Thursday, February 18, 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

WW2
Mussolini - A dictator who ended up hanging by his feet from an Esso station in Piazzale Loreto, along w/ his mistress
Nuremberg - Trials of Leading Nazis held
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Britain through
Heinrich Himmler - Minister of Interior in Germany
Prinz Eugen - only German ship to survive WW2
Unit 731 - Japanese unit researched and conducted biological attacks on Chinese people
German Weather Ship - "Busch" in WW2

WW1
The Battle of Verdun took place in France
Treaty of Versailles = name of Treaty which ended state of war between Germany and Allied Powers
Schliefen Plan = name given to the German plan to invade France by marching through Belgium
1918 = Kaiser Wilhelm 2 abdicated in this year during the War
Haig insisted on using this untested weapon for the first time at the Battle of Somme = Tank
Battle of the Marne ended the success of this plan by Germany - The Schlieffen Plan

Music : General    (3rd Cat)
The Moon, 2015 song "Shut Up and Dance"
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Whitney Houston, in 1992 had a hit w/ their cover of Dolly Parton's 1973 song "I Will Always Love You"
Paul McCartney, replaced Kurt Cobain at the Nirvana reunion at 2012 12-12-12 concert for Hurricane Sandy Relief
Elton John - as a duet w/ Kiki Dee, had a hit w/ "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Bjork - dressed as a Geisha for the "Homogenic" album cover

Science - 4th Cat
Electric current usu measured in Amperes
Precipitation Condensation Evaporation - water cycle
HCL = Acid Compound
Divergent - Boundary when two plates move away from one another
Vector - An organism, such as a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another

Philosophy
Plato's "apology is about Socrates' trial
Thoreau values TRUTH the most
Bertrand Russel
Aristotle believed Music had no practical application
George Berkeley

Neuroscience
Central Nervous System - CNS
Bursitis is NOT a mental disorder
Alcohol suppresses neural activity in the brain, producing a sedative or hypnotic effect
Marijuana - causes problems in memory in the hippocampus when used long term
12 pairs of thoracic nerves are in the spinal column
Stress and Depression hastens death of neurons

...look at all options first before you pick an answer...


7th category
Carnivore - animal that feeds mainly on flesh of other animal
Toad is an amphibian
Kangaroo is native to Australia
Gnu = Wildebeest
Numbat = Australian animal lives exclusively on a diet of termites
Puffer Fish = Marine Animal second most poisonous animal on the planet

Television Shows - 8th
TNG = Star Trek Next Generation
Hikaru Sulu
Captain Tiberius Kirk
Gamma Quadrant - The Only Place The Defiant may use Cloaking device
Betazed - the planet Deanna Troi comes from in Star Trek Next Generation
Jack The Ripper was responsible for murder when Scotty was accused of it, in Star Trek: The Original Series

On Deep Space Nine, what is the original Cardassian name for space station Deep Space 9
Terok Nor

TV SHOWS - 9th
Melmac - ALF came from this planet
Red - color of Magnum's Ferrari
Sam Malone - character played by Ted Danson in "Cheers"
Jessica Fletcher - main character in Murder She Wrote
Orphanage - "Hi-De-Hi".. Paul Shane's character of Ted Bovis was brought up as a child here
Colorado - American state of Colorado was where TV Soap "Dynasty" was set
Kristin Shepard shot JR



Shakespeare - 10th
Ophelia is the girl who drowns herself in Hamlet
Hamlet - there is something rotten in the State of Denmark
Macbeth - "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble"
Macbeth again - Spirit Like a Cat is a listed character appearing in this Shakespeare play
Alehouse - The Induction of "The Taming of the Shrew" takes place here
King Of France - marries Cordelia in "King Lear" despite her father's decision to disinherit her
Plague - Shakespeare wrote poetry in 1593 and 1594 when theaters were closed because of the plague



(stand out word or object theory - that's what people pick in a multiple choice question)


11th
Mu is a fictional continent popularized by James Churchward
Equestria - fictional land in my little pony
Mos Eisley - name of desert town in Star Wars
Brigadoon - fictional Scottish town which appears briefly every 100 years
Darkover - fictional planet
Hillwood - Hey Arnold set in this fic city
Trantor - capital of the Galactic Empire in Asimov's "Foundation" series























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