Believed to date to the first century CE, the practice known by the Latin term interpretataio germanica, or German interpretation, refers to the naming of what common set of proper nouns? This practice substituted the names of local deities for figures such as Mars and Mercury.
In a poem noting the demise of its independence, what city did Wordsworth describe as the eldest child of liberty? Mary Elizabeth Coleridge mentioned it along with Troy and Rome, stating that its ‘pride is nought’. Shelley called it ‘Ocean’s nursling’, while Byron said that it once was ‘the revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.’
In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wohler published the first method for a synthesis of an organic chemical from inorganic ones after producing which biologically important compound by combining other compounds containing sialic acid and ammonia? In mammals, this compound is the main pathway for the removal of ammonia from the bloodstream.
In 2003, which British sculptor and installation artist wrapped Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss in a mile of string, calling the result The Distance, The Kiss With String Attached? Her other works include the 1991 installation Cold Dark Matter.
What is the name for an organism or tissue that contains at least two different sets of DNA, often from the fusion of different zygotes? This term is also the name of a monster in Greek myth that was killed by Bellerophon.
Divided into five sub-habitats, which habitat zone covers the main water column of the open ocean?
What’s the title of the 2016 game by Campo Santo where the player character is a lookout in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming?
Meanings of what short term include, in a mechanical context, a ridge on a surface of a part usually used to prevent an otherwise circular part from turning, and in mathematics, a function commonly used for interpolation and described by multiple polynomial equations, each one used only within an particular interval to produce a simpler description of a more complex curve or surface?
What war followed the death of the childless Charles II? The Bourbons and the Habsburgs contested his possessions. Britain gained Gibraltar and Menorca.
Which Asian country’s so- called new wave of cinema includes films whose English titles are Dang Bireley’s And Young Gangsters, Tears Of The Black Tiger and Tropical Malady, the latter directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul?
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