Sept random

Question 1

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Answer 1

Philip K Dick (also– A Scanner Darkly)

Question 2

Named for a president, it was the USA’s first transcontinental road for cars

Answer 2

Lincoln Highway (Hwy 30 now)

Question 3

2022 Pulitzer Prize winning book about this Israeli family

Answer 3

Netanyahus (by Cohen)

Question 4

2022 album of the year

Answer 4

Harry’s House by Harry Styles

Question 5

Capital of Tajikistan

Answer 5

Dushanbe

Question 6

First Queen of England

Answer 6

Mary I

Question 7

Sec Treasury

Answer 7

Yellen

Question 8

Speaker of House

Answer 8

Mike Johnson (LA)

Question 9

Sen majority leader

Answer 9

Chuck Schumer (whip– Durbin)

Question 10

Senate minority leader

Answer 10

McConnell (whip– Thune)

Question 11

Most recent SCOTUS appointee

Answer 11

Brown-Jackson (just like MJ, she a THRILLER)

Question 12

Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri

Answer 12

Smallest National Park

Question 13

Tallest mountain Hawaii

Answer 13

Mauna Kea

Question 14

Leper colony island Hawaii (Hansen’s disease)

Answer 14

Molokaʻi

Question 15

Third largest Japanese Island of the big four

Answer 15

Kyushu (south of Honshu, which is south of Hokkaido)

Question 16

Disputed Japanese islands with Russia

Answer 16

Kuril Islands

Question 17

Tom Brown’s School Days author

Answer 17

Hughes

Question 18

Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr Chips author

Answer 18

James Hilton

Question 19

2022 Best Animated Oscar

Answer 19

Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro) – Collodi wrote original book

Question 20

Civil rights murdered black teen

Answer 20

Emmet Till

Question 21

Little Prince author

Answer 21

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Question 22

Colorado peak named for an Army officer

Answer 22

Pike’s Peak

Question 23

Left Hand of Darkness

Answer 23

Ursula Le Guin

Question 24

Infinite Jest author

Answer 24

David Foster Wallace

Question 25

Water music

Answer 25

Handel

Question 26

Mentored Mozart and Beethoven

Answer 26

Haydn

Question 27

This 19th c. German invented an engine that, unlike gasoline engines, achieves ignition with no external spark

Answer 27

Diesel

Question 28

1 of the only 2 letters not found in the abbreviations of elements with atomic numbers up to 100

Answer 28

J or Q

Question 29

Its mass 1 isotope is also called protium

Answer 29

hydrogen