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May 7th
Question: What’s the literal translation of the phrase “femme fatale”?
Answer: Fatal Woman
May 10th
Question: What time period was Yoshitsune active in?
Answer: The Heian Period
May 11th
Question: What historical figure inspired the idiom of “favoring the magistrate”?
Answer: Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Question: Yoshitsune had a brother. What was his name?
Answer: Minamoto no Yoritomo
Answer 2: Yoritomo won
Answer 3: The weak
May 12th
Question: Which brain function is responsible for the phenomenon of seeing an illusion in this figure?
Answer: Cognition
Question: Which of the following maps can you paint without any adjacent areas being the same color?
Answer: Both
May 13th
Question: Name the book that defined “malefactor” as the chief factor in the progress of the human race.
Answer: The Devil’s Dictionary
Question: What character archetype refers to a mysterious and seductive woman, typically with ulterior motives?
Answer: Femme Fatale
May 16th
Question: What do we call the phenomenon where believing in a treatment’s power is enough to improve your condition?
Answer: The placebo effect
May 19th
Question: Which famous ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period is said to have moved residence over 100 times?
Answer: Hokusai Katsushika
May 21st
Question: The golden ration is 1:1.618, but do you know the silver ration?
Answer: 1:1.414
May 23rd
Question: The root words of synesthesia are “syn” and “aisthesis”. What do they mean?
Answer 1: Together
Answer 2: Senses
Answer 3: Senses coming together
May 26th
Question: Do you know which author Leblanc borrowed from?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
May 31st
Question: Do you know which peg-legged, parrot toting historical figure’s appearance became visual shorthand for pirates?
Answer: John Silver
