American Literature
For one week in April 2018, what 2011 novel by Ernest Cline topped the list? It focuses on teenage video gamer Wade Watts, who attempts to find James Halliday’s Easter egg in OASIS while competing as “Parzival”?
Ready Player One
X-I-X (XIX)
Nineteen
What is the name of the royal house which ruled over Russia from 1613 to 1917?
Romanov
In addition to writing the “Paris Symphonies”, Haydn wrote symphonies named for what other major European capital?
London
Malaria and Yellow Fever are primarily spread by what creatures that come in Asian Tiger and Anopheles(uh-NAH-full-ease) varieties, among others?
Mosquitoes
For three weeks in September 2018, what 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan topped the list? It focuses on NYU professor Rachel Chu, who travels to Singapore with her boyfriend, unaware that his family is unbelievably wealthy?
Crazy Rich Asians
X-X-V (XXV)
Twenty-five
Must give name and regnal number. The last Romanov ruler was what Tsar who was executed during the Russian Revolution in 1918, one year after being forced to relinquish the throne?
Nicholas II
One of those London symphonies, Haydn's Symphony #94, is known by what nickname because of a suddenly loud chord that bursts out in an otherwise slow and quiet movement?
Surprise Symphony
Resistance to malaria is enjoyed by patients who lack the Duffy Antigen on what cells that take on an unusual shape in sickle-cell anemia?
Red Blood Cells or RBCs or Erythrocytes
James Patterson hit #1 several times in 2018 including topping the list for six weeks with The President is Missing, a collaboration with what 42nd President of the United States who served from 1993-2001?
Bill Clinton
C-L-X (CLX)
One hundred sixty
The Romanov dynasty began with Michael I, who became Tsar after a time period known by this name, as there was no ruler after Feodor I died in 1598. Name this period of famine and war that ended in 1613.
Time of Troubles
In addition to being known as the “Father of the Symphony”, Haydn was known also as the “Father of” what chamber ensemble that consists of a viola, cello and two violins?
String Quartet
The first synthetic dye, Perkin’s Mauve, was created after a failed attempt to synthesize what compound that is derived from the bark of the cinchona tree and is used to treat malaria along with artemisinin?
Quinine