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1. An influential journal founded in Paris in 1951 which helped develop a critical theory known as politique des auteurs has the title Cahiers du [BLANK]. Cahiers means "Notebooks" in English; what word fills in the blank in the title—and also names the journal's subject matter?
Correct Answer: CINÉMA (CINEMA)
Your Answer: Cinema
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: CINÉMA (CINEMA)
Your Answer: Cinema
Points Assigned: 2
Auteur made me immediately think of film. I was a film major and took courses on French cinema, but did not recall the publication, so my answer was a guess.
2. More than half of the world's known reserves of what element are found in a "Triangle" of high-altitude salt flats spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, though Australia is currently the world's largest producer for a global market projected to grow up to forty-fold by 2040 (if EV adoption targets are met)?
Correct Answer: LITHIUM
Your Answer: Lithium
Points Assigned: 0
2. More than half of the world's known reserves of what element are found in a "Triangle" of high-altitude salt flats spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, though Australia is currently the world's largest producer for a global market projected to grow up to forty-fold by 2040 (if EV adoption targets are met)?
Correct Answer: LITHIUM
Your Answer: Lithium
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
3. One of the fastest urbanization processes in recorded history occurred in Brazil after 1950, resulting in enormous growth of informal, self-built, and largely unregulated urban settlements known by what Brazilian Portuguese name?
Correct Answer: FAVELA
Your Answer: Favelas
Points Assigned: 1
3. One of the fastest urbanization processes in recorded history occurred in Brazil after 1950, resulting in enormous growth of informal, self-built, and largely unregulated urban settlements known by what Brazilian Portuguese name?
Correct Answer: FAVELA
Your Answer: Favelas
Points Assigned: 1
I have been to a favela in Rio.
4. Euler's formula V − E + F = 2 helps show that there are exactly five regular convex polyhedra: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. These solids are commonly named after what author of Timaeus, in which they were described?
Correct Answer: PLATO
Your Answer: Euclid
Points Assigned: 1
4. Euler's formula V − E + F = 2 helps show that there are exactly five regular convex polyhedra: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. These solids are commonly named after what author of Timaeus, in which they were described?
Correct Answer: PLATO
Your Answer: Euclid
Points Assigned: 1
Nope.
5. One of the greatest-selling novels in Japanese literary history is Osamu Dazai's harrowing 1948 first-person account of alienation and postwar despair, published shortly after Dazai's death in a double suicide by drowning at the age of 38. Its title Ningen Shikkaku is commonly translated to English as No Longer what?
Correct Answer: HUMAN
Your Answer: suffering
Points Assigned: 3
5. One of the greatest-selling novels in Japanese literary history is Osamu Dazai's harrowing 1948 first-person account of alienation and postwar despair, published shortly after Dazai's death in a double suicide by drowning at the age of 38. Its title Ningen Shikkaku is commonly translated to English as No Longer what?
Correct Answer: HUMAN
Your Answer: suffering
Points Assigned: 3
Nope.
6. Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" (where Jerry, Elaine, and George wait for a table), Breaking Bad's "Fly" (where Walt and Jesse spend the episode in the lab with a pesky fly), and Community's "Cooperative Calligraphy" (where the gang is stuck in a study room arguing over a pen) are examples of a type of episode usually made to save money by using minimal locations, few sets, and only the regular cast. What is the term for this type of episode, a term that the often-meta Community actually uses within the episode itself?
Correct Answer: BOTTLE EPISODE
Your Answer: Clips
Points Assigned: 2
6. Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" (where Jerry, Elaine, and George wait for a table), Breaking Bad's "Fly" (where Walt and Jesse spend the episode in the lab with a pesky fly), and Community's "Cooperative Calligraphy" (where the gang is stuck in a study room arguing over a pen) are examples of a type of episode usually made to save money by using minimal locations, few sets, and only the regular cast. What is the term for this type of episode, a term that the often-meta Community actually uses within the episode itself?
Correct Answer: BOTTLE EPISODE
Your Answer: Clips
Points Assigned: 2
I just started rewatching Community for the first time since it aired. Have sadly not gotten to this episode yet.
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