Daily Quiz 43
A hyperintelligent Superman villain likely gave us which slang word for a very smart person?
Sailors once measured a star's angle above the horizon with which instrument, its arc spanning one-sixth of a circle?
In 1992 the first exoplanets were discovered orbiting one of which rapidly spinning stars that emit regular pulses of radiation?
Issued under Clovis, the Salic law was the legal code of which people who overran Gaul in the 5th century?
Orange juice prevents which disease, once the dreaded scourge of long sea voyages?
"Murder on the ___" gave Agatha Christie a hit set aboard which luxury train that first ran from Paris in 1883?
Andy Dufresne crawls to freedom through a sewer pipe in which 1994 prison drama based on a Stephen King story?
Laid out from scratch in the 1950s and shaped like an airplane from above, which capital did Oscar Niemeyer help design?
Which traditional Irish dish combines mashed potatoes with cabbage or kale?
Bats navigate and hunt in the dark using which method of bouncing high-frequency sound off objects?
"Hungry Eyes" and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" come from the soundtrack to which 1987 film?
Falling 50 days after Easter, which Christian feast takes its name from the Greek word for "fiftieth"?
Stheno and Euryale were the immortal sisters of which mortal Gorgon, slain by Perseus?
Ships once sent messages from a room named for which Italian inventor of wireless telegraphy?
The Trans-Siberian Railway ends its week-long run from Moscow at which large city on Russia's Pacific coast?
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