Study 21

Question 1

In the 1930s Laurens Hammond patented the first commercially practical electric one of these

Answer 1

Organ 

Question 2

Jodie Comer is the villainous Villanelle, trying to bump off Sandra Oh on this drama

Answer 2

Killing Eve 

Question 3

“Glory” is from this 2014 movie about an important moment in the civil rights movement

Answer 3

Selma 

Question 4

In 1997 the Nobel peace prize was shared by Jody Williams and the ICBL the international campaign to ban these

Answer 4

Land mines 

Question 5

This city, part of a metro area with Dallas and Fort Worth was named for the Virginia home of Robert E Lee

Answer 5

Arlington 

Question 6

This Scottish castle used by British Royals is on the bank of the river Dee

Answer 6

The Balmoral Castle 

Question 7

“Laverne and Shirley” was a spinoff of this series that was set in the 1950s

Answer 7

Happy Days 

Question 8

In 1989, aboard discovery, Frederick D Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions

Answer 8

Space shuttle mission 

Question 9

After the box office failure that was “Howard the Duck,” George Lucas sold his computer graphics division and inadvertently creatied what film studio?

Answer 9

Pixar

Question 10

Pretty dangerous spots for an Insta selfie, the photosphere is the light-radiating outer shell of what space objects?

Answer 10

Star

Question 11

Merv Griffin tapped Caesar’s Palace execs for tips on how to build the set centerpiece for what game show?

Answer 11

Wheel of Fortune

Question 12

MACROLEPIOTA PROCERA IS A TYPE OF EDIBLE MUSHROOM CALLED THIS, LIKE AN UMBRELLA USED AS A SUNSHADE

Answer 12

Parasol

Question 13

$200 for this type of vapor cleaning of my engine?! It’s 7 1/2 bucks in the movie “Car Wash”, turning 50 in 2026.

Answer 13

Steam clean 

Question 14

A broadcast alert to all police stations in the area is called an APB, short for this

Answer 14

All points bulletin


Question 15

822.33 is the dedicated Dewey Decimal number for works, biographies, and criticism of what author?

Answer 15

William Shakespeare

Question 16

Bingen Bonn! Those 2 cities will be on your tour as you pass along the “middle” section of this river

Answer 16

Rhine

Question 17

Standard Italian is based on the variant of Tuscan spoken in this city on the Arno River

Answer 17

Florence

Question 18

THIS WORLD CAPITAL SITS ON THE ATTIC PLAIN ON THE BALKAN
PENINSULA

Answer 18

Athens

Question 19

The subtitle “Swampy’s Revenge” appears on a PS1 sequel to what Konami game that a group in Texas once tried to play by putting a Roomba in the street?

Answer 19

Frogger

Question 20

Farnsworth-Munsell and Ishihara tests are used to diagnose what genetic condition whose variants include deutranopia and protanopia?

Answer 20

Colorblindness

Question 21

Jay Leno won the Mark Twain prize for American humor in 2014; this one time rival, three years later

Answer 21

David Letterman 

Question 22

This Tony winner for “Redhead” married Bob Fosse in 1960

Answer 22

Gwen Verdon 

Question 23

Most of these catalyst are proteins that end with the letters ASE

Answer 23

Enzymes

Examples, lactase, lipase, etc. 

Question 24

On its first official landing in the US in 1976, the speed plane carried the president of France

Answer 24

Concorde 

Question 25

He created the 435 life-size illustrations of “The Birds of America”

Answer 25

John James Audubon 

Question 26

In 1976 this African-American Texas congresswoman fired up the Democratic national convention with her key note address

Answer 26

Barbara Jordan 

Question 27

Lord Byron contributed to this American Trailblazers fame by writing him “Don Juan”

Answer 27

Daniel Boone 

Question 28

Sabrina Jill and Kelly were tree of private investigators on this 1970s series

Answer 28

Charlie’s Angels 

Question 29

Writer, Zora Neale Hurston was the first black graduate of this college that is affiliated with Columbia

Answer 29

Barnard 

Question 30

The lower valley of the Susquehanna River and it’s tributaries have created this large Atlantic Bay

Answer 30

Chesapeake Bay 

Question 31

Defeated in his 1835 run to represent Tennessee in Congress, he headed for Texas; that did not work out well

Answer 31

Davy Crockett 

Question 32

While shooting "Schindler's List", Steven Spielberg got a weekly cheer-up phone call from what "Awakenings" actor who starred in a Spielberg movie in 1991?

Answer 32

Robin Williams Following some bad blood, this comedian and star of "What Dreams May Come" was given a Picasso by Disney to convince him to come back for a three-quel?

Question 33

Bactrian camels have two humps; Arabian camels, also known as these, have one

Answer 33

dromedary 

Question 34

He was an adolescent when he created his comic book character Fritz the Cat

Answer 34

Robert Crumb

Question 35

It's not Vancouver, British Columbia's capital is what smaller island city that's named after a pivotal monarch?

Answer 35

Victoria

Question 36

Officials in Forsmark, Sweden were the first to sound the alarm about a catastrophe in what city, now home to the Red Forest?

Answer 36

Chernobyl

Question 37

The battle of San Juan Hill was the bloodiest for US forces in this war; our foe had half as many casualties

Answer 37

Spanish American War 

Question 38

Known for his "uncertainty principle," what German physicist did Walter White use as his alter ego on "Breaking Bad"?

Answer 38

Werner Heisenberg A theorem stating that it is impossible to simultaneously know the position and momentum of a quantum particle is named after this 1932 winner of the Nobel prize in physics?