Daily Quiz 14
In the 1920s, the height of excellence was captured by which two-word rhyming phrase involving an insect and its limbs?
This common fossil-rich sedimentary rock forms mostly from compressed oceanic ooze and shells.
To cover food in liquor and briefly set it alight before serving is to do what to it?
A 19th-century "wonder drug," this tincture of opium and alcohol left many Victorians addicted.
Launched by Kodak in 1965, which 8-millimeter film format was used in the early films of directors like Sam Raimi?
Founded in 1971 in British Columbia, which organization began by trying to stop nuclear testing on Amchitka Island?
In Greek mythology, the twins Castor and Pollux had two different fathers, one of them being which god?
Herpes zoster, a painful rash caused by the reactivated chickenpox virus, is commonly known by what name?
The architect Frank Gehry designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and which titanium-clad museum in Bilbao, Spain?
This "Lesser" island group in the southern Caribbean includes Curaçao, Aruba, and Barbados.
We borrowed which word, meaning a strong desire to travel, directly from German?
This spring Hindu festival, known for participants throwing brightly colored powder, has a name that sounds almost sacred.
Later pardoned by President Ford, Iva Toguri D'Aquino was one of the women who broadcast under which infamous wartime nickname?
The military genius Gustavus Adolphus made Sweden a great power but died leading a charge in which conflict?
The mid-altitude cloud type abbreviated "AC" by meteorologists has what full name?
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