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Pool Play - Round 1

9:20:00 AMTossups 1 2

Question 1. Where does the next batter wait for his turn at bat in baseball?Answer: In the on-deck circle

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Question 2. How many points are scored for a football field goal?Answer: 3

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Question 3. Which American president has a varied career as a Navy officer, nuclear engineer, successful farmer, businessman, and governor?Answer: Jimmy Carter

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Question 4. What instrument was the first means of telling time?Answer: Sundial

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Question 5. The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, served as a fort, and many men died defending it. What was the Alamo before it was turned into a fort?Answer: Mission or church or convent or hospital

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Question 6. What South American country is largest on the continent?Answer: Brazil

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Question 7. A shaggy, gigantic, manlike creature is known as Sasquatch to the Pacific Northwest Indians. What do we call this legendary creature?Answer: Bigfoot

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Question 8. An ailing worker rescued by Canadian pilots from what place, after five days of weather delays, is back in the USA?Answer: The South Pole

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Question 9. I'll name the first half of three famous pairs, and you name the other half: Sacco and ________; Tweeldedum and __________; Amos and ____.Answer: (In order) Vanzetti, Tweedledee, Andy

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Question 10. Keith Lockhart is the current conductor of which orchestra, previously under the baton of such notables as Arthur Fiedler and John Williams?Answer: Boston Pops Orchestra (He also serves as conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.)

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Question 11. An adjective modifies a noun. What three parts of speech does an adverb modify?Answer: Verb, adjective, or another adverb

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Question 12. An alphabetized list of the fifty states of the Union would begin with Alabama and end with what state?Answer: Wyoming

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Question 13. Madison Avenue represents the American advertising industry. Another New York street represents American finance and the stock market. What is it?Answer: Wall Street

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Question 14. What is the difference between cavalry and Calvary?Answer: Cavalry is a mounted military unit. Calvary is the hill where Jesus Christ was crucified.

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Question 15. Prince Henry the NavigatorAnswer: Portuguese

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Question 16. The United States Supreme Court opens on the traditional first Monday in October. How many justices are there on the Court?Answer: 9

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Question 17. Antoine Lavoisier has been called the Father of Modern Chemistry. Who is called the Father of Psychoanalysis?Answer: Sigmund Freud

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Question 18. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER is a ballad depicting the trials and tribulations of some oysters. Who wrote the poem?Answer: Lewis Carroll

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Question 19. Stone Mountain, Georgia, measures about two miles long, one mile wide, and is the largest stone mountain in North America. What kind of stone is it?Answer: Granite

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Question 20. Saudi Arabia’s religious police have declared what dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the toy—already banned in the kingdom—are offensive to Islam?Answer: Barbie

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Question 21. A baseball player comes to the plate 5 times. He is hit by a pitch, he strikes out, he draws a base on balls, he singles, and he knocks a sacrifice fly. What is his batting average for the game?Answer: .500

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Question 22. The first commercially successful steamboat was designed and built by Robert Fulton. What was the name of the vessel?Answer: Clermont

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Question 23. Ben is 9 years old; Sam is 7; Greg, 4; and Marvin, 8. What is the average age of these four boys?Answer: 7

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Question 24. A father and son made wings of wax and flew with them. The son flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax, and he plunged to his death. Can you identify this mythological pair?Answer: Daedalus and his son Icarus

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Question 25. Numerous new Internet “foliage cams” are giving viewers daily or weekly updates as well as live looks at what annual event, popular especially in New England?Answer: The changing of the autumn tree colors

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Question 26. In 1628, an English doctor demonstrated how the human blood circulates. Who was he?Answer: William Harvey

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Question 27. What unit of mass is abbreviated by the letters kg?Answer: Kilogram

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Question 28. It's the eighth largest country in the world. Its neighbors are Bolivia and Paraguay to the north; Chile to the west; Uruguay to the east; and Brazil to the northeast. What is the country?Answer: Argentina

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Question 29. How many others were crucified with Jesus Christ?Answer: 2

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Question 30. Is the heroine of PETER PAN named Becky Sharp, Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, or Lorna Doone?Answer: Wendy Darling

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Question 31. Ted Turner has started a restaurant chain, Ted's Montana Grill, where he is turning what animals into burgers and, in the process, hoping to build what he calls "another great fortune"?Answer: Bison (Accept buffalo.)

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Question 32. The United States participated in World War II for a period of how many years: one, two, three, or four?Answer: Four

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Question 33. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, and 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, are all books that have been made into adventure movies. Do you know the 19th century French author who wrote the novels?Answer: Jules Verne

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Question 34. Known as the crossroads of the Pacific, this port city serves as the stopping point for ships and planes crossing the Pacific Ocean. Located on the island of Oahu, it is the capital and largest city of Hawaii. Name the city.Answer: Honolulu

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Question 35. What world leader said that he would have resigned had there been any truth to a report that his government had embellished an intelligence dossier on Iraq with dubious information?Answer: British Prime Minister Tony Blair

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Question 36. What TV quiz show did blind sportswriter Eddie Timanus become a five-day champion on, in 2001?Answer: Jeopardy

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Question 37. What period of the year begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday?Answer: Lent

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Question 38. What do we call a natural electrical discharge in the sky?Answer: Lightning

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Question 39. Sometimes it is possible to use exact numbers, but when numbers become very large or change very fast, exact numbers may be impossible to arrive at. Data is often reported in this way. What mathematical term describes these estimates?Answer: Rounded numbers

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Question 40. Who had a teddy bear named Winnie the Pooh?Answer: Christopher Robin

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Question 41. Who attempted to turn West Point over to the British in 1780?Answer: Benedict Arnold

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Question 42. Prior to this year’s victory over the Atlanta Braves, when was the last time the Chicago Cubs won a postseason series?Answer: 1908

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Lightning Round

LETTERS-Each of the following descriptions leads to a single letter of the-alphabet. For example, if I said niacin, you'd say B as in B-12.

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Question 43. Operation OverlordAnswer: D (D-Day)

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Question 44. The time for an attack to beginAnswer: H (H-hour)

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Question 45. An elementary particleAnswer: Z or W

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Question 46. A military foodAnswer: K or C (K/C rations)

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SHAKESPEARE-Name these Shakespearean characters. 1 2

Question 47. She was driven mad by Hamlet.Answer: Ophelia

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Question 48. He kills his wife, then executes himself when he learns of her innocence.Answer: Othello

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Question 49. Hamlet kills this king.Answer: Claudius

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RED, WHITE, AND BLUE- The three colors of the flag appear in other places, too. In this quiz I want you to tell me what color is:

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Question 50. A sapphireAnswer: Blue

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Question 51. Which is hottest--red, white, or blue?Answer: Blue

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Question 52. TurquoiseAnswer: Blue

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Question 53. AzuriteAnswer: Blue

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SUN-Louis XIV was called the Sun King. Come up with these other sunny items. 1 2

Question 54. Prostration from extreme heat is . . . Answer: Sunstroke

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Question 55. An ancient instrument for measuring timeAnswer: Sundial

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Question 56. NorwayAnswer: Land of the Midnight Sun

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Unique is what you seek in this category. 1 2

Question 57. The only metal that is a liquid at room temperature.Answer: Mercury

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Question 58. The only four-letter word ending in eny.Answer: Deny

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Question 59. The oldest living thing in the U.S. is named for a Civil War general. It is located in Sequoia National Park. What is its name?Answer: General Sherman Big Tree

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Question 60. Identify the only President who served more than two terms.Answer: Franklin Roosevelt

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EXECUTIONS- Here's a list of people well-remembered by history, some for their crimes, some for their goodness, all executed by the legal system of their day. How were they executed?

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Question 61. Jesus ChristAnswer: Crucifixion

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Question 62. Nathan HaleAnswer: Hanged without a trial

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Question 63. Maximilien de RobespierreAnswer: Guillotined

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WHOSE WHAT?- The answers are things that belong to someone; for example, if I said Aesop's, you'd say Fables.

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Question 64. Halley'sAnswer: Comet

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Question 65. Pandora'sAnswer: Box

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Question 66. Dante'sAnswer: Inferno

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LEGAL TERMS- Provide the word or expression used by the legal profession to describe the given data.

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Question 67. An individual's assets.Answer: Estate (net worth)

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Question 68. To revoke an attorney's right to practice.Answer: Disbar

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Question 69. Money paid for support of spouse.Answer: Alimony

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Question 70. A document issued for purpose of travel outside the country.Answer: Passport

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I will name four trophies and you name each sport. 1 2

Question 71. Davis CupAnswer: Tennis

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Question 72. Walker CupAnswer: Golf

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Question 73. America's CupAnswer: Yacht racing

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Question 74. Stanley CupAnswer: Ice hockey

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Pool Play - Round 2


Question 1. Tell me exactly where the earth, sun, and moon are during both a solar and lunar eclipse.Answer: Solar eclipse--the moon passes between the earth and sun. Lunar eclipse--the earth passes between the moon and sun.

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Question 2. Edward Gibbon wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Who wrote THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USSHER?Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

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Question 3. New textbooks are being printed but they are not expected to be available until November, so until then Iraqi students will tear out pictures and draw lines through references to whom in a de-Baathication process?Answer: Saddam

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Question 4. The English colony at Fort Rawley on Roanoke Island failed after many hardships. Roanoke Island was then considered part of an area called Virginia. What state is it part of today?Answer: North Carolina

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Question 5. The U.S. will impose economic sanctions on Cuba, North Korea and Myanmar for failing to take steps to stop what sort of trafficking?Answer: Humans for modern-day slavery

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Question 6. Which American President lost a great deal of popularity because of the failure of his attack on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba?Answer: John F. Kennedy

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Question 7. A group of similar cells is called a tissue. What do scientists call a group of similar tissues?Answer: An organ

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Question 8. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Answer: Little League

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Question 9. October 4, 1957, was the day the Space Age started with the launching of a Russian spacecraft. What was it called?Answer: Sputnik

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Question 10. Who is zero called the identity number of addition?Answer: Adding zero to any number of any number to zero does not change the value of the number.

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Question 11. I am; he is; they ___?Answer: Are

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Question 12. Late maturity or old age in a river is characterized by : (a) a straight course, (b) rapids, (c) meanders and oxbow lakes, or (d) sharp divides?Answer: (c) meanders and oxbow lakes

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Question 13. The prime minister of which Southeast Asian nation recently told a summit of Islamic leaders that Muslims should unite nonviolently against "Jewish domination"?Answer: Malaysia

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Question 14. Both he and the headless horseman were in love with Katrina, in the story THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving. Name this character.Answer: Ichabod Crane

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Question 15. Name the capitals of these three states: Florida, Vermont, Delaware.Answer: (In order) Tallahassee, Montpelier, Dover

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Question 16. It's 1/4 the size of the earth, has 1/6 the gravity, has no weather, no sound, no light. What is it?Answer: Moon

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Question 17. An early Gothic cathedral completed in 1250. Answer: Notre Dame

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Question 18. Name the immortal literary character who exchanges his mother's cow for a handful of beans.Answer: Jack

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Question 19. Which planet has the most moons?Answer: Saturn

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Question 20. Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Who was the first of the twelve apostles to be martyred?Answer: James

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Question 21. There are two types of breast stroke used in the National Swimming Championships. One is the regular breast stroke. What's the other?Answer: Butterfly

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Question 22. Who is the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency?Answer: Former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt

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Question 23. What company introduced its new combination cell phone and game console, in attempt to wrest control of the market from Nintendo?Answer: Nokia

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Question 24. Radio stations throughout the United States must have a name that contains three or four letters in the alphabet, the first of which must be one of only two letters allowed by the FCC. Name these two letters.Answer: K, W

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Question 25. Peking is the capital of China. What is the capital of Taiwan?Answer: Taipeh

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Question 26. In what play by Arthur Miller is Willy Loman the title character?Answer: DEATH OF A SALESMAN

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Question 27. Typically, it is made of diced apples, celery, and nuts dressed with mayonnaise. This salad was named for a famous hotel in new York City. Can you name it?Answer: Waldorf Salad

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Question 28. What familiar zoo animal has an appetite for insects, especially termites and ants? Its long snout and tongue enable it to burrow under the earth for dinner.Answer: Anteater

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Question 29. A recent report in the journal Nature finds that certain wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether. Name any two of the wide-ranging carnivores mentioned in the report.Answer: Polar bears, Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs

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Question 30. Who is called the Father of our Country?Answer: George Washington

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Question 31. Identify the grammatical error in the following sentence: "I wanted to just shake his hand."Answer: split infinitive

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Question 32. Killing an albatross causes disaster in what famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?Answer: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

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Question 33. What street is celebrated as the Cradle of Jazz?Answer: Bourbon Street

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Question 34. John Milton wrote PARADISE LOST. Who wrote PARADISE REGAINED?Answer: John Milton

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Question 35. Students arriving at what Ivy League university found more than 2,500 workers on strike, adding to the reputation as having the most contentious labor relations of any university in the nation?Answer: Yale University

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Question 36. Whom did Stephen Foster dream of "with the light brown hair"?Answer: Jeannie

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Question 37. Winnie the Pooh's donkey friend likes to eat thistles. What is the name of this strange creature?Answer: Eeyore

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Question 38. Today we shop in a variety of stores and we pay with cash, checks, or charge it. But in the simpler days of our country's economy, when most Americans lived on farms, much trade involved the exchange of crops, such as corn or tobacco, for cloth or nails or sugar or other goods. What term describes this simple method of trade?Answer: barter

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Question 39. Kilauea is a volcano located on what Pacific island?Answer: Hawaii

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Question 40. If one box of saltines weighs 1 1/3 pounds, how much do five boxes weigh?Answer: 6 2/3 pounds

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Question 41. Tell me the difference between a carnivore, a herbivore, and an omnivore.Answer: Carnivore eats meat. Herbivore eats plants. Omnivore eats both.

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Question 42. Alabama’s suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore is sending an offer of giving what item to the Congressional leadership, and the office of Rep. Tom DeLay is researching who has the authority to decide whether to accept it?Answer: Ten Commandments monument

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Lightning Round

BIBLICAL “REGRETS”- We're going to take a less-than-serious look at Bible characters who made famous mistakes. In fact, imagine them saying, “I have but one regret. Next time . . . “

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Question 43. I won't taunt any little kid with a slingshot.Answer: Goliath

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Question 44. I won't start to doubt until I'm back in the boat.Answer: Peter

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Question 45. I won't eat fruit off strange trees.Answer: Adam and Eve

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U.S.A.-I'll give you product-clues, and you name the state. 1 2

Question 46. The pineapple center of the United States is in what state?Answer: Hawaii

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Question 47. Of Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, and New York, which state makes more than one-half the firearms and ammunition in the United States?Answer: Connecticut

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Question 48. What state is largely known for raising race horses?Answer: Kentucky

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MAMMAL, BIRD, OR FISH?-I'll name it and you classify it. 1 2

Question 49. CassowaryAnswer: Bird

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Question 50. SkateAnswer: Fish

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Question 51. PetrelAnswer: Bird

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Question 52. ChamoisAnswer: Mammal

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AFRICA 1 2

Question 53. Name the mountain range located in the northwestern part of the continent.Answer: Atlas Mountains

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Question 54. Rank Africa among the seven continents in terms of size.Answer: Second

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Question 55. Papyrus is a water plant that now grows mainly in the upper Nile Valley. Ancient Egyptians used this plant for what purpose?Answer: Paper

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Question 56. What animal is generally associated with desert travel?Answer: Camel

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ELEMENTS-The names of elements of the Periodic Table are contained in the words and expressions here described. Identify the elements.

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Question 57. A tissue used for copying.Answer: Carbon, as in carbon paper

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Question 58. A color of women's hair popular in the 30's.Answer: Platinum, from platinum blonde

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Question 59. California electronics manufacturing region.Answer: Silicon, as in Silicon Valley

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FLORIDA 1 2

Question 60. This large city is close to Disney World.Answer: Orlando

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Question 61. This is the largest city.Answer: Jacksonville

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Question 62. This is the southernmost city.Answer: Key West

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WHERE-Where are these volcanoes? 1 2

Question 63. Mauna LoaAnswer: Hawaii

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Question 64. KilimanjaroAnswer: Africa

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Question 65. Mt. EtnaAnswer: Sicily

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Question 66. ParicutinAnswer: Mexico

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ALPHABETICS- Each answer will begin with a different letter: the first with an h, the second with an i, and so forth.

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Question 67. One of the most important drugs used for heart disease.Answer: Nitroglycerine

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Question 68. Word which describes massive bleeding.Answer: Hemorrhaging

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Question 69. This major port is the capital of Ukraine.Answer: Kiev

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Pool Play - Round 3


Question 1. Rudyard Kipling's short story called RIKKI TIKKI TAVI is a fable about a lot of animals. What kind of animal is the title character?Answer: A mongoose

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Question 2. It contains more 3 1/2 million letters, 700,000+ words, more than 30,000 verses, more than 1,100 chapters, and 66 books. What am I talking about?Answer: The Bible

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Question 3. Subtract 42.67 from 38.5, and give me the answer to the nearest hundredth.Answer: -4.17

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Question 4. What is a mixed number?Answer: An integer with a fraction

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Question 5. What's the Earth's nearest neighbor in space?Answer: The Moon

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Question 6. Which member of the Bush administration visited a mass grave site and a Saddam Hussein execution chamber, paying grim homage to atrocities of the deposed Iraqi president’s rule?Answer: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

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Question 7. The process of forcing milk through a strainer fine enough to break up the fat globules, is called what?Answer: Homogenization

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Question 8. Lord Kelvin was the British physicist who devised the absolute temperature scale. What scientist developed the Centigrade scale?Answer: Celsius

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Question 9. Hewlett-Packard, setting its sights on customers of struggling rival Sun Microsystems, offered them $25,000 in free services to switch to H-P PCs that run what operating system?Answer: Linux

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Question 10. Find the next number in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 . . .Answer: 21

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Question 11. If you were offered your choice of a Bartlett, Bosque, or Anjou, what is it you would be choosing?Answer: Pears

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Question 12. He is the subject of some of the poems in A. A. Milne's WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. He was Winnie the Pooh's human friend. Name him.Answer: Christopher Robin

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Question 13. Scotland is most famous for what musical instrument?Answer: Bagpipes

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Question 14. Hu Jintao has called for a larger public role in democratic election processes and in that country’s government. He’s the president of which country?Answer: China

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Question 15. "I know there's a need for news conferences in the morning, but we've got breakfast to put out." That's a school lunch lady in Minnesota dutifully serving up French toast fingers just a day after she and 14 of her cafeteria coworkers did what? Hint: The odds that they would do it were something like 120 million to 1.Answer: Won the lottery (Powerball; almost all the winners say they will keep their jobs, but from now on, nobody will dare complain about the potatoes.)

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Question 16. In what story would you find the Cheshire Cat?Answer: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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Question 17. A 1997 news story referred to the Tienanmen Square massacre as "the late one's darkest hour." Who was the late one?Answer: Deng Xiaoping

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Question 18. The noun "altar" means the raised platform where religious sacrifices were made. What does the verb "alter" mean?Answer: To change

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Question 19. Logging in Indonesia is threatening the existence of what primates which live only there and in Malaysia ?Answer: Orangutans

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Question 20. Its chemical formula is FeS(2). Technically, it's called iron sulfide, or iron pyrites. It is shiny yellow; it occurs abundantly as a native ore. In popular terms, what is it called?Answer: Fool's gold

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Question 21. Divide 45 by 1/5. What's the answer?Answer: 225

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Question 22. Who said he won’t rule out recusing himself or appointing an outside special counsel to investigate the leak of a CIA officer’s identity?Answer: Attorney General John Ashcroft

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Question 23. She was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster, but was rescued by Perseus. Daughter of Cassiopeia, she was placed among the stars after her death. What is her name?Answer: Andromeda

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Question 24. Many kings named Edward have ruled England. Which one abdicated his throne in favor of marriage to the American woman Mrs. Allis Warfield Simpson?Answer: Edward VIII

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Question 25. Which explorer first explored New Zealand and surveyed the east coast of Australia: was it Captain Bligh, Captain Cook, Captain Kidd, or Captain Hook?Answer: . Cook

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Question 26. Which of the following figures represents the number of inches in a meter: 29.27, 36.92, 39.37, or 43.46?Answer: 39.37

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Question 27. General Grant and General Lee fought on opposite sides during the War Between the States. In what war did they fight on the same side?Answer: Mexican War

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Question 28. Botany is the branch of science dealing with the study of plants. What branch of science involves the study of fossils?Answer: Paleontology

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Question 29. Most American Presidents have been elected by either of which two political parties?Answer: Republicans or Democrats

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Question 30. Gov. Gray Davis received help in his recall election from what former president?Answer: Bill Clinton

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Question 31. Only one of our fifty states was an independent country, recognized by the United States, before it became a state. Was that state Alaska, Arizona, or Texas?Answer: Texas

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Question 32. Popular among Italian Renaissance artists was art in which the Virgin Mary was the central figure. What are such portraits called?Answer: Madonnas

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Question 33. What left-handed professional golfer has been pitching batting practice (throwing right-handed) for the Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league baseball team, in hopes he can actually pitch in a game?Answer: Phil Mickelson

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Question 34. What state capital is the home of Vanderbilt University? Answer: Nashville

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Question 35. If the sum of the edges of a cube is 48 inches, what is the volume of the cube?Answer: 64 cubic inches

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Question 36. Who led the German Nazi effort in World War II?Answer: Adolf Hitler

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Question 37. What part of an insect corresponds to the human chest?Answer: Thorax

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Question 38. What country put the first man on the moon?Answer: United States

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Question 39. Gorilla, the ape, is spelled G-O-R-I-L-L-A. How do you spell guerilla, the fighter?Answer: G-U-E-R-I-L-L-A or G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A

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Question 40. This word describes the code of honor of the knights during the Middle Ages. Blameless behavior, courtesy, and respect for women are among the elements of the code. What word am I looking for?Answer: Chivalry

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Question 41. Modern machine gun Answer: Gatling

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Question 42. What was the largest city in Europe in the 1700's?Answer: Paris

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Lightning Round


ANIMALS 1 2

Question 43. Which of the following is not a type of whale: humpback, bowhead, pygmy, bluenose?Answer: Bluenose

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Question 44. Which of the following is not a breed of beef cattle: Hereford, Guernsey, Shorthorn, or Brahman?Answer: Guernsey

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Question 45. Were cats first tamed by the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, or the Siamese?Answer: Egyptians

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RUSSIA 1 2

Question 46. What is the official language of Russia?Answer: Russian

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Question 47. The Soviet Union was known by what initials?Answer: U.S.S.R.

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Question 48. Name the first popularly elected President of Russia.Answer: Boris Yeltsin

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YOUR WARSHIP 1 2

Question 49. The first warships recorded sailed on what river?Answer: Nile

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Question 50. Did the early Norsemen invade the British Isles, Rome, Egypt, or India?Answer: British Isles

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Question 51. During World War II, the conflict in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack against what site?Answer: Pearl Harbor

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U.S.A.-Name the large city from its location. 1 2

Question 52. In southeastern Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico.Answer: Houston

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Question 53. At the east end of Lake Erie, on the Niagara River.Answer: Buffalo

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Question 54. In southwestern Tennessee, on the Mississippi River.Answer: Memphis

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ANIVERBS- Human behavior can often be described most vividly by using a verb derived from the name of an animal.

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Question 55. To trick by using ingenuity or cunningAnswer: Fox

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Question 56. To move, crawl, or drag with a serpentine movementAnswer: Snake

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Question 57. To mimicAnswer: Ape

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CALIFORNIA-Answer these questions about the Golden Bear State. 1 2

Question 58. This is the state's most famous bridge.Answer: Golden Gate Bridge

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Question 59. What took place at 5:13 A.M. on April 18, 1906?Answer: San Francisco earthquake

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Question 60. What Steinbeck novel deals with people moving from the dust bowl to California during the Depression?Answer: THE GRAPES OF WRATH

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Question 61. This Neil Simon play is set at the Beverly Hills Hotel.Answer: CALIFORNIA SUITE

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GALS-Name these gals--words that begin with G A L. 1 2

Question 62. A festive occasionAnswer: Gala

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Question 63. A sailor's name for the kitchenAnswer: Galley

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Question 64. The fastest pace of any animalAnswer: Gallop

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CHILDREN-Name these famous children or teenagers. 1 2

Question 65. The child who on August 18, 1587, became the first English baby born in America.Answer: Virginia Dare

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Question 66. She lived in the White House during the Clinton administration.Answer: Chelsea

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Question 67. The Austrian prodigy who at the age of 5 composed “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Pool Play - Round 4


Question 1. Was Peru once ruled by the Aztecs, the Toltecs, the Incas, or the Mayas?Answer: Incas

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Question 2. What state capital is nearest the equator? Answer: Honolulu

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Question 3. What is the product of .831 and .30?Answer: .2493

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Question 4. He was born in 1847 in Missouri. At the age of 15, he joined the Confederate forces and earned a reputation for marksmanship and great daring. At the end of the war, he was declared an outlaw, and with his brother Frank, he formed a band of bank and train robbers. Name him.Answer: Jesse James

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Question 5. In the Bible, who received a kiss just before his betrayal?Answer: Jesus Christ

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Question 6. Several congressmen at the time of the Civil War felt that the states should keep many rights, such as the right to secede from the Union. Which state was the first to vote to secede?Answer: South Carolina

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Question 7. Which of these words is out of place: sway, stride, saunter, stroll?Answer: Sway (The others are ways of walking.)

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Question 8. If a car can travel 12,000 miles on a set of four tires, how many miles can the same car go using five new tires and changing them from time to time?Answer: 15,000

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Question 9. One summer week 2,191 persons visited the community swimming pool. If the pool is open daily, what is the average number of people who visited the pool each day?Answer: 313

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Question 10. Name the fur-trading post established in 1811 by John Jacob Astor, of New York, in the Oregon territory.Answer: Astoria

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Question 11. George contracted to drive his own truck to haul oranges from Miami, Florida, to Bangor, Maine--a distance of 2,800 kilometers. If George averages 52 kilometers per hour, how many hours should the trip take?Answer: 54 hours

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Question 12. Add 4 1/3 + 5/6 + 6 5/8.Answer: 11 19/24

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Question 13. Former POW Jessica Lynch has agreed to a $1 million book deal with which publishing house?Answer: Alfred A. Knopf

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Question 14. Panama hats are made from toquilla fiber, but they are not made in Panama. Where are they made?Answer: Ecuador

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Question 15. Three customers entered the convenience store. Now there are 11 customers in the store. How many were there before the 3 entered?Answer: 8

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Question 16. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, winding up a two-day visit in Iraq, came to Halabja on Sept. 15 to the site of the mass graves and a memorial museum dedicated to the 5,000 people who lost their lives in what kind of attack in 1988 -- a reminder, he said, of why the United States went to war to oust Saddam Hussein's regime.Answer: Chemical attack

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Question 17. Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this part, containing the verb. Name it.Answer: Predicate

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Question 18. If a rancher has 37 cattle and then buys "x" more, what mathematical expression would represent the rancher's total livestock?Answer: 37 + x

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Question 19. Name either one of the two official languages of Belgium.Answer: Flemish or French

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Question 20. Maurice Clarett, the suspended sophomore running back for Ohio State, sued the National Football League, asking that a judge throw out a league rule that prohibits a player from entering the League until how many years after high school?Answer: Three

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Question 21. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in America. What was the second?Answer: Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Question 22. The Intel Corporation said its third-quarter profit more than doubled and exceeded its own forecasts based on strong sales to which two continents?Answer: Asia and Europe

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Question 23. Although executives admit that the changes may be extreme, many companies are reducing or eliminating what method of communication in order to stop the spread of disruptive viruses and spam?Answer: E-mail

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Question 24. A study released by the United Nations labor agency reveals that what nation’s workers are the world’s most productive – at $60,728 output per worker last year?Answer: The United States

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Question 25. According to The Princeton Review, the five toughest colleges to get into are two service academies and three Ivy League schools. Name them all.Answer: West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), Princeton, Harvard, Yale

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Question 26. MARSEILLAISEAnswer: France

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Question 27. A character in a famous American novel survives a shipwreck by clinging to a coffin. The author is Herman Melville. The title is MOBY DICK. Who is the character?Answer: Ishmael

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Question 28. There are 16 ounces to a pound. How many pounds make up a short ton?Answer: 2,000

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Question 29. Proliferate means to spread rapidly. What does prognosticate mean?Answer: To predict or foretell

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Question 30. Mr. Kendall is eleven times as old as his daughter Lynn. If Lynn is four years old, how old is Mr. Kendall?Answer: 44

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Question 31. The esophagus is the tube joining the throat and the stomach. What is a sarcophagus?Answer: A tomb or stone coffin

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Question 32. What two ‘80’s bands – one with Steve Tyler and the other with Gene Simmons – are having such a successful tour together that they have extended their schedule of performances by adding 24 dates?Answer: Arrowsmith and Kiss

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Question 33. This word has two meanings. As a verb, it means to shudder or tremble. As a noun, it names the container in which an archer carries his arrows. What is the word?Answer: Quiver

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Question 34. What do the names Amenhotep III, Akhenaton, and Ramses III have in common?Answer: They were Egyptian pharaohs or kings.

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Question 35. What musical instrument did the famous Benny Goodman play?Answer: Clarinet

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Question 36. Giraffe Answer: Africa

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Question 37. Who is Captain Flint in TREASURE ISLAND? Answer: A parrot

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Question 38. Did the Christian church have its beginning in Antioch, Rome, Athens, or Jerusalem?Answer: Jerusalem

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Question 39. A federal judge ruled that which NFL team could keep its trademark name and logos because a group of activists didn’t provide enough evidence that the team’s moniker insulted a substantial number of Native Americans?Answer: Washington Redskins

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Question 40. What is the opposite of "amateur"?Answer: Professional

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Question 41. How many decades are there in a century?Answer: 10

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Question 42. What biblical lad dreamed that his parents and brothers bowed down before him and worshipped him?Answer: Joseph

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Lightning Round

BY GEORGE!-These questions concern famous George's. Identify: 1 2

Question 43. The actor who won an Academy Award for his role in PATTON.Answer: George C. Scott

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Question 44. The controversial owner of the New York Yankees.Answer: George Steinbrenner

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Question 45. The Russian-born choreographer of the New York City Ballet.Answer: George Balanchine

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EARTH 1 2

Question 46. Within 5 years, when was the great San Francisco earthquake?Answer: 1906

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Question 47. The setting for Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS.Answer: Middle Earth

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Question 48. In what month is the earth closest to the sun?Answer: January

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1 2

Question 49. What did Jack get for his cow?Answer: Bag of beans

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Question 50. According to Aesop, which insect starved when winter came?Answer: Grasshopper

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Question 51. How many thieves did Ali Baba have to hide from?Answer: 40

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WINTER & SUMMER 1 2

Question 52. In which month do we celebrate Father's Day?Answer: June

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Question 53. In ancient England, it was believed that birds chose their mates on what day?Answer: St. Valentine's Day

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Question 54. How did August get its name?Answer: Emperor Augustus

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Question 55. What is special about December 21?Answer: The first day of winter

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MEN WHO MEASURE UP- These men all have first or last names which sound the same as a unit of measure.

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Question 56. The man who invented the telephone.Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

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Question 57. The Virginia patriot who cried, “If this be treason, make the most of it.”Answer: Patrick Henry

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Question 58. The English physicist who formulated the Laws of Motion; he is said to have discovered gravity.Answer: Isaac Newton

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FOREIGN WORDS-Many foreign words have entered the English language. Identify these.

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Question 59. The Hindi word for a spiritual leader.Answer: Guru

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Question 60. The French expression used during revolutions.Answer: Coup d'etat

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Question 61. A French phrase meaning love of life; joy of living.Answer: Joie de vivre

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M & M- Here are some mental mysteries for masterminds. All answers are common two-word names or phrases each beginning with the letter M.

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Question 62. Changing horses in mid-sentenceAnswer: Mixed metaphor

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Question 63. Great Yankee sluggerAnswer: Mickey Mantle

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Question 64. Famous for song “Wild Fire”Answer: Michael Murphy

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Question 65. Cartoon character famous for “Here I come to save the day.”Answer: Mighty Mouse

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ANATOMY-You've got 60 seconds and 10 guesses to give me three-letter words for parts of the human body. No slang allowed.

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Question 66. List in any order:Answer: arm, ear, eye, gum, hip, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe

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Pool Play - Round 5


Question 1. What does valour mean?Answer: Courage or bravery

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Question 2. Kenya Answer: Nairobi

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Question 3. The strongest evidence yet has now linked malignant melanoma skin cancer with what method of tanning?Answer: Using artificial tanning equipment

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Question 4. Man belongs to the biological order, Primates. To which genus and species does man belong?Answer: Homo sapiens

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Question 5. Match these verbs--ration, ravage, ratify, ransom--with their meanings--rescue, limit, approve, plunder.Answer: Ration--limit; ravage--plunder; ratify--approve; ransom--rescue

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Question 6. Name any three of the five US states that grew the fastest between 1990 and 2000, according to the 2000 census.Answer: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah

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Question 7. Completely enclosed shelters for automobiles are called what?Answer: Garages

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Question 8. Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of what Empire?Answer: Roman

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Question 9. What celestial object did Edmund Halley correctly predict to appear in 1758?Answer: A comet

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Question 10. The atomic number of hydrogen is one; helium is 2. What chemical element possesses the atomic number 3?Answer: Lithium

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Question 11. If a passage of music is marked "pp," what does it mean?Answer: Pianissimo, or "play very softly"

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Question 12. Bruce Wayne's aunt and housekeeper was ignorant of his true identity, Batman.Answer: Aunt Harriet

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Question 13. Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, as the world’s two biggest suppliers of what agreed to work on easing rules for setting up joint ventures and to promote joint research?Answer: Oil

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Question 14. FrenchAnswer: Monsieur

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Question 15. Which company recently announced that it would discontinue its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying that the forums have become unsafe?Answer: Microsoft (MSN)

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Question 16. Who wrote the novel THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS?Answer: James Fenimore Cooper

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Question 17. Petrology is the study of what?Answer: Rocks

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Question 18. Is the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation: ultraviolet waves, cosmic rays, infrared waves, or X-rays?Answer: Cosmic rays

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Question 19. Into which river was Achilles dipped by his mother Venus?Answer: Styx

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Question 20. What kind of mile did the crooked man walk?Answer: a crooked mile

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Question 21. How many minutes are there in a quarter hour?Answer: 15

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Question 22. Who composed over 30 piano sonatas, including the PATHETIQUE, the APPASSIONATA, and the MOONLIGHT?Answer: Beethoven

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Question 23. In an agreement reached by environmentalists and PPL power company, dams will be removed and others changed on the Penobscot River in what state to save the Atlantic salmon population?Answer: Maine

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Question 24. He was perhaps the first scientist to give the human mind a proper conception of the immensity of the universe. He contributed greatly to our understanding of astronomy, and in 1781, he discovered the planet Uranus. Name this famous English astronomer.Answer: Sir William Herschel

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Question 25. As you climb higher up a mountain, the reading of a barometer . . . Answer: Decreases

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Question 26. After the Spanish-American War, what President was authorized by Congress to build the Panama Canal?Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 27. According to the poem DAYS OF BIRTH, "Monday's child is fair of face./ Tuesday's child is full of grace." What about children born on Wednesday and Thursday?Answer: "Wednesday's child is full of woe,/ Thursday's child has far to go."

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Question 28. Andrew Jackson was a famous President. Identify Andy Warhol.Answer: A modern American painter and experimental filmmaker.

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Question 29. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This line was penned by the blind poet of England. Who was he?Answer: John Milton

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Question 30. By acting as huge magnets, the sun and the moon pull the earth toward them. The earth's solid land is not visibly changed, but the water moves because of the moon's pull. What do we call this effect?Answer: Tides

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Question 31. The Bush administration assured what “Axis of Evil” country that the U.S. does not favor “regime change,” and signaled a new willingness to engage in dialogue?Answer: Iran

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Question 32. What crop is a special target of the boll weevil?Answer: Cotton

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Question 33. Who heads the U.S. agency that is a compilation of 22 government agencies, including the Coast Guard, Secret Service and Border Patrol, and is now the second-largest federal department?Answer: Tom Ridge

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Question 34. In poetry, what do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds?Answer: Alliteration

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Question 35. July 4, 1776 was the date of the historic signing of the Declaration of Independence. What event of worldwide significance took place in the U.S. on October 24, 1929?Answer: The stock market crashed.

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Question 36. One member of the animal kingdom with a very strange and very short name is the emu. Is the emu an antelope, a bird, or a rodent?Answer: Bird (like the ostrich)

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Question 37. His stories put men and dogs against the frozen wilderness, as in his story TO BUILD A FIRE. His most famous novel is THE CALL OF THE WILD. Who is this writer?Answer: Jack London

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Question 38. He captured 132 Germans by himself and also an important machine gun post. He was honored as the greatest American hero of the First World War. Later, he became a minister. Who was he?Answer: Alvin C. York

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Question 39. If one square meter of carpet costs $6.40, how much would enough carpet to cover the floor described in the last question cost?Answer: $253.44

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Question 40. What continent surrounds the South Pole?Answer: Antarctica

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Question 41. Thanks to Russia’s Labor Ministry, what theater was ordered to reinstate ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who was fired amid allegations from other dancers that she was too heavy to lift?Answer: The Bolshoi

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Question 42. A power outage darkened the courtroom of the trial of Washington-area sniper suspect John Muhammad, but what two-day act by him worried his lawyers?Answer: He acted as his own attorney.

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Lightning Round

ANALOGIES 1 2

Question 43. A rainbow is to the east as the Aurora Borealis is to what?Answer: North

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Question 44. Gutenberg is to printing as Mercator is to what?Answer: Maps

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Question 45. Daimler is to automobiles as Hughes is to . . . ?Answer: Airplanes

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Question 46. Stalactites are to stalagmites as ceiling is to what?Answer: Floor

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SONG QUESTIONS-Now, for some questions about questions. Complete the following “questionable” song verses.

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Question 47. Baa baa black sheep . . . Answer: Have you any wool?

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Question 48. Do you know the way to . . . Answer: San Jose?

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Question 49. Pardon me, boy, is that the . . . Answer: Chattanooga Choo Choo?

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Question 50. How are things in . . . Answer: Glocca Morro?

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WATER 1 2

Question 51. Name the watery mammal that is the Miami football team nickname.Answer: Dolphins

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Question 52. Water with a lot of deuterium and tritium instead of regular hydrogen.Answer: Heavy water

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Question 53. What is the seafaring nickname of the Seattle baseball franchise?Answer: Mariners

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Question 54. Name any of the astrological water signs.Answer: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

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SOLID, LIQUID, OR GAS?- Classify these elements as to whether they are solid, liquid, or gas at room temperature.

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Question 55. IridiumAnswer: Solid

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Question 56. ArgonAnswer: Gas

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Question 57. BariumAnswer: Solid

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Question 58. KryptonAnswer: Gas

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CALIFORNIA- Tell me if these cities are near Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or in the Central Valley.

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Question 59. BurbankAnswer: Los Angeles

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Question 60. BerkeleyAnswer: Bay Area

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Question 61. La JollaAnswer: San Diego

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PLACES 1 2

Question 62. The three cities of Oea, Lebda, and Sabrata merged to form what city in Libya?Answer: Tripoli

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Question 63. Where did Robin Hood supposedly live?Answer: Sherwood Forest

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Question 64. Where was Captain Cook killed?Answer: Hawaiian Islands

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MEDITERRANEAN CITIES- The city of Istanbul used to be called Constantinople. I'll give you other old or native names for capital cities of Mediterranean countries. You give me the name most Americans know it by.

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Question 65. RomaAnswer: Rome

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Question 66. AlgerAnswer: Algiers

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Question 67. AngoraAnswer: Ankara

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Question 68. Aelia CapitolinaAnswer: Jerusalem

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SISTER CITIES- Many metropolitan areas consist of more than one central city, such as Dallas and Fort Worth. I'll give you a central city in a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and you give me its sister city with the larger population.

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Question 69. Everett, WashingtonAnswer: Seattle

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Question 70. Davidson, TennesseeAnswer: Nashville

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Question 71. Boulder, ColoradoAnswer: Denver

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Pool Play - Round 6


Question 1. I've got a list of three names who are always associated with another person. You give me the other half of each famous pair. Cain and . . . ; Laurel and . . . ; Samson and . . .Answer: (In order) Abel, Hardy, Delilah

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Question 2. Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is . . . what?Answer: Full of grace

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Question 3. How much is a baker's dozen?Answer: 13

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Question 4. The Supreme Court will rule on whether what four-word phrase will remain as it is recited in the Pledge of Allegiance in most classrooms?Answer: "one nation under God"

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Question 5. "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." What Union Army general said this to President Lincoln in 1864?Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman

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Question 6. The first declaration of war leading to the First World War was made on July 28, 1914. Who declared war on whom?Answer: Austria-Hungary on Serbia.

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Question 7. The Republican chairman, Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), and the ranking Democrat, Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), seem to dislike each other intensely, making the atmosphere in what Senate Committee the worst in modern times, according to congressional analyst Norman Ornstein?Answer: Judiciary

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Question 8. What are the three things you must to find the average of a set?Answer: (1) Add the numbers of the set to find the sum. (2) Count the numbers in the set to determine how many there are. (3) Divide the sum by how many numbers there are in the set.

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Question 9. Absolute zero equals -459 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. What is absolute zero on the Celsius scale?Answer: -273 degrees

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Question 10. Congressman Luis Gonzalez Posada, who heads the Peru-Morocco Friendship League, said in a radio program in Lima that King Mohammad VI of Morocco was sending Peru 20 of what animals as a gift?Answer: Camels

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Question 11. Richard Grasso resigned as the chairman and CEO of which financial entity after an uproar over his recently disclosed $140 million pay package?Answer: New York Stock Exchange

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Question 12. The single foremost motive which Christopher Columbus acknowledged as his purpose for undertaking his voyages of discovery was which of the following: unlimited wealth, worldwide fame, challenge and adventure, or the spreading of Christianity?Answer: Spreading of Christianity

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Question 13. Scotland Answer: Edinburgh

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Question 14. Name the current commissioners of the NBA, the NFL, and Major League Baseball.Answer: David Stern, Paul Tagliabue, Bud Selig, respectively

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Question 15. At the end of the movie THE WIZARD OF OZ, one of the characters misquotes the Pythagorean Theorem. This error is actually a reflection on the brains of the screen-writer, not the character. In any event, name the character.Answer: Scarecrow

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Question 16. Six of the nine planets have been known since ancient times. The seventh was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. Name it.Answer: Uranus

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Question 17. He is talking about returning to his home state of South Dakota and running for governor. Name this host of “Access Hollywood,” who is scheduled to anchor a portion of NBC’s Olympics coverage next year.Answer: Pat O’Brien

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Question 18. During what battle was our National Anthem composed?Answer: Battle of Fort McHenry

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Question 19. The Republican-controlled Senate dealt a blow to the Bush administration on Sept. 16, voting to rescind new Federal Communications Commission rules that would allow what?Answer: Large media companies to get even bigger.

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Question 20. In the number .4, what is the dot written before the 4 called?Answer: Decimal point

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Question 21. Name the first five presidents of the United States in order of their inauguration.Answer: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe

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Question 22. In a standard basketball court, the rim of the basket is elevated how many feet above the court?Answer: Ten

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Question 23. A marsupial is an animal that carries its young in a pouch on the abdomen. What is the largest marsupial?Answer: Kangaroo

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Question 24. This five-letter word may be defined as the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in varying melody, rhythm, and tone, in order to form emotionally expressive compositions. What is it?Answer: music

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Question 25. What is the greatest common divisor of 12 and 8?Answer: 4

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Question 26. When is it possible to add 5 to 8 and get 1?Answer: When looking at a clock: 5 hours after 8 o'clock it's 1 o'clock

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Question 27. A piece of molding 75 inches long is to be cut into small strips each 8 1/3 inches long to make picture frames. How many strips can be cut from the long pieces?Answer: 9

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Question 28. Give me the names of Noah's three sons.Answer: Shem, Ham, Japheth

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Question 29. Ariel Sharon plans to become the first sitting prime minister of Israel to visit what nation since both nations were carved from the former British empire more than 50 years ago?Answer: India

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Question 30. John W. Snow has predicted that the American economy will grow at an annual rate of nearly 4 percent over the next year and will add two million new jobs before next year’s election. Who is he?Answer: Secretary of the Treasury

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Question 31. The greatest story that literary history records from Anglo-Saxon days is about a loyal and good warrior. What is the name of this hero?Answer: Beowulf

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Question 32. A rectangle measures 6 inches by 3 feet. Calculate the area of the rectangle, in square inches.Answer: 216

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Question 33. Recite the first verse in the Bible.Answer: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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Question 34. Which President of the United States has handled war relief in Belgium during World War I before he became President?Answer: Herbert Hoover

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Question 35. What is the plural of the word "mouse"?Answer: Mice

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Question 36. What does M stand for in Roman numerals?Answer: 1,000

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Question 37. What is the property of gold which permits it to be hammered into thin sheets?Answer: Malleability

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Question 38. Lake Placid was the host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Where is Lake Placid; that is, in what state?Answer: New York

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Question 39. On May 16, 1865, a five-cent coin was issued, and we still use it. What is it called?Answer: Nickel

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Question 40. What are you given if you win an event in the Olympics?Answer: Gold medal

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Question 41. What famous landmark was re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona?Answer: London Bridge

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Question 42. What are the three flavors in Neapolitan ice cream?Answer: Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry

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Lightning Round

DOG-You will in this series come up with, not breeds, but figures of speech containing the word dog.

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Question 43. Small sharkAnswer: Dogfish

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Question 44. They come out in the midday sun.Answer: Mad dogs and Englishmen

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Question 45. Elementary swim strokeAnswer: Dog paddle

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AMERICAN POETRY-Name the poem or the poet. 1 2

Question 46. It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the seaAnswer: “Annabel Lee” by Poe

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Question 47. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!Answer: “Chambered Nautilus” by Holmes

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Question 48. So live, that when thy summons comes.Answer: “Thanatopsis” by Bryant

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POLITICAL PARTIES-Identify the political party of each of the following U.S. Presidents.

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Question 49. John AdamsAnswer: Federalist

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Question 50. Zachary TaylorAnswer: Whig

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Question 51. Benjamin HarrisonAnswer: Republican

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NAPOLEON 1 2

Question 52. Who led the English forces at Waterloo?Answer: Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley)

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Question 53. What region in North America did Napoleon sell to the United States?Answer: Louisiana

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Question 54. Napoleon's second reign lasted for how many days?Answer: 100 days

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CHARACTER 1 2

Question 55. They rode "into the jaws of death."Answer: The Light Brigade

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Question 56. Deformed, and apparently brutish, he loved Esmeralda.Answer: Quasimodo

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Question 57. He is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve.Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge

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GEOLOGY-Give the geological term from these descriptions. 1 2

Question 58. An open place for the extraction of stone.Answer: Quarry

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Question 59. Areas of soil permanently frozen.Answer: Permafrost

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Question 60. Unburned, sun-dried bricks used in Mexico and the southwestern United States.Answer: Adobe

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Question 61. Fluid rock from a volcano.Answer: Lava

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FACE THE MUSIC 1 2

Question 62. What instrument does the concertmaster of a symphony orchestra play?Answer: Violin

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Question 63. The sound of a violin is produced by drawing what object across the strings?Answer: Bow

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Question 64. What kind of reed does an oboe player use: single, double, triple, or straight-edged?Answer: Double

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VOCABULARY 1 2

Question 65. Does effulgent mean brassy, brilliant, brittle, or bruised?Answer: Brilliant

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Question 66. Does puerile mean valuable, childish, enamel, or sterile?Answer: Childish

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Question 67. Does recidivist mean Democrat, habitual criminal, socialist, or front-desk secretary?Answer: Habitual criminal

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Pool Play - Round 7


Question 1. What must an athlete not do in order to be called an amateur?Answer: He must not earn money from his sport.

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Question 2. President Bush spoke to a subdued crowd in Richfield, Ohio in early September and said, “Things are getting better.” What was the topic?Answer: The economy

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Question 3. Name the author of the popular book ROOTS.Answer: Alex Haley

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Question 4. Canadian officials say getting a flu shot is even more important than usual this year because it will help distinguish the flu from what other similar disease that surfaced last year?Answer: SARS

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Question 5. Queen Anne of England belonged to the House of Stuart. Of what royal house was King Henry VIII of England a member?Answer: Tudor

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Question 6. The Institute of Sports Medicine claims that it is second only to football in the severity of its physical requirements. Edward Villela says that it takes more strength to get through a six-minute pas de deux than four rounds of boxing. What activity is it which takes this terrific toll?Answer: Ballet

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Question 7. What is the name of the star which is closest to the earth?Answer: The sun

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Question 8. Horses run in herds. Fish swim in . . . ?Answer: Schools

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Question 9. Mademoiselle Answer: French

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Question 10. The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. What is the NCAA?Answer: National Collegiate Athletic Association

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Question 11. A small study of heart disease patients has found that an experimental drug reversed what may be the equivalent of years' worth of _______ in coronary arteries. Fill in the blank with a six-letter word starting with P.Answer: Plaque

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Question 12. Fears of attacks against international media in Baghdad were heightened after a bomb damaged a hotel housing the offices of which news network?Answer: NBC News

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Question 13. Which country recently told the U.S. and four other nations that it has nuclear weapons and will prove it by conducting a test unless the U.S. gives up its “hostile policy”?Answer: North Korea

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Question 14. What are the only two numbers that will divide into 17 evenly?Answer: 1 and 17

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Question 15. In what city does the Mardi Gras take place?Answer: New Orleans

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Question 16. What TV series did Bill Clinton thank Rob Lowe for, saying it was “renewing people’s faith in public service”?Answer: West Wing

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Question 17. Which is the only country on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist sponsors with whom the U.S. has diplomatic relations?Answer: Syria

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Question 18. What great American said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all"?Answer: Abraham Lincoln

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Question 19. NileAnswer: Mediterranean Sea

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Question 20. Ken is an artist who gets paid for each painting he paints. Next month he needs to paint twice as many paintings as he did this month. That will be 52 paintings. How many paintings did he complete this month?Answer: 26

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Question 21. Who was Romeo's lover, in the story by Shakespeare?Answer: Juliet

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Question 22. In which city is the White House located?Answer: Washington, D.C.

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Question 23. In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. What was ended with the Treaty of Paris signed 20 years later?Answer: American Revolution

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Question 24. What is the word that means the opposite of another word?Answer: Antonym

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Question 25. The garbage collector's morning route is 16 blocks. On every fourth block, there is only one trash dumpster, but every other block has 21 trash cans. How many containers will he empty?Answer: 256

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Question 26. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. Who invented the lightning rod?Answer: Benjamin Franklin

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Question 27. What gas makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere?Answer: Nitrogen

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Question 28. In which U.S. city did voters recently go to the polls to decide whether or not to tax espresso drinks 10 cents per cup in order to raise money for early childhood programs and higher salaries for daycare workers?Answer: Seattle

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Question 29. The force with which bodies are pulled toward the center of the earth by gravity is called what?Answer: Weight

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Question 30. What two states border on Florida?Answer: Georgia and Alabama

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Question 31. The highest peak in the world is Mt. Everest, located in Nepal. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls, located in what country?Answer: Venezuela

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Question 32. Eight quarts equals a peck. How many pecks make a bushel?Answer: Four

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Question 33. If you have ever been to the national capital building in Washington, D.C., you have probably stood in the circular hall under the massive central dome. What is this interior space called?Answer: Rotunda

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Question 34. Born in Haiti, he died in 1851 after pioneering American bird study. He was also a famous painter of birds. Who was he?Answer: John James Audubon

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Question 35. Which great political document begins with these words, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another . . . "Answer: Declaration of Independence

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Question 36. The male partner of a doe is a buck. What is the male partner of a duck?Answer: Drake

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Question 37. "Slide" is a word used in the game of baseball. But what musical instrument has a slide?Answer: Trombone

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Question 38. "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free." The preceding announcement was issued on September 22, 1862, by President Lincoln. What is it called?Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

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Question 39. What star of Phone Booth has been dubbed “the Irish Brad Pitt”?Answer: Colin Farrell

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Question 40. This country was carved from Prussia and Austria due to agreements made in the 18th century. The nation gained independence after World War I. Name it.Answer: Poland

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Question 41. In 1972, Rod Carew came to bat 535 official times and had 170 hits. What was his American League-leading batting average?Answer: .318

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Question 42. What is the word for a Swiss mountain home?Answer: Swiss chalet

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Lightning Round


WHOSE WHAT?-These answers are things that belong to someone. You must complete the statement; for instance, if I said Adam's, you'd say Rib or Apple.

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Question 43. Finian'sAnswer: Rainbow

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Question 44. Roget'sAnswer: Thesaurus

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Question 45. Noah'sAnswer: Ark

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CHRISTMAS CAROLS-Give the next line of each song. 1 2

Question 46. Joyful, all ye nations rise,Answer: Join the triumph of the skies

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Question 47. Was to certain poor shepherdsAnswer: In fields where they lay

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Question 48. O holy night! the stars are brightly shining,Answer: It is the night of the dear Savior's birth.

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POTPOURRI 1 2

Question 49. “The New Frontier” was the slogan of whose Presidency?Answer: Kennedy's

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Question 50. What country has the largest cat population?Answer: United States

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Question 51. Which state is the leading cattle producer in the United States?Answer: Texas

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MOTHER'S DAY 1 2

Question 52. Whose cupboard was bare?Answer: Mother Hubbard

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Question 53. In which film did Anthony Perkins think he was his own mother?Answer: PSYCHO

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Question 54. Certain sea animals line their shells with a layer of material called . . . Answer: Mother of Pearl

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POLITICAL LEADERS 1 2

Question 55. He headed the Senate Select Committee investigating Watergate.Answer: Sam Ervin

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Question 56. He was seized by Israeli agents in Argentina and executed as a Nazi war criminal.Answer: Adolf Eichmann

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Question 57. He returned to Iran after the overthrow of the Shah.Answer: Ruholla Khomeini

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Question 58. This Egyptian king built the Great Pyramid at Giza.Answer: Cheops or Khufu

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ZERO-How many zeroes do each of these numbers have? 1 2

Question 59. MillionAnswer: 6

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Question 60. QuadrillionAnswer: 15

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Question 61. NonillionAnswer: 30

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KNOW YOUR BIBLE-Give me the next word or phrase in each of these familiar biblical quotations.

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Question 62. Blessed are the poor in . . . Answer: Spirit

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Question 63. Behold a virgin shall . . . Answer: Conceive

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Question 64. He who has ears, let him . . . Answer: Hear

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Now, to prove that your team is for the birds, answer these questions about our feathered friends.

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Question 65. What is the name of the world's smallest bird? Answer: hummingbird

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Question 66. Which member of the starling family is renowned as a talking pet? Answer: mynah bird

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Question 67. What sea bird, renowned in marine lore, has the greatest wing spread? Answer: albatross

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Question 68. Which is the largest bird? Answer: ostrich

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Pool Play - Round 8


Question 1. What is the F.B.I.?Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Question 2. The watchword for the Camp Fire Girls is WOHELO. What does it mean?Answer: It comes from the first two letters of three words: work, health, love.

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Question 3. A rod is 5.5 yards long. How many yards deep is a fathom?Answer: 2

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Question 4. From what part of the elephant do we get ivory?Answer: Tusks

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Question 5. An airplane flew at an average speed of 386 miles per hour for .275 hours. How far did the plane fly?Answer: 106.15 miles

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Question 6. What is the name of Yasser Arafat’s ruling party that recently confirmed the nomination by consensus of Ahmed Qureia to be the next Palestinian prime minister?Answer: Fatah

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Question 7. President Bush recently gave her the authority to manage post-war Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan. Name the national security advisor.Answer: Condoleezza Rice

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Question 8. Which month was named for the Roman god of war?Answer: March (for Mars)

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Question 9. What nation is the largest in Africa: Chad, Somalia, Sudan, or South Africa?Answer: Sudan

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Question 10. History reveals that black people, on the average, vote Democratic, Republican, or Independent?Answer: Democratic

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Question 11. On consecutive games in September, the Dallas Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells defeated two of his old teams in the Meadowlands. Name those opponents.Answer: The Giants and the Jets

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Question 12. What is the main vegetable ingredient of a coleslaw salad?Answer: Cabbage

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Question 13. A closed figure having many sides is called what?Answer: Polygon

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Question 14. What kind of weapon does Darth Vader use?Answer: Laser sword

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Question 15. The Great American Pastime during the years right after the Civil War was not baseball, but which of these sports: soccer, boxing, or trotting races?Answer: Trotting races

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Question 16. The first black man to play major league baseball. Answer: Jackie Robinson

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Question 17. YangtzeAnswer: Yellow Sea

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Question 18. When the chief priests realized that the crucified Jesus Christ had risen from the dead, they bribed some soldiers to circulate a false report in order to explain away the resurrection as a hoax. What was this false theory?Answer: His disciples came by night and stole him away while the soldiers slept.

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Question 19. Who was the giant hunter who was placed among the stars by Diana with the dog Sirius following him: was it Hercules, Gemini, Orion, Sagittarius, or Saturn?Answer: Orion

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Question 20. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," are the opening words of what familiar song?Answer: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

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Question 21. What does Wordsworth describe as "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" and "tossing their heads in sprightly dance"?Answer: daffodils

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Question 22. It's sometimes called the "weather sphere" because most weather phenomena are found there. This layer of the atmosphere is next to the earth's surface. Is it called the ionosphere, troposphere, exosphere, or ozone layer?Answer: Troposphere

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Question 23. Perseverance and justice Answer: Blue

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Question 24. A nail is driven into a tree 4 feet above the ground. How far above ground will the nail be in 20 years, if the tree grows 6 inches taller each year?Answer: The same 4 feet (A tree grows in diameter, but in height by the top branches only.)

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Question 25. Although he says he is ready for peace talks, Israel and the United States have refused to negotiate with what Palestinian leader, saying he is tainted by terrorism?Answer: Yasser Arafat

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Question 26. The reign of Augustus began a 200-year period of peace in Rome. During the two centuries, commerce flourished and the standard of living got better. Historians use a Latin phrase to describe this period. What is it?Answer: Pax Romana

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Question 27. The head of the U.S. Cavalry regiment was killed by a combined Sioux-Cheyenne force in the Black Hills in 1876. Give me his first, middle, and last names.Answer: George Armstrong Custer

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Question 28. What is the chemical symbol for iodine?Answer: I

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Question 29. President Bush acknowledged on Thursday that efforts toward peace in the Middle East had stalled and he blamed whom?Answer: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat

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Question 30. What handyman has hosted “Home Again” and “This Old House”?Answer: Bob Vila

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Question 31. Name three of the six categories for which Nobel Prizes are awarded.Answer: Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and Medicine-Physiology

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Question 32. As a singing cowboy, he appeared in nearly 100 motion pictures, and his recording of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER has sold more than 12 million copies. He owned six radio stations, two television stations, and the California Angels. Can you name him?Answer: Gene Autrey

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Question 33. Here's a puzzler: what is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister-in-law could be to you?Answer: Your mother

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Question 34. Ida Fuller became the first retired U.S. citizen to receive what benefit on January 1, 1940?Answer: Social Security

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Question 35. Divide 2/3 by 5/6. What's the quotient?Answer: 4/5

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Question 36. Why were the American soldiers at Breed's Hill ordered not to fire "until you see the whites of their eyes"?Answer: Because the muskets' effective range was only 100 yards.

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Question 37. Cardinal Francis Arinze, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, and Cardinal Christoph Schonborn are four papabili on everyone’s list. Papabili is Italian slang for the front-runners for what?Answer: To be the next pope

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Question 38. The quest of this object is the subject of such masterpieces as Wagner's opera PARSIFAL, Tennyson's poem IDYLLS OF THE KING, and Malory's book about the death of King Arthur. In medieval legend, it was the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. What was it?Answer: Holy Grail

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Question 39. What figure sits on guard over the Great Pyramids?Answer: Great Sphinx

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Question 40. The President of the United States lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who lives at Ten Downing Street?Answer: Prime Minister of Great Britain

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Question 41. Who replaced Jesse Helms in the Senate?Answer: Elizabeth Dole

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Question 42. Ave Maria University, the first new Roman Catholic university in the U.S. in four decades, recently opened. Thomas Monaghan, the founder of which pizza chain, established this new university?Answer: Domino’s Pizza

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Lightning Round


SPORTS 1 2

Question 43. In tennis, when the ball is returned before it touches the ground, it is called a . . . ?Answer: Volley

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Question 44. Where do relief pitchers warm up?Answer: Bull pen

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Question 45. A punter may aim to kick the ball out of bounds within the 10 yard line, an area known as what?Answer: Coffin corner

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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1 2

Question 46. How many ounces in a pound?Answer: 16

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Question 47. How many tablespoons in a cup?Answer: 16

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Question 48. How many pecks in a bushel?Answer: 4

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Question 49. How many grams in a decigram?Answer: 1/10

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CENTURY-Events from history. You name the century in which they took place. 1 2

Question 50. Columbus discovered America.Answer: 15th

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Question 51. The Battle of Jutland was fought.Answer: 20th

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Question 52. The Post Office Department was established in this country.Answer: 18th

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Question 53. Sir Isaac Newton announced his theory of gravity.Answer: 17th

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THE GOOD BOOK 1 2

Question 54. Who wrote the second-to-last book in the Old Testament?Answer: Zechariah

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Question 55. On the death of her husband, this biblical heroine went to live with her mother-in-law and an alien people.Answer: Ruth

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Question 56. What short man climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus?Answer: Zaccheus

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Question 57. Name the first Christian martyr.Answer: Stephen

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SPORTS 1 2

Question 58. How many yards is a team penalized for being offside in football?Answer: 5 yards

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Question 59. What is a piece of turf knocked into the air in golf?Answer: Divot

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Question 60. What is a race involving factory-made cars called?Answer: Stock car race

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WAR 1 2

Question 61. The Treaty of Greenville followed what decisive action in American history?Answer: Battle of Fallen Timbers

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Question 62. In what state did the Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg occur?Answer: Maryland

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Question 63. The U.S. had no women soldiers in its Army until what war?Answer: World War II

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TOM-Identify the following well-known Toms and Thomases. 1 2

Question 64. The 13th century Dominican friar who wrote SUMMA THEOLOGICA.Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas

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Question 65. The Kansas native named Golfer of the Year from 1977 through 1981.Answer: Tom Watson

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Question 66. American clock manufacturer.Answer: Seth Thomas

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Question 67. The circus midget whose real name was Charles Stratton.Answer: Tom Thumb

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Months 1 2

Question 68. Which month was named for the Roman god of war?Answer: March (for Mars)

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Question 69. Which month was named after the man who said, "The die is cast. I have crossed the Rubicon"?Answer: July (after Julius Caesar)

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Question 70. Which month was named after an ancient god who presided over gates and doors?Answer: January (after Janus)

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Question 71. Which month was named for the emperor who ruled when Christ was born?Answer: August (for Augustus Caesar)

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Round of 16 - Top Half

12:40:00 PMTossups 1 2

Question 1. How did Jack's mother react when he sold the cow for five beans?Answer: Angrily

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Question 2. What NBA star withdrew his debut rap CD after league commissioner David Stern called it “coarse, offensive, and anti-social”?Answer: Allen Iverson

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Question 3. In the United States, they're called astronauts. What are they called in the Soviet Union?Answer: Cosmonauts

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Question 4. How many days are there in a Leap Year?Answer: 366

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Question 5. What is the smallest whole number that you can express using each of the digits 6, 4, 3, and 7 only once?Answer: 3,467

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Question 6. What is Smokey the Bear's motto?Answer: "Only you can prevent forest fires."

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Question 7. How many basic food groups are there?Answer: 4

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Question 8. In August, 1945, two cities in Japan were destroyed by nuclear bombs. Name either one of them.Answer: Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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Question 9. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently accused President Bush of breaking a personal “president-to-president” promise made to protect which federal program that provides stipends and scholarships to young people in exchange for community service?Answer: AmeriCorps

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Question 10. If there are 61 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and 38 Republicans, how many independents are there?Answer: One (Because there are 100 Senate members in all.)

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Question 11. Right after the Civil War, many northern politicians went South to take advantage of the confusion left after the war. What were these scoundrels called?Answer: Carpetbaggers

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Question 12. In sewing, what is the most common seam width?Answer: 5/8 inches

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Question 13. Stanley CupAnswer: Ice hockey

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Question 14. This red-haired general of the American Revolution was the only president of the United States who did not live in the White House. Name him.Answer: George Washington

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Question 15. How many original American colonies were there?Answer: 13

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Question 16. Which of the following cities is the farthest south: Key West, Florida; Brownsville, Texas; San Diego, California?Answer: Key West

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Question 17. What ghost, according to Shakespeare, appeared to Brutus? Answer: Julius Caesar

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Question 18. What familiar saying is hidden in the following words: "The place 16 miles from the Tiber River's mouth took more than 24 hours to construct"?Answer: "Rome wasn't built in a day."

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Question 19. In THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Injun Joe kills the doctor--but who is blamed for the crime?Answer: Muff Potter

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Question 20. Mindy bought a 10-pound bag of dog food. At his first feeding, her dog ate 1 3/8 pounds of food. How much dog food was left?Answer: 8 5/8 pounds

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Question 21. What is another name for a Jack-o-Lantern?Answer: Pumpkin

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Question 22. What pro golfer, who made news last spring with his criticism of Annika Sorenstam, defeated Tiger Woods on Oct. 26 to move into the lead on the money-winning list?Answer: Vijay Singh

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Question 23. The Pashtun, who speak Pashtu and are dominated by the Durrani and Ghilzai tribes, are which country’s largest ethnic group?Answer: Afghanistan

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Question 24. Give the formula for finding the area of a rectangle.Answer: Length x width

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Question 25. Another long wall--between England and Scotland--which was erected by a Roman emperor.Answer: Hadrian's Wall

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Question 26. TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT is the title of a book written by what federal judge who presided over the important Watergate hearings?Answer: John Sirica

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Question 27. How many syllables are in the word "deliverance"?Answer: Four

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Question 28. Compute the square of 24.Answer: 576

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Question 29. What is an anthology?Answer: A collection of stories or poems

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Question 30. Which Asian athlete won both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors during the 2001 major league baseball season?Answer: Ichiro Suzuki

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Question 31. What sitcom will continue despite the sudden death of its star, John Ritter?Answer: "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter"

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Question 32. The main character takes a voyage to the land of the Brobdingnags, Glubdubdrip, Houynhnms, and Lilliput, in an 18th century satire. Identify both the author and the title of the work.Answer: Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

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Question 33. What is Condoleezza Rice’s position?Answer: U.S. National Security Advisor

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Question 34. What country's navy was defeated by England in 1588?Answer: Spain's

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Question 35. How many colors are there in a monochrome painting?Answer: One

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Question 36. What is 33?Answer: 27

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Question 37. What are catalogued under the Dewey Decimal system?Answer: Books

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Question 38. FIDELIO is the title of the only opera by what famous composer?Answer: Beethoven

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Question 39. An elephant, walrus, and wild boar will have this orthodontal problem. What do we call a long tooth that extends out of the mouth?Answer: Tusk

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Question 40. Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. In what modern-day country is Mt. Ararat located?Answer: Turkey

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Question 41. What game show host claimed in his 1982 autobiography that he was once a CIA assassin?Answer: Chuck Barris

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Lightning Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY 1 2

Question 42. The only state that touches the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.Answer: Florida

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Question 43. Crater Lake National Park is located in what state?Answer: Oregon

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Question 44. Name the state that contains Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River.Answer: Minnesota

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NAMES-What word or phrase was coined after or is identified with each of the following names?

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Question 45. Buckminster FullerAnswer: Geodesic dome or Spaceship Earth

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Question 46. John Philip SousaAnswer: Sousaphone

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Question 47. Jack BibbAnswer: Bibb Lettuce

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IRISH 1 2

Question 48. What is the capital of Northern Ireland?Answer: Belfast

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Question 49. What is the major religion of the Republic of Ireland?Answer: Roman Catholicism

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Question 50. Who was made a bishop and labored for the conversion of Ireland? (His feast day is March 17.)Answer: St. Patrick

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GOOD DAY-Identify these literary and historical allusions to the word day. 1 2

Question 51. What proverb means “things take time”?Answer: Rome wasn't built in a day.

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Question 52. Novel and film about an assassination attempt on Charles DeGaulle.Answer: DAY OF THE JACKAL

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Question 53. Proverb meaning “Even the downtrodden have times of joy or revenge.”Answer: Every dog has his day.

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PREFIXES-From the following, identify the scientific prefixes which mean these numerical values.

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Question 54. Thousandth partAnswer: Milli

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Question 55. ThousandfoldAnswer: Kilo

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Question 56. Tenth partAnswer: Deci

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WHAT'S WRONG?-Correct the error in each statement. 1 2

Question 57. The flag officially adopted for Canada shows a single oak leaf.Answer: It's a maple leaf.

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Question 58. Medicare is a health insurance program for the poor run by the U.S. government.Answer: For the elderly (Accept “Medicaid.”)

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Question 59. Salvador Dali is a leading Spanish Cubist.Answer: Surrealist

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Question 60. The capital of Russia is St. Petersburg.Answer: Moscow

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AFRICAN-AMERICANS 1 2

Question 61. The first black to play Major League Baseball on a regular basis.Answer: Jackie Robinson

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Question 62. The educator who founded Tuskegee Institute.Answer: Booker T. Washington

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Question 63. The civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray.Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Little Boy was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Your next four questions require other identifications sharing the word "little."

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Question 64. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Answer: Little League

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Question 65. A statue by Edvard Ericksen at the water's edge in Copenhagen harbor depicts the heroine of one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories. Answer: Little Mermaid

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Question 66. Napoleon Bonaparte, at 5'6" tall, was given what nickname? Answer: Little Corporal

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Question 67. Black Jumbo was his father, Black Mumbo his mother. Answer: Little Black Sambo

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Round of 16 - Bottom Half


Question 1. Pork is what we call meat from a pig. What kind of meat do we call venison?Answer: Deer meat

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Question 2. Originally the word "stadium" was a Greek measure of length (about 600 feet). What does the word mean today?Answer: a sports arena

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Question 3. Each angle of an equilateral triangle measures what?Answer: 60o

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Question 4. What is H2O the symbol of?Answer: Water

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Question 5. The scale of a map is: 3/4 of an inch = 10 miles. If the distance on the map between two towns is 6 inches, what is the actual distance?Answer: 80 miles

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Question 6. Thailand used to be called Siam. What did Kampuchea used to be called?Answer: Cambodia

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Question 7. John Paul Jones is noted for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight." Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours"?Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry

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Question 8. What is the all-time bestselling book?Answer: Bible

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Question 9. The friends Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, are better known by what collective name?Answer: Three Musketeers

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Question 10. How did a pizza delivery man, since killed, say he was forced into robbing a bank?Answer: He had a bomb strapped to his body.

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Question 11. This man thought up the modern idea of what Santa Claus looks like. He also created the symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties--the donkey and the elephant. Name this political cartoonist.Answer: Thomas Nast

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Question 12. Dill pickles are made from what vegetable?Answer: Cucumbers

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Question 13. In the earlier days of the automobile, what was the platform motorists mounted to step into the car?Answer: Running board

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Question 14. In a speech to the nation, President Bush said he would ask Congress for $87 billion to fight terrorism and continue operations where?Answer: Iraq

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Question 15. In an address to the opening session of what United Nations body, President Bush offered no apology for ordering the invasion of Iraq. Instead, he reiterated his case against Saddam Hussein?Answer: General Assembly

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Question 16. Give me the name of the tallest building in the world and tell me where it's located.Answer: Sears Building in Chicago

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Question 17. A sports arena built by the Emperor Titus year A.D. 80 still stands despite centuries of pillage and earthquakes. Name this tourist attraction and the European city where it's located.Answer: Colosseum in Rome

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Question 18. What nation billed the U.S. a million dollars for maintenance of a downed spy plane?Answer: China

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Question 19. When Hurricane Isabel first hit U.S. soil, it hit where?Answer: North Carolina coast

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Question 20. The federal government is evaluating technology that would put what aboard commercial flights: a. A mechanism to automatically seal the cockpit door in the event of an emergency, b. A computerized autopilot that could land the plane, c. A sniffer to detect explosives, or d. Video cameras to monitor pilots and passengers?Answer: d. Video cameras to monitor pilots and passengers

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Question 21. What Walt Disney cartoon character has three pesky nephews?Answer: Donald Duck

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Question 22. An odometer measures car mileage. What does an anemometer do?Answer: It measures wind speed.

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Question 23. A senator from Kentucky was the chief architect both of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and of the Great Compromise of 1850. Who was he?Answer: Henry Clay

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Question 24. Castor and Pollux are the names of two stars in what constellation?Answer: Gemini

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Question 25. He recently became the first Democratic contender to end his presidential campaign. Name the U.S. senator from Florida.Answer: Bob Graham

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Question 26. In 1644, Peter Stuyvesant lost what in a battle with the Portuguese?Answer: His leg

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Question 27. Islam is the religion of Arabia, founded by Mohammed. What is the name of the God of the Moslems?Answer: Allah

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Question 28. What did Benjamin Franklin invent because he got tired of having to carry two pairs of glasses with him--one for close-up and the other for distance?Answer: Bifocals

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Question 29. As stated in the popular proverb, what does haste make?Answer: Waste

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Question 30. In heraldry and mythology, what is the horse with a single horn called?Answer: unicorn

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Question 31. Is the Hoosier State Indiana, Iowa, or Illinois?Answer: Indiana

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Question 32. He led the Nationalist forces to victory during the Spanish Civil War, and ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975. Answer: Francisco Franco

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Question 33. Identify the respective family names of Romeo and Juliet.Answer: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet

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Question 34. Biologists have a word for the offspring of two animals or plants of different species which are crossbred. What is the word?Answer: Hybrid

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Question 35. New Hampshire is called the Granite State. What state is called the Sunflower State?Answer: Kansas

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Question 36. A new book says the year before Princess Diana died, she was alienated from a family member who wrote to her saying she had mental problems. Who was it?Answer: Her brother, Earl Spencer

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Question 37. The third leading cause of death in the United States is stroke. Do strokes occur in the heart, the liver, the stomach, or the brain?Answer: Brain

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Question 38. What state has the largest population?Answer: California

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Question 39. Multiply a baker's dozen by a score; divide by the number of boroughs in New York City; and subtract the number of keys on a piano. What is the answer?Answer: -36 (13; 20; 5; 88)

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Question 40. What ancient people worshipped Anubis, God of the Dead, who was reputed to be the inventor of embalming?Answer: Egyptians

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Question 41. What is a geometric figure with eight equal sides called?Answer: Octagon

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Lightning Round


DOG- In this series you must identify, not breeds, but expressions containing the word dog.

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Question 42. In disfavorAnswer: In the doghouse

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Question 43. Aerial skirmishAnswer: Dogfight

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Question 44. SiriusAnswer: Dog star

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Question 45. A fairway angle, in golfAnswer: Dogleg

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PRO-All of these answers begin with the prefix pro. 1 2

Question 46. A prediction of how a disease will developAnswer: Prognosis

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Question 47. Marx's class of wage earnersAnswer: Proletariat

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Question 48. An official of the SenateAnswer: President Pro Tempore

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ANALOGIES 1 2

Question 49. The Nile is to Egypt as the Volga is to . . . ?Answer: Russia

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Question 50. Mary Ann Evans is to George Eliot as Charles Dodgson is to . . . ?Answer: Lewis Carroll

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Question 51. Watergate is to Nixon as Teapot Dome is to . . . ?Answer: Harding

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Question 52. McKinley is to Roosevelt as Roosevelt is to . . . ?Answer: Truman (Accept Taft.)

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AFRICAN AMERICAN 1 2

Question 53. What do we call the slave songs that combined African rhythms with biblical scripture?Answer: Spirituals

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Question 54. Who was the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?Answer: General Colin Powell

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Question 55. Booker T. Washington was the first black to receive an honorary degree from what Ivy League school?Answer: Harvard

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RIVERS-In which country are the following rivers: 1 2

Question 56. YangtzeAnswer: China

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Question 57. ThamesAnswer: England or Canada

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Question 58. DarlingAnswer: Australia

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Question 59. GangesAnswer: India

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CITIES- In these countries, the capital city is not the largest city. Identify both the capital city and the city with the largest population.

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Question 60. U.S.A. Answer: Washington and New York

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Question 61. AustraliaAnswer: Canberra and Sydney

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Question 62. IndiaAnswer: New Delhi and Bombay

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ASSORTMENT 1 2

Question 63. The hamburger was not invented in Germany, as one might guess, but in the United States. In what country did the hot dog have its origin?Answer: Germany

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Question 64. Identify the part of the world where one would most likely find a nation scornfully called a “banana republic.”Answer: Latin America

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Question 65. What was the costliest war ever in terms of money?Answer: World War II

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I'll describe four men who were known as famous "firsts" and you supply all four names.

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Question 66. The first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Answer: John Hancock

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Question 67. The first man to set foot on the moon. Answer: Neil Armstrong

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Question 68. The first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Answer: Charles Lindbergh

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Question 69. The first black man to play major league baseball. Answer: Jackie Robinson

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Quarterfinals


Question 1. If you sailed from Trieste to Corfu, you would cross the Adriatic Sea. What sea would you be on if you went from Helsinki to Copenhagen?Answer: Baltic Sea

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Question 2. A man bought a cow and a calf for $85. The cow cost $55 more than the calf. How much did he pay for the calf?Answer: $15

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Question 3. Divide 36 by .9. What's the quotient?Answer: 40

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Question 4. What is a tomahawk?Answer: A small ax

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Question 5. Where in the human body would you find the cerebrum?Answer: brain

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Question 6. Mars was the Roman god of war. Who was his Greek counterpart?Answer: Ares

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Question 7. This branch of engineering deals primarily with the design, construction, and maintenance of public works such as highways, bridges, and waterways. What is this discipline called?Answer: Civil Engineering

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Question 8. What do we call a mountain of ice, once part of a glacier, that floats in the sea?Answer: Iceberg

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Question 9. Who was elected president of his nation by a margin of 11 million-to-0 in October 2002?Answer: Saddam Hussein

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Question 10. Define and spell HYGIENE.Answer: It means cleanliness.

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Question 11. China said it would launch a satellite to survey what heavenly body within three years?Answer: The moon

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Question 12. What do we call the important muscle which is between the chest and the abdomen and helps us to breathe properly? Is it the diaphragm, the triceps, or the solar plexus?Answer: Diaphragm

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Question 13. In what year did Columbus discover America?Answer: 1492

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Question 14. How many World Wars have there been?Answer: 2

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Question 15. A college student accused of carrying or hiding banned items aboard six passenger jets told of his actions originally in an e-mail to the TSA, the agency created after the 9/11 attacks that oversees 50,000 government-paid airport security screeners. The initials TSA stand for what?Answer: Transportation Security Administration

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Question 16. What does 1/2 x 1/2 equal?Answer: 1/4

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Question 17. Identify the Stephen Vincent Benet story on which was based the 1941 film ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY.Answer: THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER

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Question 18. What do the following snakes have in common: copperhead, water moccasin, coral snake, rattlesnake?Answer: They're all poisonous.

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Question 19. Brazil and Colombia supply about 50% of the world's resource of what product: bananas, coffee, or sugar cane?Answer: Coffee

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Question 20. What do you get when you churn milk?Answer: Butter

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Question 21. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. Roentgen is chiefly remembered for the discovery of what?Answer: X-rays

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Question 22. The term of office for the United States President is four years. How long is the term of a United States Senator?Answer: Six years

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Question 23. Equal air pressure is controlled inside and outside the human body by means of a tube connecting the inner ear with the throat. What is this channel called?Answer: Eustachian Tube

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Question 24. Solve the following problem: .39/6 = ?Answer: .065

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Question 25. When Pinocchio told a lie, what happened?Answer: His nose grew.

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Question 26. Pencils are not made of lead at all. Of what substance are they made?Answer: Graphite

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Question 27. King Ahab was a wicked ruler whose story is told in the Bible. Captain Ahab is a fictional character. Name the book by Herman Melville in which he appears.Answer: MOBY DICK

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Question 28. What is the name of the world's smallest bird? Answer: hummingbird

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Question 29. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to reverse course when he said he had no reason to believe that who had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.?Answer: Saddam Hussein

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Question 30. Heat may be transferred in three basic ways. Convection is one of them. What are the other two?Answer: Conduction and radiation

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Question 31. A race of monsters in Greek mythology had the chest, arms, and head of a man, and the belly and legs of a horse. Members of this race were called what?Answer: Centaurs

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Question 32. Who is the only woman vying to become the Democratic presidential candidate?Answer: Carol Moseley-Braun

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Question 33. This American author is known for helping to make the surprise ending popular. He wrote the short stories THE LAST LEAF and THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF. Can you name him?Answer: O Henry

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Question 34. Arrange these four immortals in chronological order: Franz Josef Haydn, composer; Sir Isaac Newton, scientist; Rembrandt, artist; Shakespeare, author.Answer: Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Newton, Haydn

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Question 35. The government is preparing to color-code what in addition to terror-alerts?Answer: Air travelers

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Question 36. Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale on campus run by Young Conservatives of Texas who sold cookies at different prices based on what two factors, which they claimed showed the flaws in affirmative action?Answer: Customer’s race and gender (from $1 for white males down to 25 cents for African-Americans)

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Question 37. Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch recently agreed to a $1 million deal. What kind of deal is it?Answer: A book deal

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Question 38. What does the verb rejuvenate mean?Answer: To make new

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Question 39. Often called The Gateway to the New World, this was the U.S. Immigration Station from 1891 to 1954. What was it called?Answer: Ellis Island

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Question 40. An emu is a creature that lives in Australia. What is the name of a similar animal that lives in Africa?Answer: Ostrich

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Question 41. Subtract 5 3/4 from 7 3/8. Express your answer in whole numbers and fractions.Answer: 1 5/8

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Lightning Round


SPIRIT OF 76-Identify these personalities from the American Revolutionary War period.

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Question 42. The Vermont renegade who led a successful attack against Fort Ticonderoga.Answer: Ethan Allen

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Question 43. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer who gave his name to a series of 1767 duties on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea.Answer: Charles Townshend

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Question 44. The Virginia legislator who cried, “Give me liberty or give me death.”Answer: Patrick Henry

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CON-The following descriptions fit words beginning with the prefix con. 1 2

Question 45. A secret or closed meeting of Catholic cardinalsAnswer: Conclave

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Question 46. A clear soup made of meat or vegetable stockAnswer: Consomme

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Question 47. A resolution passed by both houses of CongressAnswer: Concurrent

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Question 48. A mode of transport found along the Oregon TrailAnswer: Conestoga

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WHEN HAVOC STRUCK 1 2

Question 49. Although hurricanes are not as violent as tornadoes, they have greater destructive potential, for two reasons. Give one.Answer: They last longer and cover more area.

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Question 50. What country was saved by a “divine wind” in 1281?Answer: Japan

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Question 51. What European country has historically been most affected by flooding?Answer: Holland

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WORD GAME-After each word, give a word with the same meaning that starts with d.

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Question 52. EludeAnswer: Dodge

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Question 53. ArgumentAnswer: Debate

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Question 54. GoalAnswer: Destination

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Question 55. PostponeAnswer: Delay, defer

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P.S.- Each of the following words begins with that curious ps spelling. Identify each from its description.

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Question 56. A Greek maidenAnswer: Psyche

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Question 57. A mental disorderAnswer: Psychosis

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Question 58. A pen nameAnswer: Pseudonym

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TWO-TIMERS-Don't be a dumb-dumb and do so-so with these repetitive expressions.

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Question 59. A rhythmic Latin American ballroom dance.Answer: Cha Cha

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Question 60. An artistic movement of the early 20th century.Answer: Dada

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Question 61. A German town known for its mineral baths.Answer: Baden-Baden

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BIG APPLE-Describe briefly the following sections of the New York City. 1 2

Question 62. BroadwayAnswer: Theater district

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Question 63. Tin Pan AlleyAnswer: Haven for songwriters and publishers

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Question 64. Park AvenueAnswer: Wealthy residential area

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Question 65. The BoweryAnswer: Area for saloons, cheap hotels, and derelicts

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Name these gods or goddesses from classical mythology. 1 2

Question 66. Who was the goddess of love and beauty?Answer: Venus or Aphrodite

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Question 67. Who was the messenger of the gods?Answer: Mercury or Hermes

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Question 68. What god ruled the seas?Answer: Neptune or Poseidon

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Question 69. Who was the ruler of the underworld?Answer: Pluto or Hades

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SemiFinals


Question 1. What war did Billy Yank and Johnny Reb fight?Answer: Civil War

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Question 2. A piece of wire 37 inches long is bent successively in the shape of an equilateral triangle, a square, a regular hexagon, and a circle. The plane surface of the largest area is included when the wire is bent into which shape?Answer: circle

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Question 3. A board of inquiry blamed the Columbia shuttle accident on bad management at NASA as well as what physical cause?Answer: A 1.67-pound chunk of foam insulation that hit the shuttle's wing

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Question 4. What country celebrates Bastille Day?Answer: France

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Question 5. The three secondary colors are orange, green, and purple. What are the three primary colors?Answer: Red, yellow, blue

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Question 6. "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Was it Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Ogden Nash, or Dean Martin, who penned this line?Answer: Ogden Nash

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Question 7. What country will become the world's first to make cannabis available for the chronically ill through pharmacies? The nation had already become the first to legalize physician-assisted suicide.Answer: The Netherlands

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Question 8. The GNP is the market value of all goods and services produced by a nation in a given year. What does GNP stand for?Answer: Gross National Product

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Question 9. "Old Marley was dead as a doornail." This quotation is taken from what book?Answer: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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Question 10. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is a novel which recounts the experience of river-boating in the 19th century. What famous American author wrote this book?Answer: Mark Twain

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Question 11. In what city is Disneyland located?Answer: Anaheim

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Question 12. American soldiers at the Shkin airbase in Afghanistan, located just two miles from the border with what country, are targets for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters who launch frequent attacks from the neighboring country?Answer: Pakistan

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Question 13. If someone has a "Cockney" accent, where was he likely born?Answer: England

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Question 14. The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that what country halt construction of a barrier intended to cut it off from the West Bank and dismantle the portion already built?Answer: Israel

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Question 15. What is the sum of 10 1/8 and 3 1/3? Reduce your answer to its simplest terms.Answer: 13 11/24

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Question 16. The sister of actress Joan Fontaine is a two-time Oscar winner for TO EACH HIS OWN and THE HEIRESS. She also starred as Melanie Wilkes in the classic movie GONE WITH THE WIND. Name her.Answer: Olivia de Havilland

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Question 17. The first and last letters of our alphabet are A and Z. What are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet?Answer: Alpha and omega

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Question 18. Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and poet of the Middle Ages. His most famous volume of poetry was translated into English in 1859. What is the title?Answer: THE RUBAIYAT

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Question 19. What does invulnerable mean?Answer: Indestructible; cannot be harmed

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Question 20. In how many different ways can you arrange five different books on a shelf? You can work out this problem by multiplying 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1.Answer: 120

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Question 21. In 1848, Brigham Young founded this state capital as the center of the Mormon community. Name this city in Utah.Answer: Salt Lake City

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Question 22. What communications giant had acquired 1,200 American radio stations by 2002, to control 60% of all rock music programming?Answer: Clear Channel

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Question 23. Which chemical element has the highest melting point?Answer: Tungsten (3,417 degrees Centigrade)

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Question 24. Shakespeare was born in what country?Answer: England

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Question 25. The ship of Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Who was the first English captain to sail around the world?Answer: Sir Francis Drake

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Question 26. Which is the largest bird? Answer: ostrich

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Question 27. Akron is known as the Rubber Capital of the World. Which Ohio city is called the Glass Capital of the World?Answer: Toledo

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Question 28. "The problem with [it] isn't just its price or its bulk or its battery life -- it's the irrefutable argument that when one rides [it], one looks like a major dork." That was Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times, giving what may be a eulogy for what two-wheeled technological wonder that suddenly isn't so wonderful. What?Answer: The Segway (Sometimes the batteries run down and you just... fall over. Which makes you look even less cool.)

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Question 29. 2 1/2 divided by 5 = ?Answer: 1/2

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Question 30. What's the capital of Indiana?Answer: Indianapolis

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Question 31. Of cirrhosis, meningitis, cystic fibrosis, and multiple sclerosis, which disease is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain or spinal cord, and caused by virus, bacteria, yeasts, fungi, or protozoa?Answer: Meningitis

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Question 32. Who was the ruler of the underworld?Answer: Pluto or Hades

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Question 33. Dozens of U.S. Marines who were in Liberia in support of a West African peacekeeping mission contracted what disease?Answer: Malaria

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Question 34. Julia Child is a winner of Emmy and Peabody awards. In what field has she achieved prominence?Answer: cooking

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Question 35. A triangle with all three sides congruent is called an equilateral triangle. What do we call a triangle with no sides congruent?Answer: Scalene

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Question 36. To rid their nation of the monarchy during the Reign of Terror, French revolutionaries used what popular mode of execution?Answer: Guillotine

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Question 37. Forbes magazine released its annual ranking of the nation’s 400 wealthiest individuals and the top three spots remained the same. Name two of the top three.Answer: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen

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Question 38. In 1922, an English archeologist named Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon discovered one of the richest finds in history. What did these two men find?Answer: The Tomb of King Tutankhamen

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Question 39. Which of these capital cities is the northernmost: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, or Stockholm?Answer: Helsinki

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Question 40. When a person gives false testimony under oath in a court of law, it's called what?Answer: Perjury

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Question 41. THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS, HORTON HEARS A WHO, and THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, are among the books of what author?Answer: Dr. Seuss

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Lightning Round


VARIETY 1 2

Question 42. They used to be called airplane flight stewardesses. What are they called now?Answer: Airplane flight attendants

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Question 43. Maple syrup is produced only in the United States and what other country?Answer: Canada

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Question 44. Identify the year following 1 B.C.Answer: A.D. 1

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ARITHMETIC 1 2

Question 45. What is 4 divided by 1/2?Answer: 8

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Question 46. At 50 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 325 miles?Answer: 6 1/2 hours

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Question 47. How many quarts are in 2 1/2 gallons?Answer: 10

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WORD POWER 1 2

Question 48. Does arbiter mean judge, worker, counsel, or fighter?Answer: Judge

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Question 49. Does atrophied mean drugged, relaxed, wasted, or frozen?Answer: Wasted

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Question 50. Does blatant mean noisy, fearless, swollen, or gaudy?Answer: Noisy

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PSYCHOLOGY 1 2

Question 51. What is the term for the transference of a suppressed desire to a new object?Answer: Channeling or sublimation

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Question 52. A complete or partial loss of memory is called what?Answer: Amnesia

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Question 53. A feeling of well-being which is exaggerated and not in touch with reality is called happiness, euphoria, joy, or pleasure?Answer: Euphoria

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Identify these q words. 1 2

Question 54. To drink deeplyAnswer: Quaff

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Question 55. 25 sheets of paperAnswer: Quire

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Question 56. A waiting line or a pigtailAnswer: Queue

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Let's test your I.Q. about famous doctors. 1 2

Question 57. He was also Mr. Hyde.Answer: Dr. Jekyll

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Question 58. Name the hero of a book that won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Answer: Dr. Zhivago

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Question 59. This English physician discovered the circulation of the blood.Answer: William Harvey

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Question 60. The doctor aboard the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE was . . . Answer: Dr. McCoy

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ANIMAL 1 2

Question 61. This animal is found at the beginning of an encyclopedia.Answer: Aardvark

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Question 62. A beast of burden in Peru is . . . Answer: Llama

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Question 63. This bird sings its name at dusk.Answer: Whippoorwill

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Tell me who was responsible for these inventions. 1 2

Question 64. Battery Answer: Volta

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Question 65. Wireless telegraphy Answer: Marconi

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Question 66. Modern machine gun Answer: Gatling

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Question 67. Photography Answer: DaGuerre

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Finals


Question 1. Name the movie in which we hear TARA'S THEME, or the movie in which we hear LARA'S THEME.Answer: GONE WITH THE WIND and DR. ZHIVAGO, respectively

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Question 2. Sandy baked 4 1/2 pounds of cookies. If she divides the cookies evenly among herself and two friends, how many pounds of cookies will she get?Answer: 1 1/2

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Question 3. Roald AmundsenAnswer: Norwegian

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Question 4. Give me the nickname of the London murderer of at least six women in 1888, who was never apprehended.Answer: Jack the Ripper

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Question 5. The official name for the Soviet Union is the U.S.S.R. What do these letters stand for?Answer: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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Question 6. One yard equals 0.914 meters. How many meters are there in 75 yards?Answer: 68.55

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Question 7. Only one king of England was not able to speak English. He reigned from 1714 to 1727. Was he George I, George II, or George III?Answer: George I

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Question 8. "Would you like some freedom fries with your crow, Mr. President?" That's Salon.com's headline describing President Bush's recent turnaround, asking what group to help the United States rebuild Iraq?Answer: The United Nations

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Question 9. What TV show did Newsweek characterize as “Comedy Central’s burpfest”?Answer: The Man Show

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Question 10. Multiply 5.209 by 1.086. What's the product?Answer: 5.656974

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Question 11. How much money would I have if I possessed six bits?Answer: 75 cents

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Question 12. If a car travels 300 yards in 10 seconds, how many feet does it travel in a fifth of a second if its rate does not vary?Answer: 18 feet

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Question 13. Here are some of the best-known trails: Appalachian Trail, Chisholm Trail, Santa Fe Trail. Now match them with their start and stop points: Texas to Kansas; Missouri to New Mexico; Maine to Georgia.Answer: Appalachian--Maine to Georgia; Chisholm--Texas to Kansas, Santa Fe--Missouri to New Mexico

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Question 14. He addressed a Richmond convention with the famous speech, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Who was this patriot?Answer: Patrick Henry

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Question 15. The study of word origins is called etymology. What is studied in the science of entomology?Answer: Insects

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Question 16. A 16th century scientist put forward the then absurd notion that the sun, not the earth, was the center around which the planets revolve. Name this Polish astronomer.Answer: Nicolas Copernicus

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Question 17. Two senior Bush administration officials urged patience with the American occupation in Iraq, comparing the attacks against U.S. forces there to guerrilla strikes by member of what political party that fought on after World War II ended?Answer: Nazis

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Question 18. If I were cautious, I would be very careful. What would I be like if I were precocious?Answer: A person of premature development; advanced for age

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Question 19. Taco Bell must pay an additional $11.8 million in interest to two Michigan men who successfully sued the fast-food chain for stealing their idea of an ad campaign featuring a talking what?Answer: Chihuahua

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Question 20. A frightening fracture in the earth's crust is located in the state of California. What is this geological feature called?Answer: San Andreas Fault

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Question 21. How many sides does a heptagon have?Answer: 7

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Question 22. Nine ounces is what fraction of a pound?Answer: 9/16

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Question 23. A new book titled, “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good,” is a new book written by which actor and his business partner, about the success of their company that started with the sale of the actor’s homemade salad dressing with all the profits given away to charity?Answer: Paul Newman

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Question 24. His ship was named Argo, and in it he sailed to find the Golden Fleece. Name him.Answer: Jason

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Question 25. A state of lawlessness or political disorder within a country--in short, the lack of any governmental authority--is called what?Answer: Anarchy

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Question 26. In geology, the wave-washed sediment along a coast extending throughout the surf zone, is known as what?Answer: Beach

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Question 27. America's Unknown Soldier is buried at Arlington National Cemetery; France's, at the Arch of Triumph. Where is England's Unknown Soldier?Answer: Westminster Abbey

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Question 28. A bear had three cubs. Each of the cubs weighed 1,457 grams. What was the total weight of the cubs in kilograms?Answer: 4.371

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Question 29. In arithmetic, what do we call the quantity from which another quantity is subtracted?Answer: Minuend

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Question 30. Name the song sung by Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO.Answer: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

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Question 31. What government department controls the food stamp program, school lunches and breakfasts, and meat and poultry inspection?Answer: U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Question 32. The duckbilled platypus, the koala, and the kangaroo you find on which continent?Answer: Australia

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Question 33. The 3-judge ruling on California's recall election was related to voting irregularities in what other state during the presidential election of 2000?Answer: Florida

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Question 34. Fred, a traveling salesman, spent 1 3/4 hours driving on Mondays, 2 1/3 hours driving on Tuesday, and 2 1/6 hours driving on Wednesday. How many total hours did he spend driving those three days?Answer: 6 1/4 hours

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Question 35. According to the Bible, what was man made from?Answer: dust

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Question 36. Cell phone companies are attacking each other with ad blitzes as they brace for a new rule beginning Nov. 24 that will let customers keep what when they switch providers?Answer: Their phone number

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Question 37. What philosopher spoke of a cave in which people are chained and in which they see shadows, thinking these shadows to be the only reality?Answer: Plato (Accept Socrates.)

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Question 38. The cotton wedding anniversary is celebrated in the first year of marriage. In what year is the golden wedding anniversary celebrated?Answer: 50th

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Question 39. In geology, the Moh's Scale measures the hardness of rocks and minerals. What does the Richter Scale measure?Answer: Intensity of earthquakes

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Question 40. What does the Roman numeral M stand for?Answer: 1,000

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Question 41. In the closest race for the National League batting title in history, what St. Louis Cardinal won the crown when challenger Todd Helton of the Rockies was intentionally walked in his last at bat?Answer: Albert Pujols (He won by a margin of .00022, or .3587 to .3585.)

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Lightning Round


Y1K-All questions relate to the state of the world 1,000 years ago. 1 2

Question 42. At the end of the 10th century caravans from Ghana crossed the Sahara carrying this metal.Answer: Gold

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Question 43. Many religious Europeans and Byzantines were surprised when the end of the year 999 did not result in what?Answer: Judgement Day (The Apocalypse or end of the world).

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Question 44. In England, King Ethelred “The Unready” paid tribute to these marauders.Answer: Danish Vikings (Accept either)

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WRITING-One word in each sentence is incorrect. Give the correct word which should be used in place of the error.

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Question 45. Divide it between the six of them.Answer: Among

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Question 46. It's imperative that you are on time.Answer: Be

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Question 47. In 1936 Edward VIII fabricated the throne of England.Answer: Abdicated

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MATH 1 2

Question 48. If hamburgers sell at 2 for $5.00, how much would half a dozen hamburgers cost?Answer: $15.00

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Question 49. What's the simplest fractional form of the square of four-eighths?Answer: 1/4

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Question 50. What mathematical term is defined as the ratio of the number of favorable outcomes to the number of possible outcomes?Answer: Probability

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Question 51. If a hen can lay an egg every day and a half, how many eggs can three hens lay in three days?Answer: 6

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WHO'S WHO-Here are 10 people better known by their middle names. Give me those middle names.

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Question 52. William Rains, British actorAnswer: Claude

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Question 53. Leroy Cleaver, U.S. civil rights leaderAnswer: Eldridge

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Question 54. Achille Debussey, French composerAnswer: Claude

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SCIENCE-Give me the name of each of these sciences. 1 2

Question 55. The study of man.Answer: Anthropology

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Question 56. The branch of medicine dealing with curing by operative procedures.Answer: Surgery

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Question 57. The study of building design.Answer: Architecture

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Question 58. The study of outer space.Answer: Astronomy

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JEOPARDY- They give you the answers and ask you to come up with the questions. I've got a 10-part Jeopardy series for you, but remember--your answer must be in the form of a question.

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Question 59. Any plant-eating animal.Answer: Qstn. What is a herbivore?

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Question 60. Nectar and ambrosia.Answer: Qstn. What did the Greek and Roman gods live on?

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Question 61. Billy and nanny.Answer: Qstn. What are male and female goats called?

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NUMBERS GAME-What number is associated with each of the following words? 1 2

Question 62. UnicycleAnswer: 1

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Question 63. QuarantineAnswer: 40

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Question 64. PentecostAnswer: 50

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Give me the names of these four 20th century dictators, all notable for their long terms.

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Question 65. He assumed power as Cuba's head of state on January 1, 1959. Answer: Fidel Castro

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Question 66. He led the Nationalist forces to victory during the Spanish Civil War, and ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975. Answer: Francisco Franco

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Question 67. From 1945 to 1980, he ruled Yugoslavia. Answer: Tito

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