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| These feats of daring are collectively known as what in the movie business? --leaping from a building onto a helicopter; --jumping a speedboat over a police car; --falling from a cliff into a river; --being dragged along behind a moving truck | stunts |
| During the Middle Ages, human power, animal power, and windmills were used in the industries of the time. What other device was used then that relied on hydropower? | water wheel |
| This illustrates what basic type of sentence? Does the noise in my head bother you? | interrogative |
| This quote from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is about what creature? 'It swam crossway in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. The arms fixed to its head were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. | giant squid |
| In the outside of a 3 by 3 by 5 inch rectangular prism is painted and then is cut into 1 inch cubes, how many of the small cubes are painted on exactly 3 sides. | 8 |
| Cape Henry, Virginia, was the site of the first landfall of the settlers who established what colony in 1607 | Jamestown |
| While volcanoes that have erupted in historical times but are now quiet are classified as dormant, those that are currenly erupting or showing signs of eruption such as seismic activity or gas emission are said to be... | active |
| Off the coast of Queesland, Australia, is the largest object ever built by living things calle the... | Great Barrier Reef |
| What highly contagious reflex behavior is associated with exhaustion and boredom? | yawning |
| These are all varieties of what? takas, florins, yuans, rupees, dinars, rials | currencies (money, mediums of exchange, etc) |
| Juan Sebastian Elcano actually completed the first circumnavigation of the globe after what original leader of theexpedition was killed in the Philippines? | (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| Ancient cities in what country include Aleppo and Damascus? | Syria |
| What literary technique is used in this passage? He was a thin, wiry man in a tan-colored shirt. He had a gray, untidy mustache, his skin was wrinkled and leathery, but his eyes were always friendly and amused. | characterization |
| If burning one gallon of gas produces about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, how many pounds of carbon dioxide are produced by a vehicle getting 20 miles per galon on a 200-mile trip? | 200 |
| Name the small-sized Conestoga wagosn used by many pioneer families in their ventures west. | prairie schooners |
| What part of speech is the first word in this example? Where do yo keep your copy of the Constitution? | adverb |
| Unpowered flight using airfoils to create lift called... | gliding |
| What minerals are present in the water evaporating from the Great Salt Lake? | none |
| Before many of the fifty U.S. states became states, they were territories administered by a chief executive appointe by the U.S. presient. What title did that official hold? | governor |
| This toltec legend is reiniscent of what other legendary structure of the ancient iddle East? After men had multiplied ollowing a great deluge, thy built a tall zacuali or tower, to preserve themelves in the event of another deluge. However, their languages were confounded and they went to searate parts of the earth. | Tower of Babel |
| What is the cmmon name for pig fat used in cooking and soap manufacture? | lard |
| This quotation is about what character in a Jack London story? He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once and for all,that he stood no chance against a man with a club. | Buck |
| If you have a bag holding 12 black, 3 white, and 2 yellow balls and take out 2 black balls, what is the probability that the next one randomly removed is white? | 1/5 (1 in 5) or 3/15 |
| According to local legends, the caverns near Carlsbad, New Mexico, were discovered when a cowboy thought he saw smoke rising from the ground one evening, but, when he rode closer, he found that the "smoke" actually consisted of hat emerging from an underground chamber? | bats |
| What is the first word in this sign on a music store window that incorpoates punnery? ---- in an our. Offenbach sooner. | Bach |
| What color was worn by Iranian demonstrators in the protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election there? | gren |
| This is what happens when you are making what? When heated, the moisture inside the hull turns into superheate pressurized steam. The starch inside the seed gelatinizes and becomes pliable. As the temperature increases, the hull ruptures and its contents expand into an airy foam that cools and sets into a crispy puff. | popcorn |
| What figure of speech is illustrated in thsi line by a pilot who failed in his second attempt to fly nonstop across the U.S.? I could easily have crawled under a snake's belly with a high silk hat on, I felt so low. | hyperbole (exaggeration) |
| "Czar" was no longer the title of what country's leader after a revolution in 1917? | Russia |
| In what story does a maid named Martha tell Mary Lennox about a garden at her Uncle Archibald's house that has been locked up for ten years? | The Secret Garden |
| A 60-tooth gear running at 20 rpm is meshe with a 40-tooth gear, driving it at what rpm? | 30 |
| In contrast at the 210 American casualties, nearly 1800 British soldiers wee killed or wounded during what battle that occurred two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent? | (Battle of) New Orleans |
| What is the common name for those wasps that build their nests from mud? | mud daubers (dirt daubers, dirt divers) |
| What kind of wound has a small hole caused by a narrow pointed object? | puncture (wound) |
| How many times greater is the slope of a mountain stream with a gradient of 40 meters per kilometer than the lower portion of the Mississippi with a gradient of 10 centimeters per kilometer? | 400 |
| What type of ruler is illustrated in these examples? -Jack in Golding's "Lord of the Flies" -Emperor Palpatine in the "Star Wars" saga; -Napoleon in "Animal Farm"; -Big Brothr in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"; -Yertle in "Yertle the Turtle" | dictator |
| This is one of the stories about te invention of what popular treat? When a concession stand at th St. Louis World's Fair ran out of plates for ice cream, owners began serving it in rolled-up pastries called "World's Fair Cornucopias." | ice cream cone |
| A simple sentence contains a maximum of how many independent clauses? | 1 |
| This dialogue is from what story? "You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet, even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?" | The Gift of the Magi |
| If a rectagular box is 7 inches wide, 6 inches long, and has a volume of 378 cubic inches, what is its height? | 9 inches |
| A red-hot issue for early U.S. lawmakers concerned the location of the national capital. In an early political bargain, Hamiton and Jefferson agreed to support a site on teh banks of what river for the new federal city? | Potomac (River) |
| Name the geographically largestcountry through which the Artic Circle runs. | Russia |
| According to her bathroom scales, Melanie weighs 125 pounds. But if she is standing on her scales durig free fall, the scales say her weight is what? | zero |
| These songs are from what musical? Toot Sweets; Hushabye Mountain; Me Ol' Bamboo; Truly Scrumptious | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| What kind of flood results when a local, intense rainstorm generates heavy runoff in a normally dry channel to form a wall of water moving downstream? | flash (flood) |
| These are rules for what? It should never touch the ground. It should normally be displayed from sunup to sunset. It should be lighted if displayed at night. It should be folded when stored. Old ones should be burned or buried but never thrown in the trash. | U.S. flag |
| These utterances illustration what part of speech? Wow!; Ugh!; Aha!; Ouch! | interjections |
| What melodramatic stock character often cackles and leers while twirling his moustache, rolling his eyes, and rubbing his hands together? | villain |
| What metal is in such alloys as ferrovandium, ferronickel, ferrochrome, and ferromanganese? | iron |
| How many items are in eleven gross two dozen and eleven? | 1619 |
| The people of what part of colonial Canada posed a difficult problem for th English after the French and Indian War since they composed a substantial majority of the population, spoke a different language, and were almost entirely Roman Catholic? | Quebec |
| Semaphore requires the use of what equipment? | flags (paddles, disks, lights) |
