Season 1 - Week 4 Flashcards
Ben & Jerry’s, the ice-cream brand, often releases seasonal flavours with punny titles to honour events or people. In 2007, they released a flavour described thus: Heavenly-Vanilla with Fudge-astic brownie chunks and fruitilicious raspberry swirls. WHAT WAS
THIS FLAVOUR CALLED, launched with the subtitle ‘I see a little silhouetto of a tub’ in honour of a blockbuster 1975 rock song from the album A Night At The Opera?
Bohemian Raspberry
[Accept Bohemian Rhapsody, don’t be mean]
This brand of reusable bags, made of
polyethylene plastic, was originally developed by The Dow Chemical Company in 1968. Interestingly, the brand has no product bearing this name but instead has varieties of
products like sandwich bags to low-plastic containers. WHICH BRAND IS THIS, whose name is used generically for all such products, even though it is trademarked? To get around this, most others add a ‘k’ to the end of
the name.
Ziploc Bags
WHICH PENINSULA is almost entirely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov, primarily inhabited by the Tatar communities? At the forefront of many annexations since 1783, the region around the peninsula is an unofficial republic, outside
which Russian troops are stationed as we speak.
Crimea
The majority of tombs of emperors belonging to WHICH DYNASTY are located in a cluster near Beijing and collectively known as the ‘Thirteen Tombs of the [BLANK] Dynasty’? This dynasty built the modern city of Beijing and moved the capital of China there. They
also built the Imperial Palace [Forbidden City] and were the last imperial dynasty of the Han Chinese.
Ming Dynasty
Uhuru [BLANK] is a Kenyan politician who has served as the President of Kenya since 2013. He is the son of WHICH KENYAN LEADER, lauded as the father of the Nation in Kenya? This person governed Kenya as its Prime Minister and as its first President till his death in 1978, transforming it from a British colony into an independent republic.
Jomo Kenyatta
A 2017 biography by Walter Isaacson is about WHICH HISTORICAL FIGURE? That same year, Paramount Pictures bought the rights for a movie adaptation of the book starring an actor whose mother named him based on a painting she was looking at in the Uffizi museum while she was pregnant and when she first felt him kick.
Leonardo Da Vinci
[Prompt once on Leonardo DiCapro, since the question can be easily misread, but they might know the funda. Also prompt on just ‘Leonardo’]
Mark Calaway is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. A textbook example of WWE’s Golden Age of freakish and outlandish gimmicks, his in-ring persona involved theatrically ‘chilling’ entrances, casket matches, links to the supernatural, and various other psychological warfare tactics. WHAT WAS THE NAME of his in-ring persona?
The Undertaker
WHICH INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE FORM was originally performed by the Bhil tribe to worship the goddess Sarasvati, and was later embraced by other Rajasthani communities? The dance is chiefly performed by veiled women who wear flowing dresses called ghagra. The dance typically involves performers pirouetting while moving in and out of a wide circle and this movement lends its name to the dance form.
Ghoomar
WHAT TITLE was bestowed upon the emperors of Germanic and Austrian Empires throughout most of history? This title was particularly used by the Emperor Franz Joseph I who ruled the unified German empire for much of the 19th century. The word comes from a corruption of a similar title bestowed in the Roman Empire.
Kaiser
WHICH WRESTLER took his name from German power metal band Helloween’s 1985 album ‘Walls of [BLANK]’? The same album also gave us the name of his finishing move in WWE.
Chris Jericho
The Butterfly Effect is the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate, or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location. WHICH MATHEMATICAL THEORY is this a prime example of?
Chaos Theory
Ranked No. 15 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time, this band was founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. In 1974, the duo retired from live performances to become a
studio-only band, and released albums like ‘Can’t Buy a Thrill’ and ‘Countdown to Ecstasy’. IDENTIFY THIS DUO, whose most famous songs include ‘Do it Again’ and ‘Rikki don’t lose that number’.
Steely Dan
WHICH MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT first appeared in the book ‘Liber Abbaci’ written in the 13th century? The author describes it through the example of a pair of rabbits put in a field, one male and female, in a highly unrealistic biological scenario. The rabbits must mate at the end of one month and they can never die, thereby having a certain standard implication on the overall population of rabbits.
Fibonacci Sequence
[Accept any reasonable variation of sequence
like series, progression, numbers]
WHICH PENINSULA that lies between the
Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south forms a land bridge between Asia and Africa? It derives its name from a biblical mountain believed to be in the region, and has been ground zero for wars such as the Six Days War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Sinai
[From Mount Sinai where Moses got the ten commandments]
What kind of pasta gets its name from the Italian word for ‘spindle’?
Fusilli
Which Dutch mathematician, physicist, astronomer and inventor is credited with the invention of the first pendulum clock, which greatly increased the accuracy of time measurement for his work in astronomy? A
contemporary of Newton, he is widely considered one of the greatest scientists of all time.
Christian Huygens
Khufu was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. Everything known about Khufu comes from inscriptions in his necropolis at [BLANK]. This place of burial was covered mainly with smooth white limestone casing, though this limestone has been removed by people
throughout history and now only the underlying core structure remains. WHAT IS his place of burial?
Great Pyramids of Giza
[Prompt on just Pyramids]
Boscobel is an island town located on the north shore of Jamaica, whose biggest attraction is an estate on Oracabessa bay. Aptly, WHOM IS THE TOWN’S AIRPORT NAMED AFTER, who lived in this estate through the
1940s while working on a series of stories published between 1951 and 1964? It is also fitting that the name of the estate features in many of his works, including as the title of a 1995 movie adaptation of one such work.
Ian Fleming
Two different adaptations of a 1957 children’s book by Dr. Seuss are amongst the top three highest-grossing Christmas movies of all time. WHICH CHILDREN’S CLASSIC IS THIS adapted into a 1966 Boris Karloff-voiced Christmas short, a 2000 Christmas film starring Jim Carrey, and a 2018 film produced by Illumination? The story follows a bad-tempered, devious and misanthropic creature who despises the festival.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
[Prompt on just Grinch]
Although this toy has been in use since 500 BC, its plastic-tube version was introduced by the Wham-O company in 1957. With a diameter of about 28 inches for children and 40 inches for adults, WHAT PRODUCT IS THIS whose name is used generically for all such toys even though it’s trademarked? To get around this, others use a ‘oo’ instead of a ‘u’ in the name.
Hula Hoop
One of Ben & Jerry’s punniest and most controversial seasonal flavours was described as: all that creamy vanilla ice cream, countless fudge-covered rum, and malt balls; Oh, those delicious balls! WHAT WAS THIS FLAVOUR CALLED, named in tribute to a Saturday Night
Live sketch featuring Alec Baldwin who called this his favourite Christmas dish?
Schweddy Balls
[Prompt on Schweddy]
WHICH WRESTLER took inspiration from the time his British wife urged him to drink his tea while it was still hot and added a prefix to the name of his in-ring persona? With this persona he gained popularity as a brash, vulgar, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied the establishment, and became the poster boy of the Attitude Era.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
[Steve Austin is acceptable]
WHICH AMERICAN STATESMAN, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father was the second president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801? Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution and also served as the first vice-president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. His son (who was
named after him) served as the 6th President of the United States. FULL NAME please.
John Adams
[Prompt on ADAMS or JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, but don’t accept]
Based on a 1930s short story by Robert May that has spurred many songs, an animated Christmas TV special that came out in 1964 is the longest running holiday special in TV history. If we told you the story isn’t about
Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, WHO IS IT ABOUT?
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
WHICH INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE FORM is named after a village in the state of Andhra Pradesh, which is also its place of origin? The name of the village itself derives from the Sanskrit for ‘Village of Actors’. Traditionally performed by an all-male troupe, it is now very popular amongst women as well.
Kuchipudi
The 1992 biography ‘[BLANK]: A Biography’ by Walter Isaacson is about WHICH 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LEADER and diplomat? Isaacson states that he significantly moved away from previously held ethical ideals and severely compromised America’s world standing, undermining the cause of democratic
government and human rights. He thus achieved the American dream and amassed considerable power at the expense of not just intellectual honesty but general personal character.
Henry Kissinger
