What type of machine did Leonardo da Vinci design to move water upward?
Answer
Archimedes’ screw
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What lifting device did Leonardo da Vinci design with a screw mechanism?
Answer
Screw jack
What machine part did Leonardo da Vinci study using a rotating ball arrangement?
Answer
Ball bearing
What was the name of Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelled cart, often called an early robot?
Answer
Self-propelled cart
At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, which jury prize did the film Quinceañera win?
Answer
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
What type of film is the 2006 movie Quinceañera, which follows Magdalena’s fifteenth-birthday preparations?
Answer
Coming-of-age drama
In which U.S. state was the 2006 film Quinceañera primarily filmed?
Answer
California
What is the traditional name for the quinceañera’s formal court or group of attendants?
Answer
Court of honor
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien become a professor in 1924, before Oxford?
Answer
University of Leeds
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-known scholarly lecture on Beowulf?
Answer
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien book was edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher in 1977?
Answer
The Silmarillion
Which Dragon's Den investor joined the panel in 2022, replacing Tej Lalvani?
Answer
Steven Bartlett
Which Dragon's Den investor joined the British panel in 2007?
Answer
James Caan
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe's influential art teacher at Columbia University?
Answer
Arthur Wesley Dow
Which New Mexico house became Georgia O'Keeffe’s home and studio in 1949?
Answer
Abiquiú home
What New York skyscraper did Georgia O'Keeffe repeatedly paint while living near its top floors?
Answer
The Shelton Hotel
Which three-song storyline includes Taylor Swift’s “august” on Folklore?
Answer
The teenage love triangle
What real-world event shaped the creation of Taylor Swift’s Folklore, including “august”?
Answer
The COVID-19 pandemic
In Taylor Swift’s “august,” what type of character tells the story?
Answer
An unnamed female character
What is the name of the protagonist in Assassin's Creed Liberation?
Answer
Aveline de Grandpré