Borderlands
The U.S. Border Patrol is part of which department?
a) Department of Homeland Security
b) Department of Transportation
c) Department of State
a) Department of Homeland Security
Once a student of Max Weber, this artist experimented with several methods before landing on his signature “color field” style of painting.
a) Willem de Kooning
b) Adolph Gottlieb
c) Mark Rothko
c) Mark Rothko
Unkindness
a) Hyenas
b) Ravens
c) Sharks
b) Ravens
With more than 20 and counting, who holds the record for most Academy Award acting nominations?
a) Meryl Streep
b) Katharine Hepburn
c) Al Pacino
a) Meryl Streep
Whose series of books about her Midwestern childhood, notably Little House on the Prairie, was adapted for a successful television series?
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Laura Ingalls Wilder
c) Laura Ingalls Wilder
The busiest border crossing in the world connects which two countries?
a) France and Italy
b) Mexico and the United States
c) China and India
b) Mexico and the United States
This short-lived movement in the early 1900s, which emphasized strong color and painterly strokes, was led by Andre Derain and Henri Matisse.
a) Cubism
b) Impressionism
c) Fauvism
c) Fauvism
Zeal
a) Dolphins
b) Apes
c) Zebras
c) Zebras
In honor of his first full-length animated film, Walt Disney was presented with what kind of special Oscar?
a) An Oscar with a long nose
b) An Oscar wearing glass slippers
c) A regular-sized Oscar and seven smaller ones
c) A regular-sized Oscar and seven smaller ones
Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?
a) Pearl S. Buck
b) Edith Wharton
c) Eudora Welty
a) Pearl S. Buck
Which of the following is not a border river?
a) Seine
b) Ganges
c) Rio Grande
a) Seine
Though he is a founder of Cubism, this artist also dabbled in surrealism and neoclassical styles throughout his prolific career.
a) Pablo Picasso
b) Georges Braque
c) Rene Magritte
a) Pablo Picasso
Bloat
a) Buffalo
b) Jellyfish
c) Hippopotamuses
c) Hippopotamuses
Excluding elements like overtures and intermissions, what best picture winner is the longest ever, clocking in at just under four hours?
a) Casablanca
b) Citizen Kane
c) Lawrence of Arabia
c) Lawrence of Arabia
What American author presented her philosophy of objectivism in works such as The Fountainhead?
a) Ayn Rand
b) Joyce Carol Oates
c) Alice Walker
a) Ayn Rand
Which of these two countries share the longest border?
a) United States and Canada
b) Argentina and Chile
c) China and Mongolia
a) United States and Canada
In May 2019, Meules sold for more than $110 million, the most ever commanded by an impressionist painting. Who painted this masterpiece?
a) Edouard Manet
b) Claude Monet
c) Edgar Degas
b) Claude Monet
Convocation
a) Eagles
b) Alligators
c) Hawks
a) Eagles
In what memorable way did Marlon Brando refuse to accept his Oscar for his portrayal of Don Vito Corleone?
a) Throwing the award into the crowd
b) Having an Indigenous activist refuse his award and make a speech
c) Handing the award to the person he thought should have won
b) Having an Indigenous activist refuse his award and make a speech
What American short-story writer from Jackson, Mississippi, produced the memoir One Writer’s Beginnings from a series of lectures she gave at Harvard?
a) Flannery O’Connor
b) Carson McCullers
c) Eudora Welty
c) Eudora Welty
Which of the following borders the most countries?
a) Russia
b) China
c) Germany
b) China
Stories about how Vincent Van Gogh lost his ear still intrigue, but a recent tale suggests the ear was cut off when Van Gogh fought with another painter with whom he had a tumultuous live-in relationship. Who was this other painter?
a) Paul Gauguin
b) Paul Cezanne
c) Georges Seurat
a) Paul Gauguin
Mob
a) Kangaroos
b) Antelopes
c) Koalas
a) Kangaroos
Originally designed to resemble a knight, the Oscar statue holds what object?
a) Shield
b) Helmet
c) Sword
c) Sword
Whose novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounts the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States?
a) Lucy Maud Montgomery
b) Willa Cather
c) Laura Ingalls Wilder
b) Willa Cather