CHAPTER 3 (201-300)
1) Identify the acronym for the project by which anyone with a personal computer may search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Ans: SETI (SETI means Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
2) Identify the 4-letter name for the Egyptian king of the 19th dynasty whose father was Ramses I and whose son was Ramses II. Ans: Seti (I).
3) Identify the arid desert basis of east-central California, near the Nevada border, that became a national monument in 1933, a national park in 1994, and includes the lowest point below sea level in the Western Hemisphere. Ans: Death Valley.
4) Identify North America's lowest point, located in Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level. Ans: Badwater.
5) Identify the SEC school whose Tiger Stadium with a 92,400 seating capacity is nicknamed "Death Valley" because it is one of the loudest in the country. Ans: Louisiana State University.
6) Identify the ACC school whose Memorial Stadium with an 80,301 seating capacity is nicknamed "Death Valley" because it is one of the loudest in the country. Ans: Clemson University.
7) Name the "rock" at the top of "The Hill" in Clemson's Memorial Stadium given as a gift to the coach in 1967 by a school alumnus who brought it from Death Valley, California. The football team's entrance with each player rubbing the rock, the firing of a cannon, and the team running down the hill has been called the "Most Exciting 25 Seconds in College Football." Ans. "Howard's Rock" (named in honor of Coach Frank Howard).
8) Identify the 1952-1975 TV western anthology series hosted by Stanley Andrews as "The Old Ranger" from 1952 to 1965 and then by Ronald Reagan from 1965 to 1966. Ans:
Death Valley Days.
9) Identify the SEC school whose Ben Hill Griffin Stadium with a 90,000+ seating capacity is known as "The Swamp," a nickname given it by coach Steve Spurrier in the early 1990s because Gators live in a swamp and "Only Gators come out alive." Ans: University of Florida (in Gainesville).
10) Identify the city where Cajun Field, nicknamed "The Swamp," is the home of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. Ans: Lafayette (the field was so nicknamed because the school's first football field was built near a small cypress pond nicknamed "The Swamp").
11) Identify the 1972-1983 TV series whose Army surgeon's living quaters where the inhabitants played cards and made their own alcohol from a distillery was nicknamed "The Swamp." Ans:
M*A*S*H.
12) Identify the Army base that serves as the setting for the
Beetle Bailey comic strip. Ans: Camp Swampy.
13) Which 2-word or 3-word term designates the marshy, forested area located in Virginia and North Carolina? Ans: Dismal Swamp or Great Dismal Swamp.
14) Which social science did Thomas Carlyle refer to as "what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science"? Ans: Economics (or political economy).
15) In which state is the Big Cypress Swamp, a national preserve, located? Ans: Florida.
16) As part of which vast tract of marshland in Florida is the Big Cypress Swamp located, the southern part of which has been set aside as a national park? Ans: Everglades.
17) Identify the American Revolutionary War general known as "The Swamp Fox" because of his ability in backwoods guerrilla warfare in fighting the British in South Carolina. Ans: Francis Marion.
18) Identify the film in which Mel Gibson plays Francis Marion, the shrewd American Revolutionary War military leader known as "The Swamp Fox," who led a guerrilla band in South Carolina. Ans:
The Patriot.
19) Identify the WWII German Field Marshall known as "The Desert Fox" because of his clever maneuvering ability when he was in charge of the Afrika Corps in North Africa. Ans: Erwin Rommel.
20) Identify the actor starring as WWII Field Marshall Erwin Rommel in the 1951 film
The Desert Fox. Ans: James Mason.
21) Identify the 2 SEC teams that play a regular season game in Jacksonville long referred to as "The World's Largest Cocktail Party." Ans: University of Georgia and University of Florida.
22) Identify the American-born British author who wrote the 1949 play
The Cocktail Party dealing with religious faith. His given name is Thomas Stearns. Ans: T.S. Eliot.
23) Identify the Hebrew whose sayings appear in the first 39 chapters of the first and longest of the Major Prophets in the Bible's Old Testament. Ans: Isaiah.
24) Identify the U.S. President whose slogan "Come now, let us reason together" is taken from Isaiah 1:18 in the Bible's King James Version. Ans: Lyndon Johnson.
25) Which word completes the following line from Isaiah 11:6 (KJV) that is associated with an Edward Hicks' painting: "The _____ also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together"? Ans: "wolf."
26) Identify the Edward Hicks painting based on the KJV version of Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together." Ans:
The Peaceable Kingdom.
27) Identify the organization whose peace slogan "Let Us Beat Swords Into Plowshares" is based on Isaiah 2:4 (KJV) and is used as the title of Yevgeny Vuchetich's statue in front of its New York City headquarters. Ans: United Nations.
28) Which religious group, started in Pennsylvania in the 1870's by Charles Taze Russell and his associates, drew its name from Isaiah 43:12 in the ASV Bible, and was incorporated as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1884? Ans: Jehovah's Witnessses (its magazine is called
The Watchtower; they believe in one God called Jehovah).
29) Identify the brash singer/actress called "The Divine Miss M" for her persona as a cabaret performer and known for her 1972 Grammy-winning debut album so entitled. Ans: Bette Midler.
30) Identify the 19th-20th century French star of stage and screen known as "The Divine Sarah." Ans: Sarah Bernhardt.
31) Identify the Italian artist known as "The Divine Madman" because of his long periods of meditation before beginning any project. He was mainly interested in creating large marble structures such as the
Pieta. Ans: Michelangelo.
32) Identify the Italian artist known as "Il Divino," or "The Divine One," who allegedly used several of his lovers as models for his famous Madonnas. Ans: Raphael.
33) Identify the 5-letter Turkish word from the Arabic meaning "fate" or "destiny" that also names a 1953 musical based on the works of Aleksandr Borodin. Ans: Kismet.
34) Identify the 4-word alliterative song title beginning with
B in the 1953 musical Kismet. Ans: "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads."
35) Identify the 5-letter Sanskrit word beginning with
K for destiny or fate that also designates the total effect of a person's actions and conduct in any one of the successive states of that person's existence in Hinduism and Buddhism. Ans: Karma.
36) Identify the 4-letter word beginning with
K that designates all of the following: both the Hindu god or love, Lakshmi's son, and one of life's 4 goals in Hinduism; a tributary of Russia's Volga River; and sickle-like weapons used in Japan. Ans: Kama.
37) Identify either the noun designating any animal of the dog family or an adjective meaning "doglike." Ans: Canine.
38) Identify the members of a philosophical movement founded by Antisthenes, whose name is thought to come from a Greek word for "doglike," possibly as a commentary on the very critical nature of its members. Ans: The Cynics (others believe the name
cynic comes from Cynosarges, the name of the building where the Cynics first met).
39) Identify the first actor to refuse the Best Actor Oscar, doing so in 1971 for his performance in
Patton as he felt acting should be about art and wasn't a competition. Ans: George C. Scott.
40) Identify the 2nd actor to refuse the Best Actor Oscar, doing so in 1973 for his performance in
The Godfather because he objected to the Academy condoning racist cowboys-and-Indians caricatures. Ans: Marlon Brando.
41) Identify the Native American actress dressed in Apache garb whom Marlon Brando sent to decline his Academy Award on behalf of Native Americans as a protest against the ongoing siege at Wounded Knee and Hollywood's portrayal of American Indians. Ans: Sacheen Littlefeather.
42) Identify the 1946 Best Actress Oscar winner who stayed home from the Academy Award ceremony saying she had pneumonia but then went outside, met the press, and was photographed in her bed with her Oscar for her role in
Mildred Pierce. Ans: Joan Crawford.
43) Give the full name of the cartoon moose who is close friends with a squirrel. Ans: Bullwinkle J. Moose.
44) Give the full name of the cartoon flying squirrel who is a close friend of Bullwinkle J. Moose. Ans: Rocket ("Rocky") J. Squirrel (both have the middle initial J. in reference to the show's producer, Jay Ward).
45) Identify the Minnesota hometown of cartoon characters Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. Ans: Frostbite Falls.
46) Identify Bullwinkle J. Moose's college alma mater. Ans: Wossamotta U.
47) Identify the villainous spy for the fictional nation of Pottslyvania who was always in the company of a fellow female spy on
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Ans: Boris Badenov (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the name for 2 separate TV series: Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show).
48) Identify the attractive female spy who accompanies Boris Bardenov on
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Ans: Natasha Fatale.
49) Identify either the villainous character who casts a menacing shadow against the wall, as when talking to Boris and Natasha, or the uniformed dictator who headed the government of Pottsylvania on
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Ans: Mr. Big or Fearless Leader.
50) Boris and Natasha are the names of important characters in which novel by Leo Tolstoy chronicling the turbulent events in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars? Ans:
War and Peace.
51) Identify the Russian czar from 1598 to 1605 on whose name Boris Badenov's name is a parody. This czar is the subject of an opera in 4 acts with a prologue by Modest Musorgsky to his own libretto based on Aleksandra Puskin's poetic drama. Ans: Boris Godunov.
52) Boris Badenov's favorite catchphrase, said when frustrated, is "Raskolnikov!" a reference to which novel by Fedor Dostoevsky in which this St. Petersburg student carries out his plan to kill a hated and unscrupulous pawnbroker allegedly for her money? Ans:
Crime and Punishment.
53) Identify the NBA player known as "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound" who scored more than 23,000 points and wrote
I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It. Ans: Charles Barkley.
54) Identify the rap band that is a collaboration between Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway) and Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) known for their hit "Crazy." Ans: Gnarls Barkley.
55) Identify the one-word name of the female singer for the Black Eyed Peas who was born Stacy Ferguson. Ans: Fergie.
56) Identify Fergie's solo debut album that includes the song "Glamorous." Ans:
The Dutchess (a deliberate misspelling of the word duchess).
57) Identify the Duchess of York who married and divorced Prince Andrew and is known by her childhood nickname "Fergie." Ans: Sarah Ferguson.
58) Identify the Lewis Carroll work in which The Duchess is an ugly woman whose beheading is ordered by the Queen of Hearts and whose baby Alice picks up only to have it turn into a pig. Ans:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
59) Identify the middle name of American poet Henry Longfellow, the author who wrote
The Courtship of Miles Standish. Ans: (Henry) Wadsworth (Longfellow).
60) Identify the English poet who wrote
Lyrical Ballads with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ans: William Wordsworth.
61) Which general psychological term designates a loss of memory? Ans: Amnesia.
62) Which term designates the inability to get an adequate amount of quality sleep? Ans: Insomnia.
63) Which term beginning with
H designates an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, characterized by irrationality, weeping, unmanageable fear, or emotional excess? Ans: Hysteria.
64) Which term beginning with
S designates a specific major mental disorder marked by loss of contact with reality with accompanying behavioral and intellectual disturbances or deterioration? Ans: Schizophrenia.
65) Identify the U.S. President, an 1879 graduate of Princeton University, a school whose athletic teams are called the "Tigers," who served as its 13th president from 1902 to 1910. Ans: Woodrow Wilson.
66) Identify the leader nicknamed "Le Tigre" or "The Tiger" who became premier of France for the second time in 1917, at age 76, and was with Woodrow Wilson one of "The Big Four" representatives who signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 following WWI. Ans: Georges Clemenceau.
67) Identify the New York City university whose athletic teams are the "Lions" and whose school fight song is "Roar, Lion, Roar." Ans: Columbia University.
68) Identify the general who retired from active military service to become president of Columbia University in 1948, leaving in 1950 to serve as commander of NATO forces in Europe, becoming President of the U.S. in 1953. Ans: Dwight Eisenhower.
69) Identify Jack Kerouac's 1957 manifesto for the Beat Generation, the novel featuring Sal Paradies and Dean Moriarty, who travel across the American continent seeking thrills. Ans:
On the Road.
70) Identify the title of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, that was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. Ans:
The Road.
71) Identify the song about life on tour and part of the soundtrack of the 1980 movie
Honeysuckle Rose that became another Willie Nelson No. 1 hit, in 1980. Ans: "On the Road Again."
72) Identify the title of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' theme song. Ans: "Happy Trails."
73) Identify the title of James Taylor's 1971 hit from the album
Sweet Baby James that includes the lyrics: "I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool / To want to pass that way again." Ans: "Country Road."
74) Identify John Denver's song written with Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert and inspired by the little winding roads taken while on a trip and changed to feature the grandeur of West Virginia's countryside. Ans: "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
75) Identify the name by which the October 1, 1975, boxing match fought in Quezon City, Philippines, between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, is known. Ans: (The) Thrilla in Manila (Ali won; Quezon City is adjacent to Manila).
76) Identify the name by which the October 30, 1974, boxing match fought in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Repuiblic of the Congo) between Muhammad Ali and heavyweight champion George Foreman, is known. Ans: (The) Rumble in the Jungle (Ali won; Foreman defeated Michael Moorer in 1994 to reclaim his heavyweight crown).
77) Identify the boxing tactic Muhammad Ali adopted to fight George Foreman in 1974 in which he pretended to be trapped against the ropes, enticing his opponent to grow tired throwing punches that either missed or his body absorbed. Ans: Rope-a-dope.
78) Identify the actor playing Clubber Lane in the 1983 movie
Rocky III in which Rocky uses the rope-a-dope tactic. Ans: Mr. T (his birth name is Laurence Tureaud).
79) Identify the fast food hanburger chain known for the slogan "Where's the Beef?" said by Clara Peller about a competitor's small hamburger patty in a big bun. Ans: Wendy's.
80) Identify the 2 Democratic candidates for President in 1984, one of whom criticized the other's platform by asking "Where's the beef?" Ans: Walter Mondale and Gary Hart (Mondale said it about Hart's platform).
81) Identify the Confederate general who was mistakenly wounded by his own men at the Battle of Chancerllorsville, dying of pneumonia on May 10, 1863, after his left arm had been amputated. Ans: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
82) Identify the 7-letter title of the Ernest Hemingway novel whose title is derived from the last words of "Stonewall" Jackson, a story about the last 3 days in the life of a retired U.S. Army officer in Venice, Italy. Ans:
Across the River and Into the Trees.
83) In which city in which state is Fort McHenry located? Ans: Baltimore, Maryland.
84) In which city in which state is Fort Sumter located? Ans: Charleston, South Carolina.
85) Identify the better known 4-letter name of the Brazilian soccer star born Edson Arantes do Nascimento who scored 1,280 goals in 1,360 games and is also known as "The Black Pearl," or "
Perola Negra. Ans: Pele.
86) Identify the island in the French West Indies where Mount Pelee is located and whose eruption on May 8, 1902, killed about 40,000 people. This island's capital is Fort-de-France. Ans: Martinique (about 30,000 were killed in the port city of Saint-Pierre).
87) Identify the beautiful Polynesian goddess of the volcano whose home is said to be in the fire pit of the Kilauea crater on the island of Hawaii. Ans: Pele.
88) Identify the moon of Jupiter on which is located a volcano named after the Hawaiian goddess Pele. This moon is named after a priestess of Hera in Greek mythology who was seduced by Zeus, the god who changes her into a heifer. Ans: Io.
89) Identify the 16th-century French physician and astrologer who some believe predicted an earthquake caused by "planetary alignment" in California in 1988. He is known as "the man who saw through time," and today his name is an eponym for a "soothsayer." Ans: Nostradamus (born Michel de Nostre-Dame, Nostredame, or Notredame).
90) Identify the 1922 silent F.W. Murnau film considered a ripoff of Bram Stoker's novel
Dracula so much so that his widow went to court to suppress it. This film's one word title may have been derived from the Greek nosophoros, meaning "plague-carrier," or from the Romanian for "vampire." Ans: Nosferatu.
91) Identify the province in Rumania that is the setting for Bram Stoker's
Dracula. Ans: Translyvania.
92) Identify the English solicitor with the first name Jonathan who goes to Castle Dracula to transact business with the Count only to find himself a prisoner in the castle. Ans: Jonathan Harker.
93) Identify the 1966 Beatles' album including the song "Eleanor Rigby" and whose name designates a pistol with a rotating cylinder having several cartridge chambers. Ans:
Revolver.
94) Identify the braggart soldier and follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare's
Henry IV, The Merry Wives of Windsor (parts 1 and 2), and Henry V whose name designates a small firearm fired with one hand. Ans: Pistol.
95) Identify the term for a wedding necessitated by pregnancy, based on the idea that the father of the expecting daughter is holding a firearm aimed at the groom-to-be. Ans: Shotgun wedding.
96) From the belief that werewolves can be killed with a certain ammunition, which 2-word term designates a single solution for a difficult problem? Ans: Silver bullet.
97) Identify the fictional masked Texas Ranger in the Old West who used silver bullets. Ans: The Lone Ranger.
98) Which word beginning with
L designates a werewolf? Ans: Lycanthrope.
99) Identify the American beer often referred to as the "silver bullet" based on the color of its canned version. Ans: Coors Light.
100) Identify the Gioacchino Rossini opera whose overture featuring a "calvary charge" was used as the theme music of
The Lone Ranger TV series. Ans: William Tell (Overture).