LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD1 (February 19, 2020)

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 Eastern country?

6. Celebrated aviator Edward "Butch" O'Hare was a member of a squadron named for which iconic cartoon character, created by (depending on who you ask) either Pat Sullivan or Otto Messmer?

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