Sunday Super Quiz June 30, 2024

Ménière's disease affects the inner ear and can cause severe dizziness, tinnitus, and hearing loss.

Xhosa is a Bantu language with official status in South Africa, with approximately 7.9 million speakers.

Gucci's name was Guccio Gucci. In 1921, he opened a company in Florence under his brand, Gucci. Initially, the focus was on saddles and other accessories for horse people.

A margarita is a cocktail traditionally consisting of tequila, triple sec, ice, and lime juice, served in a salt-rimmed glass.

The painting is Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, an Italian painter active during the Hungarian Renaissance (Quattrocento).

The image is from the movie Easy Rider (1969) starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (called "Captain America").

Lord Nelson is best known for his victory at the Battle of the Trafalgar.

The Irish Sea is the inland sea that lies to the east of Ireland and separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

The Mandarin duck is an East Asian duck species. Its plumage has made it popular as an ornamental bird in bird ponds in parks and zoos.

What is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Zaire between 1971 and 1997 under Mobutu's dictatorship.

Joe Rosenthal photographed six Marines raising the United States flag on the fourth day of the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography that same year. It is regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war.

The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the winning team in the National Football League's championship game, the Super Bowl. The trophy is named after the legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi.

"Hair" or "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" is a rock musical from 1967. It included songs like "Good Morning Starshine," "Hair," "Aquarius," and "Let the Sunshine In." The 5th Dimension had a hit with "Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In".

Fusilli are small, thick, corkscrew-shaped pasta.

Mia Thermopolis, the main character in the movie and the book, learns from her estranged paternal grandmother, Clarisse, that she is the sole heir to the small European kingdom of Genovia.

The Reuben sandwich is a North American grilled sandwich consisting of corned beef, cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing (or Thousand Island dressing).

When Jack Palance won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in City Slickers, he used his acceptance speech to talk about ageism in Hollywood. Then he got down on the floor and did push-ups with one arm.

Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In the broader sense, it also includes exponentiation, extraction of roots, and taking logarithms.

Monica Geller is a fictional character in the American television series "Friends", played by Courteney Cox. Monica is a chef by profession.

Well-known albums released in the US are A Bigger Bang (2005), Out of Our Heads (1965), and Flowers (1967). However, there is no album titled One Plus One. However, the Rolling Stones appear in a film by Jean-Luc Godard with that name (also called Sympathy for the Devil).