Questions
The Quenya words for “far” and “to watch over” give us the name of what company? Among the appearances of this particular word elsewhere is with its use as the title of the tenth chapter of “Book IV” of a 1954 sequel.
Among cities that have a population greater than 100,000 people, which city is the highest in world by average elevation? This aptly named city is the second-most populous city in its country, and its airport serves as the international access point for those who want to visit its country’s capital.
Speaking of life at elevation, the portable hyperbaric bag (shown in the foreground) is a crucial tool for the treatment of cases of severe altitude sickness in remote locations, such as what can occur during the ascent of mountains like Everest. What proprietary eponym is regularly used to describe these devices? Its namesake is a since-disgraced microbiologist who developed a device, initially called “The Bubble,” that served as a prototype for subsequent hyperbaric bags. That man's father was even more of a polymath, and that man is someone who is probably best known today for his 1948 paper titled “The Origin of Chemical Elements” that he wrote with two fortuitously named colleagues.
Further on the subject of life at elevation - one of the oldest dog breeds in the world is what breed (shown)? Based on evidence found on pottery, dogs of this breed existed (at least) as far back as 750 BC, and like some of the other more ancient dog breeds, it is almost entirely hairless. Its American Kennel Club-recognized name derives from a name - perros flora - that Europeans gave to dogs of this breed after they first encountered it.
The LSST Camera is the largest digital camera in the world, weighing nearly three metric tons. Finished last year, it entered operation earlier this month. It is located at a facility named for whom?
The author Nettie Jones (a picture of her from the 1980s is below) has recently made the news because a book that she published during that decade has just been re-released, this time to critical acclaim that did not occur during its initial publication. What is the name of the book? The book is about a woman named Lewis, and its story follows her drug- and sex-filled escapades in both Detroit and New York. The book’s title is believed to be more a naughty play on words than it is thought to suggest that anything contained in its pages should be viewed as an exaggeration.
The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup was won by Manchester City, who defeated what other football team in the final? This team gets its name from a demonym for citizens of its home city and state, thought that demonym for the most part has been supplanted by another word over the past few decades. This particular demonym also reflects (through its Latin origin) a misnomer about its home city’s location that is also reflected in its home city’s actual name even today.
In 1991, journalist Seymour Hersh wrote a book subtitled Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy. What was that book's main title? Hersh’s title is used by those who study Israel - and sometimes even by Israel’s own leadership - when discussing that country’s nuclear capabilities. It also references an ancient event said to have occurred at the Temple of Dagon, and thus it is meant to suggest how far Israel would be willing to take its policy of nuclear deterrence if it felt that its existence was threatened.
Trained as a pathologist, her 1887 doctoral thesis provided the first correct description of uteroplacental blood circulation, including a description of the important role that spiral arteries play in that process. This person also lends her name to one of the few parts of the body named for a woman - a fibrinous layer of the decidua where the placenta detaches from the uterine wall (marked by an “F” on the photo below). Which scientist?
A certain film director has directed several notable films. One of those films described the experience of Indians who had fled to the United States after being displaced from Uganda. Another film (based on a novel by a Pulitzer Prize winner) was concerned with the struggles of an Indian family trying to assimilate in New York City, with particular focus placed on the cross-cultural experiences of the son. Yet another film (the director's breakthrough) is about the lives of a group of children growing up in terrible poverty in the most populous city proper of the director's birth country. With all that (and current events) in mind - who is that film director’s only child?
