Our Goal Is Science!
Which of the following astronauts completed the most amount of orbits around the Earth during their mission?
Gordon Cooper
While Shostakovich said his Tenth Symphony's second movement "conveyed human feelings", it is now widely believed that the second movement is actually a portrait of what? (Double Points: Name what brief reference he embedded within the trio.)
The deceased Stalin; dies irae
What does NO+ mean?
no mas or no more
What is foma? (Double Points: What is a kan-kan?)
harmless untruths; the instrument that brings individuals into their karass
What was the openness of the Soviet Union called?
Glasnost
Which element was discovered by analyzing the Sun's absorption lines? (Double Points: How many elements have been detected in the Sun?)
Helium; 70
Eisenhower set up the USIA to help publicize American products and values in foreign countries. What does USIA stand for?
United States Information Agency
What TWO things were printed on the Coca-Cola Bottles in the Coca-Cola Project?
Yankee go home; how to build a Molotov Cocktail
What does Traven cut his foot on in The Terminal Beach?
A coca-cola bottle
Who had the most education of the Soviet leaders?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is located near the center of the Crab nebula?
A red supergiant
Shortly before the premiere of War Requiem Britten decided that each of the three singers would be of what three nationalities?
What is the name of the performance art introduced by Metzger?
Auto destructive art
What movement did Nehru see as an alternative to the cold war two camps?
Non-Aligned Movement
What was the nickname for the 64 pages on microfilm hidden by Whittaker Chambers in a farm proving Alger Hiss a Communist?
The pumpkin papers
What spectral class does Canopus belong to?
F
What is the name of the interval from C-F#?
Augmented fourth/diminished fifth/tritone/devil's interval
What is the Italian name to describe Burri's art?
sacchi
In the opening of his speech at the Bandung Conference, Nehru responds to a representative from what country?
Turkey
Approximatley how many men where captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion?
1,189 men
What is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere's night sky?
Deneb
What is the name of the author whose book of short stories was used to by Rodgers and Hammerstein to create the Broadway musical, South Pacific?
James Michener
What was the name of the artistic movement that originated in Germany that tried to transcend the Socialist Realism/Western Modernism binary by using humor and irony to undermine both approaches?
Capitalist Realism
What was the last name of the family who used to live in the house in There Will Come Soft Rains?
McClellan
How long did the 1979 Iranian Hostage Situation in Tehran last?
444 days