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ASFL Academic Team C
All answers begin with the letter c
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Most abundant member of the Alkaline-Earth family | calcium |
| Presidential daughter who graduated from Stanford | Chelsea Clinton |
| Art movement associated with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso | Cubism |
| Last geological period of the Mesozoic Era; its mane is derived from the Latin word from chalk | Cretaceous |
| Author whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" warned of the dangers of pesticides | Rachel Carson |
| Julius Caesar's wife or the Finch family cook in "To Kill a Mockingbird" | Calpurnia |
| Heavy draft horses named after Scotland's chief commercial river | Clydesdales |
| Period of music history represented by Haydn and Mozart | Classical |
| Name applied to a group of 17th Century English poets that included Robert Herrick and Richard | Cavaliers |
| Originally a heraldic ornament, this V-shaped symbol is used as a sign of rank on a military uniforms | Chevron |
| Site where an explosion occurred at a Soviet nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986 | Chernobyl |
| Geological period to which the Pleistocene and Miocene epochs belong | Cenozoic |
| Legislative capital of South Africa | Capetown |
| American author who wrote "My Antonia" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop" | Willa Cather |
| Richard Nixon's Cocker Spaniel whose name was given to the speech made by Nixon in 1952 defending his vice-presidential candidacy | Checkers |
| Female American painter associated with the Impressionist Movement in France | Mary Cassatt |
| Author of "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim" | Joseph Conrad |
| Name of the first efficient steam boat, designed by Robert Fulton | Clermont |
| Physical state of deep prolonged unconsciousness | coma |
| American poet known for his eccentric punctuation and phrasing and use of lower case letters | Edward Estlin Cummings |