Trash
Which alt R&B singer and songwriter wrote the album Blonde?
Frank Ocean
Name this tallest mountain in Africa, located in Tanzania.
Kilimanjaro
Name this Tolkien book in which Bilbo Baggins helps a group of dwarves slay Smaug.
The Hobbit
Name this famous periodic comet that appears every 72-80 years. (Hint: it rhymes with valley)
Halley's Comet
Name the artist known for painting Impression, Sunrise and Water Lilies.
Claude Monet
Name this band led by Ozzy Osbourne who made such iconic songs as “paranoid” and “war pigs”
Black Sabbath
Name this empire which was once ruled by Xerxes and later conquered by Alexander the Great.
Persia or Achaemenid Empire
Which author wrote about the problem of 3 orbiting bodies in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy?
Liu Cixin
What do fungi and seedless plants (mosses, ferns) use to reproduce instead of pollen?
Spores
What German composer is famous for Fur Elise and his 5th symphony?
Beethoven
What TV show portrayed a Miami police blood-splatter expert that is secretly the Bay Harbor Butcher?
Dexter
Name the smallest Great Lake by surface area.
Lake Ontario
What Nobel Prize-winning author wrote East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
Name the black hole at the center of the milky way.
Sagittarius A
Which of Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings depicts a titan ‘devouring his son’?
Saturn Devouring his Son
Name this album by Pink Floyd in which the cover art is a prism splitting light into a rainbow
Dark Side of The Moon
What is the capital of West African country Burkina Faso?
Ouagadougou
Name this phonological poetic device, a type of consonance involving sounds like “f”, “v”, “ch”, and “sh”.
Fricatives
What is this visible wavelength that occurs from 380-450nm and has the greatest energy?
Violet
What is the name of this leitmotif appearing in Requiem masses that references the biblical Last Judgement?
Dies Irae
Name this current NBA Brooklyn Nets player who famously remarked on a podcast that: "I'm not a misogynist BUT".
Michael Porter Jr.
Name this “First Citizen of Athens” and member of the Alcmaeonid family famous for his funeral oration speech.
Pericles
Which Allen Ginsburg poem begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”?
Howl
Name one of the two cruciate ligaments in the human knee.
ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) or PCL (posterior cruciate ligament)
What painting technique, involving tiny dots of various colors, was Georges Seurat known for?
Pointillism