Rosebery #13

Question 1

Granite, when acted upon by high temperature and pressure metamorphic processes, becomes what?

Answer 1

gneiss

Question 2

What dystopian novel is set in the Republic of Gilead, a theonomic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States?

Answer 2

The Handmaid’s Tale

Question 3

What measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the wealth distribution of a nation’s residents is the most commonly used measure of inequality?

Answer 3

Gini coefficient (or index or ratio)

Question 4

What American pop artist was strongly influenced by comic books, as seen in his works “Whaam!” and “Drowning Girl?”

Answer 4

Roy Lichtenstein

Question 5

What type of steroids interact with androgen receptors to increase muscle and bone synthesis and are classed as performance-enhancing drugs when taken by athletes?

Answer 5

anabolic (steroids)

Question 6

The thyroid hormones are partially composed of which element of which a deficiency leads to the disease known as goiter?

Answer 6

iodine

Question 7

What is the more common name for somatotropin, a peptide hormone that stimulates cell reproduction and cell regeneration?

Answer 7

(human) growth hormone (or HGH)

Question 8

Which Classical-era composer composed over 600 musical works before his untimely death at the age of 35?

Answer 8

(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart

Question 9

Mozart died in Vienna, but in which Austrian city was he born?

Answer 9

Salzburg

Question 10

What composer is often depicted as a jealous rival of Mozart’s, even though the two were reputedly friends and colleagues who supported each other’s work?

Answer 10

Antonio Salieri

Question 11

Which of Mozart’s operas, a dramma giocoso in two acts, was originally titled, “A Rake Punished,” although it is generally known by its subtitle, the name of its main character?

Answer 11

Don Giovanni

Question 12

It is well-known that Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were assassinated. What are the names of the other two U.S. Presidents who were assassinated while in office?

Answer 12

James A. Garfield and William McKinley

Question 13

What dam, constructed between 1960 and 1970, not only provided hydroelectricity but also allowed control over the annual flooding of the Nile River?

Answer 13

Aswan (High Dam)

Question 14

The Hoover Dam, stretching between the states of Nevada and Arizona, dams which river?

Answer 14

Colorado (River)

Question 15

What dam, spanning the Yangtze River, is the world’s largest power station as measured by installed capacity?

Answer 15

Three Gorges (Dam)

Question 16

what country can you find the largest earth-filled dam in the world, the Tarbela Dam across the Indus river?

Answer 16

Pakistan

Question 17

How many nanometers are there in a meter?

Answer 17

1 billion

Question 18

To 2 significant digits, how many pounds are there in a kilogram?

Answer 18

2.2

Question 19

How many pints are there in a gallon?

Answer 19

8

Question 20

How many feet are there in a fathom?

Answer 20

6

Question 21

How many milligrams are there in a kilogram?

Answer 21

1 million

Question 22

To 2 significant digits, how many centimeters are there in an inch?

Answer 22

2.5

Question 23

How many ounces are there in a pound?

Answer 23

16

Question 24

What is the first sentence of Chapter 1 of Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick?

Answer 24

Call me Ishmael.

Question 25

Who ruled the People's Republic of China as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976?

Answer 25

Mao (Zedong)

Question 26

People who have normal mental health throughout most of the year but exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter, are said to have what?

Answer 26

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Question 27

What long-running often-political comic strip was the first daily strip to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 27

Doonesbury

Question 28

In chemistry, what substance is called the "universal solvent" because it dissolves more substances than any other liquid?

Answer 28

water

Question 29

What is the English translation of the Latin statement, "Amor vincit omnia?"

Answer 29

love conquers all

Question 30

What is the capital of the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland?

Answer 30

Nuuk

Question 31

hat is the nickname given to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament?

Answer 31

March Madness

Question 32

William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a pastoral comedy in which most of the action takes place in which forest?

Answer 32

(Forest of) Arden

Question 33

Whose name was stripped from the promotional material for An Ideal Husband during its initial run after he was arrested for "gross indecency?"

Answer 33

Oscar Wilde

Question 34

Which play by Molière, subtitled l'Imposteur, was an indictment of hypocrisy at the court of Louis XIV?

Answer 34

Tartuffe

Question 35

What American playwright who died in 2018 received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer, for works such as The Odd Couple?

Answer 35

Neil Simon

Question 36

In 1943, the Partisan resistance declared me a democratic state while my king was living in exile. After my formation in 1918, I was commonly referred to as "the Versailles state." I was ruled by Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, from 1953 until his death in 1980. In the 1990s, I broke up, at first into five countries, leading to ethnic wars and genocide. What am I?

Answer 36

Yugoslavia

Question 37

What property of a fluid describes the opposition to the relative motion between two surfaces of the fluid that are moving at different velocities, i.e., the friction between the molecules?

Answer 37

viscosity

Question 38

Whose principle states that a pressure change occurring anywhere in an enclosed incompressible fluid is transmitted such that the same change occurs everywhere?

Answer 38

Blaise Pascal('s)

Question 39

The SI unit of pressure is the Pascal. What is the traditional Imperial and U.S. customary unit of pressure?

Answer 39

pound(-force) per square inch (or psi)

Question 40

What type of fluid motion is characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity, often characterized by eddies or vortices?

Answer 40

turbulence (or turbulent flow)

Question 41

What is the second line of the poem that begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Answer 41

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

Question 42

What is the second line of the poem that begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways?"

Answer 42

I love thee to the height and depth and breadth

Question 43

What is the second line of the poem that begins, "She walks in beauty like the night?"

Answer 43

Of cloudless climes and starry skies

Question 44

What is the second line of the poem that begins, "If ever two were one, then surely we?"

Answer 44

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee

Question 45

What type of programming language object, common in C, stores the memory address of another value located in computer memory?

Answer 45

pointer

Question 46

What do the letters of SQL (pronounced "sequel"), which is used for managing databases, stand for?

Answer 46

structured query language

Question 47

What interpreted object-orientated language, developed in the mid-1990s in Japan, is used in the server-side web application framework Rails?

Answer 47

Ruby

Question 48

What is four bits, or half a byte, called?

Answer 48

nibble

Question 49

Which of Aristotle's works, taking its title from the Greek for "character," opens, "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good?"

Answer 49

(Nicomachean) Ethics

Question 50

Which ethical theory, associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, argues the proper course of action is one that maximizes a positive effect such as happiness?

Answer 50

Utilitarianism

Question 51

hich philosopher believed that there was a supreme principle of morality that he referred to as The Categorical Imperative, introduced in his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals?

Answer 51

(Immanuel) Kant

Question 52

What famous thought experiment in ethics has taken on new relevance with the development of autonomous vehicles and the programming of their AI?

Answer 52

The Trolley Problem

Question 53

What Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale heroine falls in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size?

Answer 53

Thumbelina

Question 54

Playing its first season in 2017-2018, which NHL team is based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area?

Answer 54

(Vegas) Golden Knights

Question 55

What is the more common name for botanical stolons, stems that grow at the soil surface and that form roots at the nodes and new plants from the buds, as in strawberry plants?

Answer 55

runner(s)

Question 56

In psychology, what term is used to describe the mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values?

Answer 56

cognitive dissonance

Question 57

What painting by American artist Edward Hopper is his best-known work, in part because of numerous visual references to it in popular culture?

Answer 57

Nighthawks

Question 58

The name for which elementary particle is taken from a line from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake?"

Answer 58

quark

Question 59

In which 1917 battle did Canadian troops overcome both a raging snowstorm and the German forces, allowing French forces to take the nearby town of Aisne?

Answer 59

(Battle of) Vimy Ridge

Question 60

What is the more common name for the asana adho mukha shvanasana, a yoga pose in which the body forms the shape of an inverted V?

Answer 60

downward(-facing) dog

Question 61

In what museum in Madrid could you find "The 3rd of May" by Goya and "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymous Bosch?

Answer 61

The Prado

Question 62

What was the birth name of the American professional boxer and activist Muhammad Ali?

Answer 62

Cassius (Marcellus) Clay (Jr.)

Question 63

In Greek mythology, which of the Nereids was the wife and consort of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea?

Answer 63

Amphitrite

Question 64

In Norse mythology, which goddess, the wife of the sea god Ægir, pulled seafarers to the bottom of the sea with her net?

Answer 64

Ran

Question 65

In Babylonian mythology, who was the primordial goddess of the sea, mother of the younger gods and the symbol of the chaos of creation?

Answer 65

Tiamat

Question 66

What Hollywood director became a household name after the release of his 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws?

Answer 66

Steven Spielberg

Question 67

What 1977 science-fiction movie earned Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award nomination?

Answer 67

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Question 68

Which 1993 historical period drama won Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director?

Answer 68

Schindler's List

Question 69

What 1993 Steven Spielberg movie earned over $900 million worldwide and launched a movie franchise, the most recent of which was released in 2018?

Answer 69

Jurassic Park

Question 70

The British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia was the predecessor state of what modern nation?

Answer 70

Zimbabwe

Question 71

The Congo Free State was, from 1885 to 1908, ruled personally by Leopold II, who was also king of which European country?

Answer 71

Belgium

Question 72

What country was, along with Liberia, one of only two African nations to resist colonization, although it was briefly occupied by the Italian Empire prior to World War II?

Answer 72

Ethiopia

Question 73

I owned the Bofors company, which under my direction went from being an iron and steel producer to an arms manufacturer. Although I did not attend secondary school or university, in 1893 I was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. The first of the 355 patents I filed was an English patent for a gas meter. After reading a premature obituary which declared, "The merchant of death is dead," I decided to bequeath my fortune to fund prizes in the sciences and "Peace." Who am I?

Answer 73

Alfred Nobel

Question 74

What English rock band is known for, among other songs, "Sympathy for the Devil," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?"

Answer 74

The Rolling Stones

Question 75

What language, created in the 19th century, is the most widely spoken constructed international language?

Answer 75

Esperanto

Question 76

The 20 numbered municipal administrative districts of Paris are referred to by which French term?

Answer 76

Arrondissement(s)

Question 77

What HBO crime drama TV series revolved around a New Jersey-based Italian-American mob leader and his family?

Answer 77

The Sopranos

Question 78

What cartoonist, the first British Children's Laureate, is best known for illustrating the works of Roald Dahl?

Answer 78

Quentin Blake

Question 79

In what year did Terry Fox run 5733 km – roughly a marathon a day for 143 days – in his Marathon of Hope?

Answer 79

1980

Question 80

What legal writ allows a person to petition a court to determine whether a detention is lawful? The term, from Medieval Latin, translates as, "that you have the body."

Answer 80

habeas corpus

Question 81

What name is given to the hypothesized ancient planet of the early Solar System that collided with Gaia (the early Earth) to form the Moon?

Answer 81

Theia

Question 82

What is the second-largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the New York Stock Exchange?

Answer 82

NASDAQ (Stock Market)

Question 83

From 1969 to 2018, Caroll Spinney played Big Bird and which other Sesame Street Muppet, who lived in a trash can?

Answer 83

Oscar (the Grouch)

Question 84

How many valence electrons do each of the elements in Group 14 have?

Answer 84

4

Question 85

In which Broadway musical does the milkman Tevye sing, "If I Were a Rich Man?"

Answer 85

Fiddler on the Roof

Question 86

Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of which chromosome?

Answer 86

21

Question 87

hat word, from the Sanskrit for "action" or "deed," refers to the spiritual principle that a person's actions in this and previous states of existence will decide their fate in future existences?

Answer 87

karma