April 21
Howdy. How is everyone? Today is a subscriber set, with a total of 27 questions and answers.
Next set may be held up due to jury duty.
Questions
Salviati, Simplicio, and Sagredo are having a conversation in what 1632 work?
The Warburg effect provides the theoretical underpinning for what diagnostic modality’s use of [18F]FDG?
Tio is the cousin and implied closest friend. Tedra is the mother. Opal and Larry are siblings who have known the protagonist for many years. What recent play?
All of the following share a name. What?
What’s the closest American analogue to the pagan Celtic festival of Imbolc?
What star is highlighted by the white arrow?
Recently in the news, who said the following?
And we had halfway through the sessions Pete Drake, the pedal steel player from Nashville. He flew in, and he'd played with Bob Dylan as well — he was one of the A-Team [as] they call them over here in Nashville; they still exist... and so, in a slow moment in the studio at Abbey Road, I'm set up right opposite Pete Drake, and he said, 'Hey… do you want to hear something?' And I said, 'What do you got?' So he gets out this little black box, puts it on the end of his pedal steel and plugs things in and whatever, he's doing all this, and then he gets this pipe. He puts this clear pipe in his mouth, and the pedal steel starts singing to me.
What is the name of this island? Its namesake also partly names an entity that is the largest of its kind in the United States.
I have redacted three words from a 1950 play. What three words?
MRS. MARTIN: Thanks to you, we have passed a truly Cartesian quarter of an hour.
FIRE CHIEF [moving towards the door, then stopping]: Speaking of that----[REDACTED]? [General silence, embarrassment.]
MRS. SMITH: She always wears her hair in the same style.
FIRE CHIEF: Ah! Then goodbye, ladies and gentlemen.
MR. MARTIN: Good luck, and a good fire!
FIRE CHIEF: Let’s hope so. For everybody.Shown is Bandits Roost, an 1888 photo by Jacob Riis (or perhaps one of his associates). It was taken in “The Bend,” the most dangerous portion of a certain street in Little Italy around the end of the 19th century. What street? A 1937 work (the first of its kind by its author), discusses a similarly-named, but presumably different, location, which I conclude in part based on the presence of a man with a ten-foot beard found there.
A long romantic poem by a makar named Blind Harry was the basis for the screenplay for what Best Picture winner?
This is the seal for the faculty of science at the university named for what city?
Name the shepherd referenced in the following quotation. His name is not Gollum.
They relate that he was a shepherd in the service of the ruler at that time of Lydia, and that after a great deluge of rain and an earthquake the ground opened and a chasm appeared in the place where he was pasturing; and they say that he saw and wondered and went down into the chasm; and the story goes that he beheld other marvels there and a hollow bronze horse with little doors, and that he peeped in and saw a corpse within, as it seemed, of more than mortal stature, and that there was nothing else but a gold ring on its hand, which he took off and went forth. And when the shepherds held their customary assembly to make their monthly report to the king about the flocks, he also attended wearing the ring. So as he sat there it chanced that he turned the collet of the ring towards himself, towards the inner part of his hand, and when this took place they say that he became invisible.
The ship, set on fire, that delivered the Maltese Falcon. The eldest daughter of Françoise Gilot. The tequila-based cocktail shown. What’s the shared name?
Who is this actor, portraying one of the many people about to be killed by John Wick (while not explicitly killed on screen, I feel his injury is non-survivable)? He has three Grammys and an Oscar.