Alvin Ailey Of Dance

Question 1

Floral symbol in Buddhist art

Answer 1

Lotus

Question 2

Dessert described as half bread, half cake

Answer 2

Babka

Question 3

Evil corporation on Apple TV+ severance

Answer 3

Lumon

Question 4

BIOGRAPHIES
Between 1919 and 1920 who wrote many entries in the W section of The New English Dictionary before later turning his attention to Middle-earth?

Answer 4

J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 5

SCIENCE & TECH
Invite-only since its launch in 2015, which dating app popular with celebs and influencers had a reported 100,000-person waiting list just three years later?

Answer 5

Raya

Question 6

HISTORY & SOCIETY
Drawing nearly 100,000 hippies to its Haight-Ashbury district in 1967, which U.S. city was home to what was dubbed the Summer of Love?

Answer 6

San Francisco

Question 7

MONEY & NUMBERS
Which singer received the posh gift of a Napa Valley vineyard from her husband shortly after he joined the LA Galaxy football club?

Answer 7

Victoria Beckham

Question 8

ARTS & CULTURE
Also known as this, the Christian holiday Epiphany takes place on the 12th day after which holiday?

Answer 8

Three Kings’ Day
After Christmas

Question 9

With a long snout and more than 100 sharp interlocking teeth, a gharial is a type of which animal?

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correct

Answer 9

Crocodile

Question 10

GEOGRAPHY
Known as Y Ddraig Goch, a red dragon appears on which country’s flag?

Answer 10

Wales

Question 11

ANYTHING GOES
Which school is home to a 134-foot-tall mural commonly called “Touchdown Jesus” that overlooks its football stadium?
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Answer 11

University of Notre Dame

Question 12

ANIMALS & NATURE
Having immobile eye tubes rather than eyeballs that can move, which birds have evolved necks that can rotate 270 degrees?
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Answer 12

Owls

Question 13

ANYTHING GOES
In 1994 Ford Bronco sales increased by about 25 percent months after which celebrity rode in one during a televised low-speed police chase?”

Answer 13

O.J. Simpson

Question 14

HISTORY & SOCIETY
Commonly spoken in many parts of the Middle East until the 7th century, which language was believed to be spoken by Jesus?
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Answer 14

Aramaic

Question 15

VOCAB
An oligarchy is a government controlled by which group?

Answer 15

A select few

Question 16

BIOGRAPHIES
Before becoming one of the world’s foremost sex therapists, which media personality trained as a sniper in a Jewish paramilitary force in the 1940s?

Answer 16

Dr Ruth

Question 17

February 2024 Walmart executed a 3-for-1 stock split. With the stock priced at $175.56 at the time of the split, what was its price after the split?

Answer 17

$58.52

Question 18

Rereading it nearly two decades after he wrote it, which novel did William Golding denounce as “boring and crude”?

Answer 18

Lord of the flies

Question 19

With bright colors and wavy lines that typified Catalan Modernism, Sagrada Família is a widely visited church in which city?
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Answer 19

Barcelona

Question 20

TECH
Which tool is used by physicians to examine a patient’s ear canal?
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Answer 20

Otoscope

Question 21

Oxyphenbutazone will give you the highest known score in what board game

Answer 21

Scrabble

Gives you 1458 points +50 for playing all your letters +270 for making seven new other words

Question 22

Getting almost no snow despite freezing temperatures where are the McMurdo dry valleys

Answer 22

Antarctica,
the dry valleys live up to their name by getting almost no precipitation at all

Question 23

Made with wine, cream, sugar, and eggs the medieval drink posset is the origin of what

Answer 23

Eggnog
Posset was served with a layer of gruel on top that you could eat with a spoon

Question 24

Which country artist has sold the greatest number of records

Answer 24

Garth Brooks
since Taylor Swift turned to pop early in her career Garth Brooks should hold as the top selling country artist for a while

Question 25

Who is the first ruler of the holy Roman Empire?

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Charlemagne, born in the 700s Charlemagne became king of the Franks king of the Lombards and the first holy Roman emperor

Question 26

Charles Lindbergh’s famous trans Balantic flight took off from where and landed where

Answer 26

Long Island, New York and landed in Paris. Spirit of St. Louis. Took about 33 hours ago to go from Long Island to Paris in 1927.

Question 27

BIOGRAPHIES In 1985 the state of Michigan officially declared the voice of which singer, raised on Detroit’s west side, a “natural resource of the state”?

Answer 27

Aretha Franklin

Question 28

HISTORY & SOCIETY Utilizing his celebrity status earned during Prohibition, which lawman was hired by the U.S. government to combat the spread of venereal diseases among soldiers?

Answer 28

Elliot ness

Question 29

GEOGRAPHY While the majority of Siberia lies in this country , a small portion of it is found in which other country? +100 correct

Answer 29

Russia Kazakhstan small

Question 30

ARTS & CULTURE Mixing combat and music, which martial art was created by enslaved people in Brazil who disguised their fighting techniques as folk dancing?

Answer 30

Capoeira

Question 31

MONEY & NUMBERS Its name derived from an Old English word for “outstretched arms,” a fathom is equal to what distance?

Answer 31

6 feet

Question 32

SCIENCE & TECH If an athlete needs meniscus surgery, the doctor will operate on which body part? +100 correct

Answer 32

Knee

Question 33

ANYTHING GOES Dating back to Victorian England, in which game do players use a squidger to shoot small plastic discs into a pot? +100 correct

Answer 33

Tiddlywinks

Question 34

Which insect is known to build mounds up to 30 feet tall and 80 feet wide, with many chambers dedicated to wood storage? +100 correct

Answer 34

Termite

Question 35

History and the movies This 1935 best picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of tofua Toe fehw ah

Answer 35

Mutiny on the bounty Fletcher Christian, and his men committed mutiny on the bounty Not How green was my valley 1941

Question 36

Her first number one pop hit 2008. I kissed a girl (and she liked it. )

Answer 36

Katy Perry

Question 37

Her first number one pop hit 1985 saving all my love for you

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Whitney Houston

Question 38

Her first number one pop hit 1989 straight up

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Paula Abdul

Question 39

Her first number one pop hit 1989 wind beneath my wings

Answer 39

Bette Midler

Question 40

On February 24, 1836, William B Travis wrote the victory or death memo from this landmark, but Travis and his man did not find victory

Answer 40

The Alamo

Question 41

Vanilla is one of the scented essential oils that are the basis of this practice to help you feel calmer and boost your mood

Answer 41

Aromatherapy

Question 42

Saint Catherine’s Greek orthodox monastery in Egypt is situated at the foot of this mountain found on a peninsula

Answer 42

Mount Sinai

Question 43

Oscar wild called this British activity with a pack of hounds, the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable

Answer 43

Fox hunting

Question 44

This watery site must be one of the earliest, if not, the keenest disappointment in American married life said Oscar Wilde

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Niagara Falls popular honeymoon site at the time

Question 45

On October 16, 1946 joachim Vonn ribbentrop Wilhelm Keitel and eight others were executed in the city

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Nuremberg of the Nuremberg trials

Question 46

Like many others on that 79 A.D. day pliny got no elder after succumbing to the fumes from this volcano above the bay of Naples Plin e

Answer 46

Vesuvius

Question 47

Dolly Parton’s mom’s recipe for this dessert a southern specialty of course includes a box of vanilla wafers

Answer 47

Banana pudding

Question 48

Sculptor Augustus Saint gauden , last major work was his monument honoring this Civil War hero on the March?

Answer 48

Sherman’s March

Question 49

Vanilla come from the beans or pods of certain varieties of this flowering plant

Answer 49

Orchid

Question 50

She and three Lincoln conspirators would be hanged in 1865 but two years later only the jury was hung in her son’s trial

Answer 50

Mary suh rot Surratt

Question 51

5,5 About 230 of the Shakespeare collections called this still exist a good quality one can fetch over 5 million

Answer 51

First folio

Question 52

5,5 An Egyptian style of this is called rocks Sharkey (raqs sharqi) and is now performed by both men and women often as wedding entertainment

Answer 52

Belly dance

Question 53

5,5 It’s the only US state capital that fits this category

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Baton Rouge

Question 54

5,5 This 10 limb invertebrae lives up to its name with the eyes the size of dinner plates

Answer 54

Giant squid

Question 55

And this novel lord , Henry says I like men who have a future and women who have a past

Answer 55

The picture of Dorian Gray

Question 56

A character in a woman of no importance claims moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like this.

Answer 56

Excess

Question 57

In the early 1800s, Barry, a dog of this breed reportedly saved over 40 people in the Alps

Answer 57

Saint Bernard

Question 58

1993 of Saint Germain, recognized the independence of several countries and the end of this families empire Jer man

Answer 58

Habsburg’s

Question 59

This conquistador gets the credit for bringing vanilla back to Europe from Mexico to be used as a flavoring

Answer 59

Cortez

Question 60

Surely, after her husband fell on his sword in 30 BC, this royal got snakepit and was buried with her beloved

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Cleopatra

Question 61

The difference between regular vanilla ice cream, and French vanilla is the addition of these which also makes it yellow

Answer 61

Egg yolks Shakira

Question 62

First number one hit Hips don’t lie 2006

Answer 62

Shakira

Question 63

5,5 Like slap, happy this adjective originally referred to a boxer who is dazed from taking too many blows to the head

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Punch drunk

Question 64

It states second most populous city this capital is built on Bluffs along a curve in the Mississippi River

Answer 64

Saint Paul

Question 65

In lady Windemere‘s fan wild wrote I can resist everything except this

Answer 65

Temptation

Question 66

In 2012 he became the first person to reach Challenger deep solo

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James Cameron

Question 67

In a 1985 epic Edward Woodward play saw and Richard Gere is this title king

Answer 67

David

Question 68

The four stars on toke uh lahw’s flag represent this constellation and the role of Christianity in the countries culture

Answer 68

Southern Cross

Question 69

This alternative rock band is most known for their 1997 hit song "Sex and Candy".

Answer 69

Guess: Alice in Chains Answer: Marcy Playground

Question 70

Justin Duchscherer was an All-Star in 2005 as a reliever and in 2008 as a starting pitcher while playing for this American League team.

Answer 70

Guess: Los Angeles Angels Answer: Oakland Athletics

Question 71

Undrafted and initially joining the team on a 10-day contract, Langston Galloway earned 2015 NBA All-Rookie honors while playing for this Eastern Conference team.

Answer 71

Guess: Orlando Magic Answer: New York Knicks

Question 72

27 "There are some things money can't buy; for everything else, there's..." is a partial slogan for what credit card company?

Answer 72

Guess: MasterCard

Question 73

This woman won her second Best Actress Oscar for her role as Maggie Fitzgerald in the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby

Answer 73

Guess: Hilary Swank

Question 74

Two WR's caught more than 50 TD passes from Aaron Rodgers:

Answer 74

Davante Adams and this now retired WR. Guess: Jordy Nelson