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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. The Bosporus Strait connects two bodies of water. One is the Sea of Marmara. Name the other. | |
| 2. Full name, please! He ran three times unsuccessfully for U.S. president, served as Wilson’s Secretary of State, and founded the newspaper THE COMMONER in 1901. Name him. | |
| 3. What is the first and last name of the author who wrote the novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO? | |
| 4. Trampas was eventually killed in a gun duel and the hero married Molly Wood, a New England schoolteacher whom he rescued. Give the title of the western novel by Owen Wister. | |
| 5. How many square units are in the area of a triangle if the vertices have coordinates (2,2), (7,2), and (7,8)? | |
| 6. What is the term used in architecture that designates a horizontal beam that is supported at only one end and anchored to a wall or pier? | |
| 7. What is the degree of the following 4 term polynomial: UX minus U cubed X cubed plus UX cubed minus U squared? | |
| 8. Identify at least two of the four countries that border Thailand. | |
| 9. What is the name of the long novel in seven parts, written by Marcel Proust, in which the narrator is “in search of lost time”? | |
| 10. What is the area of a sector of a circle of radius 6 centimeters if the measure of its arc is 90 degrees? | |
| 11. Whistler’s Mother is the common name of the portrait by James Whistler. What is the formal name of this famous painting? | |
| 12. What was the name of the son of Apollo who drove the sun God’s chariot out of control, and was eventually killed by Zeus’ thunderbolt? | |
| 13. It can’t be smaller than 1.68 inches in diameter and can’t be heavier than 1.62 ounces. These are the dimensions of a golf ball. How many dimples are on a golf ball, within 20? | |
| 14. What body of water connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea? | |
| 15. What is the difference between the squares of 72 and 71? | |
| 16. Two Shakespearean characters received kisses from their killers just before they were killed. Name either of these two characters. | |
| 17. This question requires first and last names. Identify the two men who debated the issue of slavery in the hotly contested 1858 Illinois senatorial race. | |
| 18. Identify the Dutch-Jewish philosopher and theologian whose major works include TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO POLITICUS. His work in optics and Cartesian philosophy made him unpopular. | |
| 19. What is the term that refers to sound-carrying substances needed for the transfer of the sound wave? | |
| 20. Marshall Holman, Earl Anthony, Mark Roth, and Amleto Monacelli are names of people who have been player of the year in what professional sport? | |
| 21. What is the term for the Calvinist doctrine that through God’s decree certain persons (the elect) are to be saved? | |
| 22. This question requires a full name. What American president won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in PROFILES IN COURAGE? | |
| 23. Identify the Oakland Athletics first baseman who currently owns the greatest homerun to at-bat ratio in major league baseball history. | |
| 24. This question requires a full name answer. Who penned the line, “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker”? | |
| 25. Identify the following planet. The bulk of this planet is hot, liquid hydrogen. It completes one rotation in 9 hours and 55 minutes. It has one faint ring. Name this planet. | |
| 26. What historical tragedy by Shakespeare may be considered as a continuation of the play JULIUS CAESAR? | |
| 27. Identify the former member of the Beatles who was shot and killed on December 8, 1980. He was married to Yoko Ono. | |
| 28. If two 100 ohm resistors are placed parallel in a circuit, what is the circuit’s equivalent resistance in ohms? | |
| 29. Calculate the average acceleration in kilometers per hour per second for a car that goes from zero kilometers per hour to 60 kilometers per hour in 15 seconds? | |
| 30. In 1975, North Vietnam captured what city in South Vietnam? | |
| 31. What are the tree family names of subatomic particles? | |
| 32. MISS SAIGON was a very popular Broadway musical written by Alain Boublil and Michel Schonberg. It was loosely based on what opera by Puccini? | |
| 33. Give both the full pseudonym and the full name of the 19th century English novelist who wrote MIDDLEMARCH, ADAM BEDE and SILAS MARNER. | |
| 34. Identify the period in English history that witnessed a relaxation of Victorian conservatism and questioned authority and accepted social values. | |
| 35. What is the popular name of the AM General LLC – HIGH PERFORMANCE WHEELED VEHICLE that was originally a military vehicle, but is now popular on the streets? | |
| 36. What Soviet premier denounced the crimes of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, and launched the “de-Stalinization” process in Soviet society? | |
| 37. Give the first and last names of the best-selling author of the book HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE. He also gave lectures and offered courses in effective speaking. | |
| 38. Who was the only college football plager to win two Heisman trophies during his career? | |
| 39. Give the state and the team name of the 2003 baseball World Series winner. | |
| 40. The lightness and darkness of colors is referred to as value. What is the brightness and dullness of colors called? | |
| 1. Three individuals have won the Indianapolis 500 a record four times. Name at least two of them. | |
| 2. Find k in the equation k x squared + 3x + 15 = 0 if the product of the roots of the equation is 3. | |
| 3. One of the two elements contained in pyrite is sulphur. What is the other element contained in this mineral? | |
| 4. The American victory at the end of the Battle of New Orleans occurred at the end of what war? | |
| 5. Identify the 20th century Hungarian-born English author who based his novel DARKNESS AT NOON on his personal experience in a Spanish death cell. | |
| 6. Name and number please. What Turkish Sultan ended the Byzantine Empire by taking Constantinople in 1453? | |
| 7. A matrix has its first row as -2, x at its second row as y, 4. What must be the relationship between x and y so that this matrix does not have an inverse? | |
| 8. What name is given to a European language that is greatly influenced by African language? In 19th century America, slaves used this language, mixing African with English. | |
| 9. Give the title of the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that begins: “Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me...” The poem uses a metaphor for death. | |
| 10. Identify the Swiss psychologist who studied the development of intelligence in children and wrote THE LANGUAGE AND THOGUHT OF THE CHOLD in 1926. | |
| 11. Identify at least one of the tree psychologists responsible for the birth of Gestalt Psychology. | |
| 12. Identify the James A. Michener work that won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. It’s a collection of eighteen stories that focus on Michener’s World War II experiences. | |
| 13. Living around the Kalahari Desert, these South African people are related to the pygmies. Identify these nomadic hunters. | |
| 14. Identify the base 5 representation of 126. | |
| 15. What type of geologic fault forms when the hanging wall moves down with respect to the foot wall? | |
| 16. It is 2 A.M. at Greenwich, England. What time is it at a longitude of 46 degrees east? | |
| 17. Identify the term in yachting for the technique of sailing the boat into the wind by making a series of zigzags. | |
| 18. In which Shakespeare play does Lysander say to Hermia, “The course of true love never did never run smooth”? Characters in this play include Hippolyta and Puck. | |
| 19. Resistance is the ability of a material to resist the flow of charge when subjected to a potential difference. What Greek letter represents the unit of resistance. | |
| 20. Name the American artist who painted a memorable picture of a lone black man on a disabled sloop surrounded by a circling sharks with the sails of a large ship on the far horizon. | |
| 21. Name the American cartoonist who popularized the donkey and elephant as symbols of the Democrat and Republican political parties. | |
| 22. Mach I indicates an object travelling at the speed of sound. If the Mach number of an object is greater than one (1), what term do you use to designate the speed. | |
| 23. What is the name for agreements outlawed by the Norris-LaGuardia Act signed by workers in which they promised not to join a union? | |
| 24. A concave lens never focuses the light, so it can never form a real image. What type of image is formed by this lens? | |
| 25. What film, based on a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, an Indian-raised frontiersman, and Madeline Stowe as a British officer’s daughter? | |
| 26. Name the Greek mathematician who found formulas for the area of a circle, area of a parabolic segment, area of an ellipse and the volume and surface area of a cone. | |
| 27. A sculpture of the upper part of a person usually including the head and shoulder is called a... | |
| 28. This question requires a multiple answer. Two months of the year are named for Roman emperors. Name both the months and the emperors. | |
| 29. What military code name was given to a herbicide containing highly toxic dioxin used in Vietnam? In 1989,chemical companies began making payments to victims affected by this. | |
| 30. Name this Renaissance genius who sketched every phenomenon of life including waves and human muscles in an effort to expose underlying principles in outward painted form. | |
| 31. What Shakespearean comedy is based on a story from Boccaccio’s DECAMERON? | |
| 32. Identify the American army surgeon who, in 1900, discovered mosquitoes were the source of yellow fever and helped eradicate it. An army hospital is named for him. | |
| 33. What is the probability that at least two of three randomly selected people are born on the same day of the week? | |
| 34. Most of it lies north of the Artic Circle off the northeast coast of North America. It the world’s largest island. Name it. | |
| 35. Give the name of the official spiritual and administrative center of the Roman Catholic Church, the world’s smallest independent state, located in Rome, Italy. | |
| 36. Literally, in Hebrew, it means “head of the year.” What is the name given to the Jewish new year? | |
| 37. Name the most populous country in Central America. It is the second most northern country in Central America. | |
| 38. Identify the novel by William Faulkner in which the son of a West Virginia poor white, Thomas Sutpen, attempts to become accepted as a member of the Southern aristocracy. | |
| 39. What is the range of the function f of x equals x squared minus 2x plus 1? | |
| 40. Identify the author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His poems include “The Love Song” of J. Alfred Prufrock and “The Wasteland”. |
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