HIST217 Research 6

Mike Thompson – [email protected]

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

Questions
1. Category: CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS
Question: 1959: ”....and the Little People”
Answer: Darby O’Gill
2. Category: ANAGRAMS INC.
Question: It’s PC & high tech: WHACKED-PLATTER
Answer: Hewlett-Packard
3. Category: SENTIMENTAL ROCK
Question: Bad English sang ”When I See You Smile”; it was this group that had the hit
”Feel Like Makin’ Love”
Answer: Bad Company
4. Category: ’80s BESTSELLERS
Question: This Anne Tyler bestseller could have been subtitled ”A How-To in Inhaling
& Exhaling”
Answer: ”Breathing Lessons”
5. Category: QUOTATIONS
Question: In ”Notes on the State of Virginia”, he wrote, ”Those who labor in the Earth
are the chosen people of God”
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
6. Category: INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS

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 Question: Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language,
like ”Dead Souls” & ”Anna Karenina”
Answer: Vladimir Nabokov
7. Category: REGIONAL THEATRE
Question: The Philadelphia Theatre Co.’s play ”Barbra’s Wedding” by actor Daniel
Stern was about trouble caused by her ceremony
Answer: Barbra Streisand
8. Category: AND
Question: Since the man on first base takes off before the batter swings, this play should
logically be the ”run and hit”
Answer: hit and run
9. Category: TRENDY!
Question: Some restaurants prefer to call the Patagonian toothfish the Chilean one of
these
Answer: sea bass
10. Category: BANNED AS PETS IN NYC
Question: It may be wild to have this wild dog in Australia but in New York City it’s
no go
Answer: Dingo
11. Category: COUNTRY CLUBS
Question: A French riot policeman may wield this, simply the French word for ”stick”
Answer: a baton
12. Category: ART
Question: One of Andy Warhol’s favorite subjects was this founder of the People’s Re-
public of China
Answer: Mao Tse-tung
13. Category: THEATRE
Question: Kevin Spacey made his Broadway debut in 1982 in a revival of this playwright’s
”Ghosts”
Answer: Henrik Ibsen
14. Category: ”G”EOGRAPHY
Question: Syros, Skyros & Skiathos are just 3 of this Balkan country’s many islands
Answer: Greece
15. Category: NOVEL VOCABULARY
Question: He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning ”inclined to use a dagger”;
it’s in his novel ”Sons and Lovers”
Answer: D.H. Lawrence
16. Category: 1997
Question: The FDA approved a laser that could be used by dentists as long as the dentist
& adult patient wear these
Answer: Protective glasses
17. Category: WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

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 Question: You have Graves’ disease, which primarily affects this gland; despite its name,
the disease is very treatable
Answer: the thyroid
18. Category: PEOPLE IN HISTORY
Question: When this man reached Mexico in 1519, Montezuma mistook him for the god
Quetzalcoatl
Answer: Hernando Cortez
19. Category: FIRST LADIES
Question: She was born in 1912; her real first name was Thelma
Answer: Pat Nixon
20. Category: THE JIMMY
Question: With an average speed around 133 mph, Jimmy Bryan won this race in 1958
Answer: the Indianapolis 500