Daily Quiz 50
Named for a type of turtle, being "at" these means you're locked in a stubborn dispute. What word?
The Bessemer process revolutionized the cheap mass production of which metal in the 19th century?
Just 23 days after Yuri Gagarin, which astronaut became the first American in space on a 1961 suborbital flight?
In law, which crime is the unlawful killing of another person without malice or premeditation?
Dropping estrogen levels at menopause raise a woman's risk of which fragile-bone condition?
Once home to the Grand Ole Opry, which Nashville hall is nicknamed "the Mother Church of Country Music"?
Built by John Ericsson, which Union ironclad dueled the Confederate Virginia before sinking off Cape Hatteras in 1862?
Ralph Fiennes plays a badly burned man recalling a doomed desert romance in which 1996 Best Picture winner?
Flamed tableside with kirsch and spooned over ice cream, which fiery dessert stars its namesake fruit?
During the harvest festival of Sukkot, observant Jews eat and sometimes sleep in a temporary hut called what?
Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig are heroic rabbits fleeing to a new warren in which 1972 Richard Adams novel?
Players slide granite stones toward a target called the "house" in which Olympic winter sport?
Prized for its ultra-soft fur, which Andean rodent is named for a native people of the mountains?
From Latin for "hard mother," which tough outer membrane protects the brain and spinal cord?
Saigon was renamed after which leader when the Vietnam War ended in 1975?
