Questions
It’s the last name of the person who, as of yesterday (haven’t checked today’s results!), leads Major League Baseball in ERA, and is tied for the league-lead in wins. It’s also the city in Galicia that has an essentially intact set of Roman walls surrounding it. Those unique set of walls (shown) were made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000. Give the shared word.
Lestrade’s employer. The person who died 834 years ago at the location today called the Göksu River. What the best-known cruise of the ferry company Circle Line “circles.” The hit song (complete with cowbell!) from the 1970 album Climbing! The archaeological site that was probably called Yax Mutal when it was at the height of its importance, from AD 200 to 900. The most famous complex belonging to the Nasrids. What’s the shared theme?
An economic and security grouping called the SCO recently made the news because it admitted Belarus to its ranks earlier this month, after admitting Iran last year. The organization was created in 1996, with China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan as initial members. The “CO” stands for “Cooperation Organization.” What does the “S” stand for in its name?
She was the only woman on staff at the Paris Conservatory during the entire 19th century - and she taught there for thirty years. She was a virtuoso pianist, and her early compositions were exclusively for piano, but she completed three symphonies later in life. Who is this composer, probably best-known today for her First and Second Piano Quintets?
If you missed this year’s BET Awards, then you missed what performer winning Album of the Year? Born with the last name Render, this person got his breakthrough performing with Outkast on Stankonia. He formed Run the Jewels with El-P in 2013. Prior to this most recent success, his notable solo albums included the I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind series.
According to legend, who was the second King of Rome, ruling from 715-672 BC? A Sabine by ethnicity, he brought many Sabine traditions into his role as ruler, so some religious institutions, like the Pontifex Maximus, the Cult of Mars, and the Vestal Virgins, are said to be attributed to him.
Great Gerwig stated that it was reminiscent of the “classic structures of Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks.” Lindsay Normington, who co-stars in it, said “You’re gonna be hard f***ing pressed to find another movie where they gave real strippers that many jobs.” They are both talking about what?
A 1958 film directed by James Algar won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though the movie is not best-known for that fact today. Its most famous sequence was filmed near Canmore, Alberta - not near the coast - and required the use of turntables to achieve the effect that it was hoping to film. Thus an idea, not otherwise substantiated elsewhere, was propagated. What was being shown in that filmed sequence?
While in Taiwan I visited Sun Moon Lake. There you can find a shrine to a Chinese Buddhist monk who lived in the 7th century AD. As recorded by his student in the travelogue Records of the Western Regions, this man is most famous for a 17-year journey to India and back. That journey is interesting not just because of the distance traveled and challenges surmounted, but also because it allowed this man to bring back to China key Buddhist texts. What was the name of this monk, whose life would inspire Wu Cheng'en’s novel Journey to the West?
There are two neglected tropical diseases that involve filarial (that is, having an arthropod as a vector) nematodes infesting the eye and causing blindness. One is river blindness, caused by Onchocerca volvulus. The other is caused by what repetitively-named roundworm? Aside from the ocular disease it causes, it can cause swelling and inflammation to any number of other body tissues. It is one thing that ivermectin, incidentally, effectively treats.