Friday Challenge! - 256
1. | Eliza Donnithorne (1827–1886) who lived in Sydney was jilted by her groom on her wedding day and spent the rest of her life in a darkened house. She is believed to be the basis for which eerie character of Victorian times literature? |
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2. | Because many parents brought children to see it for its fantasy elements, theaters in Mexico placed warnings about the graphic violence while exhibiting what 2006 Oscar-nominated film of Guillermo del Toro? |
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3. | The highest award given by the Red Cross is named after which person who was motivated by the suffering of the wounded in the Battle of Solferino in 1859? |
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4. | Who wrote a treatise published in 1819 whose preface is excerpted below?
"In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method just mentioned [direct auscultation] being rendered inadmissible by the age and sex of the patient, I happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics..." |
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5. | Ideally they should contain at least 14 percent water so that under heat, the water would expand to steam. If the internal moisture falls below 12 percent, they open only partially or not at all and such ones were once cursed as 'old maids'. What are they? |
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6. | It connects Ancient Egyptian, Demotic, and Ancient Greek and a well-known use of it as a figurative term was in a 1979 Scientific American article where it was said "...the spectrum of the hydrogen atoms has proved to be the X of modern physics: once this pattern of lines had been deciphered much else could also be understood...". What is X? |
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7. | Marangu, Rongai, Lemosho, Shira, Umbwe and Machame are the six official trekking routes for what 'uplifting' activity? |
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