My son, Brian, and I both participate in an on-line competition called "Learned League". I won't go deep into the weeds about the rules here, but basically, every day you receive a set of six questions in a variety of categories, ranging from science, history, math to different elements of pop culture.
Over the next several days, I'm going to post one set of questions each day. See how many you can answer correctly. I'll post the answers the next day.
1. Name
the German who won Wimbledon Singles championships in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1995, and 1996, with the first of those a part of a historic "Golden
Slam" (all four Grand Slams plus Olympic gold).
2. At least 60 pharaohs of ancient Egypt's 18th to 20th dynasties, beginning
with Thutmose I and famously including Tutankhamun, were buried in tombs in a
narrow gorge in western Thebes known (quite accurately, in fact) as the ______
of the _____. (Fill in both blanks.)
3. What unit of measurement of angles is equal to approximately 57.296 degrees?
Exactly π/2 of this unit equals a right angle.
4. In the original 1955 Broadway run of the musical Damn Yankees, Gwen Verdon
played what character, the devil's assistant who gets whatever she wants?
5. American chemist Stephanie Kwolek developed the first liquid crystal polymer
fiber, leading to the development of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, which
has a myriad of applications (e.g., tires, cables, helmet, ballistic body
armor). This polymer is better known by what brand name owned by DuPont
(Kwolek's employer for 40+ years)?
6. Africa's third-largest lake by area (after Victoria and Tanganyika) covers
20% of its namesake country. What is the name that the lake and country share?
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