Daily Quiz 44
Sealed airtight and named for a Greek god of magic, which word means secretive or impervious to outside influence?
Pope Paul II set up Rome's first of which machine, the invention that would transform how knowledge spread?
Red dwarf stars fuse hydrogen into which element but lack the mass to go further, so they never become red giants?
In 2018 the Supreme Court finally called which of its own WWII-era rulings, upholding Japanese-American internment, "gravely wrong"?
The insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are clustered in structures known as the islets of what?
The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, which Iraqi-British architect was famed for bold, flowing curves before her death in 2016?
The I-Pace electric SUV comes from which British automaker, long known for its sleek luxury cars?
Ireland has St. Patrick on March 17; Scotland honors its own patron saint on November 30 with which observance?
Whose name means "white vegetable" in Cantonese, a crunchy staple of stir-fries?
From the Spanish for "little armored one," which burrowing mammal is protected by bony plates?
Drew Barrymore answers the wrong phone call in the terrifying opening of which 1996 horror film?
Bill Monroe is called the father of which subgenre of country music, born in the Appalachians in the 1930s?
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," declares which slick corporate raider in the 1987 film "Wall Street"?
Whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" exposed the dangers of DDT and helped launch the environmental movement?
After killing a man in 1606, which Baroque master of dramatic light and shadow fled Rome for Malta?
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