Study 9

Question 1

The largest peninsula on earth is mostly made up of this middle eastern country

Answer 1

Saudi Arabia

The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world, covering 1,250,006 square miles. It is located in the Middle East and includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The Arabian Peninsula is connected to the Asian continent and is surrounded by the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea

Question 2

Jacques Cartier’s exploration of this 800-mile-long river laid the basis for French claims on the region

Answer 2

St. Lawrence River (through Canada)

Question 3

It’s the element whose magnetic properties have been known and studied the longest

Answer 3

Iron

Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe (from Latin ferrum ‘iron’) and atomic number 26. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth’s outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust, being mainly deposited by meteorites in its metallic state.

Question 4

This 2012 reanimated dog movie is a longtime pet project of director Tim Burton

Answer 4

Frankenweenie

Question 5

An old French dance from a German folk dance, or a square dance move

Answer 5

Allemande

Definition:
-any of a number of German dances, in particular an elaborate court dance popular in the 16th century.
-the music for an allemande, especially as a movement of a suite.
“the deep and moving Allemande which opens Suite No. 20”
-a figure in country dancing in which adjacent dancers link arms or join or touch hands and make a full or partial turn.
““Pass through, ends crossfold, left allemande.””

Question 6

Category: songs from musicals (have to identify the musical)

“I Could have Danced All Night”

Answer 6

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her.

Question 7

Some blamed this president’s death on an Indian curse put on him because of the Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 7

William Henry Harrison

Question 8

He wrote his 1914 poem “Chicago” while working as a newspaper writer in that city

Answer 8

Carl Sandburg

“Chicago” is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry, March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled “Chicago Poems”. It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg’s first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems.

Question 9

In religious writing, the symbol of the Greek letter Chi represents Christ

Answer 9

X

Question 10

It’s the official language shared by Rwanda and Senegal

Answer 10

French

Question 11

Vlad the Impaler, an inspirational for Dracula, was a prince in what’s now this country

Answer 11

Romania 

Question 12

In 1878-79 Baron Nordenskjold became the first to traverse this route along Europe and Asia’s Arctic coast

Answer 12

The Northeast Passage

Question 13

This Spanish conquistador served as governor of Peru from 1531 until his murder in 1541 

Answer 13

Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475–1541)

Pizarro was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and conquistador who is best known for conquering the Inca Empire and founding the city of Lima. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro arrived in northern Peru in 1531 with a small force and took advantage of a civil war to overthrow the ruler, Atahualpa, in 1532. Pizarro defeated a 30,000-strong Inca force with fewer than 200 troops and claimed the Inca’s territories for the Spanish crown. Pizarro’s Spanish rivals assassinated him in 1541 in Lima, the city he founded in 1535.

Question 14

Home state:

Kurt Vonnegut, David Letterman, Dan Quayle

Answer 14

Indiana

Question 15

Spins performed in this include the sit spin, the camel spin, and the Biellman spin

Answer 15

Figure skating 

Question 16

It’s highest peak is Slieve Donard, which rises 2796 feet in the Mourne Mountains of County Down

Answer 16

Northern Ireland 

Question 17

Kiev remembers Khmelnitsky—a leader of these mounted warriors of Ukraine and Russia

Answer 17

The Cossacks

Question 18

Close relative of the pig, though it’s name means “River Horse”

Answer 18

Hippopotamus 

Question 19

Dickens novel with the line “it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”

Answer 19

A Tale of Two Cities 

Question 20

This “guard” of Roman Emperors was abolished in the fourth century

Answer 20

Praetorian guard

Question 21

Nathan Drake is the globe hopping treasure hunter in this series of video games

Answer 21

Uncharted 

Question 22

He was the USA’s third vice president

Answer 22

Aaron Burr

Question 23

This tabloid style paper from News Corp. was founded by Alexander Hamilton

Answer 23

New York Post 

Question 24

Begun in 1788, this is at the western end of Berlin’s Avenue Unter Den Linden

Answer 24

Brandenburg gate 

Question 25

This is the king depicted in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s series of poems “Idylls of the King”

Answer 25

King Arthur 

Question 26

This military leader took control of Panama in 1983

Answer 26

Manuel Noriega 

Question 27

This notorious prison island is politically part of the Bronx but connected by bridge to Queens

Answer 27

Rikers Island

Question 28

We hope you are not a loess for words & can tell us that loess is a type of this deposited by the wind

Answer 28

Soil

Question 29

Telling the love story of two divorcees in 1988, what Nicholas Sparks novel is set at an Inn in a small coastal town in North Carolina?

Answer 29

Nights in Rodanthe

Published in 2002

Question 30

Category: peop”l”

Richard Nixon’s running mate in 1960, this republican lost his senate seat 8 years earlier to John F. Kennedy

Answer 30

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President on a ticket with Richard Nixon, who had served two terms as Eisenhower’s vice president. The Republican ticket narrowly lost to Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; Lodge later served as a diplomat in the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Gerald Ford and was a presidential contender in 1964.

Question 31

Who wrote the Tattooist of Auschwitz?

Answer 31

Heather Morris

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp.

Question 32

Category: “E” ography

Cast in a battle scene in “Lord of the Rings”, NZ’s army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province

Answer 32

East Timor

East Timor was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it declared independence. Indonesia invaded and occupied East Timor nine days later, and incorporated it as the province of Timor Timur in July 1976. In 1999, a UN-supervised referendum resulted in an overwhelming majority of the people of East Timor voting for independence from Indonesia. The United States recognized East Timor’s independence on May 20, 2002.

The first LOTR movie was the Fellowship of the Ring and came out in 2001

Question 33

Category: businessmen

In 1913, he spent some of those nickels and dimes to build in NYC what was then the world’s tallest building

Answer 33

F. W. Woolworth

Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes”

The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, and remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as of 2024.

Architectural style: Neo-Gothic

Question 34

Word for a series of four connected works (such as operas or novels)

Answer 34

tetralogy

The original tetralogies were sets of four plays (three tragedies and a comedy) performed serially on the Athenian stages of ancient Greece. These sets of plays were similar to the “trilogy,” a group of three serial Greek tragedies. The word tetralogy is from the Greek combining form tetra-, meaning “four,” joined with the combining form “-logia,” which in turn comes from logos, meaning “word.” Other “tetra-“ words include “tetrahedron” (a solid shape formed by four flat faces) and “tetrapod” (a vertebrate with two pairs of limbs).

Question 35

Category: 60s sitcoms

Senior counselor Spiffy at Camp Runamuck, Dave Ketchum was also agent 13 on this show

Answer 35

Get Smart

Camp Runamuck is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1965–66 television season. The series was created and executive produced by David Swift, and aired for 26 episodes.

Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It stars Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick[1] to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, “the two biggest things in the entertainment world today”.

Question 36

The name of this popular Italian dish of braised veal shanks means “bone hole”

Answer 36

Osso Buco

Question 37

What does a millibar measure?

Answer 37

Barometric or atmospheric pressure

Question 38

This Canadian province has the longest border, including water, with United States

Answer 38

Ontario

Question 39

Common bonds

Also a large city in Iowa, what name can refer to a type of desk and is used as a synonym for sofa or couch

Answer 39

Davenport

A Davenport desk is a small desk with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements

Question 40

The first time African-Americans marched in the inauguration parade was at Lincoln’s second inauguration, in this year

Answer 40

1865 

Question 41

This president enjoyed gambling on the ponies; he also bread race horses at his Hermitage home

Answer 41

Andrew Jackson

Question 42

Nicknamed “handsome Frank“ he is the only president to affirm, not Swear to, the oath of Office

Answer 42

Pierce

Question 43

Held during the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary

Answer 43

Dragon boat festival 

Question 44

Though it’s in the middle of the island, not a Port, Antananarivo, is this country’s capital

Answer 44

Madagascar 

Question 45

In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses this term to describe Santiago, an elderly fisherman who has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. The term foreshadows Santiago’s long battle with the marlin.

Answer 45

salao

Salao is a Spanish slang term that means “extremely unlucky” or “jinxed”. It comes from the Spanish word salado, which means “salty”. The term implies that the ocean is too salty to support life.

Question 46

Now named for the family member who managed the business before and after prohibition, what famous bourbon brand was called Old Tub from 1880-1943

Answer 46

Jim Beam

Question 47

Food stew of Marseille was originally cooked on the beach by fisherman

Answer 47

bouillabaisse

Question 48

A 1968 scarefest: The title character made it a family of three for the Woodhouses

Answer 48

Rosemary’s Baby

Question 49

AKA

Sir Percy Blakeney, a colorful fop with a sword

Answer 49

The Scarlett Pimpernel

Question 50

If you win your first point of a tennis game, you have this number as your score

Answer 50

15

Question 51

The Octobrists were formed in this large country in 1905 & quickly became its majority political group

Answer 51

Russia

Question 52

Bond Movie by Bond Girl

2002: Halle Berry as Jinx Johnson

Answer 52

Die Another Day

Question 53

The Borsa is Italy’s main this

Answer 53

Stock exchange

Question 54

Category: magic words

The first part of this two word term used to make something transform comes from Italian for “soon”

Answer 54

Presto chango

Question 55

What does erstwhile mean?

Answer 55

adjective
former; of times past:
Ex. erstwhile friends.

adverb
Archaic.
formerly; erst.