Men of Science
Gregor Mendel is referred to as the father of this field, the science of heredity.
a) Genetics
b) Botany
c) Anatomy
a) Genetics
In ancient times it was known as Mare Hadriaticum.
a) Mediterranean Sea
b) Adriatic Sea
c) Red Sea
b) Adriatic Sea
In Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", a search for a missing woman in this West Coast city reveals scandalous secrets.
a) Los Angeles
b) Seattle
b) San Francisco
a) Los Angeles
In Shakespeare Mark Antony says of this deceased fellow, "He was my friend, faithful & just to me."
a) Brutus
b) Julius Caesar
c) Gaius Octavian
b) Julius Caesar
In 2012 a U.K. game of this sport went 150 hours non-stop--"the only time we slept was when our team was batting."
a) rugby
b) cricket
c) polo
b) cricket
This developer of the periodic table of elements had his beard trimmed annually.
a) Amedeo Avogadro
b) Dmitri Mendeleev
c) Alfred Nobel
b) Dmitri Mendeleev
The ruins of Qumran, including some notable caves, overlook its northwest shore.
a) Dead Sea
b) Red Sea
c) Mediterranean Sea
a) Dead Sea
Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison & Ta-Nehisi Coates all attended this university in Washington, D.C.
a) Georgetown
b) Howard
c) American
b) Howard
"Phone-a-Friend' is gone on this game show, but you can bring the friend to the studio as your "Plus-One."
a) Wheel of Fortune
b) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
c) The Weakest Link
b) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Lee Corso once noted the Rainbow Warriors football team at this university "doesn't win many games in the United States."
a) University of Washington
b) University of Alaska
c) University of Hawaii
c) University of Hawaii
He referred to his pupils Antonio Nardi, Raffaello Magiotti & Evangelista Torricelli as his Roman triumvirate.
a) Galileo
b) Johannes Kepler
b) Nicolaus Copernicus
a) Galileo
The Bosporus Strait connects the Sea of Marmara with this other sea.
a) Black Sea
b) Baltic Sea
c) Aegean Sea
a) Black Sea
In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living.
a) Ethiopia
b) Nigeria
c) Mozambique
a) Ethiopia
Quite the loner, Nikola Tesla made close friends only with these urban creatures and often fed and nursed them.
a) pigeons
b) rats
c) cockroaches
a) pigeons
Spin in an 8-foot, 2-inch throwing circle to throw a 4.4-pound circle in this sport.
a) shotput
b) javelin
c) discus
c) discus
The "system" named for this Greek astronomer puts the Earth at the center of the universe.
a) Ptolemy
b) Archimedes
b) Aristotle
a) Ptolemy
The "Cradle to the Great Barrier Reef", it's home to some of the most diverse marine life in the world.
a) Yellow Sea
b) Tasman Sea
c) Coral Sea
c) Coral Sea
His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh.
a) Tennessee Williams
b) Langston Hughes
c) August Wilson
c) August Wilson
As seen in the film "The Favourite", Sarah, wife of this duke and general, made good use of her friendship with Queen Anne.
a) Duke of Gloucester
b) Duke of Bedford
c) Duke of Marlborough
c) Duke of Marlborough
This "Brown Bomber" successfully defended his heavyweight crown 25 times, with 22 knockouts.
a) Joe Louis
b) Bob Pastor
c) Rocky Marciano
a) Joe Louis
His headstone in Germany reads "Physiker" with the dates 1901-1976; it does not say, "He lies here...somewhere."
a) Albert Einstein
b) Werner Heisenberg
c) J. Hans D. Jensen
b) Werner Heisenberg
The largest ice shelf in Antarctica lies at the head of this same-named sea.
a) Amundsen Sea
b) Weddell Sea
c) Ross Sea
c) Ross Sea
1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author.
a) Richard Wright
b) James Baldwin
c) Ralph Ellison
a) Richard Wright
Requiring tests for all applicants, 1883's Pendleton Act was meant to end this system in which government jobs went to friends and allies.
a) the peerage system
b) the spoils system
c) the nepotism system
b) the spoils system
This Utah Jazz man, aka the Mailman, "may be the first human to be even more chiseled than his own statue."
a) John Stockton
b) Bryon Russell
c) Karl Malone
c) Karl Malone