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A-Team Tossups 2025
Practice Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Back in 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on what 2 Japanese cities? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| During what stage of its life cycle does a silkworm produce silk? | pupa |
| The insertion of a needle into the spinal canal to remove fluid for lab analysis is called spinal what? | tap (puncture) |
| What term beginning with a "b" describes someone leaving behind personal estate to a beneficiary by a will. | bequeath |
| Mini-skirts, go-go boots, and bell-bottoms were fashion trends in what decade? | 1960s |
| Name the Roman emperor who fled Rome and committed suicide at the age of 30. | Nero |
| Any medicine derived from a weakened or dead virus or bacteria is called what? | a vaccine |
| What type of flood might follow a sudden thunderstorm or the failure of a dam? | flash flood |
| Name the most complex of the 3 classic styles of Greek columns. | Corintian |
| The taking of San Juan Hill was important in America's war with whom? | Spain |
| Name the type of crime that involves taking illegally gained money and transferring it to foreign banks or legitimate businesses? | money laundering |
| Radio and gamma rays are the extreme ends of what spectrum? | EM (electrogmagnetic) |
| Who is famous for proving lightning and static electricity are the same by flying a kite with a metal key attached to the string during a thunderstorm. | Ben Franklin |
| If Paleozoic literally means ancient life and Cenozoic means recent life. What term means "middle life" ? | Mesozoic |
| What is the minimum number of musicians needed to be considered a Big Band? | 12 |
| What painter is famous for painting the Sistine Chapel? | Michelangelo |
| If you switched the colors of Red Cross logo you will have the flag of what usually neutral country? | Switzerland |
| How many bones are in an adult human body? | 206 |
| Name this painting by Edvard Munch, in which a figure holds his face while doing the title action | The Scream or The Shriek |
| A woman who aided in the defeat of this creature was abandoned on Naxos. Name this half-bull creature who inhabited a labyrinth? | Minotaur |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck stated that this phenomenon was due to "use" or "disuse" of vital organs. Charles Darwin later stated this was phenomenon was due to natural selection. Name it. | evolution |
| Name this union led by Jimmy Hoffa, who mysteriously disappeared in 1975. | Teamsters Union |
| Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968? |
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