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id SetID Field1 Title Difficulty Descriptor Question1 Answer1 Question2 Answer2 Question3 Answer3 Question4 Answer4 Question5 Answer5 Question6 Answer6 Question7 Answer7 Question8 Answer8 Question9 Answer9 Question10 Answer10 Question11 Answer11
26 26 Pouporri 1 Each of these words is connected with some particular field of knowledge or activity. Name the field. Marimba music Poseidon mythology Roald Amudsen exploration Cantilever bridge Catamaran boating Plato philosophy Caries dentistry Genghis Khan history Gerund grammar John Milton literature Jonas Salk medicine
27 27 Sports 1 From the terms given identify the sport or the place (city and state) where that sport would be played TKO boxing Ringer horseshoes Tournament of Roses Parade Pasadena, California Mogul, stem cristie, slalom skiing The Masters Augusta, Georgia Gutter, alley, frame bowling Soap Box Derby Akron, Ohio Regatta, spinnaker, beam reach sailing or yachting Fletching, nock, shaft archery Americas Cup Newport, Rhode Island Kentucky Derby Louisville, Kentucky
28 28 It Takes All Kinds 2 Identify each of these places, events, or things The shores of Tripoli are in Libya; where are the Halls of Montezuma? Mexico What force opposes the flow of an electric current through a conductor? resistance Gettysburg is located in what state? Pennsylvania Cats have kittens but what do bats have? bittens What was the food of the gods in Greek mythology? ambrosia Name the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii Pearl Harbor In the Arabian Nights what words open the secret cave? Open Sesame In what city and state is Disneyland? Anaheim, California In Roman numeral, what is the number 48? XLVIII The Treaty of Versailles ended what war? World War I The painted desert is found in which state? Arizona
29 29 Animals 1 Within the animal world, which species hold these distinctions? Largest mammal in the world Blue whale (both needed) Name either of two animals with the longest eyelashes camel or ostrich Fastest land animal in the world cheetah Animals which are in the suborder Serpentes snakes The only bee that dies soon after stinging someone honey bee The largest reptile salt-water crocodile --estuarine Largest land mammal African bush elephant Tallest animal in the world giraffe The only flying mammal in the world bat Largest species of fish whale shark
30 30 Dates in History 1 Identify these well known dates in U.S. and world history Norman conquest of Britain 1066 Bombing of Pearl Harbor 1941 Battle of Waterloo 1815 Ending of the Amerian Revolution 1783 End of the Crimean War 1856 Battle of the Coral Sea 1942 Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588 End of the French and Indian War 1763 Bombardment of Ft. Sumter 1861 End of the Spanish-American war 1898
31 31 The Answer Must be 12 1 Identify each of these items which must have the word 12 in the answer Simon Peter One of the twelve disciples/apostles A gross twelve dozen A Christmas holiday song The Twelve Days of Christmas Dodecagon polygon with 12 sides A chromatic scale 12 half-step notes Epiphany 12 days after Christmas Washington D.C. burns but the British are defeated at New Orleans War of 1812 A play by Shakespeare Twelfth Night Magnesium Element number 12 An English foot 12 inches In the Twelve Days of Christmas song what were there 12 of? 12 maids a milking
32 32 Female Characters in Literature 2 Identify the novel,play, or story given a prominent female character from the workl Miss Jessel Turn of the Screw Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford The Merry Wives of Windsor Hester Prynne The Scarlet Letter Little Nell The Old Curiosity Shop Maria and Pilar For Whom the Bell Tolls Lady Brett Ashley The Sun Also Rises Mrs. Micawber David Copperfield Jerusha Bromley Hale Hawaii Francie Nolan A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Miss Haversham Great Expectations
33 33 Vice Presidents 2 Name the President each of these Vice-presidents served under Spiro Agnew Richard Nixon Enlson Rockefeller Gerald Ford Chester A. Arthur James Garfield Lynson Johnson John F. Kennedy Harry Truman Franklin Roosevelt Charles Curtis Herbert Hoover Aaron Burr Thomas Jefferson Walter Mondale Jimmy Carter Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley Richard Nixon Dwight Eisenhower
34 34 Diseases 2 Identify the part of the body typically affected by the diseases named Gastritis stomach Rhinitis nose Nephritis kidneys Aortitis aorta Cystitis bladder Hepatitis liver Laryngitis Larynx Encephalitis brain Stomatitis mouth Colitis colon Phisbitis vein
35 35 Lines from Poetry 3 Given a line of poetry you identify the name of the poem from which it comes Once upon a midnght dreary The Raven I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree Trees Let us go then, you and I The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock Laugh and the world laughs with you Solitude It takes a heap o livin Home Theirs is not to reason why Charge of the Light Brigade By the Shores of Gitchi Gummee Hiawatha I have met them at close of day Easter, 1916 Under the spreading chestnut tree The Village Blacksmith God of our fathers, know of old Recessional
36 36 Operas, Plays, and Dramatic Poems 2 Given a dramatic work, play, poem, or opera you name its author, composer, or creator Othello Guiseppe Verdi The Imaginary Invalid Moliere Lysistrada Aristophanes Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini The Iceman Cometh Eugene ONeill The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Cocktail Party T.S. Eliot Othello, The Moor of Venice William Shakespeare Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Das Rheingold Richard Wagner
37 37 Phobias 3 If you have one of these phobias of what are you afraid? nyctophobia night odynephobia pain scholionophobia school aerophobia flying triskaidekaphobia number 13 agoraphobia open spaces tophophobia stage fright blennophobia slime acrophobia height claustrophobia enclosed places
38 38 A Man Named Robert 2 Listen to the description and identify the Robert named by giving his last name Star of the movie In Cold Blood and TV series Baretta Blake TVs Captain Kangaroo Keeshan Secretary of Defense during most of the Vietnam War McNamara Author of the poem The Road Not Taken Frost Developer of the first successful steamship Fulton Wisconsin politician who ran on the Progressive ticket for President in 1924 LaFollette Star of TVs War and Remembrance and Winds of War Mitchum Leading star in the movies the Sting The Way We Were and The Natural Redford Author of All the Kings Men (Penn) Warren Author of Treasure Island Stevenson
39 39 Former 20th Century World Leaders 2 Identify the nation led by each of these historical figures Gamal Nasser Egypt Tito Yugoslavia Juan Peron Argentina Kemal Ataturk Turkey John Malcolm Fraser Australia Lester Pearson Canada Idi Amin Uganda Fransisco Franco Spain Clement Atlee Great Britain Haille Selasse Ethiopia Charles DeGaulle France
40 40 Late 19th Century Indians 2 Identify these facts about Indians, battles, or leaders of Indian tribes Site in South Dakota where a unit of the 7th cavalry killed 290 men, women, and children in 1890 Wounded Knee Two major tribes of Indians encamped at the Little Big Horn in 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne Legislation to give reservation land to individual Indian heads of families The Dawes Act Leader of the Nez Perce Indians who tried to lead his people to freedom in Canada in 1876 Chief Joseph Reformer who wrote A Century of Dishonor concerning white injustices to Indians Helen Hunt Jackson Massacre of Indians in western Colorado in 1864 Sand Creek Massacre American Indian Chief of the Apache tribe whose name is a war cry Geronimo Major food supply of the Plains Indians before white settlement buffalo Indian chief killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre Big Foot Custers troops attacked Sioux and Cheyenne at this river in 1876 Little Big Horn
41 41 Early Labor Unions 2 Identify the union, leaders of it, or terms associated with it Secret Irish immigrant society in Pennsylvania anthracite fields Molly McGuires Workers struck at this Carnegie owned steel mill in Pennsylvania in 1892 The Homestead Strike The union leader went to jail for ignoring an injunction during the Pullman Strike of 1894 Eugene V. Debs This union was headed by Terence V. Powderly The Knights of Labor This radical western union was headed by William Big Bill Haywood Industrial Wrokers of the Wrold or the IWW What was the nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World Wobblies Workers who cross picket lines to work during a strike are derisively called this scabs The union headed by Samuel Gompers The American Federation of Labor or AF of L This was a list compiled by owners to prevent union agitators from working blacklist This detective agency often served as professional strike breakers Pinkerton Agency
42 42 Darwinism 2 Identify these books, people, or theories associated with Darwinism He was the prosecutor in the famous monkey trial William Jennings Bryan He wrote Dynamic Sociology to explain the evolution of the human brain Lester Frank Ward This Englishman argued that human society, like organisms, pass through the process of natural selection Herbert Spencer The name of the man in 1825 tried for teaching evolution in a Tennessee school John T. Scopes The man who defended the Tennessee teacher in the 1825 trial Clarence Darrow The book published in 1859 about Darwinism The Origin of Species The name of the ship on which Darwin made his famous expedition H.M.S. Beagle The popular term for the process of natural selection survival of the fittest The American sociologist who popularized Darwin in America Graham Sumner Darwins famous 1871 book which outlined this theory that man is descended from animals similar to chimpanzees The Descent of Man
43 43 The Space Race 2 Identify these space craft, people in space, and related events In what year did the first person travel into space 1961 These two space craft sent full color images of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus Voyager The name of the first man-in-space program Mercury The first U.S. satellite Explorer I The first American to orbit the earth in 1962 John Glenn Name of the federal agency known by the letters NASA National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration President who called for a commitment to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth John F. Kennedy Name of the space shuttle which exploded minutes after takeoff Challenger Year in which the Challenger exploded on takeoff 1986 Year in which America successfully put a man on the moon 1969 Name of the first man-made satellite put into space Sputnik
44 44 20th Century Poets 3 Given the title of two poems by the author, you name the author Auto Wreck and Elegy for a Dead Soldier Karl Shapiro Night Journey and Elegy for Jane Theodore Roethke Howl and A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsburg somewhere I have never travelled and anyone lived in a pretty how town e.e. Cummings Do not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and Fern Hill Dylan Thomas Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnightand General William Booth Enters Into Heaven Vachel Lindsay The Idea of Order at Key West and The Emperor of Ice Cream Wallace Stevens Fog and Chicago Carl Sandburg The Wasteland and The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock T.S. Eliot Out, Out -- and The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
45 45 Composers 2 Ill give you the name of the composition and you name the composer A Little Night Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Stephen Sondheim The Creation Franz Joseph Haydn Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber The Firebird Igor Stravinsky The Well-tempered Clavier Johann Sebastian Bach William Tell Gioacchino Rossini Nights in the Gardens of Spain Manuel de Falla Peer Gynt Suites Edvard Grieg Symphonic Fantastique Hector Berlioz The Sleeping Beatury Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
46 46 International Airlines 2 Given the name of the airline past or present identify its home base Lufthansa Germany Quantas Australia Aeroflot Russia Air Lingas Ireland KLM Netherlands Sabena Belgium Varig Brazil Air Pacific Fiji Iberia Airlines Spain El Al Israel
47 47 Biological Timetable 1 Given a major biological event, name the geological period in which it occurred Primates arise Tertiary First land arthropods appear Silurian First amphibians appear Devonian First reptiles appear Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, or Mississippian First mammals and birds appear Triassic Conifers appear Permian Angiosperms arise and diversify Cretaceous Dinosaurs domiate Jurassic First tracks left by land animals Ordovician First major extinction event Cambrian
48 48 French Writers 3 I�ll name a work and you tell who wrote it Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert The Necklace Guy de Maupassant Exiswtentialism Jean-Paul Sarte Mans Fate Andre Malraux Jealousy Alain Robbe-Grillet The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas pere The Counterfeiters Andre Gide The Human Comedy Honore de Balzac Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais The Encyclopedia Denis Diderot
49 49 British Poetry 2 What British poet wrote each of the following poems? Le Morte dArthur Sir Thomas Mallory Paradise Lost John Milton The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray Childe Harold Lord Byron Odeto a nightingale John Keats Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell To a Skylark Percy B. Shelley
50 50 World Capitals 2 Given a country name its capital Czechoslovakia Prague Saudi Arabia Riyadh Liberia Monrovia Nepal Katmandu Uruguay Montevideo Guyana Georgetown Mongolia Ulan Bator Senegal Dakar New Zeland Wellington Cyprus Nicosia

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