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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
51 51 Foreign Military Leaders 2 Given the description of a famous military personality you give his name He defeated Napoleon at Waterloo Duke of Wellington One-eyed Israeli general who won the 6-day war Moseh Dayan British general who surrendered at Yorktown Charles Cornwallis Led British exploits in China, killed in Khartoum Charles Gordon World War I pilot The Red Baron Manfred Von Richthofen Led British Navy at Trafalgar Horatio Nelson Known as the Wrold War II Desert Fox Erwin Rommel Admiral who planned Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Isoruku Yamamato British general defeated at Saratoga John Burgoyne Commander of Allied Armies in 1918 Ferdinand Foch
52 52 Words for Name 2 Identify each of the following words used to designate a particular kind of name Word for a family name attached to the given name Surname or cognomen French phrase for a pen name Nom de Plume Word from Latin for other for a name often used to disguise identity to escape punishment Alias Word for a name formed from the letters, usually first letters, of other words Acronym Real or literary person whosed name is the source of a word such as boycott Eponym French phrase for war name taken by a soldier or used by anyone as a fictitious name Nom de guerre Describing word attached to a name, as Richard Epithet Slang word beginning with M for nickname Moniker Word for a Pen name using Greek word for false Pseudonym Word used to name wordsw that sound alike but have different meanigs and spellings usually too Homonym or homophone
53 53 Answers beginning with the letters Ki 2 Identify each of the following by giving the answer beginning with Ki North Carolina town near which the first airplane flight was made Kitty Hawk Term for the energy belonging to a body because it is in motion Kinetic energy German word for works of art that look costly but are in poor taste Kitsch British pirate whose elgendary buried treasure is featured in Poes The Gold Bug Captain (William) Kidd African-American whose beating followede by an acquital of police officers caused a riot in Los Angeles Rodney King Communal farm or settlement in Israel Kibbutz Nixons national security advisor who won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a cease-fire in Viet Nam Henry Kissinger Broadway musical based on The Taming of the Shrew Kiss Me Kate Author of Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling Poet who wrote Trees Joyce Kilmer
54 54 Polyatomic Ions 3 Identify each of the following polyatomic ions from the formula CLO hypochlorite CLO4 Perchlorate CrO4 charged to the negative 2 Chromate C2H5O Ethoxide CH3O Methoxide HSO4 Bisulfate or hydrogen sulfate CLO2 Chlorite CN Cyanide HCO3 Bicarbonate or hydrogen carbonate MnO4 Permanganate
55 55 Potpourri 1 Identify each of the following Major U.S. colrporation nicknamed Big Blue IBM or International Business Machines Symbol shapedl ike the moon in its first or last quarter that appears on flag of Turkey Crescent Cube root of the positive square root of 64 2 Number of winks in the expression for a brief nap or a short period of relaxation 40 Worlds longest river Nile Planet with the most known satellites Saturn Scottish poet who wrote Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns Musical term for the 5 horizontal lines on and between which notes are written Staff or Stave U.S. capital city where choir performs in the Mormon Tabernacle Temple Square Salt Lake City Russian author of Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
56 56 Around and Around 2 Identify each of thefollowing containing the word around Colorful object completing the title of 1973 hit song, Tie a ___ ribbon round the Old Oak Tree Yellow Force which causes an object goiing around in a circle to move away from center Centrifugal force Norwegian farmer who drifts around without a purpose in a play by Ibsen Peer Gynt Celestial body that revolves around a planet, especiall one of the 9 in the solar system Satellite U.S. President known for saying, Prosperity is just around the corner Herbert Hoover Greek prefix for around before roots like meter, dontal, or cardium Peri Term for the distance around a circle Circumference City around which the Israelites led by Joshua marcdhes, shouted, and blew trumpets Jericho Turkish word ora a Middle Eastern headress made up of a long cloth wound around the head Turban Weather phenomena causing unuswual weather around the world bearing the Spanish name for childe El Nino
57 57 Cities and their Inhabitants 1 Identify the cities whose inhabitants are known by the following designations Liverpudlian Liverpool (England) Glaswegian Glasgow (Scotland) Viennese Vienna (Italy) Hamburger Hamburg (Germany) Florentine Florence (Italy) Porteno or Portena Buenos Aires (Argentina) Venetian Venice (Italy) Haligonian Halifax (Nova Scotia) Cantabridgian Cambridge (England or Massachussets) Caraqueno or Caraquena Caracas (Venezuela)
58 58 Geographhic Sites 1 Identify the country in which each of the following is located Lake Baikal Russia Innsbruck Austria Fatima Portugal Honshu Japan Loch Lomond Scotland Stonehenge England Pompeii Italy Pamplona Spain Deccan Plateau India Acropolis Greece
59 59 Famous First Lines from Novels 2 Identify the novel from which each famous first line comes In the ancient city of London..of the 16th century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name Canty The Prince and the Pauper He was an old man who fished alone�in the Gulf Stream and had gone 84 days now without taking a fish The Old Man and the Sea Gil and I crossed the eatern divide about 2 by the sun The Ox-Bow Incident If you really want to ehar about it the first thing youll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like The Catcher in the Rye On Friday noonj, July the 20th, 1917, the finest bridge in all Peru broke The Bridge of San Luis Rey A throng of bearded men�was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes The Scarlet Letter In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together The Heart is a Lonley Hunter It was love at first sight Catch 22 Wheres Papa going with that ax? Said Fern to her mother Charlottes Web Call me Ishmael Moby Dick
60 60 Painting 2 Identify each of the following concerning painting Art movement that first incdorporated technique of collage in paintings, exemplified by Picasso and Braque Cubism Russian artist known for the 1911 painting I and the Village Marc Chagall New York City movement with which Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock are associated Abstract expressionism or Action painting Brown pigment that comes from the inky secretions of cuttlefish or other marine creatures Sepia Dutch artist whose most famous works were completed in several years of manic production and left to his brother Theo Vincent van gogh Italian artist whose The Birth of Venus is sometimes referred to as Venus on the Half Shell Sandro Botticelli Finely ground particles that give color to another material Pigment Artist known ofr his Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat Spanish artist famous for his portraits who in 1799 was made court painter to Charles IV Francisco Goya First group of American artists to develop a style of landscape painting, from 1825 into the late 1800;s Hudson River School
61 61 Latin Phrases 2 Give the Latin phrase for each of the following English translations Size the day; enjoy the day; make the most of present opportunitiesq Carpe Diem I am guilty; admission of guilt Mea Culpa Time flies: time passes quickly Tempus fugit Note well; take note of what follows Nota bene There is no dispute in matters of taste De gustibus non est disputandum A great work Magnum Opus Let the buyer beware Caveat emptor Ever faithful; always faithful Semper fidelis I think, therefore I am Cogito, ergo sum With great distinction; with great honor Magna cum laude
62 62 Top 20th Century News Stories 2 Identify each of the following concerning the top 100 20th century news stories Two cities onwhich the U.S. droppede atomic bombs August 6 and 9, 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Date of Japans bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Year when the 20th Amendment went nito effect giving women the right to vote 1920 Date U.S. astronautsw landed on the moon July 20, 1969 Year of Supreme Court decision Brown vs Borad of education of Topeka 1954 Year WWI began in Europe 1914 Year the stock market crashed, beginning the Great Depression 1929 ear President Kennedy was assassinatede in Dallas 1963 State where the Wright brothers made the first flight in 1903 North Carolina Year when Nazi Holocaust and concentration campos were exposed 1945
63 63 Potpourri 2 Identify each of the following Of Hamlets 2 friends commissioned by the king to spy on him, one whose name ends in Z Rosencrantz Branch of Biology dealing with the study of the body structure of plants and animals Anatomy Value of the cosine of 0 degrees 1 2 countries on whose common border the Matterhorn is located Italy and Switzerland Mississippi woman who wrote The Optomists Daughter Eudora Welty City in which the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates Philadelphia Tube that connects the mouth with the esophagus Pharynx or fauces Female anthropologist who studied family structure in Samoa Margaret Mead Site where King Arthur had his Round Table Camelot Scottish author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
64 64 Easy Math 1 Identify each of the following: Value of r in the ratio of 6 is to r as 8 is to 12 9 Smallest natural number 1 Slope of the line containg the points (4,-4) and (3, -3) negative 1 Length of the diagonal if the length of a side of a square is 8 8 square root of 2 Length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if the other sides are 6 and 8 10 Smallest perfect number 6 Number of angles less than 180 degrees formed when 2 parallel lines are cut by a transversal 8 3/5 divided by 3/5 1 Only even prime number 2 Additive inverse of 4/9 negative 4/9
65 65 U.S. History 2 Identify each of the following about U.S. history Colony founded by James Ogelthorpe at Savannah February 12, 1733 Georgia State in which Hiram Revels became first black in the U.S. Senate filling the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis in 1870 Mississippi Apache chief who led raids in Arizona and New Mexico, later dying at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in 1909 Geronimo Largest Confederate military prison during the Civil War Andersonville State admitte4d to the Union as 48, February 14,1912 Arizona Texas city named after the only person to be governor of two states Houston President who in 1823 warmed European powers to stay out of the Americas James Monroe War ended by the Treaty of Ghent War of 1812 State in which Prussian soldier Baron von Steuben began drilling General Washingtons infantry at Valley Forge Pennsylvania American frontiersman known as Wild Bill James Butler Hickock
66 66 Possessives 2 Identify the following, each of which has an apostrophe s Phrase from Aesop fable meaning the largest and best portion Lions share Bob Woodward and Carl Bernsteins 1974 investigation into the Watergate scandal All the Presidents Men Title of a Shakespeare play or phrase meaning to incite a revolution Alls Well that Ends Well Kurt Vonnegut 1963 novel about and inventor of an atom bomb and a crystal called ice-nine Cats Cradle Hardness scale on which talc is considered the softest substance Mohs scale Day celebrated on February 14 Valentines Day Lump at the front of a persons throat, formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx Adams apple Phrase derived from the myth of Cadmus meaning to incite a revolution To sow Dragons Teeth Brilliant spots of sunlight shining through valleys on the rim of the moon during a total eclipse of the sun Bailys beads Congenital syndrome characterized by chrosome abnormality, severe mental retardation, short skull, and slanting eyes Downs Syndrome
67 67 Scientific Names 2 Give the scientific name for each of the following terms Sweat perspiration hip pelvis steam water vapor eardrum tympanic membrane white blood cells leucocyte tailbone coccyx windpipe trachea voice box larynx fly influenza skull cranium kneecap patella
68 68 Reptiles 2 Answer the following about reptiles All lizards are oviparous. What does that mean? they lay eggs Of the following: lizards, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, & tortoises, which were not alive 100 million years ago snakes What is the structure possessed by most snakes used to inject poison fangs what do we call a the part of a shell which covers a turtles back carapace Fused hip bones in snakes lead us to believe that they once had what? legs Name the structure on a rattlesnake that detects infra-red radiation as amethod of finding prey pit or pits To what biological phylum do the reptiles belong? cordata What do we call a turtles lower plate? plastron What general name is given to ancient reptiles who died out 60 million years ago? Dinosaurs Since reptiles draw body heat from the environment, what do we call them? Cold Blooded animals
69 69 World History 2 Identify these events or people in world history The late 16th century French ruling family Bourbons French fortifications to stop German invasion Maginot Line Soviet physicist who developed their H-bomb Andrei Shakarov Founder of Chinese Communist Party Chou En- Lai Return to the constitutional monarchy in Britain in the 17th century Restoration Government in France during World War II Vichy Government Straight-leg marching style of the German army Goose Step Po Pot led this group Khmer Rouge 18th Century leader of French Jacobins Jean Paul Marat Nazi term for Jewish genocide The Final Solution Japanese pilots whose mission was suicide Kamikazi pilots
70 70 Vocabulary 1 Identify these words beginning with b and ending with t Late, not on time belated a loss of electricity in an area blackout a vegetable that is a red root beet curved and not straight bent The superlative form of good best A piece of sculpture that shows only the head and chest of the subject bust A disease that kills plants blight A flat, round cap made of felt beret A heavy metal pin used with a nut bolt Having adull point or edge blunt A careful plan for spending money budget
71 71 Words Ending in X 2 Identify each of these words ending in X Innate contradiction paradox disease afflicting cattle and sheep anthrax bone in the lower spine coccyx Mineral variety of agate Onyx Ancient Greek hero who fought in the Trojan War Ajax Capital of Nova Scotia Halifax Famous Egyptian statue and Greek monster Sphinx French city and also a wine Bordeaux Salty smoked salmon with is good with creamed cheese Lox Voice box larynx
72 72 Color Words 2 Identify these descriptions with the correct color word as a part of the description A very long period of time Blue moon Brain tissue Grey matter A ruling family in the Netherlands since 1815 House of Orange Astronomical area of intense gravitation Black hole Black hole It separates Africa from the Arabian peninsula Red sea Mariners wish for this Red sky at night Erythrocytes Red blood cells Newspaper muckraking Yellow journalism An inexpensive but full meal at a restaurant Blue platespecial Old style American currency Greenbacks
73 73 All about Numbers 2 Identify each of the following about numbers Age span for a sexagenarian 60-69 Methuselahs age at death 969 Numberof times something is multiplied if it is trebled 3 Number of years in a sesquicentennial 150 Number of days in a fortnight 14 Number of years in a millennium 1,000 Number of yards in a furlong 220 Number of events in a pentathalon 5 Number of babies in quintuplets 5 Time between bienniel events 2 years
74 74 All about Saints 2 Identify each of these early day saints from the descriptions given Christian leader of the 4th-5th century who wrote The City of God St. Augustine Greek missionary who convertede Slavs to Christiantiy in 9th century, one for whom Russian alphabet is named St. Cyril Founder of the Jesuits or Society of Jesus in 1540 St. Ignatius Loyola Early Christian Church martyr beheaded in February St. Valentine Archbishop of Canterbury murdered by knights of King Henry II in 1170, later made a saint Thomas a Becket Patron saint of travelers St. Christopher Patron saint of hopeless causes St. Jude French maiden who said she heard St. Michael, St. Margaret, and ST. Catherine Joan of Arc Patron saint of Ireland St. Patrick Surname of Elizabeth Ann Bayley _____, first American-born saint Seton
75 75 Sentences 2 Identify each of the following about sentences Term describing a word, phrase, or clause that may be omitted without materially affecting the meaning of the sentence parenthetical Subway vigilante sentenced to one year in jail after shooting 4 youths on a New York subway train in 1984 Bernard Goetz German city where Nazi leaders were sentenced for war crimes after WWII Nuremberg Countyr where 4 students were convicted for leading 1989 pro-democracy movement but given relative light sentences China Astronaut who became the first man to utter a sentence on the surface of the moon Neil Armstrong (Thats one small step for mankind) Russian author of The First Circle, a work depicting educated people in scientific research while serving long prison sentences Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Punctuation mark used to set off nonessential clauses and participial phrases in a sentence Comma Iran-contra figure sentenced to 2 years probation by a judge who said he had willingly done the bidding of cynical superiors Oliver North Leader of New Yorks Tammany Hall convicted of felony and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1871 William Marcy Boss Tweed Sentence containing one independent and one or more dependent clauses complex

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