Loaded Questions 4/4/22 - Design
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This Monday edition is available to all Loaded Question readers. Be sure to subscribe to unlock 55 more questions every week! Today is Day 4 of Debut Week here at Loaded Questions, debuting the categories of Jazz, Philosophy, and Mythology to LQ. Today’s installment is Design, which is a category that comes up all the time in trivia, but rarely fits well into other subjects. Questions about woodworking and furniture and fabrics and the like. Enjoy!
1. Using long needles made for the running stitch, what style of Japanese embroidery takes its name from the Japanese for "little stabs"?
2. Derived from a French term, what name is given to a transitional edge between two faces of an object, often at 45 degrees? This edge is similar to a bevel.
3. What name is given to the spiral, scroll-like design notably featured in Ionic columns?
4. What handmade bobbin lace is named for a city in northern France?
5. What Portuguese/Spanish artform involves painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework? Found in churches and palaces, it gets its name from its blue tint.
6. What name is given to the S-shaped legs seen on some ornate pieces of furniture?
7. Corning is located in what New York county, which also names a glass manufacturing company?
8. Plantation Plain is an alternative of what style of house in the Eastern US, is defined as having side-facing gables, one room deep, two rooms wide, and two full stories high?
9. Boucle, eyelash, lopi, and variegated are all varieties of what?
10. From the Italian for "belief" or "trust", what name is given to a dining room sideboard, often used to hold dishes?
11. Less expensive that some carpets, what durable carpet style has a name that is also an alternate word for the alkene?
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1. Using long needles made for the running stitch, what style of Japanese embroidery takes its name from the Japanese for "little stabs"? Sashiko
2. Derived from a French term, what name is given to a transitional edge between two faces of an object, often at 45 degrees? This edge is similar to a bevel. Chamfer
3. What name is given to the spiral, scroll-like design notably featured in Ionic columns? Volute
4. What handmade bobbin lace is named for a city in northern France? Chantilly lace
5. What Portuguese/Spanish artform involves painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework? Found in churches and palaces, it gets its name from its blue tint. Azulejo
6. What name is given to the S-shaped legs seen on some ornate pieces of furniture? Cabriole leg
7. Corning is located in what New York county, which also names a glass manufacturing company? Steuben
8. Plantation Plain is an alternative of what style of house in the Eastern US, is defined as having side-facing gables, one room deep, two rooms wide, and two full stories high? I-House
9. Boucle, eyelash, lopi, and variegated are all varieties of what? Yarn
10. From the Italian for "belief" or "trust", what name is given to a dining room sideboard, often used to hold dishes? Credenza
11. Less expensive that some carpets, what durable carpet style has a name that is also an alternate word for the alkene? Olefin