Sunday Super Quiz October 13, 2024

Wolf Larsen is the main antagonist of Jack London's 1904 psychological adventure novel The Sea-Wolf and the 1941 film of the same name.

Impression, Sunrise is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet, first shown in April 1874 at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris.

Riga is the capital, the largest city, and one of the most populated cities in the Baltic States. 

Sanford and Son is an American sitcom television series aired on NBC from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977. It was based on the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, which initially aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1974. 

Manuel Noriega was a Panamanian politician and military officer who was an unelected military dictator and the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. The U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power in 1990.

These spiders are called hunting spiders.

Mel Gibson plays a vengeful father in the 2010 action thriller "Edge of Darkness."

Poor Side of Town is a song by Johnny Rivers that reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the RPM Canadian Chart in November 1966.

In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. His breakthrough came in High Sierra (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films.

His performance as cantankerous skipper Charlie Allnut in The African Queen earned Bogart an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1951.

Bleu des Causses is a French blue cheese made from cow's milk.

The show follows six friends who live their lives in this city.

Baretta is an American TV series from 1975 starring Robert Blake. The series became famous for Baretta's pet, a cockatoo, and the theme song for the series, "Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow," sung by Sammy Davis, Jr.

Life is an American magazine that was originally launched weekly in 1883. Since 2000, It has transitioned to irregularly publishing "special" issues.

Initially, the crinoline was a stiff fabric made of horsehair ("crin") and cotton or linen, which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining,

The Woodstock Festival in the United States symbolized the 1960s counterculture and drew huge crowds. The festival was held on the property of a dairy farm near the town of Bethel in Sullivan County, New York.

March 17th is celebrated as Saint Patrick's Day in honor of Ireland's patron saint.

The duckwalk is a dance performed by assuming a low partial squatting position and walking forward, maintaining the low stance. It is most widely known as a stage element of guitar showmanship popularized by rock 'n' roll guitarist Chuck Berry.

The lingonberry (partridgeberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry) is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to boreal forests and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere, including Eurasia and North America. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a German composer, pianist and violinist. In the final years of his life, Mozart wrote many of his best-known works, including his last three symphonies, culminating in the Jupiter Symphony, the serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik, his Clarinet Concerto, the four operas Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute and his Requiem

In October 1988, Ronald Reagan decided to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.