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1 of 15

Which U.S. president holds the unusual distinction of never being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency?

  • Gerald Ford
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Calvin Coolidge

 

2 of 15

Which rare nocturnal lemur of Madagascar unsettles people with its huge eyes and a bony, elongated middle finger it uses to dig grubs out of wood?

  • the tarsier
  • the aye-aye
  • the slow loris
  • the kinkajou

 

3 of 15

In which HBO dark comedy does Bill Hader play a hitman who stumbles into an acting class and decides he wants to quit killing for the stage?

  • Atlanta
  • Fleabag
  • Barry
  • Russian Doll

 

4 of 15

Which Charlotte Brontรซ novel follows an orphaned governess tormented by her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, before she meets the brooding Mr. Rochester?

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Villette
  • Rebecca
  • Jane Eyre

 

5 of 15

Which French designer launched the hourglass "New Look" in 1947, with cinched waists and full skirts that defined postwar fashion?

  • Christian Dior
  • Coco Chanel
  • Hubert de Givenchy
  • Cristรณbal Balenciaga

 

6 of 15

In 1987, the band Los Lobos took which Ritchie Valens song to number one, decades after Valens died in a plane crash?

  • Oye Como Va
  • La Bamba
  • Twist and Shout
  • Louie Louie

 

7 of 15

Which flambรฉed dessert sets a thin pancake ablaze in a sauce of caramelized sugar, butter, and orange liqueur?

  • Steak Diane
  • Cherries Jubilee
  • Crรชpes Suzette
  • Bananas Foster

 

8 of 15

In figure skating, which jump is named after the Austrian skater who first landed it, Alois from the early 1900s?

  • the Salchow
  • the loop
  • the flip
  • the Lutz

 

9 of 15

Formerly known as "regional ileitis," which chronic inflammatory bowel disease is named after the doctor who described it in 1932?

  • Crohn's disease
  • celiac disease
  • diverticulitis
  • ulcerative colitis

 

10 of 15

Which 2015 Paula Hawkins thriller, told by an unreliable alcoholic narrator who watches commuters from her train window, became a runaway bestseller?

  • Gone Girl
  • The Girl on the Train
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Big Little Lies

 

11 of 15

Which famous comet returns to Earth's skies roughly every 76 years, last seen in 1986 and due back around 2061?

  • Hale-Bopp
  • Comet Encke
  • Halley's Comet
  • the Perseids

 

12 of 15

Why does an ambulance siren sound higher as it approaches and lower as it speeds away? This is called what?

  • the Coriolis effect
  • the Venturi effect
  • the Bernoulli principle
  • the Doppler effect

 

13 of 15

Which American economist and champion of free markets won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 and shaped policy for decades?

  • Milton Friedman
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Paul Samuelson
  • Friedrich Hayek

 

14 of 15

Which fourteen-letter word describes a shifting series of fantastic, dreamlike, or bizarre images, as in a fever or a hallucination?

  • onomatopoeia
  • phantasmagoria
  • kaleidoscope
  • cacophony

 

15 of 15

Before he became famous as Urkel, actor Jaleel White voiced which blue, super-fast video game mascot in a 1990s cartoon?

  • Crash Bandicoot
  • Mega Man
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Rayman

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