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Category: Literature in English. Hamlet wanted Ophelia to take up a new habit when he bid her to enter what kind of residence?
Nunnery
Work house
Textile mill
Category: World Literature, Philosophy, and Religion. What Biblical figure’s one-time city of residence is the root of a common term for sexual perversion?
Samson
Job
Lot
Category: Fine Arts. What distinguished Medieval archers from swordsmen and is the section that separates orchestras from bands?
Strings
Blades
Catapults
Category: World Politics. The orbital relationship to the Soviet Union of countries such as Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and the others included in the 1955 Warsaw Pact can be translated into what word in Russian? The Russian word also describes a vehicle whose sole first passenger was a famous dog.
Sputnik
Perestroika
Laika
Category: Business and Economics. Name the fabric that is heavily used in the casual wear industry and gets its name from being indigenous to the garments of farmers around the southern French city of Nimes.
Corduroy
La Meche
Denim
Category: Mythology and Folklore. Who educated and counseled Telemachus while his father, Odysseus, was on his travels? Today the name means a trusted advisor who guides personal development.
Consigliori
Eminence Grise
Svengalli
Category: Idioms. What term for dilapidated neighborhoods stems from Seattle loggers using a street named Yesler Way to skid timber into Puget Sound for transportation to the saw mill?
Skid Row
Ghetto
Seedy Section
Category: American History. Who was the principal villain in the movie with a title later used as a derisive label for the 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative begun by Ronald Reagan, which included defenses in outer space?
Jabba the Hut
Cyclops
Asteroid Antagonist
Category: American Geography. What is the English translation of the word, Detroit, a city so named because its river is the kind of narrow channel that connects two large bodies of water, Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie?
Stream
Confluence
Of three
Category: World History Since 1550. Zorro is the Spanish word for an animal associated with what general who committed suicide some years after he had perfected the method of attack known as blitzkrieg warfare?
Goering
Goebbels
Montgomery