LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD22 (March 19, 2020)
The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on March 19, 2020.
1. Naples is the capital of which Italian region, also the home of Pompeii, Capua, and the isle of Capri?
2. The term "Boston Brahmins," which refers to the families of the New England elite, was popularized by which American doctor and academic, known for his poem "The Chambered Nautilus" and his essay collection The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table? He is also remembered for being the father of a Supreme Court Justice of the same name.
3. Who is undoubtedly the most famous character in literature to whom the demonyms "Cypriot" and "Venetian" both apply? He first appeared in a story by the author Cinthio, which was later adapted into a far more famous work.
4. What first and last name are shared by a former director of FEMA who was told "You're doing a heck of a job" by George W. Bush, as well as an unarmed Africa-American teenager fatally shot by Darren Wilson in 2014?
5. In the film Parasite, the character Kim Ki-Jung pretends to be an art teacher with what English name? To remember her new identity, she repeats to herself her name, the fact that she is an only child, and that she studied in Chicago, Illinois.
6. Fatboy Slim's song "Weapon of Choice" is perhaps most famous for its Spike Jonze-directed music video, which depicts which actor dancing around a vacant hotel lobby?
1. Naples is the capital of which Italian region, also the home of Pompeii, Capua, and the isle of Capri?
2. The term "Boston Brahmins," which refers to the families of the New England elite, was popularized by which American doctor and academic, known for his poem "The Chambered Nautilus" and his essay collection The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table? He is also remembered for being the father of a Supreme Court Justice of the same name.
3. Who is undoubtedly the most famous character in literature to whom the demonyms "Cypriot" and "Venetian" both apply? He first appeared in a story by the author Cinthio, which was later adapted into a far more famous work.
4. What first and last name are shared by a former director of FEMA who was told "You're doing a heck of a job" by George W. Bush, as well as an unarmed Africa-American teenager fatally shot by Darren Wilson in 2014?
5. In the film Parasite, the character Kim Ki-Jung pretends to be an art teacher with what English name? To remember her new identity, she repeats to herself her name, the fact that she is an only child, and that she studied in Chicago, Illinois.
6. Fatboy Slim's song "Weapon of Choice" is perhaps most famous for its Spike Jonze-directed music video, which depicts which actor dancing around a vacant hotel lobby?
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