QB 10-14-15

This surgeon with no political experience is running in the Republican presidential primary. 

This comic newscaster departed from The Daily Show in August 2015.

What is the language spoken by South Africans of Dutch descent?

What does IPO mean?

A virtuous woman is worth more than what gem, according to the Bible?

Name the medieval system of allegiance that tied peasants to the land and lords to their manors

Russian forces have begun conducting airstrikes in this country.  

Brown v. Board of Education ended what practice in schools?

CA recently became the 2nd state to automatically do what when citizens get a driver's license?

Who was Captain Ahab's nemesis in a classic novel by Herman Melville?

After a petition drive put it on the ballot, Nebraskans will vote on this issue in Nov. 2016.

A new monument honoring Martin Luther King Jr. will be erected near what controversial GA site?

This man was briefly a leading general in the Civil War but is best known for his facial hair.

Attacks in Israel have raised fears that another intifada will begin soon. What is an intifada?

Go Set a Watchman, released in 2015, is the sequel to this beloved novel by Harper Lee.

What amendment to the Constitution allows anyone 18 or older to vote?

Theodore Roosevelt National Park is located in which state?

Besides planets and their satellites and comets, what other bodies orbit the sun?

This energy-producing process occurs when atomic nuclei merge.

This health organization has recently been criticized for providing researchers w fetal tissue.

The jejunum is part of which organ in the human body? 

The medulla is a part of what organ in the human body?

This "mad" general is famous for the Battle of Fallen Timbers; an Indiana city is name for him.

These "devil birds" of the western U.S. are known for making hunters chase them up & down hills

American journalist Jason Rezaian was recently convicted of espionage by which country?

South Africa has announced that it will stop being a member of what international body?

What is the center of the graph of 2x² + 2y<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">^{2 =} 72?  </span>

What is the term for a narrow water passage connecting two larger bodies of water?

The Alhambra, a beautiful example of Muslim architecture, was built by the Moors.  Where is it?

Name the man responsible for the theory of relativity. 

This Greek nymph was so hurt Narcissus' rejection that all but her voice faded away.

Who organized the United Farm Workers Union and led a grape-pickers' strike in 1965?

This chemical that causes brain damage was widely used as an insecticide until banned in 1972.

This type of witty humorous poem often contains five lines.  There once was a man from...

MO is the postal abbreviation for what state?

What is the colorful and often rowdy celebration that is held the day before Lent begins?

Name the igneous rock formed within the earth.

1/3 of young men in China will eventually die because of what habit, according to a new study?

This playwright is best known for Death of a Salesman and being Marilyn Monroe's husband.

In what two countries will you find the mouths of the Ganges River?