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Question 1

Which of these poets wrote about a different topic than the others?

Accepted Answer

Czeslaw Milosz

Question 2

The way Americans depicted the Black Ships would be MOST similar to the work of which of the following artists?

Accepted Answer

JMW Turner

Question 3

Nicolas Jenson's motivation to make a new typeface stemmed from...

Accepted Answer

Inefficiency of Blackletter typefaces

Question 4

The mentioned Eiffel Tower in which of the following countries serves as the "only tourist attraction" in its city?

Accepted Answer

Greece

Question 5

Wisława Szymborska's poem, Photograph From September 11 is written about...

Accepted Answer

Jumpers

Question 6

The plane that now houses El Avion was originally connected with what scandal?

Accepted Answer

Iran-Contra

Question 7

If a nature photographer was filming in the way of a chase between a deer and a lion, what would be her best move?

Accepted Answer

Move away and allow the animals to settle between themselves

Question 8

Which console revived video gaming after the 1983 video game crash?

Accepted Answer

NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)

Question 9

Why would someone attempt iOS jailbreaking?

Accepted Answer

To download a blacklisted app

Question 10

John Karl Daniels was inspired to explore a new field of art by...

Accepted Answer

Caroline Shaw Brooks

Question 11

On which of the following sites would you MOST expect to find something blatantly titled by ChatGPT?

Accepted Answer

Amazon

Question 12

The camerapeople in "Dynasties" showed an attitude similar to which belief?

Accepted Answer

Living constitutionalism

Question 13

Which of the following is FALSE about Mono-Ha?

Accepted Answer

It often juxtaposes natural elements with each other

Question 14

Ho Chi Minh means...

Accepted Answer

The Bringer of Light

Question 15

The antagonists in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Woman King are the...

Accepted Answer

French colonialists

Question 16

Which city is ranked as the #1 tourist destination?

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 17

Which of the following is considered the oldest topographical map?

Accepted Answer

Turin Papyrus Map

Question 18

Who's winning ToC this year?

Accepted Answer

Yuno Miles

Question 19

In Are you using that chair?, what issue does Banksy adress?

Accepted Answer

A lack of social mobility and a large wage gap

Question 20

Fritz Lang's Metropolis is a sci-fi film regarding which issue?

Accepted Answer

A lack of democracy and the disenfranchisement of the lower class

Question 21

Stuart Humphryes's goal in The Colors of Life was to...

Accepted Answer

Develop a deeper connection between the viewers and their past

Question 22

Which of the following would you NOT expect to see in a cyberpunk film?

Accepted Answer

Courts

Question 23

Which of the following controls would you expect to see on Super Mario Run?

Accepted Answer

Jump

Question 24

Why would it be impractical to run a blood test on one drop of blood as Theranos claimed?

Accepted Answer

One drop can have varying amounts of hemoglobin and other substances

Question 25

“I don’t know what’s true, so nothing’s true” would most likely grow from which of the following strategies?

Accepted Answer

Both-sidesism

Question 26

Where does the word "sabermetrics" come from?

Accepted Answer

The acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research

Question 27

"Jones Is Not Your Name" can be best described as...

Accepted Answer

Defiant

Question 28

Amazon Go's Just Walk Out Technology is far from perfect. What does Amazon plan to do to fix this?

Accepted Answer

Nothing, eventually the AI will learn from an expanded dataset

Question 29

The arrest of which individual prompted the beginning of True Crime?

Accepted Answer

OJ Simpson

Question 30

When was the Muzeon Park of Arts founded?

Accepted Answer

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 31

Which of the following would you MOST expect to see at a typical American "open school"?

Accepted Answer

Makeshift barriers between classrooms

Question 32

The new Philadelphia Orchestra dress code mandates which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Black clothing

Question 33

According to George Lucas’s view of Star Wars, what was “oxymoronical” about what fans wanted him to do?

Accepted Answer

Porting a bad quality film to high-definition Blu-Ray

Question 34

The flag of the United Nations features which map projection?

Accepted Answer

Azimuthal

Question 35

Where did note-taking in interviews first become accepted?

Accepted Answer

The US

Question 36

The 1950s was NOT known for which of the following “booms”?

Accepted Answer

Feminism

Question 37

Who made the oldest scientific calculator?

Accepted Answer

An unknown Ancient Roman

Question 38

When Disney released Castle in the Sky, it dropped the “Laputa” originally in its title. Why?

Accepted Answer

“Laputa” was an offensive word.

Question 39

Marcel Duchamp would most appreciate which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A banana duct-taped to a wall

Question 40

Wire fraud would NOT be able to cover up which crime?

Accepted Answer

Pump-and-dump schemes

Question 41

Working ideally, which of the following is more accurate?

Accepted Answer

Semantic Segmentation

Question 42

Which of the following does the Howick Historical Village NOT feature?

Accepted Answer

An cottage built in 1839 by a Fencible soldier who came to defend the land

Question 43

The Andalusian cadence is also known as which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A diatonic phrygian tetrachord

Question 44

Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer's work is used in which of the following industries?

Accepted Answer

Film

Question 45

Which of the following events led Richard III to his unfortunate burial site?

Accepted Answer

Destruction of a church

Question 46

The author of The Veldt is most well known for which work?

Accepted Answer

Fahrenheit 451

Question 47

MUL.APIN is a Babylonian compendium about...

Accepted Answer

Astronomy

Question 48

What is the "Ordnung" in Amish society?

Accepted Answer

A set of rules

Question 49

North Korea's gastrodiplomacy mission is called...

Accepted Answer

Pyongyang Restaurant

Question 50

What organism typically initiates primary succession?

Accepted Answer

Lichens

Question 51

Which event is generally considered to have led to the negative connotations associated with McMansions?

Accepted Answer

The Great Recession

Question 52

Which of the following events led to the paintings of The Romantic Dollarscape by Pedro Alvarez?

Accepted Answer

The collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 53

Which of the following was NOT a change James Daunt made to Barnes and Nobles?

Accepted Answer

Dedicating a special children's section

Question 54

Leang Timpuseng Cave was discovered by...

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wallace

Question 55

Which of the following could NOT be an endpoint?

Accepted Answer

Water Bottle

Question 56

Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote was written as a...

Accepted Answer

Multifaceted mockery

Question 57

What is the most popular sport in Nadaam?

Accepted Answer

Wrestling

Question 58

Which of these poets discussed technology?

Accepted Answer

Gertrude Stein

Question 59

In the original The Oregon Trail, what do your four teammates do?

Accepted Answer

They're useless and just get sick all the time

Question 60

How was the Crystal Palace destroyed?

Accepted Answer

Fire

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