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LonnekeHot 100The only two medals (one gold, one silver) Great Britain won at the 2022 Winter Olympics, held in Beijing, China, came from which sport?CURLING
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GuidoHot 100Written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946 and considered by many to be his finest work, which four-act tragedy by Eugene O'Neill exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair? In this play, O’Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a ragged collection of alcoholics in a run-down New York City tavern-hotel run by Harry Hope. An award-winning namesake 1973 film adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, stars Lee Marvin, Frederic March, Robert Ryan, and others.The ICEMAN COMETH
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MichaelHot 100Which amino acid is released in the hydrolysis of many common proteins, but present in small amounts or lacking in certain plant proteins, e.g., gliadin from wheat, zein from corn (maize)? First isolated from casein (1889), it is one of several so-called essential amino acids for warm-blooded animals; in other words, they cannot synthesize it and require dietary sources.LYSINE / LYS / K
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SesegmaHot 100[image] In this pictured circle, if line segment AB is a chord (with the points A and B on the circle), what name is given to the line PQ when the end points of the line segment AB are extended to infinity?SECANT
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MichaelSquizzed 101In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, what's the name of Hamlet's mother and Queen
of Denmark? Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents
her marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the king (young
Hamlet's father, King Hamlet).		GERTRUDE
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ErwinSquizzed 101Which Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist (1870-1937) is the founder of
the school of individual psychology? His emphasis on the importance of feelings of
belonging, relationships within the family, and birth order set him apart from Freud
and others in their common circle.		Alfred ADLER
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Michael-DennisSquizzed 101What is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar
System?		ERIS
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GuidoSquizzed 101In the history of political thought, the philosophers of which school are often
regarded as the first anarchists, because they regarded the destruction of the state
– which, owing to its hierarchical nature, was the cause of a plethora of misfortunes
– as the only salvation for the human species? However, they were equally sceptical
of democracy and freedom, which entail duties that compromise self-sufficiency and
provide rights that are unnecessary.		CYNICISM
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ErwinSquizzed 101Being led by her reading of Gothic literature to misinterpret much of the social
world she encounters, a modest and kind-hearted Catherine Morland is the heroine
of which novel?		NORTHANGER ABBEY
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SesegmaSquizzed 101Which American filmmaker directed Anora, a comedy drama about the titular
exotic dancer that won Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024?		Sean BAKER
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KosseSquizzed 101Though his novel Staying On won the respected Booker Prize for 1977, which
English novelist, playwright, and poet is best known for his monumental tetralogy
The Raj Quartet, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India?		Paul SCOTT
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ErwinSquizzed 101Born in 1944, what is the nationality of a famous climber and explorer who made
the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and was the first person to climb all 14 eightthousanders,
doing so without supplementary oxygen?		ITALIAN
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GuidoSquizzed 101Hired as the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013, which football coach
helped revitalize the struggling franchise into one of the league's best? In 11 seasons
with that club, ha has led them to 10 postseason appearances, eight consecutive
division titles, six consecutive AFC Championship Games, four Super Bowl
appearances, and three Super Bowl titles.		Andy REID
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SesegmaSquizzed 101Named after the Northeast Indian state where the stalagmite was found that is used
to mark out its years, what name is given in 2018 to the current or latest geologic
age or uppermost stage of the Quaternary? It is also the upper, or latest, of three
subdivisions of the Holocene epoch or series.		MEGHALAYAN age
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MichaelSquizzed 101(image) Seen here on her 1943 self-portrait, Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916-2017)
was a painter and sculptor who is said to have been the first abstract artist in which
Mediterranean country?		LEBANON
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SesegmaSquizzed 101(image) Depicting the story of an Italian nobleman from Dante’s Inferno in which the
13th-century count is imprisoned and starving with his children, _________ and His
Sons is a 1860s marble sculpture that launched the career of Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux; which name is missing on the line in the title of that influential sculpture
seen here?		UGOLINO
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SesegmaSquizzed 101(image) Launched in April 2020 by Jeffrey Katzenberg and led by its CEO Meg
Whitman, the logo of which short-lived American short-form streaming platform is
seen here? It raised $1.75 billion from investors, but it was shut down in December
2020 already after falling short of its subscriber projections. In January 2021, its
content library was sold to Roku, Inc. for less than $100 million, and the platform’s
concepts and failure inspired widespread mockery.		QUIBI
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