ANT224 Homework Help 2
August 6, 2024
Collaborators: Mick Ronald
By turning in this assignment, I agree by the university honor code and declare that all
of this is my own work.
Essay for Context
This assignment to be submitted by latest 11/03. Based on the essay given in textbook
chapter 5, answer these questions carefully.
Questions
1. Category: RELIGIOUS PLACES
Question: The city of Varanasi, which devout Hindus believe has always existed, is on
this river
Answer: the Ganges
2. Category: DR. DREW
Question: (<a href=”http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-05-13 DJ 02.jpg” target=” blank”>Dr.
Drew Pinsky reports.</a>) That couple snuggling in your anthro class may be marking their
turf; these displays known by a 3-letter abbreviation can be a way of showing ownership
Answer: PDAs (public displays of affection)
3. Category: ”YO”!
Question: Neil Simon wrote the play ”Lost in” this city in New York
Answer: Yonkers
4. Category: NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS
Question: This flagship of Columbus appears at the center of the Bahamas’ coat of arms
Answer: Santa Maria
5. Category: THE BIGGEST SCHMOOZER
Question: You’re an insurance agent for this company? How exciting! ”You’re in good
hands”
Answer: Allstate
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6. Category: LITERARY HODGEPODGE
Question: This author of ”The Color Purple” won a 1986 O. Henry Prize for her story
”Kindred Spirits”
Answer: Alice Walker
7. Category: THINGS ARE LOOKING ”UP”
Question: The American flag should be hung this way only as a distress signal
Answer: upside down
8. Category: IN THE CREDITS
Question: There may be a second & a second second one of these people, called ”A.D.”s,
who keep things moving
Answer: Assistant director
9. Category: FICTION SCIENCE
Question: It’s the fancy Frenchified name for the resolution of a story’s plot following
the climax
Answer: the denouement
10. Category: FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Question: Syrup originally made from pomegranates processed on the Caribbean island
of Grenada
Answer: grenadine
11. Category: GUYS NAMED GARY
Question: He appeared with Tom Hanks in ”Forrest Gump” & ”Apollo 13”, & with
Nicolas Cage in ”Snake Eyes”
Answer: Gary Sinise
12. Category: CABINET MEMBERS
Question: Those who have held this cabinet post include Bob Bergland, J. Sterling
Morton & Earl Butz
Answer: Secretary of Agriculture
13. Category: RECENT MOVIES
Question: Can we talk? A documentary covered a year in the life of this red carpet
comedienne: ”A Piece of Work”
Answer: Joan Rivers
14. Category: FOOD & DRINK
Question: This tuna has the lightest flesh & is the only one that legally can be called
white
Answer: Albacore
15. Category: GENERAL SCIENCE
Question: In 1869 this Austrian monk published a paper on hawkweed: the experiments
didn’t work as well as the ones with peas
Answer: Mendel
16. Category: CHART TOPPERS
Question: In 1995 she had 2 songs debut at the top of the charts; one was a duet with
Boyz II Men
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Answer: Mariah Carey
17. Category: LITERATURE
Question: In his 1913 novel ”Sons And Lovers”, Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie
Chambers
Answer: D.H. Lawrence
18. Category: UNFORESEEN FINDS
Question: The idea for this device occurred when a magnetron melted a candy bar in
Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer’s pocket
Answer: the microwave
19. Category: IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST
Question: A senate report showed his govt., deposed in 2003, stole billions from the
U.N.’s Oil-for-Food program
Answer: (Saddam) Hussein
20. Category: NEIN!
Question: The despotic Walter Ulbricht blocked de-Stalinization as leader of this country
Answer: East Germany
