Sunday Super Quiz November 10, 2024

Robert Edward Lee was an American soldier known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.

Cabaret is a 1972 American musical film set in Berlin. Liza Minnelli plays the young, openly promiscuous American Sally Bowles.

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.

The Carnival of Venice is the most famous in Europe and dates back to 1094. The carnival is renowned for the use of beautiful masks.

The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union expired on December 31, 1941. Icelanders voted on whether to terminate the personal union with Denmark, abolish the monarchy, and establish a republic. The vote was 97% to end the union and 95% in favor of the new republican constitution.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid (operations) and Bilbao (legal).

Defenestration is derived from the Latin "de-" (from) and "fenestra" (window or opening). The word literally means to throw someone or something out of a window. The expression was coined in connection with the defenestrations in Prague, the first of which occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618.

Correct answer: Heathrow.
London-Heathrow Airport is Europe's largest, and the world's seventh largest, airport in terms of number of passengers per year. In 2019, over 80 million passengers passed through the airport.
It was originally built during World War II as a base for British bombers and opened to civilian traffic in 1946.

The old system is usually called £sd ("pounds, shillings and pence"). According to this, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound.

The rattlesnake is originally from North America.

Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or 3H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with a half-life of ~12.3 years.

In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple.

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

The Swedish and Ukrainian flags are blue and yellow.

James Joyce is one of Ireland's most famous authors, and his work "Ulysses" is world-renowned.

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. The metropolitan area has a population of more than 1 million.

Lemongrass is a popular herb in Asian dishes, known for its distinct lemon flavor.

Knut Hamsun, actually Knut Pedersen, was a Norwegian writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

The Antipodeans were a collective of modern Australian artists known for advocating figurative art and opposing abstract expressionism. The group consisted of seven modern Melbourne painters and the art historian Bernard Smith, who compiled The Antipodean Manifesto in 1959.

Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 American movie directed by Robert Altman. Richard Gere plays the wealthy gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis (Dr. T). Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Kate Hudson, and Liv Tyler play some of the women in his everyday life.