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2 | Round 1 Player 1 | Question 1 | Glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan of *T-Rex* died in 1977 when his car struck **what tree**? This isn't the most well known example of such a tree though - on May 17th 1792, it was under a tree of this species that an agreement to found the New York Stock Exchange was signed. | https://legallegacy.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/loc-buttonwood-2.jpg | Buttonwood <br/> <img src="https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/4687679_web1_2-silver-buttonwood-by-starr-1-copy-1280x720.jpg" alt="image of a buttonwood tree" width="500px"/> | You can input HTML instead of markdown if you know what you are doing. It might get tricky setting image sizes with just markdown. | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Round 1 Player 1 | Question 2 | This is the first question in a quad on dentists. Ex-dentist Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow was the president of **what Caspian Sea** nation from 2007 to March 2022? | https://djwp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/16102540/Document-Journal_TP_THUMB_VERTICAL.jpg | Turkmenistan | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Round 1 Player 2 | Question 1 | **What Toyota sports car** model had to be renamed the *Celica Sports Package* in January 2005, for PR reasons? The answer begins with two consecutive consonants. | Tsunami | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Round 1 Player 2 | Question 2 | **What hobby** uses the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system? Apart from representations of the expected result, the diagrams have curvilinear arrows, thick lines, and dashed lines. | Origami instructions <br/> <img src="https://origami-art.us/images/origami/animals/rabbits/Rabbit_Akira_Yoshizawa/1.jpg" alt="origami diagram" width="500px" /> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Round 1 Player 3 | Question 1 | **Whose** life work was inspired by a dream in which a man named Victoricus appeared, holding a letter titled *“The Voice of the Irish”*? | <span style="color:#08a04b;">St. Patrick</span> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Round 1 Player 3 | Question 2 | **What number one–ranked tennis player** of the 1990s was named for a number one–ranked player of the 1980s? | Martina Hingis (for Martina Navratilova) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Round 1 Player 4 | Question 1 | Of the eleven U.S. federal holidays, **which holiday** is observed only by D.C.-area federal employees? | Inauguration Day | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Round 1 Player 4 | Question 2 | **What Coldplay song** was inspired by the phone book sitting next to Chris Martin as he wrote its lyrics? | Yellow | You can not have <audio src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coldplay_-_Yellow.ogg" /> because Chrome does not give permissions | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Round 2 Player 1 | Question 1 | In 1954, artist Jasper Johns’s career was changed forever when he dreamed that he was painting a large version of **what**? | The US flag | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Round 2 Player 1 | Question 2 | **What respectively** are known as “Nochebuena” and “Nochevieja,” or “Good Night” and “Old Night,” in the Spanish-speaking world? | Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Round 2 Player 2 | Question 1 | Singer Sonny Bono met an unfortunate end in 1999 when he crashed into a pine tree. **Which ex-wife** of his, with whom he had a very successful musical and television career as a R&B duo, performed at his funeral? | https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2009/304/2312_125705630864.jpg | Cher (of Sonny and Cher fame) | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Round 2 Player 2 | Question 2 | Retired Seattle dentist Barney Clark make headlines for receiving the Jarvik-7 on December 2, 1982 and responding positively to it. **What kind of device** was the Jarvik-7? | An artificial heart | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Round 2 Player 3 | Question 1 | **What ethnic group** began a wave of immigration to the U.S.—specifically the Minneapolis and Fresno areas—after the 1975 Communist takeover of Laos? The term which starts with two consonants became briefly popular after the gymnastics events of the 2020 Summer Olympics. | https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/sunisa-lee-of-the-united-states-on-the-podium-with-her-gold-news-photo-1627568866.jpg | Hmong | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Round 2 Player 3 | Question 2 | **What** takes its name from the Japanese for “whimsical pictures”? | Manga | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Round 2 Player 4 | Question 1 | **Who** claimed that an 1853 dream of drowning, during an afternoon nap in La Spezia, Italy, inspired the prelude to Das Rheingold? | Richard Wagner | An iframe Youtube link will not work if you want to reference the video | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Round 2 Player 4 | Question 2 | Evonne Goolagong called her occasional lapses of concentration "going _________”, referencing a a rite of passage rituals among the natives of her country. **FITB** | http://quickfound.net/images/sports/wta_large/goolagong_300x414_wimbledon_07_02_1971_court_backhand.jpg | walkabout | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Round 3 Player 1 | Question 1 | During an exceptionally long tennis rally in 1987, what flew off Chris Evert? That specific design worn by Evert became hugely popular and are now known as "tennis _________". | A diamond bracelet | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Round 3 Player 1 | Question 2 | What did 11-year-old Frank Epperson invent in 1905 when he left a glass of homemade soda he was stirring out on his back porch overnight? An 8-lettered trademark name please. | Popsicle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Round 3 Player 2 | Question 1 | Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith are the 7 virtues associated with what American celebration? | Kwanzaa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Round 3 Player 2 | Question 2 | What 1977 bestseller was inspired by the author’s stay in room 217 of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado? | The Shining | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Round 3 Player 3 | Question 1 | Who died when his car crashed against a plane tree in January 1960 and not due a plague, a stranger, a fall, or a rebel? Even for someone with so much existential angst, it's tragic. | Albert Camus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Round 3 Player 3 | Question 2 | What did George Harrison’s dentist, John Riley, give the Beatles in April 1965 that changed them and the face of rock? | Gave the Beatles LSD | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Round 3 Player 4 | Question 1 | What translucent, multilayer painting technique gives the Mona Lisa’s smile its famously enigmatic appearance? The word begins with two consonants. | Sfumato | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Round 3 Player 4 | Question 2 | The critical clue in what 1974 movie turns out to be a Japanese gardener complaining that salt water is “bad for glass”? | Chinatown | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Round 4 Player 1 | Question 1 | What’s now the more common nickname for Africa’s Belgian-owned resort Hotel des Mille Collines? The second word begins with two consonants. | Hotel Rwanda | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Round 4 Player 1 | Question 2 | in 1812, the Mongol’s invasion of Japan fails when, for a second time, a typhoon destroys their fleet. The Japanese will come to call these fortuitous storm what? | Kamikaze (divine wind) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Round 4 Player 2 | Question 1 | What did Elias Howe invent in 1845 after dreaming of a tribe of cannibals pounding spears that had holes drilled in their tips? | The sewing machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Round 4 Player 2 | Question 2 | The Elton John hit "Philadelphia Freedom" was a tribute to which woman part of the Philadelphia Freedoms team? | Billie Jean King | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Round 4 Player 3 | Question 1 | The “Juneteenth” holiday celebrates the last US state to, in effect, abolish slavery. Which state? | Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Round 4 Player 3 | Question 2 | What song did John Lennon write after reading two newspaper stories—one about the death of Guinness heir Tara Browne and one about a pothole problem? | A Day in the Life | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Round 4 Player 4 | Question 1 | Which painter arguably created the last of his drip paintings with his own blood? Rather than on a canvas that would later be sold for millions like his other works, this was on the asphalt of a street, after a car crash into an oak tree that cost his life in 1956. | Jackson Pollock | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Round 4 Player 4 | Question 2 | In her only book, who gave the unflattering nickname “Dr. Dussel,” meaning “nitwit,” to Amsterdam dentist Fritz Pfeffer? | Anne Frank | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Round 5 Player 1 | Question 1 | What’s the only NBA team to have a sword in its logo? The team is a member of the NBA league's Eastern Conference Central Division. | Cleveland Cavaliers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Round 5 Player 1 | Question 2 | There are only 2 countries named after patriarchs of the Old Testament. Name either. | Israel, The Solomon Islands | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Round 5 Player 2 | Question 1 | The city of Liverpool stalled plans to rename streets historically linked to the slave trade when it realized that what famous street was on the list? | Penny Lane | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Round 5 Player 2 | Question 2 | The “Dandelion” crater on the moon is named in honor of what American author who died in 2012 aged 91? The letters of his first name are present in the same order in his surname, albeit not consecutively. | Ray Bradbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Round 5 Player 3 | Question 1 | What kind of sword probably takes its name from a Persian word for “lion’s tail,” because of its curved shape? | The scimitar | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Round 5 Player 3 | Question 2 | In the King James Bible, all but three books of the New Testament end with what 4-letter word? | Amen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Round 5 Player 4 | Question 1 | What road, which names a 2002 film that stars Eminem, divides Wayne County from affluent Oakland and Maycomb Counties? | 8 mile road | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Round 5 Player 4 | Question 2 | Because her father is a friend of the Dalai Lama’s and a leading American scholar of Buddhism, which woman is named for an Indian deity? The letters of her first name are present in her surname in the same order (but not consecutively). | Uma Thurman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Round 6 Player 1 | Question 1 | What American street is best known for its eight switchbacks between Hyde and Leavenworth? | Lombard street | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Round 6 Player 1 | Question 2 | Who plays Angel Eyes, the “Bad” in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? The first name that he went by is found in his surname. | Lee van Cleef | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Round 6 Player 2 | Question 1 | Of whom did Dustin Hoffman say “He has no genitalia and he’s holding a sword”? | The Oscar | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Round 6 Player 2 | Question 2 | Who is Naomi's daughter-in-law in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible? A TV personality born in 1954 was named after her, but a misspelling of the name by swapping the second and third letters is how she is known by. | Orpah | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Round 6 Player 3 | Question 1 | In 1950, Erle Stanley Gardner published the short story "The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts" under what pseudonym? This character is depicted as a lesbian in a 2020 HBO adaptation. | Della Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Round 6 Player 3 | Question 2 | What title character’s story demonstrates that “every happy family is unhappy in its own way”? The letters of her first name are present in her surname in the same order, though not consecutively. | Anna Karenina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Round 6 Player 4 | Question 1 | The Kastane is a short traditional ceremonial/decorative single-edged sword with elaborate hilts inspired by motifs in Buddhism. The Sendai City Museum displays the oldest surviving kastane 'Lion' hilt which belonged to daimyō Hasekura Tsunenaga dating from circa 1600 AD. Outside of museums and ceremonial uniforms, where else would one see a Kastane sword held aloft? | The Sri Lankan flag | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Round 6 Player 4 | Question 2 | In the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35), who is Jesus weeping for? | Lazarus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Round 7 Player 1 | Question 1 | When Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Fakhru succumbed to the cholera pandemic in 1856, predeceasing his father by 6 years, he died as the last crown prince of which empire? | Mughal | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Round 7 Player 1 | Question 2 | In the 2nd century AD, following the death of a significant number of soldiers due to the Antonine Plague, apart from slaves and bandits, which group of people did emperor Marcus Aurelius recruit for the army, a decision that was not popular in an entertainment-starved Rome? | Gladiators | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Round 7 Player 2 | Question 1 | In France, the Bubonic Plague was known as “le charbon” because of the semblance of the lumpy buboes to what rock? | Coal | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Round 7 Player 2 | Question 2 | In 14th century plague-struck Florence, every church had deep trenches that people would dump bodies into in the night and dirt piled on during day to create layers of corpses. What edible substance did these pits remind chronicler Marchionne di Coppo Stefani of? | Lasagna | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Round 7 Player 3 | Question 1 | Which 16th century apothecarist, largely responsible for preventing bubonic plague outbreaks in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon, is believed to have used bibliomancy (taking cues by selecting a random page in a book) for his most famous work? One verse from this book that became popular among conspiracy-theorists earlier this century quite likely references the capture of Naples by the Normans in 1139, a year the nearby Mount Vesuvius had a notable eruption. | Nostradamus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Round 7 Player 3 | Question 2 | Those from Strasbourg afflicted in the 1518 dancing plague were sent to the St. Vitus shrine in Hellensteg where priests would hand those dancing manically a small cross and a pair of what item of clothing? This practice was the inspiration for a Hans Christian Andersen story that in turn inspired the 1948 movie this image is from. | Red Shoes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Round 7 Player 4 | Question 1 | Which scientist’s artist brother painted this portrait of Blossom, the cow that played an important role in a 1796 public demonstration? | Edward Jenner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Round 7 Player 4 | Question 2 | Tenochtitlan, a capital that was decimated by a smallpox epidemic before its siege, forms the historic center of which Olympic city? | Mexico city | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Round 8 Player 1 | Question 1 | In the 1976 paper titled Ergotism: The Satan Loosed In _____, Linnda R. Caporael claims that based on the symptoms described by the daughter of a preacher, it must have been ergot (a fungus growing on moldy bread which when ingested causes a person to convulse, choke, and hallucinate) that was the main cause of an outbreak that led to what series of events in an American town in the 17th century? | Salem witch trials | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Round 8 Player 1 | Question 2 | In the mid-late 1490s, the Italians called syphilis "the French disease", the French called it "the Italian disease", the Russians called it "the Polish disease", the Polish called it "the Turkish disease“ and the Turkish called it "the Christian disease". But after whom should the disease have been named since it was his men who most likely brought it to Europe? | Christopher Columbus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Round 8 Player 2 | Question 1 | Which 19th century German, once the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at his university, was, during the latter period of his life, paraded around in medical lectures as a case study of what syphilis could do to the brain of a person? While he wrote books like Ecce Homo in this time, he’d also gesticulate excessively, scream manically, and drink his own urine. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Round 8 Player 2 | Question 2 | Fill in the blanks in the 16th century saying with two neighbours: “a night with _____, a lifetime with _______”, referring to how it was so easy to catch syphilis but hard to cure even after several treatments with Cinnabar and other harmful orange-looking compounds. | Venus, Mercury | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Round 8 Player 3 | Question 1 | Because of how syphilis would cause the nose to rot, sufferers would often wear wooden or metallic noses. What other accessory became trendy because it not only eased another part of the body that became sensitive because of the disease, but also helped holding these fake noses in place? | Sunglasses | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Round 8 Player 3 | Question 2 | Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Edgar Allan Poe’s Metzengerstein, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables all have a character dying from consumption, a disease that’s also known by what name? | Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Round 8 Player 4 | Question 1 | Which 2001 movie is partially inspired by the 1853 Verdi opera La Traviata with both productions revolving around the life of a courtesan who hides her tuberculosis and love from her male lover in whose hands she’d eventually die in a teary scene? | Moulin Rouge | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Round 8 Player 4 | Question 2 | Which artist painted this scene of the death of his sister due to tuberculosis in 1877 in the work titled Det syke barn (‘the sick child’ in Norwegian)? | Edvard Munch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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