fantasy" Dreamlover | Mariah Carey (The Beatles hold the record for the most number-one hit songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart with 20 songs. As a solo artist, Mariah Carey has the most number-one hits, with 19.) Don't forget All I want for christmas is you |
| Mighty Hunter in Bible now an insult | Nimrod |
| Numerical name for the group of 19th century Russian composers AND their anatomical nickname | Russian Five or Mighty Handful (Borodin, Rimsky-Korsokov, and Mussorgsky or the main guys) |
| Also called the collarbone, it's one of the most commonly broken bones | Clavicle |
| Using electrical stimulation instead of braces began in the '80s to help with this, a side-to-side curve of the spine | Scoliosis |
| Chronic acid reflux is also known by this 4-letter acronym | GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) |
| Chaired by Desmond Tutu, this commission gave amnesty to some of the perpetrators of apartheid in exchange for their honest testimony | Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| The India-set Seinfeld episode "The Betrayal" unfolds in reverse chronological order, in an homage to this playwright | Pinter |
| The Itsukushima Shrine is best known for the "floating" version of this traditional Japanese gate | Torri |
| Molière has the title guy of this play manipulate Orgon (another character) quite nastily | Tartuffe |
| Native to the deserts of North Africa, this smallest fox species uses its unusually large ears to dissipate heat and to listen for underground prey | Fennec Fox |
| These bipedal rodents, native to Western North America (not Australia), are able to leap up to 9 ft and can go their entire lives without drinking water | Kangaroo rats |
| This character created by Mickey Spillane was portrayed by Stacy Keach in three different TV series | Mike Hammer |
| Also a drink it's A small tool for boring holes | Gimlet |
| In recognition of her support for those affected by a deadly wildfire, this actress was granted Greek citizenship, along with her husband Tom Hanks | Rita Wilson |
| The Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites belong to this movement whose core tenet is baptizing believers during adulthood | Anabaptism |
| The deadliest prison uprising in U.S. history took place in 1971 at this New York state penitentiary | Attica |
| Nearly half of Constantinople was destroyed during these 532 AD riots against Emperor Justinian I... NAME THE RIOT AND THE COLORS | Nika riots Blues and Greens chariot racing.. Nika after Nike they shouted which was victory |
| Slang for 100 dollar bill (alphanumeric) | C. note |
| An opening in the body of a violin | F hole |
| This man's eponymous device for measuring shoe sizes earned him an induction in 1992 | Brannock |
| According to political scientist John Geer, invoking this Gullah spiritual that was originally an earnest appeal for God's help "lets you ridicule the whole idea of compromise" | Kumbaya |
| "In 2017, the Oland family celebrated 150 years of operating this, Canada's oldest independent brewery, in Saint John, New Brunswick." | Moosehead |
| This 2017 record-breaking art auction item, depicting Christ holding a crystal orb, is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci but remains a subject of debate | Salvatore Mundi ("Savior of the World) |
| Baseball moneyball father and the term he coined for advanced stats | Bill James and Sabermetrics (after Society for American Baseball Research) |
| Pittsburgh Demonym | yinzer. The term "yinzer" comes from "yinz," the Pittsburgh regional term for "you all," and is associated with the local dialect of Pittsburghese. |
| EPCOT stands for | Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, |
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