Language & Literature
What “c” word may refer to blocked nasal passages or crowded traffic?
What man, who was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author of A Brief History of Time, and who suffered from ALS, passed away in March 2018?
Haptic feedback uses this human sense to relay information from your smartphone.
What artist, whose museum is located in Pittsburgh, was a leading figure in the Popular or Pop Art movement?
In 2007 a District of Columbia law professor referred to which Supreme Court Justice as “Talk-Less Thomas”. Give his full name.
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara's fiction Pulitzer winner for 1975, covers this decisive July 1863 battle.
Which movie won a leading four Oscars at the 90th Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, including Best Picture?
The Shape of Water
Name Facebook’s CEO and founder.
Identify the architect who designed the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France.
Name the capital city of Kenya.
Nairobi
Okonkwo, an Igbo warrior, is the principle character of what Chinua Achebe novel set in Nigeria?
Things Fall Apart
In March 2018, a woman died in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by what type of vehicle on public roads?
self-driving or autonomous
Eugene “Silent” Hairston was known for his exploits in what sport?
What avant-garde art movement is exemplified by the works of George Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Name the abolitionist, journalist, and author of a narrative describing his life as a slave who was the only African-American to attend the Seneca Falls Convention.
What Indian-born British author penned The Jungle Book?
Rudyard Kipling
Who won a fourth term in office, with just over 75% of the popular vote in the March 2018 Russian elections?
Based on a novel by Robert Bloch, Marion Crane is murdered at the Bates Motel in what Alfred Hitchcock film?
Psycho
Name the 19th Century idea that the United States possessed a God-given right to annex the entire Continental North America.
What literary term is defined as “language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure”.
Citing national security concerns, U.S. President Donald Trump blocked Broadcom's proposed acquisition of what other telecommunications company in March 2018?
What company, a division of Facebook, developed and manufactured Rift, a virtual reality headset?
What type of pop art is made up of different forms and materials, and comes from the French verb ‘to glue’?
Barack Obama nominated the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice to the Court in 2009. Name her.