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| Any device that causes light to eiter converge or diverge is called... | lens |
| Name the short sword attached to the end of a soldier's rifle. | bayonet |
| A medical device to immobolize a limb is called a ... | splint (cast) |
| What is the product of the smallest positive integers with single, double, and triple-syllable names? | 77 |
| According to a compromise in the original U.S. Constitution, if a community had 25,000 free citizens and 25,000 slaves, what number would be used to assess its taxes and compute its representation? | 40,000 |
| In Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, "On the Banks fo Plum Creek," a swarm of what descended upon her family's farm near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, destroying a year's wheat crop, and stripping the prairie bare of all vegetation? | locusts (grasshoppers) |
| The Missouri Comprise was the first major attempt to settle the slavery question in lands acquired in what huge real estate deal? | Lousisiana Purchase |
| 126 is the sum of what three consecutive integers? | 41, 42, 43 |
| Through what structures do tadpoles breathe? | gills |
| Lapland is in the northern part of what ontinent? | Europe |
| The first Olympic were staged in 776 B.C. Had they been held on schedule, how many Olympic games would there have been by the time of year 1 B.C.? | 194 |
| Name any word that includes asilent "b" preceding a "t". | doubt, debt, doubtful, subtle, etc. |
| Thanks to what major fault, some geological maps place the future sites of Los Angeles and San Francisco at consideably higher latitutdes than their present locations? | San Andreas (fault) |
| In a hydroelectric systems, water flows through what hydraulic device that spins, turning adjacent generators that transform the rotatinal energy into elctricity? | turbine |
| Complete this ending passage from a short story. The question of her decision is one not to be lightly considered, and itis not for me to presume to set myself upas the one person able to answer it. And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door, --the lady, or ... | the tiger |
| Instead of using horses or mules to pull their Conestoga and covered wagons, may pioneers sed whatother much stronger animal? | oxen (ox) |
| What fraction is halfway between 2/9 and 5/9? | 7/18 |
| In what kind of play is the audience ured to cheer the hero and boo the villain? | melodrama |
| Public opinion and lobbying have the least influence on which of the thee branches of American government? | judicial branch |
| The greatest use of camel trains is associated with what desert? | Sahara (desert) |
| A technique for processing what everyday food fond in a grocery store was deeloped by Louis Pasteur? | milk |
| Known to eat oher frogs and amphibians, fish, small snakes, and even birds, name the largest North American frog. | bullfrog (American bullfrog) |
| This sentnce belongs to which of the three basic types of sentences? If Jimmy crcks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him? | interrogative |
| What is the highest rank attainable in theBoy Scouts of America? | Eagle Scout |
| Who said this? The crisis came at a period when I could act unhampered. Accordingly I took the Isthmus, started the canal, and then left Congress not to debate the canl but to debate me. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The line segment connecting two non-adjacent vertices in a polygon is called a ... | diagonal |
| On an alphabetical list o the South American countries through which the equator passes, which is first? | Brazil |
| A liquid capable of dissolving a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a soluton, is called a ... | solvent |
| LEaders of what two countries signed the Camp David Accords in 1978? | Israel, Egypt |
| Astronomers found evidence in 2006 that liquid water had flowed as recently as 2001 on what planet? | Mars |
| Galileo used his telescope to discover that what planet passes through phases just like the Moon? | Venus |
| In anticipation of a surge in deman for their Oscillating Auk Lamps, AukCo managers had 900 of them assembled. After a year, AukCo still had 893 left. That excess quantity is caled a ... | surplu (glut, oversupply) |
| The is from what novel? "Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothin to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus." | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| This line isfrom the official song of what state? Roger Williams would be proud to see his colony so ot sell short this preciou port. | Rhode Island |
| Your meal at the Edible Complex Restaurant cost $19.00. When you add a 15% tip, what is the total mount you need to leave? | $21.85 |
| Complete this example of punnery with an article of clothing. The difference between a well dressed man and adog is the man wears a suit the dog just... | pants |
| What is the common name for rodents that often collect various small, bight, shiny objects and bits of material to deposit in their nests? | pack rats |
| What caused the destruction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus? | earthquakes |
| The Irish poet William Allingham is describing the appearance of what imaginery being in these worlds? A wrinkled, wizen'd, and bearded Elf, Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose, Silver buckles to his hose, Leather apron - shoe in his lap. | leprechaun |
| What is the last name of the inventor who wrote this in 1913? I took a position at one fo the wings, intending to help balance the machine as it ran down the track. But when the restraining wire was slipped, the machine started off so quickly I could stay with it only a few feet. After a 40-foot run, it lifted from the rail. | Wright |
| 0.00002% of the world's human population lives on what continent? | Antarctica |
| Mr. and Mrs. Beaver wh are important heroic chracters in what classic fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis? | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| The system of parlimentary procedure mos frequently followed in the U.S. is in a book entitled "Robert's Rules of ..." | Order |
| If thee are M months in a year, W weeks in a month, and D days in a week, how many days are there on oen year? | MWD |
| What type of violent strom is much more prevalent in Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kasas, and Texas than Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah? | tornado |
| Someone who is egotistical, conceited, and arrogant could be described as being as proud as what kin of large male bird with an extravagant tail? | peacock |
| What lizard of the American Southwest secetes venom in its saliva that it gets into the bloodstream of its prey by chewing? | Gila monster |
| The headquarters of what U.S. government department is locaed in an enormous facility shaped like a five-sided polygon? | Department of Defense |
| What fictional character is the antecedent in this line from a story? He took a swing at the cute little Tar Baby adn his paw got stuck in the tar. | Br'er Rabbit |
| This is about what president? Finally, after 36 ballots spanning six days, the tie for the presidency was broken when James Bayard, a Deleware congressman, switched his vote, thereby placing the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence into the U.S. presidency. | (Thomas) Jefferson |
| What were the Inuit protecting themselves from by carving goggles from caribou antlers with a long thn slit cut across the front? | snow blindness |
| Name the professional fighters of ancient Rome who battled against wild animals, condemned criminals, and each other for the entertainment of spectators. | gladiators |
