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Starred Study 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is a short clip of music that can be used to introduce, end or link various sections of an audio or audiovisual production. | Stinger |
| This Korean martial art became an Olympic medal sport at the 2000 Games in Sydney | Taekwando |
| Her short stories include "Where Is Here?", "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" & "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Chile's liberator | Bernardo O'Higgins in 1812s and 1820s |
| Years of Mexican American War AND President AND year Texas was annexed | 1846-1848 and Polk and 1845 (only state to enter by treaty) |
| Three years before the release of 'Me Against the World', and four years before his death, this West Coast rapper starred in 'Juice' opposite Omar Epps | Tupak Shakur |
| The "L" you don't say in this iron you use to join metal objects together ALSO It's the word for the alloy that's heated to join the lead strips surrounding pieces of stained glass | Solder (pronounced Sodder) |
| "If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious", that "it" being this word | supercalifragilisticexpialidocious |
| Las Vegas is the largest city in this largest county of Nevada | Clark |
| The name "Las Vegas", which translates to this in English, reflects the once-fertile oasis the city was founded near AND This alliterative nickname of Fremont Street comes from its abundance of neon signs | The Meadows and GLITTER GULCH... the Las Vegas Strip is the famous one aka Las Vegas Boulevard but Fremont Street is the old one |
| Pindaric Odes are contrasted with these other odes; a famous example is Marvell's "Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" | Horatian Odes (Horace Roman guy who did Odes) |
| Poet and playwright LeRoi Jones, who changed his name to Amiri Baraka, wrote a poem titled for this movement he was considered the father of | Black Arts Movement |
| From 1993 to 1995 this writer of "Thomas and Beulah" was the first female African-American Poet Laureate Consultant | Rita Dove |
| poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for Live or Die. Her poetry details bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and private life, including relationships (Plath) | Anne Sexton (knew Sylvia Plath, wrote about her death, and also died of suicide) |
| Farnsworth | |
| was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. | Keane (Amy Adams played her in a movie) |
| is a common skin condition that causes flushing or long-term redness on your face. | Rosacea |
| is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. | Thrombosis |
| a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains | Ossuary (Os is Latin for Bone) |
| the fancy, or medical, name for earwax is | Cerumen |
| This founder of utilitarianism has had his preserved body and fake head on display in London for much of the last 170 years | Jeremy Bentham |
| The ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand (one of the oldest in the world) is located in what modern-day nation, which was the center of the empire of Tamerlane (the Timurid Empire)? | Uzbekistan |
| Making a departure? Use a synonym from religion, like Exodus or this journey that covered about 210 miles in 622 A.D... EASY (when Muhammad went to THIS CITY) | Hejira and Medina |
| Though the French ones are a favorite at Dunkin', this deep-fried, twisted donut is from a Dutch word | Cruller |
| Mountains form via this process, from the Greek for "mountain" & "born"; it results from intense crustal upheavals | Orogeny |
| people of Mexican descent living in Texas or the popular music style they created, known as Tex-Mex music. | Tejano |
| It's a Japanese martial art & form of fencing using bamboo swords | Kendo |
| This trickster figure from the Uncle Remus tales (By THIS AUTHOR) is seen in Kara Walker's artwork of the Black experience "African't" | Brer Rabbit ( African-American folktales. Song of the South by Disney movie) Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881.) |
| Famous for novels about an ex-basketball star, he combined his love for hoops with pictures by Walter Iooss in 1972... NAME THE AUTHOR AND THE CHARACTER | John Updike wrote books about Harry Rabbit Angstrom (the tetralogy that begins with Rabbit, Run, continues with Rabbit Redux, then goes to Rabbit is Rich and concludes with Rabbit at Rest. There is also a related novella, Rabbit Remembered (2001)... |
| Two Roman classes In ancient Rome if you were free but non-aristocratic, say a baker or an artisan, you were in this class AND The noble class in Roma, its name may be from the Latin for father | Plebians low and Patricians high |
| "Lump" and "Peaches" from this Seattle band with a national name | Presidents of the United States of America |
| Iowa band metal masks numbers jumpsuits | Slipknot |
| A friend of this composer heard him sadly sing "Four Serious Songs" after the death of his crush Clara Schumann | Brahms |
| In this type of opinion, Latin for "by the court", observers don't know which individual judges agreed or disagreed | Per Curiam |
| ll-fitting shoes may cause this hard swelling at the place where the big toe connects with the foot | Bunion |
| She won a Nobel Prize in 1983 for her discovery of jumping genes | Barbara Mclintock |
| This star of "Samson and Delilah" from Hollywood's Golden Age worked on tech that would lead to Wi-Fi & Bluetooth technology | Heddy Lamarr |
| Bathsheba Everdene owns a farm & Gabriel Oak is a shepherd in this Thomas Hardy novel 1st published in The Cornhill Magazine | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Clams' main food are these mostly microscopic drifting organisms whose name means "wandering" | Plankton |
| Tuesday is named after... and Monday named after this body... and Wednesday named after | Tyre for the name. The symbol is Mars and that's also where we get Martes... Thursday named after Thor and Friday Frigg... Monday named after the Moon and Wednesday is Woden (Odin)... Saturday is named after Saturn and Sunday the Sun |
| As an intern Nora Ephron had one exchange with JFK, as he left for this Mass. "Port", but couldn't hear what he said | Hyannis on Cape Code where Kennedys lived |
| Not to be confused with a Mexican sauce, this Filipino dish is braised meat cooked in a marinade of vinegar, soy sauce & garlic | Adobo (Spanish to marinate gives Adobo) |
| : It's the "silly" nickname for Canada's one-dollar coin | Loonie after a Loon or Toonie is two dollar |
| This city in Alaska has hosted the Midnight Sun Festival for more than 40 years | Fairbanks (second most populous ahead of Juneau behind Anchorage) |
| best known for being the first actor to play the masked Zorro, Thief of Baghadad, a version of Robin Hood,] and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.,... married Mary Pickford and founded United Artists with Chaplin and Griffith | Douglass Fairbanks... his son Douglass Fairbanks Jr was more into Talkies, Gunga Din, married Joan Crawford and was a naval officer |
| In Donna Woolfolk Cross' novel about the legend of the 9th century woman known as pope her, she passes as brother John | Pope Joan |
| Across the street from Ford's Theatre is this residence where Abraham Lincoln died | Petersen House |
| A 1961 Stratocaster helped this guitarist & singer make the solos on "Sultans Of Swing" immortal | Knopfler of Dire Straights (also did Princess Bride) |
| If you remember the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer", you know this is French for "what is it?" | Qu'est-ce que c'est ?" can be written out as "kes kuh say" |
| Tina Weymouth joined David Byrne, Jerry Harrison & Chris Frantz as this band reunited for the 1st time in about 20 yrs. in '02 | Talking Heads... remember David Byrne |
| The street with all the bars in Nashville is THIS, also known as the "Honky Tonk Highway" | Lower Broadway (or just Broadway) |
| In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle... along with St Augustine it was a capital of Florida... | Pensacola (In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in & around this Florida Panhandle city)... it's a Naval Air station |
| THIS is protagonist of Little Shop of Horrors, a meek and insecure man who works at a flower shop. He is known for discovering and feeding a man-eating plant named THIS | Seymour and his plant is named Audrey II (Audrey I is a human I think) |
| Song "Unchained Melody" by | Righteous Brothers (also did Lost that Loving Feeling) |
| SONG "You Can’t Hurry Love" by | Supremes (Diana Ross) |
| is a sentence or phrase that contains every letter of a given alphabet at least once | Pangram ( example is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," there is not a word for a word that uses all vowels but education and faceitious (or educationally and facetiously) are most famous |
| a graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data, where each bar represents the frequency of data points within a specific range or "bin" or "bucket" | Histogram (looks like a bar chart with columns) the first step is to "bin" (or "bucket") the values— |
| In math, it's a statement that's proven first in order to prove a larger theorem OR There's no "di" in this term for a short theorem used to prove a larger one--but watch out for the horns anyway | Lemma |
| Fellow writer Ezra Pound gave this 2-word animalistic nickname to T.S. Eliot, who would use it in the title of one of his books... CAN YOU NAME THE FULL TITLE? | Old Possum (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) |
| Since, unlike most alkali metals, it was found in a mineral, this element was named from the Greek for "stone" | Lithium |
| Elements in the d-block of the table (groups 3 to 12) are known by this "changing" name | Transition Metals |
| Number 43, this element is so named because it was the first to be artificially produced | Technetium |
| Unlike origami, this similarly-named craft also requires the use of scissors | Kirigami |
| Maryland's state dog (think of the body of water nearby) | Chesapeake Bay Retriever |
| "Full" 20-letter name for a 60-carbon molecule in the shape of a soccer ball | Buckminsterfullerene (called Bucky balls) |
| the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent. Latin to "stand by things" | Stare decisis |
| Latin for "we command," is a court order compelling a lower court, government official, or agency to perform a specific legal duty when they have failed or refused to do so | Mandamus |
| soft hail or snow pellets, is a type of precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets freeze onto falling snowflakes, creating small, opaque, round pellets of rime ice. | Graupel |
| The International Rose Test Garden is in this Oregon city, nicknamed "The City of Roses" | Portland |
| OUTLAW country music pioneer he gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed that killed these THREE | 1. Waylon Jennings 2. killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens. |
| Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of this heavy metal band, captained their charter plane on their world tours | Iron Maiden |
| Deriving its name from its gray camouflage, this most venomous fish also has blade-like protrusions under its eyes | Stonefish |
| A dactylogram is a formal term for this unique identifying feature | Fingerprint |
| Made with finely-chopped parsley, this Argentine uncooked sauce is commonly served as an accompaniment to grilled meats | ChimmiChurri |
| Popular in Cajun cooking, this cold sauce is made from mayonnaise, herbs, and chopped pickles | Remoulade |
| This spicy paste used in North African cuisine is made with Baklouti peppers, a chili cultivar found in Tunisia | Harissa |
| The Cincinnati home of a family of formerly enslaved people is haunted by a malevolent spirit in this Toni Morrison book | Beloved |
| The titular liminal space is populated by 166 ghosts in this novel by George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| The title character is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods in this Scotland-set Donizetti opera | Lucia de Lamermoor |
| Known as the Island Arawaks and this five-letter name, they were the first New World People encountered by Columbus | Taino (Arawaks and Taino were in the islands and Columbus devastated them) |
| This iconic powder-haired Chanel designer was rarely seen without his signature gloves & dark sunglasses | Karl Lagerfeld |
| MRIs are part of this science that specifically studies the absorption of light & radiation by matter | Strecoscopy |
| Latin for "something said in passing", it's a remark made by a judge that has no legal bearing on a case | Obiter Dictum |
| This egg-shaped building's original pews--enough to seat nearly 9,000--were made of pine from the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains | Mormon Tabernacle |
| These Quaker places of worship are known for simplicity; seating is plain chairs or benches often facing each other | Meeting Houses |
| main part of a church where the pews are located takes its name from the Latin for "ship", AND THIS is a semicircular or polygonal recess, often covered by a vault. | Nave (Narthex is entrance, then crossing and trancepts on sides) and then APSE which is usually behind altar at end |
| Implanted in 1982, the first successful artificial heart was designed by & named for this American doctor | Jarvik |
| highly reactive molecules with an unpaired electron that can damage cells, DNA, and other molecules.... can cause body to glow | Free radicals |
| This woeful feeling's name comes from the belief that it was caused by excessive black bile | Melancholy |
| He was president when the 22nd amendment was ratified, but it didn't apply to him, so he could've ran for a 3rd term if he wanted to | Truman |
| This process occurs when a particle and its antiparticle counterpart collide, though it doesn't necessarily imply total destruction | Annihilation |
| A person who attacks cherished institutions goes by this name that was a term for someone who destroyed religious images | Iconoclast |
| Son of Seth/ grandson of Adam, who lived during a time when people began to "call upon the name of the Lord" THIS is the same name they chose for a chimpanzee who flew on the Mercury-Atlas 5 mission in 1961, becoming the second hominid to orbit the Earth | Enos (Yuri Gagarin the first homonid)... HAM was the first monkey in space |
| a sandwich filled with what the Brits call fries. It originated in shops in Britain in the 19th century, though the exact origin is disputed. | Chip Butty |
| In 2023 the Wall Street Journal called this Arkansas city, home to Walmart headquarters, "a new capital of cool" | Bentonville |
| Bob Dylan Way winds 1.8 miles through the downtown of this Minnesota port city, Dylan's birthplace | Duluth |
| authoritarian family dynasty, CORRUPT Nicaraguan politics COUP Anastasio ("Tacho"), continuing with his eldest son Luis in the 1950s and 60s, and ending with the resignation of Anastasio ("Tachito")? And WHO OVERTHREW THEM? | Somoza and Sandinistas |
| This condition of loss of melanin, a more noticeable issue for those with dark skin, has its own day on June 25 | Vitiligo (Vit-i-lai-go) |
| a disease caused by trypanosomes transmitted by bloodsucking bugs (kissing bugs), endemic in South America and causing damage to the heart and central nervous system. Which country? | Chagas disease Named for Chagas who is from Brazil but the disease is more places |
| "father of skyscrapers"[2] and "father of modernism".[3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. | Sullivan |
| 1. A prominent nose, or an elephant's trunk or a type of monkey (*Nasalis larvatus: This primate) and 2. A factor in human blood is named for this monkey seen (actually a type of monkey with que) | 1. Probiscis (monkey) (PRO-BOS-IS) and 2. Rhesus Maqaque |
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