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Knowledge Bowl Set#5
Fifth 24 questions
Question | Answer |
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In 1868, what U.S. president was impeached for trying to block plans for rebuilding the South? | Andrew Johnson |
What victim of the Holocaust wrote The Diary of a Young Girl? | Anne Frank |
What amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery? | the 13th |
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? | William Shakespeare |
What amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process of law? | the 14th |
What is the mathematical formula for work? | work =force x distance |
What mail transport service lasted from 1860 to 1861? | the Pony Express |
What is the jellylike liquid inside a cell? | cytoplasm |
What American general was defeated at the Battle of the Little Big Horn? | George Armstrong Custer |
What mathematical instrument is used to measure angles? | a protractor |
What is a line segment that is not a side but joins two vertices of a polygon? | a diagonal |
Who founded Hull House, a settlement house that provided for poor people in Chicago? | Jane Addams |
What is the measurement of a right angle? | 90 degrees |
In 1899, what African American woman from Mississippi started a Memphis newspaper called Free Speech? | Ida B. Wells |
How many millimeters are in a centimeter? | 10 |
What composer wrote some of his greatest music after he became deaf? | Beethoven |
In mathematics, what is the term given to the combination of a whole number and a fraction? | a mixed number |
What American composer wrote so many band pieces that he is called "The March King"? | John Philip Sousa |
In mathematics, what does the abbreviation LCD stand for? | Least (lowest) Common Denominator |
What is the least common multiple of 2 and 5? | 10 |
All even numbers are divisible by ___. | 2 |
What is the name of the tomb built by the Shah Jahan of India in memory of his wife? | the Taj Mahal |
What is the greatest common factor of 16 and 20? | 4 |
What is the opposite operation for subtraction? | addition |