Daily Quiz 46
Essayist Richard Steele coined which term in the 1700s for a payment made to keep someone quiet?
While teaching astronomy at Uppsala, which scientist devised the temperature scale that bears his name?
Edwin Hubble shattered the idea that the Milky Way was the whole universe by proving which nearby galaxy lay far beyond it?
In law, which "T" word refers to a civil wrong causing injury for which a remedy may be sought?
President Zachary Taylor died in office in 1850 of which waterborne bacterial infection?
Whose 1947 "New Look" brought back cinched waists and full skirts, reviving Paris fashion after the war?
Dating to the 1850s, the oldest trophy in international sport is awarded in which yachting competition?
Ron Stallworth's memoir about a Black detective infiltrating the KKK became which Spike Lee film?
The British call which yellow-fleshed root vegetable a "swede"?
Mocked as "the Big Ditch" while it was built, which canal linked the Hudson River to the Great Lakes in 1825?
Jenna Ortega's viral dance and deadpan delivery powered which hit Netflix series spun off from the Addams Family?
A traditional part of Finland's Midsummer festival involves sitting in one of these at around 210 degrees Fahrenheit. What?
You can tell the dwarf type of which flightless bird from its taller cousin by its lack of a wattle?
Which 19th-century process revolutionized the mass production of steel, helping power the Industrial Revolution?
In 1895 President Cleveland urged Americans not to aid rebels fighting Spain on which island?
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