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CCCC 3/31/07
Kansas AEC Regional Tournament Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Last Chance Gulch was an area of gold prospecting in the 1860s that went right through the downtown area of what capital city of Montana? | Helena |
| It served as the capital city of Japan for 1000 years before being replaced by Tokyo in 1868 | Kyoto |
| In English, give either the Japanese or Korean term for the body of water between Japan and North Korea | Sea of Japan or East Sea |
| Many people who deal with a state motor vehicle department think a plaque should be placed at the entrance saying, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here", which was actually inscribed at the entrance to Hell in what literary work by Dante? | The Divine Comedy |
| What Shakespearean play ends with a three-way bet won by Petruchio because Katharina obeys him first? | The Taming of the Shrew |
| As a teenager, dancer Isadora Duncan's first professional acting job was as a fairy in this Shakespearean play. | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| A kilobyte of computer memory is not exactly 1000 bytes, but 2 to the 10th bytes, which is exactly how many? | 1024 |
| This fighting term describes the group of values passed to a program or function | argument |
| This kind of variable indicates a memory address where the data you really want is stored | pointer |
| His self-portrait with his wife Saskia looks very happy, but after she died in 1642 his subjects became more solemn and sad. name this Dutch painter of The Jewish Bride and The Night Watch | Rembrandt van Rijn |
| This sculpture of a meditating man is the best-known work of August Rodin | The Thinker |
| This stone sculpture by Constantin Brancusi shares its name with a famous painting of two people by Gustav Klimt | The Kiss |
| Solve for t in the equation "(3t)^{1/2} - 9 = 6" | 75 |
| Give the two solutions of x for the equation "|4x+7|=5" | -0.5 and -3 |
| What mythological creature was said to have "the head of a deer, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a boar, a deep, bellowing voice, and a single black horn in the middle of its forehead?" | unicorn |
| What book of the Old Testament tells of the Israelites building a golden calf? | Exodus |
| What book of the Old Testament tells of King Nebuchadnezzar going stark raving mad? | Daniel |
| Its labyrinth, built in 1664, contained fountains that each depicted an Aesop's Fable, designed to teach the next King of France his duty. Name this palatial home of King Louis XIV | Palace of Versailles |
| A recent study showed that this ancient Greek city's oracle often gave ambiguous advice partly because of the ethylene gas the high priestess was breathing at the time. | Delphi |
| A recent book that recommends more American children study Greek and Latin in school is named for this Greek mountain, considered the home of the Muses by the Romans and the sacred mountain of Apollo by the Greeks. | Parnassus |
| Calculate the atomic weight of an element with 74 protons, 74 electrons, and 110 neutrons | 184 |
| If you have 9 moles of hydrogen gas H2, how many moles of ammonia can you make? | 6 |
| How many moles of nitrogen gas N2 are needed to make 6 moles of ammonia? | 3 |
| What author's Maryland gravestone contains the words, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past", found at the end of his novel The Great Gatsby? | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| What best-selling American author, when asked the secret of his success, said, "I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk." | Stephen King |
| Which of his title characters is a Saint Bernard with rabies? | Cujo |
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