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ASFL Academic Team P
All Answers Begin With The Letter P
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figure of speech used in this sentence: The night wind was howling | Personification |
| Name given to the southern part of Argentina, a generally cold, barren place | Patagonia |
| In literature, another name for the central character in a conflict | Protagonist |
| Scientific name for the North Star | Polaris |
| Italian composer who wrote La Boehme | Giacomo Puccini |
| Shakespearean character in A Midsummer Night's Dream who says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" | Puck |
| American pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, in his U-2 espionage plane | Francis Gary Powers |
| 1883 act that established the principle of federal employment based on merit | Pendleton Act |
| A self-contradictory statement | Paradis |
| Term for the first five books of the Bible | Pentatuch |
| Sunday that commemorates Christ's last entry into Jerusalem before his death | Palm Sunday |
| Floating organisms found at or near the water's surface | Plankton |
| Russian word for an attack against Jews and their property | Pogrom |
| King of the Franks who founded the Carolingian dynasty | Pepin (III or The Short) |
| Sanskrit word meaning "five rivers" used to designate a historic region in India | Punjab |
| Common name for the fruit of a tree of the ebony family; about the size of an apricot. It is sour until very ripe when it becomes sweet | Persimmon |
| U.S. state capital named by Roger Williams in 1636 | Providence |
| Jewish festival commemorating the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt | Passover |
| Boat commanded by John Kennedy in World War II | PT-109 |
| Geological theory that the earth's crust is divided into a series of plate-like parts that move as distinct masses | Plate Tectonics |