Daily Quiz 38
He started his "Leningrad Symphony" in 1941 while the Germans were actually besieging the city. Which Russian composer?
Grate or chop the cucumber, stir it into garlicky yogurt, and you've made which cool Greek dip?
Vampire Bill and waitress Sookie carry on a dangerous romance in which steamy HBO series?
It took until 1956 for a Southern Hemisphere city to host the Summer Olympics. Which one finally did?
In myth, everything this Phrygian king touched turned to gold, right up until he touched dinner. Who was he?
Its Italian name means "beautiful woman," but its pretty berries will kill you. Which plant?
Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trade wholesome images for a lawless Florida vacation in which 2013 film?
"If I perish, I perish," says which biblical queen as she risks her life to save her people from Haman's plot?
Before the FDA banned its key oil in 1960, which plant was the "root" in most root beer?
Windhoek is the capital of which southwest African nation that only gained independence in 1990?
Two verbs, and only two, make up the title of which FX drama about a pair of Miami plastic surgeons?
A '40s and '50s welterweight and middleweight champ, he topped Ring magazine's list of the greatest boxers ever. Who?
Picking the wrong side in a battle between rival emperors got which elite Roman unit disbanded in 312 A.D.?
Canonized in 2009, which priest died of the very disease he'd gone to Hawaii to treat, ministering to lepers?
A woman told Russian soldiers to carry which seeds so they'd bloom from their corpses, making the flower a symbol of Ukraine?
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