Random Trivia #2 by orwant

In the 2019 film Cats, Bombalurina is played by WHAT POP STAR? Whatever the damage to her reputation, she'll be able to shake it off.

WHAT WORD names the silk-spinning organ of spiders?

WHAT POLITICAL THEORY, when it comes to materialism, pits the proletariat against the bourgeoisie?

WHAT EMPIRE, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages?

WHAT COMMON COLOR NAME has a wavelength of 450–495 nm and is sometimes represented in HTML as #0000FF?

There are currently 206 sovereign states. HOW MANY SOVEREIGN STATES were there in 1900? Answers within 25% will be considered correct.

On modern commercial airplanes, there are three devices affecting wing airflow that pilots can control. Two of them are flaps and spoilers. WHAT IS THE NAME of the third?

WHAT COUNTRY, part of the United Kingdom, has a dragon on its flag?

WHAT WORD names both the "protecting film covering the epidermis of leaves" and "the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail"?

In Greek mythology, WHAT ENCHANTRESS was "versatile in the arts of herbs and potions and capable of turning human beings into animals"? She did that to the sailors of Odysseus and then became his lover for a year.

Tom Wolfe's second novel was "A Man in Full". WHAT WAS THE NAME OF HIS FIRST NOVEL, which was adapted into a highly successful 1987 movie of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma?

WHAT OHIO CITY is known as the "Birthplace of Aviation", largely because the Wright Brothers began there before relocating to Kitty Hawk?