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 - Anorganism,suchasamosquitoortick,thatcarriesdisease-causingmicroorganismsfromonehosttoanother
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
1. Shakespeare Quotes
Hamlet - "To be or not to be, that is the question"
Romeo and Juliet - "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Othello - Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone
Julius Caesar - Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Richard The Second - The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation
Hamlet - Sweets to the sweet, farewell
Hamlet - Come give us a taste of your quality, come, a passionate speech
2. Star Trek
USS Voyager Chakotay is First Officer
Rom and Nog is Ferengi species in Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek
Robert Picardo played the Doctor in Voyager
Anthony Montgomery played Travis Mayweather in Enterprise
Developing cloaking technology is how USS Pegasus conspired to violate the Treaty of Algeron in Star Trek the Next Generation
Mogh is Worf's natural father
3. Science
Greenwich is at Zero Degrees of Longitude
They don't grow - Lichens indicate air pollution by doing this
3959 miles far below the ground (sea level) would the center of the Earth be
Polaris - The North Star is also known as
Bears - Animals of the Ursidae family
50 seconds - it takes to make 100,000 vibrations if a tuning fork has freq of 2000 Hz
Osmosis - what term describes the balancing of water molecules from higher to lower pressure, across a semi permeable membrane
4. Baseball
1908 famous song was written by Jack Norworth but he didn't go to his first baseball game 'til 1942
Didn't go to a baseball game till 1942
New York Mets, in 2012 Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter
It's a home run - a hit ball bounces off the foul pole and into the field
Matt Williams - first player to hit a World series home run for 3 diff teams
San Diego - Ted Giannoulas created a chicken who cavorts at sports events in San Diego
Mark McGwire - in 2014, holds Athletics' record for home runs in a career
5. NBA
47 Blake Griffin's career high
Magic Johnson - started at the center of game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals as Lakers clinched NBA title
Tim Duncan won 2 times, NBA MVP award
How many games was the Knicks playoff losing streak that ended 2012
Tyreke Evans
Patrick Beverley = winner of 2015 All Star Weekend Skills Challenge
Pacific = Phoenix Suns play in which NBA Division
Oscar Roberston, Michael Jordan, Lebron James averaged 20+ PPG, 5+ APG, and 5+ RPG as rookies. Who else has done this? = Tyreke Evans
6. Animals
Turtle returns to the beach
French Gnome = NOT
Blue eyed white cats are deaf
All of these
Tree Snake = boomslang ysnake, a name originating in Afrikaans and Dutch
Breeds of Rabbits are Britannia petite, French gnome, American sable
A method of cane toad control in Australia is urgently needed. Chemical control, legislative control, and biological control is needed.
7. Philosophy
Our mind - Descartes believe we can know this most intimately
Humanism - there's inherent goodness and nobility in the human spirit
Socrates - "As for me, all i know is that
Kurt Godel - proved the famous incompleteness theorems
Parmenides - ancient Greek philosopher who was not a member of the Ionian school
"all bachelors are unmarried" - Analytic a priori
Appearances - In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant refers to as "intensive magnitudes" and "extensive magnitudes"
8. World War 2
Belgium's King Leopold III spent much of WW2 as a prisoner in his own castle
Soviet Union lost the most people in WW2
Enola Gay B-29 dropped the atom bomb
Europe was most devastated by WW2
UK was lead by Winston Churchill
Allies and Axis
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Demon Of Rabaul
Tours - French Gov't surrendered it to Germany
Das Schwarze Korps - Official Weekly Newspaper of the SS
Hong Kong - a British territory captured on Christmas Day 1941
9. US Presidents
Bill Clinton is 42nd Pres
Dick Cheney is Vice Pres under George Bush
JFK youngest elec Pres
Thomas Jefferson first elec press by house of rep
Calvin Coolidge had Vaseline rubbed on his head in the morning
Chester A Arthur - The Gentleman Boss, nickname
Chester Alan Arthur
10. US States
Wisconsin - abbr. WI
Washington shares border with Idaho and Oregon
New York has cat skill mountain
United Arab Emirates is the third one, after Yemen and Oman
1st Round - Star Trek
Borg's Repetitive War Cry = Resistance is Futile
Pon farr - "The Time of Mating" in Vulcan
1995-2001 Star Trek reincarnation = Voyager
Arthuris in Voyager = Ray Wise
Sir I must protest, I am not a Merry Man = Worf
How many colonists were there on Omicron Theta? 411 colonists
On this Star Trek Voyager episode, Chakotay met a young Kazon boy = Initiations
2nd Round - NBA
Shaquille O Neal - hosts the NBA blooper feature "Shaqtin' a Fool"
Brooklyn Nets - Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson, Shane Larkin
Dwight Howard - Rockets 12
James Harden - West All Star in 2013
Alvin Gentry - New Orleans Pelicans hired him as their head coach after 2014-2015 Season
Kyrie Irving - scored a 2014-2015 season high for the league w/ 57 points
Mike Budenholzer - 2014-2015 NBA Coach of the Year
3rd Round - Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona is a title for a Shakespeare Play
Out damn'd Spot = Lady Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet = Two Households both alike in dignity in fair Verona
Yo mama Joke = Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
25 = number of sons Titus Andronicus have
Milan = "The Tempest" Prospero is Duke of Milan
Fluellen = "Eat My Leek" in Henry V
4th Round - Baseball
First Base - 12 year old Kathryn Johnston becomes first girl to play Little League at this position
He bats fourth - A manager having one of his best hitters batting "clean up"
Rickey Henderson - holds Athletics' record for stolen bases in a season, entering 2014
Tony Fernandez - entering 2014, holds Blue Jays' record for hits in a career
Miami Marlins - in 2012 moved into a brand new ballpark in Little Havana
Larry Robinson - not one of the Robinsons who won the baseball MVP award, but won a Norris Trophy
Jose Canseco - first player in history w/ 40 home runs and 40 steals in same season
5th Round - Literature
Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of Two Cities 1859
The Picture of Dorian Gray, title of 1891 Wilde Novel about a dashing young man who sells his soul to remain young while his portrait ages
Oliver Twist - Please Sir, I want some more
Compeyson - a professional swindler who fights w/ Magwitch and drowns
Phileas Fogg - makes the wager that he can travel the world in 80 days
River Thames is featured in "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens
Jo is short for Josephine in "Little Women"
6th - Science
Dogs hear better than humans
Ammeter measures electric current
Calorimeter measures amount of Chlorine
Eniac name of first digital computer
Mariner, Pioneer, Ranger names of US Space mission
Static electricity causes dust to collet into dust bunnies
Aberdeen Angus is a type of Cow
7th - Computer Science
Apache is A in LAMP Stack
Object Oriented Design - Unified Modeling Language or UML, used in this area
Original 802.11 wireless protocol as well as wireless 802.11 b/g/n all broadcast at 2.4 GHZ frequency
An IPv6 address can have 2 types of formats, one is Normal or Pure and the other is Dual
HBase is NOT an example of RBDMS
Visicalc is a Spreadsheet, one of the popular products in 1970s
A mathematician that has a functional programming language named after him: Haskell Curry
8th - Philosophy
Hedonism - thinks highest and greatest good is pleasure
Dualism - view that mind or soul and body are two separate things
Relativism - what's true for you is false for me
Thomas Hobbes - believes State of nature is war against all
Hume argues that principle of induction can neither be an a priori truth or an a posteriori fact
Karl Marx took Hegel's ideas and turned them upside down
9th - Colleges
University of Florida has a gator as a mascot
Business is most popular major
Duke University is in North Carolina
Columbia University is in New York
University of Arizona has a Blue, Red and White in A logo
The New School is located in New York
Bruin is UCLA's mascot
10th - Movies: General
Andy Stitzer - 40 year old Virgin
Shower, Marion Crane was killed in "Psycho"
James Cameron was brought on for ideas to stop oil spill for 2010 Gulf of Mexico
Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire's co-star in "Top Hat" dancing w/ him in such classics as "Cheek to Cheek"
Collin Farrel played a down on his luck screen writer involved in a dognapping in 2012 movie, "Seven Psychopaths"
Adrien Brody, won a Best Actor Oscar for the film "The Pianist"
June 6, 2006 - release date for 2006 version of "The Omen"
1st Quiz
Kierkegaard uses the example of G-d telling Abraham to kill his son as an example of the absurdity of life
Kant said moral laws apply to all rational beings
Richard Wagner shared a relationship with Nietzsche, he praised his "The Birth of Tragedy"
Russel said Philosophy aims for Knowledge like all other studies
Duhem-Quine thesis - in Philosophy of Science, it's impossible to test a scientific hypothesis in isolation
Ludwig Wittgenstein made use of a fire poker in confrontation w/ Karl Popper
Ludwig Wittgenstein quit his profession to become a village school teacher
2nd Quiz
Clouds are mainly made of water
Grapes grow on a vine
Plants have Chlorophyll
Mercury and Bromine are liquid at room temp
Vitamin C is ascorbic acid
9.8 m/s2
Hippocrates = Father of Modern Medicine
So I beat the top 10 in Science: General for Pakistan, I was level 2 and she was level 54.
3rd Quiz
Louis Armstrong - Jazz Performer
1930s - Great Depression
The Bill of Rights, first 10 const amendments
Alabama
1850s Handcart Migration, Mormons went to Utah
4th Quiz
Israel certified its stamp as Kosher
Kyoto is anagram of Tokyo
Heivetia - NOT a name for Switzerland
Switzerland has 3 main official languages ..
these are names for Switzerland: Suisse, Svizzera, Schweiz
Lake Superior - Westernmost and Northernmost of the Great Lakes
5 at least
Atlas - an Ocean and a Mountain range named for him
1,400 fountains in the garden of Palace of Versailles
Zimbabwe as a country is named for the ruins that were once capital city of Monomutapa Empire
"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono" Hawaii's motto
China has one time zone
6
Chile and Argentina shares Patagonia
River's current meets the sea's tide = Estuary
1707 - Scotland politically unified with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain
Lebanon only country in Middle East w/ no desert
4 States in the United States has a border w/ Mexico
Brazil's flag depicts the night sky of Rio de Janeiro as seen on Nov 15 1889
Long Island is the largest island in the continental United States
Yellowstone - US national park created by a massive volcanic eruption 600,000 years ago
Grand Duke, monarch of Luxembourg is referred to by what title
Tahiti is located in French Polynesia
Darfur is in Sudan
7th
Chile is around 12 times longer from North to South than it is from East to West
London has Wembley Stadium, a national football stadium located in London
Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia all have borders on Black Sea
Pakistan means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu, it was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahman Ali in his pamphlet "Now or Never"
Russia used to cover more of Earth's surface, covers 11% of it as of 2011
Antarctica - The Queen Maud Mountains and the Weddell Sea are features found on which continent
Montana
1ST GAME
Triangle on a map - means Mountain
Great Sandy Dessert, Great Dividing Range - Australia
Argentina's language is Spanish
Charles Bridge - longest bridge built in Middle Ages in Europe
El Paso is named because it's a ford across what Texas river
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is w/ Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Paris-Dakar's rally's traditional finishing point is Dakar
2ND GAME
Shanghai is China's largest city by population
Lines of latitude are lines that run parallel to the equator
Half of St. Martin is French and the other Caribbean
Colombia and Panama - The Darien Gap is an undeveloped break in the Pan-American highway
Baroque - Palace of Versailles is an example of this architecture
Paris, Texas - 60 ft high w/ a red Cowboy hat
Maui - 1992, 30,000 Hawaiians petitioned to change the name of Maui to Gilligan's Island
3RD GAME
Amazon River - The Rio Negro, Jurua River and Madeira River.. some of the 1000 tributaries of a major river
Astha - world's 1 billionth person
Russia - Trans-Siberian Railroad
Indian Ocean - Zambezi River in Africa flows into Indian Ocean
Argentina and Chile - Patagonia traverses into these two South American countries
Martinique - Mt Pele is in Martinique
Nova Scotia does not border the United States
4TH GAME
Australia celebrates Xmas in Summer
Brazil - only Portuguese speaking country in the Americas
Mount Olympus is highest peak in Greece
Copper named after Cyprus where it was mined in Roman Era
Prince Orange - Heir Apparent to the Dutch Throne
Amsterdam's symbol is "xxx", three crosses
Islamabad capital of Pakistan along w/ Rawalpindi, makes up its 3rd largest metro area
5TH GAME
Pacific Ocean - Largest body of water on Earth
Mascara, once capital of Turkish province of West Algeria
New Zealand has Stewart Island, its 3rd largest island
Wyoming has Yellowstone Park, 1st nat'l park established in the United States
Saudi Arabia population is 29 million
Russia has Lake Baikal
Uganda until 1962 has the capital of Entebbe
6TH GAME
Yukon runs through the center of Alaska and shares its name w/ a territory of Canada
A baguette
John Donne is an island in the Irish Sea and so is Isle of Man
Gypsies
Isle of Man
Minnesota has International Falls which is Icebox of the Nation
Strassbourg is NOT in Germany
7TH GAME
New Zealand has Maori
Arabian Peninsula has Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Sana'a, Muscat
Wales has a "Red Dragon Flag" includes a red dragon called Y Ddraig Goch
China has the world's biggest crashing bore, a tidal bore in the Qiantang River at Hangzhou Bay
Aral Sea is in Kazakhstan
Lesotho's Flag has a hat
Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and annexed the country the following year, but their unwelcomed stay was relatively short-lived, as the World War II Allied powers liberated the country in 1941. Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa) The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. It also resulted in the Zulu kingdom being incorporated into British colonial holdings, eventually as part of the province of Natal, which later became the modern-day South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Sotho peoples’ victory over the Cape Colony is one of the few examples in Southern African history of black Africans’ winning a conflict with colonial powers in the 19th century. It’s also the reason why the country of Lesotho is surrounded by the country of South Africa, rather than being a part of it: because Basutoland (as Lesotho was then known) remained independent of the Cape Colony, it was not included when that colony and three others formed the Union of South Africa in 1910.
South African War (1899–1902, in Southern Africa)
DeA Picture LibraryThe war between Great Britain and the Boer (Afrikaner) republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, which ended with British victory and annexation of the two Boer republics, is noteworthy for several reasons. Here are just a few:
-It was the largest and most costly war that the British fought during the 19th century.
-It provided a preview of the type of warfare that would come to characterize World War I.
-It was a war fought between two groups of white peoples—the British and the Dutch-descended Boers—in a subcontinent with a largely black African population that both sides generally sought to exclude from the fighting, although black Africans were certainly negatively impacted by the conflict.
-The two annexed Boer Republics would, with the British colonies of Cape and Natal, later form the Union of South Africa in 1910, the forerunner of today’s Republic of South Africa.
8TH QUIZ
Patagonia is a large region in South America shared by Chile and Argentina
Spanish and Portuguese as you know, is spoken in Latin America
Indonesia has Krakatoa vo
West Bengal
Istanbul both in Europe and Asia
Himalayas = House of Snow
Dar el Bayda
West Bengal is an Indian State renamed Porschim Bongo
Himalayas = "the House of Snow" in Sanskrit
Casablanca is called Dar el Bayda in Morocco
9th quiz
Argentina - gets her name from the Latin word for Silver
Channel Tunnel connects UK and France, it's 50 km long
Lemur only real one native to Madagascar in "Madagascar" movie
Niagara River tumbles over Niagara Falls
Uruguay
Cote D’Ivoire - doesn't border Central African Republic
10th Quiz
Great Barrier Reef - Pacific Ocean
Africa's highest peak is Mount Kilimanjaro
United Arab Emirates has The World Islands, a collection of 300 artificial islands off its coast.. as luxury accomodations
The Sunshine State - The US State of Florida and the Australian state of Queensland share this nickname
Manila
Carnaby
Pacific Ocean - you can find Great Barrier Reef in it
Manila is the largest city on the island of Luzon
When Archery became an Olympic sport in the 1972 games, it was held in Munich
11th Quiz
Australia largest country that starts w/ A
Sri Lanka, tear drop of India
Himalayas, 19 of the 25 highest peaks are here
Macedonia, Southern most of the former Yugoslavian Republics
Saint Malo, most visited city in Brittany which has highest ratio of sea food restaurants in Europe
Being one of the men who joined William the Conqueror in battle, Alan Rufus was an extremely wealthy man. He owned thousands of acres of land, and a castle, and his net worth value today is an estimated $145 billion, making him very comfortable on the list of the richest people in history.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
During the 1870’s Cornelius Vanderbilt had an estimated net worth of around $105 million, which even today would be considered extremely wealthy. Having earned his absolutely massive fortune from is investments in the shipping and railroad industry, his net worth today would be estimated at a value of around $170 billion.
Henry Ford
The founder of the even still famous Ford Motor Company, it comes as no surprise that Henry Ford has made the list of some of the richest people in history. The car brand of Ford today, is one of the most popular car brands ever. Today’s value of his net worth in the 1930’s would be an estimated $180 billion.
William The Conqueror
Being the leader of the Normans, who were triumphant in the battle of Hastings in 1066, is what led to William the conqueror being crowned king of England. The value of his net worth today is estimated to be somewhere in the region of $200 billion, making him one of the richest people in history.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Although he has been blamed and accused of destroying both the military and the economy of Russia during his reign from 1868-1918, this doesn’t stop Tsar Nicholas II making the list of one of the richest people ever to have lived. The peak of his wealth in reference to today’s value is an estimated $290 billion.
Andrew Carnegie
An investment in the steel industry is one of the main investments that helped Andrew Carnegie to earn his tremendous wealth. However, unlike many other millionaires or billionaires, Carnegie did not like the thought of dying rich and so he used his masses of wealth in the 1880’s to help make the society a better place.
John D. Rockefeller
Being the first man in history to ever have a net worth of $1 billion in 1916, John D. Rockefeller’s estimated worth in respect of today’s value, would have been around $340 billion. His fortune was earned through being the founder of a major oil company. He is most certainly considered one of the most, if not the most, wealthiest people in history.
Mansa Musa
Known today as the richest man in history, Mansa Musa’s net worth has been valued at around $400 billion. Being the richest African king ever to have lived, there is still not all that much known about Mansa Musa and he is not as well known today as many of the other richest people in history.
