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- Give the number of pints in 2 quarts.
- 4 pints
- Name the planet that is more than 11 times the diameter of earth.
- Jupiter
- Give the musical term used to name the clef that begins the top staff, where higher notes of piano music are written.
- Treble(clef)
- Identify the branch of the U.S. government that administers the laws and affairs of the country.
- Executive (Branch)
- In the sentence, "Wow!, Can you come here?" identify the interjection.
- Wow
- Identify the Novle Prize-wining chemist who with her husband discovered polonium, an element named for her native land.
- Marie Curie
- Identify the continent to the north of the Indian Ocean and west of the North Pacific.
- Asia
- Identify the author of such works as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
- Lewis Carroll
- Identify the perimeter of an equilateral triangle having one side measuring 65 inches.
- 195 inches
- Identify the inventor of the power-steamed steamboat, the Clermont.
- Robert Fulton
- Identify the correct spelling of the prefix meaning "half" in the word hemisphere.
- Hemi
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Such monarchs as Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth II, and Queen Victoria
were all queens of which country. - England
- THis question requires a multiple answer. Name 3 of the 4 types of taste the human tongue is able to distinguish.
- Sweet, Sour, Salty, & Bitter(Any 3)
- Convert 29 feet and 41/2 inches into total inches.
- 352 1/2 inches
- Identify the name for the tropical area describes as having a dense growth of trees and an annual rainfall of 100 or more inches.
- Rain Forest
- Give the term referring to the lines grouped together in a poem.
- Stanza
- This question requires a multiple answer. Name all 4 states of matter.
- Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma
- Name the long-suffering puppetmaker in Pinocchio.
- Geppetto
- Identify the explosive that brought great wealth to Swedish-chemist Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel prizes.
- Dynamite
- If Angle B measures 60 degrees, find te measure of its complement.
- 30 degrees
- Name the Florence-born artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
- Michelangelo
- Correct the following sentence if needed, "He rung the bell at 3:00 p.m."
- change rung to rang
- Identify the planet that possibly has an ice cap on its north pole even though it is the hottest and closest to the sun.
- Mercury
- Express the number 24 in Roman numerals.
- XXIV
- Identify the only one of the 13 original states not represented at the Constitutional Convention, our smallest U.S. state.
- Rhode Island
- A chord refers to how many notes being played simultaneously.
- 3
- Identify the term beginning with the letter L that means "having to do with, or like, the moon."
- Lunar
- Given the scores of 84, 89, and 94 , find the mean.
- 89
- Such classics as Black Beauty was written by which female author?
- Anna Sewell
- Identify the U.S. Condtitutional Amendment which protects the freedom of speech and the press.
- 1st Amendmendmant
- According tho the 22nd Amendment, give the maximum number of terms of office the President of the U.S. can serve.
- 2
- This question requires a multiple answer with both the first and last name given. Name the brothers who made the first successful flight in a power-driven airplane i 1903 on Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina.
- Orville and Wilbur Wright
- Round 485.125 to the nearest hundred.
- 500
- Punctuate the following sentence, "She went to the store, and bought flour and sugar."
- Comma after store, Period at the end of the sentence.
- Identify the Ohio-born U.S. President who headed the Union army and is buried in Riverside Park in New York City.
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Identify the continent directly to the north of Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan.
- South America
- Identify the USSR spacecraft that was first to land on the moon. This craft, bearing the name of the goddess of the moon, was launched in 1959.
- Luna
- If Sam spent 75% of a whole day sleeping, how many hours did he sleep?
- 18
- In which Greek city were the first modern Olympic Games hel in 1896?
- Athens
- Identify the instument invented by physician Theopile Laenned used to listen to the sounds in the chest.
- Stethoscope
- Identify the literary term illustrated by such words as crunch, boom, and poof.
- Onomatopoeia
- How many years elapsed between te appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, the year Mark Twain was born, and its reappearance in 1910, the year Twain died.
- 75 years
- Identify the first woman in space in 1963.
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Name the son whom A.A. Milne once to to Lndon Regent's Park Zoo to see a bear called Winnie.
- Christopher Robin
- Identify the chemical symbol for the element, aluminum.
- Al
- Identify the number of degrees in a triangle.
- 180 degrees
- Identify the American folk hero who died competing with a sledge hammer against a steam drill.
- John Henry
- Give the correct spelling of the plural form of sky.
- skies
- Identify the U.S. President called the "Hero of American Independence" and the "Father of His Country."
- George Washington
- Identify the world's highest waterfall.
- Angel Falls
- In 1880 which great composer of march music became conductor of the U.S. Marine Corps Band? He is known as the "March King."
- John Philip Sousa
- If a regular octagon has a perimeter of 96 inches, find the length of each side.
- 12 inches
- Rick Pitino made Kentucky history when he came back in 2001 as coach for which Kentucky university?
- University of Louisville
- Identify the governor of New Netherland who bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for about $24.
- Peter Minuit
- Believe it or not, which famous book written by L. Frank Baum was once banned or challenged?
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Give the term used to designate the calm, low-pressure center of a huuricane around which winds of high velocity move.
- Eye
- Give the Spanish term meaning "friend."
- amigo
- In the sentence, "She is my best friend,' identify the sdjective.
- best
- Solve for b in the following equation: 5b+2=32
- 6
- Identify the "Hero of the Texas Revolution," who died at the Alamo and who was the alleged inventor of a famous hunting knife.
- Jim Bowie
- Identify the bee that gathers food, builds the colony and cares for the young.
- worker
- Give the term referring to the distance around a circle.
- Circumferance
- In which U.S. state did Mt. St. Helens erupt on May 18, 1980?
- Washington
- Punctuate the follwoing sentence, "Are you going to your house or mine?"
- question mark at theend of sentence.
- Identify the fairy tale character whose name literally means "little cinder girl".
- Cinderella
- From which country did Secretary of State William Seward purchase ALask in 1867?
- Russia
- What is the quoteint when 12 is divided by 1/2?
- 24
- Give the term referring to an eater of grass or other plants.
- Herbivore
- Identify the creator of such characters as Buck and Wolf Larsen and the author of Call of the Wild.
- Jack London
- Identify the U.S. state known as the "Buckeye State" having as its capital, Columbus.
- Ohio
- Give the term to an artist's painting or drawing of himself.
- self-portrait
- If Joe bought a $60 jacket that was discounted 25%, how much was his discount?
- $15
- Identify the Civil War ironclad that battled the Merrimack in the American Civil War.
- Monitor
- Seismology refers to the study of what?
- earthquakes
- Give the area of a triangle having a base of 5 meters and a height of 10 meters.
- 25 square meters.