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 Answers to Friday Challenge! - 240

1.
The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is contiguous with what famed national park of Tanzania?
Answer

The Serengeti

It is most famous for its annual migration of over one and a half million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra.

 
2.
What was the end result of Operation Neptune Spear conducted by the CIA in 2011?
Answer

Death of Osama bin Laden

The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan.

 
3.
What song by The Doors that has a strong reference to the Oedipus complex got them fired from the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood?
Answer

"The End"

The climax of the song has the lines, "Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to ..." (with the next words screamed out unintelligibly).

 
4.
A fictional species of great apes called 'Mangani' are responsible for raising which popular character?
Answer

Tarzan

The Mangani language is depicted as a primal universal language shared by a number of primate species in the books.

 
5.
What battle of the Middle Ages fought on Saint Crispin's Day has been immortalized by a speech that references the day in a Shakespearean history play?
Answer

The Battle of Agincourt (1415)

It was dramatized in Henry V in which Henry inspires his much outnumbered English forces to fight the French saying "...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;."

 
6.
The slave girl Morgiana, the protagonist's elder brother Cassim and the cobbler Baba Mustafa are three prominent characters in what classic oriental story?
Answer

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Some critics believe that this story was added to One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators.

 
7.
What two words spoken by Shino Tsurubuchi ultimately resulted in Serena Williams losing her match to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 U.S. Open?
Answer

"Foot fault!" (Shino Tsurubuchi was the line judge)

Serena who was facing match point went off on a tirade that caused her to lose a point and hence the match.

 
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