Things Are Getting Salty on AF by BringMoreLegos

Champion(s):

UllspergerA


Runner(s)-Up:

StahlhutJ
I'm younger than the rest of you put together! -- Pierce Hawthorne


Quiz Description

Here are some questions about salt!

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Questions:

Two answers required: In chemistry, salts are compounds formed by what two types of charged particles?

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CATION and ANION

What actress with a pretty name played the title role in the 2010 film Salt?

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ANGELINA JOLIE [get it bc "jolie" means "pretty" in French]

Though the etymology is not fully clear, "salt" is often suggested to share a Latin root with what everyday (or, ideally, every-year) English word, due to a purported use of salt in ancient Rome?

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SALARY

A type of pink rock salt used in cooking and lighting fixtures, to which New Age marketing ascribes numerous nonexistent properties, is commonly associated with what specific geographic feature (located some 200 miles from the actual salt mines)?

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HIMALAYAS

With what chemical element is much commercially available table salt fortified, as a means of promoting thyroid health?

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IODINE

A Salty Dog is the name of an album by what early English progressive rock band, better known for their hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale"? (edited at 5:19 pm, March 17, 2017 (PDT))

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PROCOL HARUM

What flaky culinary substance gets its name from its traditional use for preparing meats in adherence with a certain set of rules (and not, as one might assume, from its own status as a food item vis-à-vis said rules)?

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KOSHER SALT

A 1954 film by blacklisted artists, a Rolling Stones song, and a poem by Algernon Swinburne all share what title taken from well-known metaphorical phrase in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount?

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SALT OF THE EARTH

The Great Salt Lake in North America provides a habitat for the largest population of phalaropes in the world. What type of organism is a phalarope?

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BIRD

Using blown glass, a German named Adolf Fick was the first person to create a usable version of what items, whose more flexible descendants are typically stored in saline solution?

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CONTACT LENSES

What is the Urdu name of the pungent salt seen here (click for the pic!), used in the cuisines of South Asia?

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KALA NAMAK

Acronym Plagiarism Warning: SALT, as used in reference to two Cold War era conferences, stands for what?

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STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATY (or TALKS)