LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD6 (February 26, 2020)
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 celebrate Kwanzaa?
5. Some carotenoids, a class of organic compounds that give tomatoes, pumpkins, and carrots their color, are included along with retinol in the group of compounds known as which vitamin?
6. The Euclid telescope, which will study dark matter and is slated to be completed in 2022, is being constructed by which intergovernmental scientific organization founded in France in 1975?
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 celebrate Kwanzaa?
5. Some carotenoids, a class of organic compounds that give tomatoes, pumpkins, and carrots their color, are included along with retinol in the group of compounds known as which vitamin?
6. The Euclid telescope, which will study dark matter and is slated to be completed in 2022, is being constructed by which intergovernmental scientific organization founded in France in 1975?
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