What Leonardo da Vinci invention was a rotating drum designed to produce a musical rhythm?
Answer
Mechanical drum
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What Leonardo da Vinci weapon was designed with a bow about 25 meters wide?
Answer
Giant crossbow
What Leonardo da Vinci automaton was a human-shaped mechanical knight?
Answer
Mechanical knight
Who wrote the original story adapted by Disney’s 1989 film The Little Mermaid?
Answer
Hans Christian Andersen
According to Genesis, what is the Ark’s height in cubits?
Answer
30 cubits
Who directed the 2014 film Noah?
Answer
Darren Aronofsky
In Genesis, how many pairs of each clean animal does Noah take onto the Ark?
Answer
Seven pairs
How old is Noah when the flood begins in the Book of Genesis?
Answer
600 years old
Which German playwright wrote the plays that inspired the 1929 film Pandora’s Box?
Answer
Frank Wedekind
Who directed the 2008 Turkish drama film Pandora’s Box?
Answer
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Who wrote the Doctor Who episode The Pandorica Opens?
Answer
Steven Moffat
In Doctor Who, which 2010 episode reveals the Pandorica as a trap for the Doctor?
Answer
The Pandorica Opens
Who designed the Grammy trophy used by the Recording Academy?
Answer
Bob Graves
What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2012 novel for adult readers?
Answer
The Casual Vacancy
Which award did J.K. Rowling win for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 1999?
Answer
Whitbread Children’s Book Award
On what date was J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel published in Britain?
Answer
21 July 2007
Which university awarded J.K. Rowling an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2000?
Answer
University of Exeter
Which British honour did J.K. Rowling receive in 2001?
Answer
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
What was the original British title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?
Answer
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Which fictional detective stars in J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike novels?
Answer
Cormoran Strike
Which novel won J.K. Rowling the 1997 Smarties Book Prize in the 9–11 years category?
Answer
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2016 screenplay about the wizarding world?
Answer
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Which Tolkien child became the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s unpublished writings?
Answer
Christopher Tolkien
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor before Oxford?
Answer
University of Leeds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on heroic literature?
Answer
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which First World War battle did J.R.R. Tolkien serve in as a British Army officer?
Answer
Battle of the Somme
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien attend as a student?
Answer
Exeter College
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 by his son Christopher Tolkien?
Answer
The Silmarillion
Who illustrated the original 1937 edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
Answer
J.R.R. Tolkien
Which Oxford university chair did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1945 to 1959?
Answer
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
In House M.D., what neurological disease does Remy Hadley fear inheriting?
Answer
Huntington’s disease
In House M.D., which character is the hospital’s director of oncology?
Answer
Dr. James Wilson