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What is "Casablanca"?This person has composed the musical scores for "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," "The Mission," and "Cinema Paradiso."
Who is Ennio Morricone?What do you call amino acids that have been incorporated into peptides due to the release of either a hydrogen ion from the amine end or a hydroxyl ion (OH−) from the carboxyl (COOH) end, or both, as a water molecule during formation of each amide bond.
What are proteins? (If more than 50 amino acids linked together)This DNA is maternally inherited.
What is Mitochondrial DNA?This state lost its quarter coin symbol in 2003.
What is New Hampshire?This is probably the smallest sea in the world at 7053 square feet.
What is the Sea of Marmara?This is the largest inland sea.
What is the Caspian Sea?On this date (May 20) in 1873, Strauss and Davis are given a patent to create a type of garment that is still worn today.
What are blue jeans?A 1946 musical promoted this restaurant chain, which started in 1878.
What are 'Harvey House' restaurants?This Canadian burger chain was founded in 1959 which is a beautiful thing.
What is Harvey's?This large Canadian restaurant chain is named for a hockey player.
What is Tim Hortons?While playing for the Leafs, Tim Horton wore this number, now retired.
What is 7?This dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honor an opera star.
What is Peches Melba?In 1942 at the Battle of Midway, Torpedo Squadron 8 from this famous aircraft carrier was almost wiped out when they attacked the Japanese fleet. There was only one survivor.
What was the USS Saratoga?This deadly disease has seen a recent outbreak in the Congo.
What is Ebola?In January 1968, this US Navy ship was captured by North Korea.
What is USS Pueblo?This scale is used to denote the hotness of peppers from the Jalapeno to the Ghost pepper.
The answer to #2173 is USS HORNET, not Saratoga, which was not at Midway.What is the Scoville Scale?
This scale is used to measure the intensity of tornadoes.
What is the Fujita scale?This musical film set in Rydell High celebrates its 40th anniversary in September 2018.
What is 'Grease'?300 million years ago, the continents were formed into a land mass called this.
What is Pangea (or Pangaea)?This 2012 Tony award winning musical was based on a movie of the same name.
What is Once?Deltiology is the study and collection of what?
What are postcards?This invention by a Frenchman was the first commercially successful photographic process.
What is a Daguerreotype?The definition of this word, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, is probably not a surprise.
What is a fear of long words?This horse needs only one more victory to complete the Triple Crown.
Who is Justify?This man won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
Who is Emil von Behring?The physics prize that year went to a man whose work has aided countless injured patients.
Who is William Rontgen?he is the fastest marathon runner in history with a time of 2:02:57
Who is Dennis Kimetto?After a disappointing 1972 Olympics, this middle/long distance runner was killed in a car crash.
Who is Steve Prefontaine?This composer is claimed to have been the first conductor to utilize a wooden baton to keep time, a practice still generally in use.
Who is Mendelssohn?This popular work by Mendelssohn is frequently heard in June.
What is the Wedding March?This movie starred Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve, and is set in the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, MI.
What is Somewhere in Time?This movie about a worker in a plutonium processing plant starred Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher.
What is Silkwood?This Greek sandwich can be made with shaved slices of lamb, beef or poultry, plus tomatoes, onions, and tzatziki sauce on pita or flatbread.
What is a gyro? (could also be shawarma or doner - depends on how geographically rigorous you are - as they are all pretty much the same)In the movie "Somewhere in Time" this composition by Rachmaninoff appears several times.
What is 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini'?This work, Oscar Wilde's only novel, deals wth a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.
What is "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?This is on display in Groton, CT, and was the first nuclear-powered submarine.
What is the USS Nautilus?The Nautilus was built by this company, which has built submarines for over 100 years, and is located in Groton, Connecticut.
What is Electric Boat?This military academy, founded in 1876, is in New London, CT.
What is the Coast Guard Academy?The famed Pony Express lasted approximately 18 months, owing its demise to the start of this much faster service in 1861.
What is the Transcontinental Telegraph?Addis Abiba is the capital of what country?
What is Ethiopia?In 1936 this Ethiopian monarch went before the League of Nations to ask for help in his fight against Mussolini.
Who.is Haile Selasdie?This King of England was beheaded on Jan 30, 1649.
Who was Charles I?In a hilarious episode of this British comedy, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) attempted to portray Charles I's wife, Queen Henrietta Maria.
What is "Keeping Up Appearances?"This English actor has been in many movies, and in at least two TV series on PBS - The Brother Cadfael Mysteries and Last Tango in Halifax.
Who is Derek Jacobi? (One of my favorite actors.)Jacobi became famous in the U.S. for his performance in this mini-series set in Ancient Rome.
What is I Claudius?Derek Jacobi had a small part in this 1973 movie starring Edward Fox about an attempt to kill de Gaulle.
What is 'Day of the Jackal'?Edward Fox had another memorable role in this 1978 mini-series about a crisis in the monarchy in 1936.
What is "Edward and Mrs. Simpson"?According to world history, in May 334 BCE this ancient Greek invaded Persia.
Who is Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon?There have been several films made about Alexander the Great, including the 1956 version, starring this Welsh actor wth a memorable voice, as Alexander.
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'La Marseillaise' was performed in a memorable scene from this WWII film.