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1 of 15

Named for a type of turtle, being "at" these means you're locked in a stubborn dispute. What word?

  • Loggerheads
  • Daggers drawn
  • Crosshairs
  • Odds

 

2 of 15

The Bessemer process revolutionized the cheap mass production of which metal in the 19th century?

  • Iron
  • Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Copper

 

3 of 15

Just 23 days after Yuri Gagarin, which astronaut became the first American in space on a 1961 suborbital flight?

  • John Glenn
  • Gus Grissom
  • Alan Shepard
  • Scott Carpenter

 

4 of 15

In law, which crime is the unlawful killing of another person without malice or premeditation?

  • Perjury
  • Larceny
  • Battery
  • Manslaughter

 

5 of 15

Dropping estrogen levels at menopause raise a woman's risk of which fragile-bone condition?

  • Osteoporosis
  • Arthritis
  • Scoliosis
  • Gout

 

6 of 15

Once home to the Grand Ole Opry, which Nashville hall is nicknamed "the Mother Church of Country Music"?

  • Carnegie Hall
  • Ryman Auditorium
  • The Fillmore
  • The Apollo Theater

 

7 of 15

Built by John Ericsson, which Union ironclad dueled the Confederate Virginia before sinking off Cape Hatteras in 1862?

  • The Merrimack
  • The Hunley
  • The Monitor
  • The Maine

 

8 of 15

Ralph Fiennes plays a badly burned man recalling a doomed desert romance in which 1996 Best Picture winner?

  • Out of Africa
  • The Last Emperor
  • Gandhi
  • The English Patient

 

9 of 15

Flamed tableside with kirsch and spooned over ice cream, which fiery dessert stars its namesake fruit?

  • Cherries jubilee
  • Bananas Foster
  • Baked Alaska
  • Crรชpes Suzette

 

10 of 15

During the harvest festival of Sukkot, observant Jews eat and sometimes sleep in a temporary hut called what?

  • Menorah
  • Sukkah
  • Mezuzah
  • Dreidel

 

11 of 15

Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig are heroic rabbits fleeing to a new warren in which 1972 Richard Adams novel?

  • The Wind in the Willows
  • Redwall
  • Watership Down
  • Charlotte's Web

 

12 of 15

Players slide granite stones toward a target called the "house" in which Olympic winter sport?

  • Bocce
  • Lawn bowling
  • Shuffleboard
  • Curling

 

13 of 15

Prized for its ultra-soft fur, which Andean rodent is named for a native people of the mountains?

  • The chinchilla
  • The capybara
  • The coypu
  • The viscacha

 

14 of 15

From Latin for "hard mother," which tough outer membrane protects the brain and spinal cord?

  • The pia mater
  • The dura mater
  • The arachnoid
  • The myelin sheath

 

15 of 15

Saigon was renamed after which leader when the Vietnam War ended in 1975?

  • Hanoi
  • Hue
  • Ho Chi Minh City
  • Da Nang

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