Manfred Von Rick Tove In Red Baron

Question 1

Once the seat of thr ottoman empire this is the modern name of thr turkish city once called Byzantium

Answer 1

Istanbul

Question 2

This famed insult comic was given thr ironic nickname mr warmth

Answer 2

Don Rickels

Question 3

Son of Venus and cousin of hector

Answer 3

Aeneas- namesake of Virgil’s epic poem
Uh knee is

Question 4

Leading a team of 20 surgeons this South African doctor successfully performed thr first human heart transplant in a 67 operation

Answer 4

Christiaan Barnard

Question 5

When shale experiences a certain level of heat and pressure it becomes this type of rock used in roofing

Answer 5

Slate - metamorphic rock

Question 6

In thr iconic movie die hard this British actor played the iconic scene stealing villain

Answer 6

Alan rick man played hans gruber

Question 7

This Elizabethan playwright is credited by Oxford university press as Shakespeare co-writer for 3 plays about him

Answer 7

Christopher Marlowe
About Henry VI

Question 8

Worldwide this brown of frito-lay corn chip has been made in cool ranch and Peking duck flavor

Answer 8

Doritos

Question 9

The geographic center of South America is located in this country

Answer 9

Brazil

Question 10

Starting in the 1880s the first artificial Christmas trees in Germany used this specific material to simulate the needled branches

Answer 10

Feathers

Question 11

He wasn’t just a dynamite sculptor he used dynamite to create this national memorial

Answer 11

Gutzon Borglum
Borg lum
Guts zon

Mount Rushmore

Question 12

When he stepped down as cbs news anchor after 25 years this woman followed him from 06 to 11

Answer 12

From Dan rather to Katie Couric

Question 13

Most people know her as the singing voice of mulan and princess jasmine but before that she was only 18 when originated thr lead in this musical earning an O live e a and tony award

Answer 13

Lea suh Lang uh in mrs Saigon
Spectacular voice

Question 14

This composer has won the most Tony’s

Answer 14

Steven Sondheim with 8
Company - music and lyrics
Follies - score
A little night music
Sweeney Todd
Into thr woods
Passion
Lifetime achievement

Question 15

Of the Pulitzer Prizes that have been awarded as of 21 - 89- how many for musicals

Answer 15

10 which is ~11%
Weird because skip years and award multiple some years
Sunday in the park with George and next to normal won Pulitzer but not Tony for best musical

Question 16

This child actor is a featured character in musical avenue Q

Answer 16

Gary Coleman
What a Wild show it is

Question 17

The witch tasks the baker with finding four specific things in this musical
Bonus things

Answer 17

Into the woods
The cow as white as milk
The hair as yellow as corn
The cape as red as blood
The slipper as pure as gold
Whore cruxes ? What it takes to kill jack before finding beanstalk?

Question 18

His Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead tells a sort of parallel narrative of this Shakespeare drama

Answer 18

Tom Stoppard
Hamlet
Good joke on Frazier ? - roz working at a retirement home for community service where old people keep dying Rosencrantz and golden stein are dead
Also Works well as a movie - Stoppard directed

Question 19

Only tie for best musical in tony history
1960
One has a well known Classic movie

Answer 19

Thee o rell o tied
With the sound of music - weird children nominated as a group for best actress under Laurie Peterson and the children
Gypsy lost

Question 20

In 1919 and 20 at the very start of his career this writer worked on the staff of thr Oxford e flush dictionary

Answer 20

J RR Tolkien
Worked on the letter W

Question 21

With over 20 mil of these pets in thr US researchers taught these animals to make video calls to each other

Answer 21

Parrots

Question 22

After seeing eraser head this legendary parody filmmaker hired David lynch to direct the elephant man

Answer 22

Mel brooks

Question 23

WNBA team that plays it’s home gems in the northern most arena

Answer 23

Seattle Storm
Not Chicago sky Or Connecticut sun

Question 24

This effect refers to how people tend to value an object more if they make it themselves

Answer 24

IKEA effect - flat pack furniture
Ingvar Kamprad

Question 25

In his lesser known musical in the heights thr characters find out that the local bodega has sold a winning lottery ticket worth this much

Answer 25

Lin Manuel Miranda
1 2 3what would you do with 96Gs

Question 26

This rock star duo more famous for their work in a band wrote the music and lyrics for the ginormous flop that was spider man turn off the dark

Answer 26

Bono and the edge aka U2
60M to make and People got hurt making - like what are you doing

Question 27

Explorers
Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later he wrote that he was headed farther than any other man has been before me

Answer 27

James Cook
Inspired captain James Kirk
Where no man has gone before Star Trek line

Question 28

At the mountains of madness is a novella set in Antarctica written by this US author
Also inspired in part by who

Answer 28

HP love craft
Inspired by poe - the narrative of Arthur Gordon pim of Nantucket his only complete novel

Question 29

In motor sports the driver with the fastest qualifying time is awarded this
Bonus formula 1 drivers who have earned the most

Answer 29

Pole position

1 Lewis Hamilton -UK
Michael shoemaker - Germany
Er tin sen uh - Brazil

Question 30

If you’ve ever been delighted at the sight of green fireworks you owe the ka to this chemical element

Answer 30

Barium ba? Bar e um
Featured prominently in breaking bad title cards

Question 31

With credits on ET Jurassic park Indiana Jones and thr most recent stars wars movies she can claim the title of most successful women film producer

Answer 31

Kathleen Kennedy
Also Benjamin button
Head honcho ins Star Wars
Sounds presidential