1. What American political action group composed of conservative, fundamentalist Christians was founded in 1979 by evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell?
Moral Majority
2. What famous German youth movement was started in 1901 in the town of Steglitz?
Wandervogel
3. What is the name given to the biological process of a living organism approaching an advanced age?
Senescence
4. Name the term coined by Dr. Bruce McEwan of Rockefeller University to describe the damage suffered by the human body as it fights and adapts to a stressful environment.
Allostatic Load
5. What are Habstars?
Stars that could set up favorable conditions for life as we know it on Earth
6. What did Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist and financial journalist pioneer in 1949?
The world’s first modern Hedge Fund
7. In which sport would you encounter the term En passant?
It is a special capture mode by pawn in the game of chess
8. Name the 15th Century king of Hungary, known often as the ‘raven king’, who is most famous for having built one of the finest libraries
Matthias Corvinus
9. After what fictional character is the famous coffee chain Starbucks named?
Captain Ahab’s first mate in Hermann Melville’s book Moby-Dick
10. Name the largest crater of earth’s moon, which until recently was also believed to be the largest of our solar system
South pole Aitken
Moral Majority
2. What famous German youth movement was started in 1901 in the town of Steglitz?
Wandervogel
3. What is the name given to the biological process of a living organism approaching an advanced age?
Senescence
4. Name the term coined by Dr. Bruce McEwan of Rockefeller University to describe the damage suffered by the human body as it fights and adapts to a stressful environment.
Allostatic Load
5. What are Habstars?
Stars that could set up favorable conditions for life as we know it on Earth
6. What did Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist and financial journalist pioneer in 1949?
The world’s first modern Hedge Fund
7. In which sport would you encounter the term En passant?
It is a special capture mode by pawn in the game of chess
8. Name the 15th Century king of Hungary, known often as the ‘raven king’, who is most famous for having built one of the finest libraries
Matthias Corvinus
9. After what fictional character is the famous coffee chain Starbucks named?
Captain Ahab’s first mate in Hermann Melville’s book Moby-Dick
10. Name the largest crater of earth’s moon, which until recently was also believed to be the largest of our solar system
South pole Aitken
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