LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD5 (February 25, 2020)
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 tubas.
6. Which famed football coach and noted fedora enthusiast coached at Texas A&M from 1954 to 1957, where he led a notoriously brutal training camp in Junction, Texas?
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 tubas.
6. Which famed football coach and noted fedora enthusiast coached at Texas A&M from 1954 to 1957, where he led a notoriously brutal training camp in Junction, Texas?
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