The husband of Laban's sister Rebekah was what father of Esau and Jacob who barely escaped death on Mt. Moriah [muh-RYE-uh] as a sacrifice by his father,
... [Show More] Abraham? correct answer: Isaac (of Yitzhak)
How many minutes elapse while a clock's "second" hand moves through an angle of 1,800 degrees? correct answer: 5 minutes
[The second hand completes a circle of 360 degrees every minute, so 1800/360=5 minutes]
Humberto Moreira [oom-BAIR-toh moh-RAY-rah] leads "PRI" Party in what nation where the National Action Party and Presidente Felipe Calderón [fay-LEE-pay kahl-day-ROHN] govern "south of the border"? correct answer: Mexico (or United Mexican States)
What author of the posthumously published "The Original of Laura" wrote "Pale Fire" and a novel featuring Clare Quily and Humbert Humbert, "Lolita"? correct answer: Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov [nuh-BAH-kuff]
What lawyer for the soldiers involved in the Boston Massare signed the Alien and Sedition Acts and was the first vice president and second president? correct answer: John Adams [do NOT accept John Quincy Adams = 6th president]
What river, which flows by Basel [BAH-zul], Koblenz, Strasbourg, and Bonn, forms the boarder between France and Germany before emptying into the North Sea? correct answer: Rhine River (or Rhein or Rijn or Rhin)
Jamie Ross, Claire Kincaid, Abbie Carmichael, and Connie Rubirosa were "assistant district attorneys" on what police-and-lawyer drama set in New York? correct answer: Law & Order
Thomas J. Walsh investigated what scandal involving the lease of U.S naval oil reserves by Albert Fall during the Harding Administration? correct answer: Teapot Dome scandal
What poem honoring a "noble six hundred" who rode "into the Valley of Death" during a failed Crimean War charge was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson? correct answer: The Charge of the Light Brigade.
What lunar month, which saw the Battle of Badr [BAH-dur] and the Night of Power, is, according to the Pillar of Islam known as 'sawm', a month of daytime fasting? correct answer: Ramadan
Dan Akerson is CEO of what firm that raised $20 billion in a 2010 IPO following its 2009 bankruptcy, the world's second-largest automaker after Ford? correct answer: GM or General Motors Company [Show Less]