SET 4 (301-400)
1) Identify the Irish stage actor who took over the role of Albus Dumbledore in 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban following the death of Richard Harris. Ans: Michael Gambon.
2) Identify the American author who wrote
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for which he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Ans: Michael Chabon.
3) Give the full name of the initialism ESP, designating the communication by means outside the physical senses. Ans: Extrasensory perception.
4) Give the full name of the initialism ESPN when founded in 1979 in Bristol, Connecticut. This 24-hour-a-day cable-TV sports station's slogan is "The Worldwide Leader in Sports." Ans: Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (accept Entertainment Sport Program Network; the company's name was shortened to ESPN, Inc., in 1985).
5) Which letter of the Greek alphabet designates both one of the founding fathers of the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey on the TV series
Dr. Who and the last of any series? Ans: Omega.
6) Identify the 1971 film starring Charlton Heston as the last-man-on-Earth whose title includes a letter of the Greek alphabet. Ans:
The Omega Man (adapted from Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend).
7) In the power hierarchy of an animal group such as a pack of wolves or baboons, the beta male contends for the role of the alpha male but loses. Which 2-word term in general designates the weakest person and in particular the most submissive animal in such a pack? Ans: Omega male.
8) Identify the 1987 film in which a character with the help of a former Vietnam vet tracks down his daughter's abductors and whose title includes a letter of the Greek alphabet. Ans:
Omega Syndrome.
9) Identify the Titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from heaven and gave it to man, an action for which he was punished by Zeus. Ans: Prometheus.
10) Identify the British author whose 1818 novel
Frankenstein is subtitled The Modern Prometheus. Ans: Mary Shelley.
11) Identify the Greek playwright known for his
Prometheus Bound as well as for his Oresteia trilogy. Ans: Aeschylus.
12) Identify the British author who wrote
Prometheus Unbound. Ans: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
13) Identify the physicist involved in the Manhattan Project who is the subject of Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
American Prometheus. Ans: Robert Oppenheimer.
14) Identify the German philosopher who actually coined the term "Modern Prometheus" and used it to refer to Benjamin Franklin and his recent experiments with electricity. This German wrote
Critique of Pure Reason. Ans: Immanuel Kant.
15) Identify the "Most Noble Mountain (Rock) of the Alps" located on the Italian-Swiss border that shares its name with the Disney bobsled ride. Ans: Matterhorn (the mountain is also known as Mont Cervin in French and Monte Cervino in Italian).
16) Identify "The Most Noble Order" of Knighthood founded by Edward III in 1348 and considered the highest British order, one that was allegedly created when Edward was dancing with the Countess of Salisbury and something she was wearing fell to the floor. Ans: (The Most Noble) Order of the Garter.
17) After Edward picked up the Countess's garter and put it on his own leg, he admonished snickering bystanders with the French phrase
Honi soit qui mal y pense, now the Order's motto. Give the English for this motto. Ans: "Shame to him who thinks evil of it."
18) Some medieval scholars believe that there is a connection between the Order of the Garter and a Middle English poem about a Green Knight as there is a girdle mentioned in it with sexual overtones to those of the garter. Complete this poem's title
Sir _____ and the Green Knight. Ans: Gawain.
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19) Identify the high school biology teacher, John T. _____, tried in the "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. His name is the plural added to the name of a viewing instrument. Ans: John T. Scopes .
20) William Faulkner's 3 works, The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion, is often called the _____ Trilogy as it is centered on the many members of which fictional family? This family's name also identifies the web site for Urban Legends Reference Pages. Ans: Snopes (Snopes.com is the web site).
21) Identify the genus of tropical climbing plants commonly named waxplant, waxvine, and waxflower and named by botanist Robert Brown in honor of botanist Thomas Hoy. Ans: Hoya.
22) Identify the Mexican-American boxer nicknamed the "Golden Boy" who won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Ans: Oscar De La Hoya.
23) In which country is Hoya a city located on the Shakoji River in east central Honshu? Ans: Japan (it is a residential suburb of Tokyo).
24) Which school, whose mascot is Jack the Bulldog, originally used Latin and Greek terms to refer to its athletic teams as "Hoya Saxa!" or "What Rocks!" Ans: Georgetown University (the nickname today is just "Hoyas"; the university's newspaper is The Hoya).
25) Identify the 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship commanded by the obsessed, one-legged Captain Ahab who seeks revenge in capturing the white whale that cost him his leg in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Ans: Pequod.
26) Identify the Algonquian-speaking Indian people now living in eastern Connecticut whose ancestors were involved in the 1636-1638 war against the Puritans, resulting in significant losses for both sides. Ans: Pequot.
27) Identify the Shiite cleric in power from 1979 to 1989 who led the Iranian Revolution of 1979 during which he referred to the United States as "the Great Satan." Ans: Ayatollah (Ruhollah) Khomeini.
28) Identify the chief of state of Iran since June 4, 1989, who along with the 12-member Guardian Council of religious leaders can veto anything the elected government does, especially the one run by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president since August 3, 2005. Ans: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.
29) Which name identifies both the submersible craft built and tested by Robert Fulton in France in 1800 and the U.S.'s first nucleared-power submarine in 1954 that sailed under the North Pole ice cap in 1958? Ans: Nautilus (her historic message in 1955 when first put to sea was "Underway under nuclear power").
30) Identify the U.S.'s nuclear-powered radar picket submarine that was the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth, in 1960. It is named after a Greek sea demigod, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Ans: Triton.
31) Identify the captain in Jules Verne's Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea whose name means "no one" and commanded the submarine Nautilus, which he built on a deserted island. Ans: Captain Nemo.
32) Identify the poet and Boston physician who wrote "The Chambered Nautilus," a poem about a sea creature that lives inside a spiral shell. This poet's son served as justice of the U.S. Supreme court. Ans: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.).
33) Identify the name shared by a Salinas mountain range in California and Jody Tiflin's pony in John Steinbeck's story The Red Pony. Ans: Galiban.
34) Identify the satellite of Uranus, 16th in distance from the planet, that was named after the monster character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Change the first letter in the name Galiban to get this satellite. Ans: Caliban.
35) Identify the largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus that was named after Caliban's mother in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Ans: Sycorax.
36) The name Sycorax identifies a fictional alien race in "The Christmas Invasion" episode on which TV series about a time-travelling hero who battled bad guys such as the Daleks, the Cybermen, or the Master? Ans: Dr. Who.
37) Give the full meaning of the initialism GOP as used in American politics to identify the Republican Party. Ans: Grand Old Party.
38) Identify the British prime minister designated by the initialism GOM for "Grand Old Man," honoring his 4 times in office. His given name is William Ewart. Ans: William Ewart Gladstone (he served in the years: 1868-74; 1880-85; 1886; and 1892-1894).
39) Identify the surname shared by Cosmo, the sophisticated conservative title character played by Leo H. Carroll who lived with 3 ghosts in the 1953-1958 CBS TV sitcom, and Hopalong Cassidy's white horse. Ans: Topper.
40) Identify the surname of the character with the first name Nick whose head is changed into an ass by the mischievous Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ans: Bottom.
41) Which word beginning with M designates both the tall cap with peaks worn by a pope or bishop and a kind of joint in carpentry formed by fitting 2 beveled pieces of wood together? Ans: Miter.
42) Which word beginning with M designates a heat valve, made up of 2 triangular flaps, that regulates blood flow between the left atrium and the left ventricle? Ans: Mitral valve.
43) Which word beginning with B-I designates a stiff, square, ceremonial hat with 3 or 4 ridges across the crown worn by Roman Catholic clergy? Ans: Biretta.
44) Identify the major Italian firearm manufacturer established in 1526 and chosen by the U.S. military in 1985 to produce 500,000 M9 99mm pistols. Ans: Beretta.
45) Identify the first animal, a dog, in orbit aboard Sputnik II on November 3, 1957. Ans: Laika.
46) Identify the Russian musical instrument with a triangular body, long neck, and 3 strings sounding like a mandolin that was developed by the Tartars of central Russia and used for Russian songs and dance music. Ans: Balalaika.
47) Identify the Greek dish of marinated lamb chunks skewered between vegetable chunks and cooked over a grill. Ans: Souvlaki(a).
48) Identify the European country whose capital of Bratislava is located on the Danube River about 35 miles east of Vienna. This country, bordering Poland, Urkaine, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic, became independent in 1993. Ans: Slovakia.
49) Identify the Austrian monk known for his experiments with the breeding of green peas whose works on inherited traits were published in 1866 but went unrecognized until rediscovered in 1900. His conclusions are contained in 2 laws, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. Ans: Gregor Mendel.
50) Identify the Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law and invented the periodic table, a system of clasifying the elements. His surname begins with the name of the Austrian monk. Ans: Dmitri Mendeleev.
51) Name the 3 Christian graces, or theological virtues, having God as their immediate object as listed by Paul in Corinthians 13:13. Ans: Faith, Hope, and Charity.
52) Name the Kentucky-born anti-alcohol crusader known as "The Lady with the Hatchet" who began smashing saloon with hatchets named Faith, Hope, and Charity in Kansas in the 1890s. Ans: Carry A. Nation.
53) Identify the state whose 3 volcanic peaks, called The Three Sisters and named Faith, Hope, and Charity by early settlers, are located in the Cascade Mountains near Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood. Ans: Oregon.
54) Identify the 2003-2006 TV series that starred Faith Ford as Hope Shanowski and Kelly Ripa as Faith Fairchild. Ans: Hope & Faith.
55) Give the full name of the acronym UNSUB as used frequently on TV's Criminal Minds. Ans: .
56) What does BAU stand for in designating a division of the FBI, as seen operating on Criminal Minds? Ans: .
57) Identify the mythical reptile, resembling a lizard, and said to be capable of living in fire, that also designates an amphibian, one of whose species is the mud puppy. This word also identifies a kitchen tool used to brown the tops of foods. Ans: .
58) Which 4-letter word beginning with N designates any of various small salamanders that live both on land and water? Ans: .
59) Which word completes the following ingredient list from the 3 witches' brew: "_____ of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog" in Shakespeare's Macbeth? Ans: .
60) Identify the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, who resigned both the Speakership and his seat in Congress. Ans: .
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