Mercury's Musings

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD7. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Joseph Fourier 2. One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights 3. First Amendment 4. Victorious 5. Quetzalcoatl 6. Roman Polanski

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 27, 2020. 1. The mathematical operation in which phase information contained in sinusoidal waves is transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain is named for which French mathematician? 2. One of the earliest instances of a magic carpet appearing in fiction is from which work of literature, in which Prince Hussain travels to India and purchases a teleporting rug? 3. The "Lemon Test" is a legal standard by which government-run bodies evaluate certain establishments to determine their compliance with (most prominently) which Constitutional Amendment? 4. Cal Valentine, played by Ariana Grande, first appeared in which Nickelodeon show before appearing in iCarly and Sam & Cat ? 5. The airport in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, is named for which feathered serpent from Mesoamerican mythology? 6. Tess  is a 1979 Thomas Hardy adaptation by which famed direct

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD6. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Lone star tick 2. Peoria 3. Pamela Anderson 4. Curtis 5. Vitamin A 6. European Space Agency

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 26, 2020. 1. Amblyomma americanum , whose bites are known for causing an allergy to red meat, is sometimes known as the turkey tick or northeastern water tick, but is best known by what common name, which references the white mark on the back of the adult tick? 2. In the 19th century, vaudeville artists strove to appeal to a range of different audiences, asking themselves "Will it play in" which Illinois city? This city has since become a synecdoche used in media and politics to refer to middle America more generally. 3. On Home Improvement , which actress played the part of Lisa, Tim's Tool Girl, for the first two seasons before leaving the show to focus on another 90's series with which she is heavily associated? 4. The characters in which comic strip, created by Ray Billingsley, go on "hiatus" every year for several weeks in December to ce

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD5. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Pleasure Island 2. Azeotrope 3. William Howe, John Burgoyne 4. Rooster (or golden cockerel) 5. Richard Wagner 6. Bear Bryant

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 25, 2020. 1. A shopping and entertainment district in Walt Disney World is named for which sinister locale in which children are turned into donkeys in the 1940 film Pinocchio ? 2. A mixture of two or more liquids whose relative concentrations cannot be altered by distillation is known by what four-syllable word? 3. Name either the British General who won the Battle of Bunker Hill and embarked upon the Philadelphia Campaign before being relieved by Henry Clinton, or the General who led the British to a major defeat at the Battle of Saratoga. Note that neither of these two men is Charles Cornwallis. 4. Which animal, a national symbol of France, appears in the logo of  Pathé , a company best known as a European film distributor? 5. Which 19th century composer commissioned a namesake type of tuba for his epic operas? These instruments are sometimes known as Bayreuth tuba

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD4. / / / / / / / / / / 1. University of Chicago 2. Thornton Wilder 3. My Lai Massacre 4. Death Row Records 5. Calorimeter 6. Basalt

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 24, 2020. 1. Bernie Sanders helped organize a picketing of a segregated Howard Johnson's restaurant while attending which prestigious Midwestern university? 2. Hello, Dolly! , for which Carol Channing won a Tony Award, was based on The Merchant of Yonkers , a work by which American playwright? 3. Picasso's Guernica  was defaced by an activist protesting the actions of William Calley, noted perpetrator of which historical atrocity? 4. In 1991, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre founded which record company, whose major releases include Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle  and Tupac's All Eyez on Me ? 5. What is the name for the device commonly used to measure the heat of chemical reactions occurring within a substance? In high school chemistry classes, these devices are often crafted from coffee cups. 6. The Deccan Traps are formed from which extrusive igneous rock, by far

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD3. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Pooh 2. Lucifer 3. Ariel Sharon 4. Detroit Tigers 5. Gaetano Donizetti 6. Derry

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 21, 2020. 1. Benjamin Hoff wrote an introduction to Taoism called The Tao of which fictional character from children's literature? Hoff uses the character's lackadaisical attitude to examine the principle of wu wei . 2. In biology, the class of enzymes that trigger bioluminescent reactions have a name that comes from the Latin for lightbringer . This Latin word is also the name of which figure in religious lore? This figure was notably played by Tom Ellis. 3. Kadima, a centrist Israeli political party formed by moderates in Likud, was founded by which Israeli statesman and former military leader, who died in 2014? 4. Sparky Anderson, known as manager of the "Big Red Machine" in Cincinnati throughout the 1970s, later managed which American League team, leading them to a win in the 1984 World Series? 5. Beverly Sills sang in operas such as Anna Bolena

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD2. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 2. Monterey Bay 3. Demolition Man 4. Porkopolis 5. "Simple Gifts" 6. Leonardo da Vinci

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 20, 2020. 1. Scheherazade , named for the main storyteller in the Arabian Nights , a a symphonic suite by which Russian composer and member of the Mighty Handful? 2. The Salinas River originates east of San Luis Obispo and flows north into which bay? Santa Cruz sits on the north shores of this bay. 3. Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura had a small role in which 1993 sci-fi action film about a cop and a criminal woken up after being cryogenically frozen for several decades? 4. During the 19th century, Cincinnati was known by what four-syllable nickname, due to the city's large slaughterhouse industry? 5. Which Shaker song, written by Joseph Brackett in 1848, was used as a melody for Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring ? 6. Lady with an Ermine is one of only four portraits of women painted by which Renaissance master?

The following are the answers for the companion questions to LL84 MD1. / / / / / / / / / / 1. Cornetto 2. Habeus Corpus 3. 98 Degrees 4. Cation 5. Qatar 6. Felix the Cat

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 19, 2020. 1. Which ice cream brand, currently owned by Unilever, appears in the informal name of a loosely associated "trilogy" of films released between 2004 and 2013? 2. The 1640 act which abolished England's notorious Star Chamber is known by which two word Latin phrase? In the U.S., the right known by this phrase was notoriously suspended by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. 3. Drew Lachey, winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars , is perhaps best known as a singer of which boy band? 4. In the ionic compound calcium carbonate, carbonate, which carries a negative charge, is called the "anion." What is the corresponding name for a positively charged ion such as calcium? 5. Paris Saint-Germain is the wealthiest football club in France, and one of the wealthiest worldwide, due to being majority owned by which which Middle Eas