Rosebery #15

Question 1

What term is used to describe any genetic condition in which an extra copy of a chromosome is present in the cell nuclei, causing developmental abnormalities?

Answer 1

trisomy

Question 2

In which team sport, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, do players use a wooden stick to hit a small ball between the opponents’ goalposts?

Answer 2

hurling

Question 3

What American science fiction author’s Navy career influenced his writing, most notably the space marine classic “Starship Troopers?”

Answer 3

Robert A. Heinlein

Question 4

What term was coined in the 1890s to characterize the sensational journalism of the circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst?

Answer 4

yellow journalism

Question 5

What poet’s best-known work is the untitled poem from “Spring and All” that is often referred to as “The Red Wheelbarrow?”

Answer 5

William Carlos Williams

Question 6

What T.S. Eliot poem, the first of his to be professionally published, opens with a quotation from Dante’s Inferno, and “Let us go now, you and I?”

Answer 6

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Question 7

What African-American poet is actually best known for her series of autobiographies, the first of which was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Answer 7

Maya Angelou

Question 8

What king of the Franks was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800?

Answer 8

Charlesmagne

Question 9

What Gallic leader was defeated by Julius Caesar at the siege of Alésia?

Answer 9

Vercingetorix

Question 10

What name was given to the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of John Calvin and were persecuted by the Catholic government?

Answer 10

Huguenots

Question 11

Who was the Premier of the Vichy regime during World War II, today widely regarded as a traitor and Nazi collaborator?

Answer 11

Marshal Philippe Pétain

Question 12

If two six-sided dice are rolled together, identify both the most likely sum of the two dice and the probability that that sum occurs?

Answer 12

7 and 1/6

Question 13

What Japanese word is used to describe a person who has a near-obsession with Japanese pop culture products and aesthetics?

Answer 13

otaku

Question 14

What Japanese adjective can be translated as “cute” or “adorable” and is exemplified by characters like Hello Kitty?

Answer 14

kawaii

Question 15

What type of manga, its name translating as “few years,” is aimed at boys and features action and adventure stories? Examples include Dragon Ball and Naruto.

Answer 15

shonen

Question 16

What word, from the Japanese for “strange beast,” is used for the film genre that features giant monsters attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle?

Answer 16

kaiju

Question 17

On the periodic table, what element is below sodium and to the left of calcium?

Answer 17

potassium

Question 18

On the periodic table, what element is above sulfur and to the right of nitrogen?

Answer 18

oxygen

Question 19

On the periodic table, what element is below copper and above gold?

Answer 19

silver

Question 20

On the periodic table, what element is to the right of iron and to the left of nickel?

Answer 20

cobalt

Question 21

On the periodic table, what element is below beryllium and to the right of sodium?

Answer 21

magnesium

Question 22

On the periodic table, what element is above chlorine and to the right of oxygen?

Answer 22

fluorine

Question 23

On the periodic table, what element is below carbon and above germanium?

Answer 23

silicon

Question 24

On the periodic table, what element is below tin and to the left of bismuth?

Answer 24

lead

Question 25

What British animation studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, such as "Shaun the Sheep?"

Answer 25

Aardman Animations

Question 26

What is the name given to a composite organism that arises from a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a kind of algae?

Answer 26

lichen

Question 27

The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best players who play which position in Major League Baseball?

Answer 27

pitcher

Question 28

The "High Roller" in Las Vegas is currently the world's tallest example of which type of amusement ride?

Answer 28

Ferris wheel

Question 29

What two-word Latin phrase does A.D. stand for when used in dates?

Answer 29

Anno Domini

Question 30

In which serious sleep disorder does a person stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, which may mean that they may not get enough oxygen?

Answer 30

(sleep) apnea

Question 31

Which Canadian province was the last to concede the right to vote to women, holding out until 1940?

Answer 31

Quebec

Question 32

What process is characterized by changes including blebbing, cell shrinkage, and nuclear chromosomal DNA fragmentation?

Answer 32

apoptosis

Question 33

Howard Shore won three Academy Awards for his work on which 2000s film trilogy? His award for the song "Into the West" was shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.

Answer 33

The Lord of the Rings

Question 34

What pop music group was commissioned to write the music for Saturday Night Fever?

Answer 34

The Bee Gees

Question 35

What singer-songwriter has scored eight Disney-Pixar films and won his first Academy Award for "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc.?

Answer 35

Randy Newman

Question 36

What 1992 soundtrack holds the record for the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time? Its best-known song is "I Will Always Love You," sung by star Whitney Houston.

Answer 36

The Bodyguard(: Original Soundtrack Album)

Question 37

I am a megacity with a population of over 9 million and with over 9 million more inhabitants living in close proximity. I lie on a river just south of where that river branches into a delta. My Tahrir Square was the focal point of a 2011 revolution. In the modern era, I was founded by the Fatimid dynasty and my official name means "the Conqueror" in Arabic. What am I?

Answer 37

Cairo

Question 38

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index tied to the value of just how many large, publicly owned companies based in the U.S.?

Answer 38

30

Question 39

In 1945, in an effort to replicate the success of Victory Bonds, the Government of Canada offered the first what?

Answer 39

Canada Savings Bonds

Question 40

By market capitalization, what is the largest stock exchange not located in North America?

Answer 40

London (Stock Exchange)

Question 41

What type of digital asset, first released in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency?

Answer 41

Bitcoin

Question 42

During the colonial years, what was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (or the Five and then the Six Nations) known as?

Answer 42

Iroquois League

Question 43

What phrase is used to describe the forced relocation of many southeastern U.S. indigenous tribes, including the infamous Cherokee Nation relocation in 1838?

Answer 43

Trail of Tears

Question 44

Although the term originally applied to to French-speaking mixed-race families, what people were recognized as a distinct aboriginal people under the Constitution Act of 1982?

Answer 44

Metis

Question 45

What term is associated with Navajo speakers recruited during WWII by the Marines to serve in their communications units, although Cherokee and Choctaw peoples served during WWI?

Answer 45

Code Talkers

Question 46

What type of paint is also called opaque watercolor? It was used by Henri Matisse to create his series of Blue Nudes.

Answer 46

gouache

Question 47

Historically, what water-soluble binding material has been mixed with coloured pigments to create the fast-drying painting medium known as tempera?

Answer 47

egg

Question 48

What art medium, sticks of powdered pigment with a binder, was popular with 19th-century French artists, especially portraitists and also Degas, who later used it as his primary medium?

Answer 48

pastel(s)

Question 49

What is the name of the sticks of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base that are used in quick drawings and underdrawings on paintings?

Answer 49

conte (sticks or crayons)

Question 50

Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer, often described as the father of which field of physics, in part for his work on the efficiency of heat engines?

Answer 50

thermodynamics

Question 51

In what famous thought experiment is entropy decreased by an entity controlling a small door between two chambers of gas?

Answer 51

Maxwell's Demon

Question 52

Which law of thermodynamics, expressed by Maxwell as, "All heat is of the same kind," states that if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other?

Answer 52

Zeroth

Question 53

What property of a thermodynamic system is equal to the system's internal energy plus the product of its pressure and volume?

Answer 53

enthalpy

Question 54

Rosenborg, Amalienborg, and Christiansborg Castles are all found in what European capital city?

Answer 54

Copenhagen(, Denmark)

Question 55

What TVO children's show character would only ever appear to one of the hosts? The other host would always just miss him.

Answer 55

Polkaroo

Question 56

What is the other name given to the citric or tricarboxylic acid cycle that releases stored energy and produces ATP and carbon dioxide?

Answer 56

Krebs (cycle)

Question 57

By what name did Medieval and Early Modern Europeans refer to the North African Berbers and Muslim Europeans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean?

Answer 57

Moor(s)

Question 58

The special relativistic linear transformations from one coordinate frame in space time to another frame that moves at a constant velocity are named after which Dutch physicist?

Answer 58

Hendrik Lorentz

Question 59

What National Park is bordered by the Ikorongo, Grumeti, Maswa, and Maasai Mara Reserves as well as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Loliondo Game Control Area?

Answer 59

Serengeti (National Park)

Question 60

Whose first published short story was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?"

Answer 60

Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)

Question 61

What comic book character was first portrayed in movie serials by Kirk Alyn, in feature films by George Reeves, and in big-budget films by Christopher Reeves?

Answer 61

Superman

Question 62

In what Olympic sport did both Princess Anne and her daughter, Zara Phillips, compete?

Answer 62

Equestrian

Question 63

What Austrian composer, the son of another composer of the same name, was known as "The Waltz King?"

Answer 63

Johann Strauss (II)

Question 64

What is the tallest and most common of the species of camel? It has one hump on its back.

Answer 64

dromedary

Question 65

What type of electrical component has low resistance in one direction and high resistance in the other?

Answer 65

diode

Question 66

What inflammatory disease of the intestine was the cause of death of King John, King Edward I, King Henry V, and Sir Francis Drake, among others?

Answer 66

dysentery

Question 67

What fictional character, played by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in film adaptations, is the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider?

Answer 67

Lara Croft

Question 68

What character is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise, first appearing in the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros.?

Answer 68

Bowser (or King Koopa)

Question 69

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a character in which video game series, appearing as the main character in the second, third, and fourth of the series?

Answer 69

Assassin's Creed

Question 70

What Street Fighter icon, the "strongest woman in the world," is notable for being the first playable female character in a fighting game?

Answer 70

Chun-Li

Question 71

What lunar mare was the landing site for the Eagle Apollo 11 Lunar Module?

Answer 71

(Sea of) Tranquility (or Mare Tranquilitatis)

Question 72

On which planet are the continents of Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra located?

Answer 72

Venus

Question 73

The names of the surface features of which moon are typically derived from the names of mythological figures associated with the Sun, fire, or volcanoes?

Answer 73

Io

Question 74

I was born in Wisconsin in 1867 but spent much of my life in South Dakota and Missouri. I was the second of four daughters; my only brother died in infancy. After losing everything in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, I started writing autobiographical novels of my life as a pioneer. The 1970s and 80s TV series "Little House on the Prairie" was loosely based on my novels. Who am I?

Answer 74

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Question 75

What spice. derived from the stigmas and styles of the Crocus sativus and used to season and colour food, has historically been among the world's most costly spices by weight?

Answer 75

saffron

Question 76

What is the Latinized name of the Mandarin Chinese "Master Kong," the philosopher who is a traditional deity in Daoism?

Answer 76

Confucius

Question 77

What U.S. television channel was launched on August 1, 1981 with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll?"

Answer 77

MTV

Question 78

What small tropical and subtropical tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water is characteristic of the mangal biome?

Answer 78

mangrove

Question 79

What car company took its name from the "god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia?"

Answer 79

Mazda

Question 80

What character, created by Baroness Orczy, was an English aristrocratic and apparently dimwitted fop who secretly disguised himself and rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine?

Answer 80

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Question 81

In Marxist theory, what term is used to describe the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and therefore must sell their labor power for a wage or salary?

Answer 81

proletariat

Question 82

What type of domestic rabbit is bred for the long fibers of its coat that are gathered by shearing, combing, or plucking and used in wool production?

Answer 82

angora

Question 83

In which country did the sport of ski jumping begin, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

Answer 83

Norway

Question 84

What composer and lyricist's stage musicals include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods?

Answer 84

Stephen Sondheim

Question 85

What federal agency has as its motto, "Maintiens le droit?"

Answer 85

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (or RCMP)

Question 86

What is the title of the Disney animated feature film that is an adaptation of the story of Rapunzel?

Answer 86

Tangled

Question 87

Which acid cannot be stored in glass bottles because it will eat through the glass?

Answer 87

hydrofluoric (acid)

Question 88

What were the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers renamed when team was sold and relocated to Winnipeg?

Answer 88

(Winnipeg) Jets