Sunday Super Quiz July 14, 2024

Verdi was a prominent Italian opera composer, and "La Traviata" is one of his most famous works.

The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is a European pilgrimage route. One of the main starting points is Le Puy-en-Velay, just outside Lyon. The trail ends at the shrine of the apostle Jacob in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

The symbol in the center of India's flag is the Hindu wheel of life chakra, where the color blue is the color of the sea and the sky. The twenty-four "spokes" of the wheel correspond to the twenty-four hours of the day, which refers to the fact that life is in motion and death is stagnant.

In the 1950s, both Morocco and Tunisia became independent states, but France did not want to let go of Algeria, which led to a long war of independence. On July 3, 1962, Algeria became independent after more than seven year's war.

Alan Turing was a British mathematician. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.

Baba ganoush is basically eggplant blended up with lemon juice, tahini and sea salt.

Vitiligo (also known as leukoderma) is an autoimmune disease that causes a loss of pigmentation in the skin and hair.

Absolutely Fabulous is a British comedy series that ran from 1992 to 2011. The series is about Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), two middle-aged women in London who desperately try to appear younger and hipper than they are.

The island was annexed by Chile in 1888, and the current indigenous population is of Polynesian descent.

"Prime Suspect" is a British TV series (crime series) starring Helen Mirren as Detective Inspector Jane Tennison.

Skyfall is both the title of the film and the Oscar-winning song performed by Adele.

Pressure is the force applied over an area. In the meter-kilogram-second system, it is expressed in pascals. Specifically, a pascal measures the pressure applied by 1 N of force applied on an area of 1 m2 at a right angle. SI accepted it as the standard unit of pressure in 1971 and named it after Blaise Pascal.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author known for the novel "The Great Gatsby". His full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

"A Beautiful Mind" is a 2001 film directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe. The film, which is based on Sylvia Nasar's book of the same name, is about the mathematician John Nash who received the Swedish Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1994.

In the north, Mexico borders the United States and in the south the Central American countries of Belize and Guatemala.

Brussels is the capital of Belgium.

Founded in France in 1810, Peugeot is one of the oldest car manufacturers in the world.

The bridge, made famous by the movie The Bridge over the River Kwai, is located just outside Kanchanaburi in Thailand. The railway between what was then Burma and Thailand began to be built by the Japanese in 1942. Parts of the original bridge were destroyed by British air attacks in 1945 but rebuilt again.

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city.

"Monk" is an American comedy/crime series that originally aired between 2002 and 2009. The series won eight Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. The lead role, Adrian Monk, is played by Tony Shalhoub.