Rosebery #9 Flashcards by Tara Rosebery

What pole weapon, from the German for “staff axe,” is still the ceremonial weapon of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican?

halberd

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In golf, a “birdie” is one under par. What is two under par?

eagle

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What colour light do helium-neon lasers produce? It has a wavelength of 632.8 nanometers.

red

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What word was coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 to mean a self-replicating unit of transmission of ideas and cultural phenomena?

meme

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What term describes an accumulation of the debris left behind by a glacier, consisting of somewhat rounded particles ranging in size from dust to large boulders?

moraine

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Permafrost is defined as rock or soil that has been at or below the freezing point of water for at least how many years?

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What is the Australian term used to describe an oxbow lake, formed when a wide meander from the main flow of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing U-shaped body of water?

billabong

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Which English novelist’s first novel was published on commission “By a Lady,” although after its success, her subsequent novels were published “By the Author of Sense and Sensibility?”

Jane Austen

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What was the original working title of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” the first of her manuscripts to be submitted for publication?

First Impressions

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What 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone was loosely based on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, updating the setting to modern-day Beverly Hills?

Clueless

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Which short, epistolary novel of Jane Austen’s, never published during her lifetime, was adapted to the screen in 2016 as “Love and Friendship?”

Lady Susan

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Identify both the name and author of the classic comic strip that featured Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and their friends.

Peanuts by (Charles M.) Schulz

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What is the name of the chemical compound with the formula NH₃?

ammonia

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What is the name of the chemical compound with the formula C₂H₅OH?

ethanol

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What is the chemical formula for the bleaching agent and antiseptic hydrogen peroxide?

H₂O₂

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What is the chemical formula for baking soda, or sodium hydrogen carbonate?

NaHCO₃

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Who composed Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, “Für Elise?”

(Ludwig van) Beethoven

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Who composed Suite bergamasque, “Clair de Lune?”

(Claude) Debussy

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Who composed Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, “From the New World?”

(Antonin) Dvorak

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Who composed The Flight of the Bumblebee, from the opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan?

(Nikolai) Rimsky-Korsakov

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Who composed Serenade No. 13 In G Major, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?”

(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart

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Who composed Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, “Land of Hope and Glory?”

(Edward) Elgar

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Who composed Aquarium, from the Carnival of the Animals?

(Camille) Saint-Saens

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Who composed In the Hall of the Mountain King, from the Peer Gynt Suite?

(Edvard) Grieg

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Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, originally located in Toronto, was relocated in 2011 to which city's former Olympic Park?

Calgary('s)

Which ancient Roman poet was Dante Alighieri's guide through Hell in the Divine Comedy's Inferno?

Virgil

What famous physics thought experiment illustrates the difficulty of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics to everyday objects?

Schrondinger's cat

What American psychologist, in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation," proposed a hierarchy of needs?

(Abraham) Maslow

Which Minister in the Canadian Cabinet is responsible for presenting the federal government's budget each year?

Minister of Finance (or Finance Minister)

What toy line, launched in 1959, was created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, using the German Bild Lilli doll as her inspiration?

Barbie

What poem's last two lines are, "All mimsy were the borogoves,/And the mome raths outgrabe?"

Jabberwocky

What Danish ruler was, by 1028, king of England, Denmark, and Norway, or the "North Sea Empire?"

Cnut (the Great)

In Wagner's operatic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Fafner, transformed into a dragon by the ring, is slain by which hero?

Siegfried

In which game are the Red, Green, and White Dragons, along with the the East, South, West, and North Winds, the Honors tiles?

mahjong

Komodo dragons, a species of large monitor lizards, are native to the islands of which country?

Indonesia

The name of which fictional character is derived from the Romanian for "dragon," since the medieval ruler on whom the character was based was a member of the Order of the Dragon?

Dracula

I am a musical instrument traditionally used to provide music for dancing. Today, I am commonly used in the military, including the Canadian military. My parts include a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone. Although my origins date back thousands of years to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, I am most commonly associated with Scotland. What am I?

(Great Highland) bagpipes

What was the superhero alias of Janet van Dyne, one of the founding members of the Avengers in the comics, who could shrink and also fly by means of insectoid wings?

(the) Wasp

What powerful mutant and member of the X-Men has also been known by the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix?

Jean Grey(-Summers)

Whose current constant animal companion is Tippy-Toe, who at her insistence is also a full member of the Great Lakes Avengers?

Squirrel Girl (or Doreen Green)

The twenty-first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, released in 2019, featured what superheroine who shares her name with a DC hero who also had a film released in 2019?

Captain Marvel

What term is used to describe any of the chemical pigments that gives human skin, hair, and eyes their color?

melanin

Which is the rarest ABO blood type in humans?

AB negative

What acid accumulates in the muscles once the anaerobic threshold is passed when doing exercise?

lactic (acid)

Which organ, located under the diaphragm and similar in structure to a large lymph node, acts primarily as a blood filter?

spleen

In which 1981 arcade game did the player direct his or her characters, one by one, across a busy road and a river full of hazards?

Frogger

The nicknames of the ghosts in the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and what?

Clyde

Which video game company produced Gauntlet, Asteroids, and Pong?

Atari

What 2011 science fiction novel, adapted into a film in 2018, heavily featured 1980s arcade games in its plot?

Ready Player One

What scientist stuck a bodkin, a long sewing needle with a blunt point, into his eye socket while probing the nature of colour in his study of optics?

(Isaac) Newton

Opticks was Newton's second major work on the physical sciences. What was his first?

Principia (Mathematica)

What is Newton's "method of fluxions" better known as today?

derivatives (accept Calculus)

For the last three decades of his life, Newton served as Warden and then Master of which governmental entity, located within the Tower of London?

Royal Mint

What trophy, first awarded in 1909 to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, is awarded to the victor of the championship game of the Canadian Football League?

Grey Cup

Molten rock that has erupted is lava. What is it when it is still within the Earth's crust?

magma

What movie star and director's breakout role was Dr. Doug Ross on the television show ER?

(George) Clooney

If you take a paper strip and give it a half-twist and then join the ends of the strip to form a loop, you form a surface with only one side called a what?

Mobius (strip or band)

In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, what type of bird was the Ugly Duckling?

swan (or cygnet)

Incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons occurs when there is insufficient oxygen. The reaction produces water, carbon in the form of soot, and which other product?

carbon monoxide

Who led the Seventh Cavalry to defeat against the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

(George Armstrong) Custer

What term is used to describe a particle or "quantum" of light energy?

photon

Which small tectonic plate is subducting under the North American plate off the Western Canadian coast?

Juan de Fuca

What Canadian journalist is the author of a number of books on the implications of research in the social sciences, including The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers?

(Malcolm) Gladwell

What word means "to interfere in something that's none of your business" when spelled one way and "a commemorative inscribed metal disk, often given as an award" when spelled another?

meddle/medal

What word means "founded upon" when spelled one way and "to moisten foods, especially during the cooking process" when spelled another?

based/baste

What word means "to disturb or disconcert" when spelled one way and "a distinct stage in a process of change" when spelled another?

faze/phase

What famous statue, thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch and created sometime in the 2nd century B.C.E., is currently on permanent display in the Louvre Museum?

Aphrodite of Milos (or Venus de Milo)

In the Ancient Greek Archaic Period, the most important sculptural form was the standing male nude figure, known as what?

kouros (or the plural, kouroi)

What famous Hellenistic statue, excavated during the Renaissance and depicting a Trojan priest and his sons being attacked by sea serpents, was a major influence on Michelangelo?

Laocoon (and his Sons)

What giant sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels over a wooden framework, made by the 5th century B.C.E. Greek sculptor Phidias, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

Statue of Zeus (at Olympia)

Which lake in the Northwest Territories is the largest lake entirely in Canada?

Great Bear (Lake)

Which lake has the largest volume of fresh water in Great Britain and is rumored to harbour an aquatic monster in its depths?

Loch Ness

Which lake in the Andean Altiplano is the highest-altitude large lake in the world and was the center of the Incan civilization?

(Lake) Titicaca

I was an English social reformer and statistician who was a pioneer in the effective use of graphical presentations of statistical data. I came to prominence while serving during the Crimean War, in which I organized care for wounded soldiers. I became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp." I am regarded as the founder of modern professional nursing.

(Florence) Nightingale

What term is used to describe an episodic series of digital audio files that a user can download in order to listen to on their own computer or portable audio player?

podcast

What colour is the innermost zone in an archery target?

gold (accept yellow)

What is the SI unit for radioactivity, named for the physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie?

becquerel

What type of massive stone structure built throughout ancient Mesopotamia was terraced, each story slightly smaller than the story below it?

ziggurat(s)

What classic children's book opens, "The sun did not shine./It was too wet to play./So we sat in the house/All that cold, cold, wet day?"

(The) Cat in the Hat

Bacteria of the genus Rhizobium that form nodules on the roots of leguminous plants are an important part of which nutrient cycle?

nitrogen

Whose debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, included the singles "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade" and "The Lazy Song?"

(Bruno) Mars

In Jewish mythology, what female demon of the night is depicted in some texts as Adam's first wife, created from the same clay?

Lilith

Cygnus X-1, discovered in 1964, is a galactic X-ray source and the first such source widely accepted to be what formerly-theoretical class of astronomical object?

black hole

What U.S. institution is comprised of nineteen museums and galleries, as well as the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.?

Smithsonian (Institution)

What country became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century after Indonesia relinquished control of the territory?

East Timor (or the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste)

What children's television personality's theme song was, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

(Fred or Mr.) Rogers

In office from November 1873 to October 1878, who was the second Prime Minister of Canada?

(Alexander) Mackenzie

Which martial art takes its name from the Japanese for "way of the sword?"

kendo

Rosebery #9 Flashcards

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