The Northernmost Capital City
a) Cairo
b) Copenhagen
c) Canberra
b) Copenhagen
Has a renal artery
a) kidney
b) liver
c) pancreas
a) kidney
He was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975.
a) Roger Ebert
b) Gene Siskel
c) Richard Roeper
a) Roger Ebert
Born in Bergen, Norway, Nina Hagerup married this cousin in 1867 and went on to interpret his songs.
a) Ole Olsen
b) Edvard Grieg
c) Alfred Janson
b) Edvard Grieg
He hit the first home run in All-Star game history.
a) Lou Gehrig
b) Babe Ruth
c) Ty Cobb
b) Babe Ruth
a) Brasilia
b) Bogota
c) Buenos Aires
b) Bogota
Has an uncertain function in humans, though in rats it can aid in digestion and immunity
a) tonsils
b) appendix
c) gall bladder
b) appendix
In 1947 a special Pulitzer went to this university's graduate school of journalism for its administration of the Pulitzer prizes
a) New York University
b) Columbia University
c) Northwestern University
b) Columbia University
Rimsky-Korsakov was a private tutor and mentor to this "Firebird", er, firebrand, of a composer.
a) Shostakovich
b) Prokofiev
c) Stravinsky
c) Stravinsky
Their home parks have included the Union Grounds, Crosley Field and Riverfront Stadium.
a) Cincinnati Reds
b) Atlanta Braves
c) Chicago White Sox
a) Cincinnati Reds
a) Wellington
b) Warsaw
c) Washington, D.C.
b) Warsaw
Has an external auricle, which is boneless
a) the nose
b) the throat
c) the ear
c) the ear
This historian, noted for their biographies of John Adams and Harry Truman, won 2 Pulitzers.
a) Jared Diamond
b) Doris Kearns Goodwin
c) David McCullough
c) David McCullough
Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany this Shakespeare comedy, including the familiar "Wedding March".
a) Much Ado About Nothing
b) Midsummer Night's Dream
c) Twelfth Night
b) Midsummer Night's Dream
The New York Yankees have won 27 World Series titles; this N.L. team is a distant second with 11.
a) the Dodgers
b) the Giants
c) the Cardinals
c) the Cardinals
a) Oslo
b) Ottawa
c) Osmara
a) Oslo
Produces bile and stores energy from food
a) liver
b) gall bladder
c) pancreas
a) liver
In 2014 Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar.
a) the Uyghur
b) the Rohingya
c) the Hmong
b) the Rohingya
MGM's "Song of Love" dramatized this composer falling in love with Clara Schumann, whose husband Robert goes mad.
a) Johannes Brahms
b) Felix Mendelssohn
c) Frederic Chopin
a) Johannes Brahms
Researchers have knocked a point off his record lifetime batting average, reducing it to .366.
a) Ty Cobb
b) Willie Mays
c) Wade Boggs
a) Ty Cobb
a) Bridgetown
b) Brussels
c) Belmopan
b) Brussels
Has 22 bones, including the sphenoid at its base
a) skull
b) hand
c) spine
a) skull
Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child".
a) August Wilson
b) Sam Shepard
c) Tony Kushner
b) Sam Shepard
An analogy: Claude Debussy is to Impressionism as this "Gymnopédies" composer is to Surrealism.
a) Frederic Chopin
b) Erik Satie
c) Camille Saint-Saens
b) Erik Satie
Nickname of 1960s reliever Phil Regan, notorious for "stealing" wins from starting pitchers.
a) the Thief
b) the Vulture
c) the Con Man
b) the Vulture