LearnedCompanion: LL83 MD18 (December 11, 2019)
The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on December 11, 2019.
1. SpaceX currently has a class of launch vehicles bearing the name of which bird of prey? The "Heavy" version of this launch vehicle shot Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into stellar orbit in February 2018.
2. Happy Days spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi was fairly unsuccessful, lasting a mere two seasons from 1982 to 1983. Name both of the actors who appeared as the title characters.
3. Black teas are a class of tea that includes Earl Grey, English Breakfast Tea, and Irish Breakfast Tea. Black teas are generally characterized as distinct from oolong and green teas in that they have undergone more of what chemical process? Generally, this process involves loss of an electron, and is contrasted with reduction.
4. In Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, Nakata can speak to which common animal? Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle opens with the character of Toru searching for a lost one of these animals.
5. In 1995, photographer Cindy Sherman was awarded which prestigious fellowship, known colloquially as a "Genius Grant?" Other winners of this fellowship include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alison Bechdel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Octavia Butler.
6. The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, brought peace between the nations of Spain and the Netherlands, which had been engaged in another conflict named for having lasted for how many years?
1. SpaceX currently has a class of launch vehicles bearing the name of which bird of prey? The "Heavy" version of this launch vehicle shot Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into stellar orbit in February 2018.
2. Happy Days spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi was fairly unsuccessful, lasting a mere two seasons from 1982 to 1983. Name both of the actors who appeared as the title characters.
3. Black teas are a class of tea that includes Earl Grey, English Breakfast Tea, and Irish Breakfast Tea. Black teas are generally characterized as distinct from oolong and green teas in that they have undergone more of what chemical process? Generally, this process involves loss of an electron, and is contrasted with reduction.
4. In Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, Nakata can speak to which common animal? Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle opens with the character of Toru searching for a lost one of these animals.
5. In 1995, photographer Cindy Sherman was awarded which prestigious fellowship, known colloquially as a "Genius Grant?" Other winners of this fellowship include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alison Bechdel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Octavia Butler.
6. The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, brought peace between the nations of Spain and the Netherlands, which had been engaged in another conflict named for having lasted for how many years?
So, can we answer here?
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(don't know how spoiler space works in this medium)
1. Falcon
2. Erin Moran and Scott Baio
3. oxidation (LEO GER - loss of an electron=oxidation!)
4. no clue - seagull?
5. McArthur
6. 18 years?
1, 2, 3, and 5 are all correct!
DeleteI'd guess 100 for #6
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