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| A gathering of jazz musicians in which they improvise is know as what kind of session? | jam (session) |
| Even after four journey to America, what explorer continued to insist that he had found Asia and died clinging to that belief? | (Christopher) Columbus |
| What system of raised point writing deised by a French aducato enables sightless people to read words and music? | Braille |
| In what story by O. Henry do Bill and Sam discover tat the boy they have kidnappe is such a terror that they actually have to pay the father to take the kid back? | The Random of Red Chief |
| What kind of triangle has exactly two congruent sides and two congruent angles? | isosceles (triangle) |
| If the only time that mountains could have been formed was when the Earth was formed, then there would be no mountains today because they would have been obliterated by what process? | erosion |
| The wings of a yellow jacket are on which section of its body? | thorax |
| What line comes next in this poem? For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. | For want of a rider the battle was lost. |
| In 1879, Wyatt and his older brothers James & Virgil moved to what silver-mining boomtown in the Arizona Territory? | Tombstone |
| If a pet tribble is growing on the Starship Enterprise at a rate of 3 pounds per year, how long will it take for it to gain 24 ounces? | 6 months (or 1/2 year) |
| This is about wha? George Washinton's face was dedicated in 1934, Thomas Jefferson's in 1936, Abraham Lincoln's in 1937, and finally Theodore Roosevelt's in 1939. | Mount Rushmore |
| What art form completes this quote by Thomas Stoppard? It is not hard to understand modern art. It is hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it, it's a ... | sculpture |
| Around the year 1000, Leif Eriksson sailed west to a rocky coast he named Helluland or Slabland, and then south to a forestedregion he called Markland or Woodland, and then further south to an area where grapes grew in abundance that he called ... | Vinlandor Wineland |
| What body system is affected by laryngitis, emphysema, asthma, sinusitis, an bronchitis? | respiratory system |
| A solid wth its atoms or molecules packed i a regularly ordere, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions is called a ... | crystal |
| In a city of 400,000 residentswhere the municipal bdget is $900 million, what is the per capita spending? | $2250 |
| In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," what large and hungry creatures are the main natural enemies of the Oompa-Loompas? | Whangdoodles |
| What explorer claimed the intire Mississippi Basin for France? | La Salle |
| What is the volume of a box with dmensions of 4, 6, and 10 centimeters? | 240 cubic centimeters |
| What extensive inland body of water has been called America's Dead Sea? | Great Salt Lake |
| On each foot of an eagle are how many talons? | 4 |
| The flag of what country was the first to be flown at the South Pole? | Norway |
| Someone with a knack of making plants grow well has what kind of thumb? | green thumb |
| The solid rock that underlies all clay, soil, sand, gravel and loose material n the Earth's surface is called ... | bedrock |
| In 2007, scientsts announced they had discovered a chain of cascading lakes beneath the glaciers of what continent? | Antarctica |
| Curiosity plays a central role in the story of Bluebeard's wives and also what Greek mythical woman who couldn't keep from opening a box? | Pandora |
| Sit-ups, push-ups, jumping jacks, and squats illustrate what form of exercise performed without weights or equipment? | calisthenics |
| What error is illustrated in this line? There's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. | redundancy (tautology) |
| The smallest shadow ill be cast by a telephone pole if the angle between it and the source of the light is how many degrees? | zero degrees |
| Composed by John Philip Sousa, "Semper Fidelis" is the official mrch of what branch of the U.S. military? | Marines |
| The Dalai Lama has spent much of his adult life campaigning for the independence of what country taken over by the Chiese in 1950? | Tibet |
| These are steps for treating what? -Calm and reassure the victim. -Insulate the victim from the cold ground. -Ensure the victim can maintain a comfortable body temperature. -Elevate the victim's legs 10-12 inches. | shock |
| Arress by Mounties are mostly made in what country? | Canada |
| Guns on Gibraltar control the entrane to what body of water? | Mediterranean Sea |
| This verse is about what country? I'm an old brummy writing from downunder, A country of drogught and drawnout thunder. Where the ding's call haunts you all night long Dark the aborigine tell of their past glory To the droaning of a diggery by the jolly swagman's billabong. | Australia |
| Whose inventive genius was the basis for these developments? By 1898, nearly 3,000 power stations across the country generated energy that consumers could tap into to turn night into day and that businesses could use to drive trolley cars, subways, and industrial machines. | Thomas Edison (or Nikola Tesla) |
| What plane figure can be rotated to produce a cylinder? | rectangle |
| What adverb completes this ditty? When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk ... | before |
| To the nearest whole number, how many times denser is lead than aluminum if the density of lead is 11,300 kg per cubic meter and the density of aluminum is 2,700 kg per cubic meter? | 4 |
| What 13th-century Venetian traversed teh Silk Road? | Marco Polo |
| The four tissues htat make up a tooth include the dental pulp, cementum, dentin, and ... | enamel |
| A celestial event in which a large number of meteors are visible in a short period is called a meteor ... | shower (storm) |
| What crime is committd when private citizens intentionally damage or deface private or public property? | vandalism |
| This is from what poem? Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright. The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout. | Casey at the Bat |
| This is about an event in what year? Black puffs of anti-aircraft smoke littered the sky and we knew that this was no test. The dirty gray smoke of a great fire billowed up over Pearl and obscured the mountains and the horizon, and we could hear the soft crump of the bombs and the chatter of the ack-ack. | 1941 |
| Amelia Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government, and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society for being the first woman to fly solo across what body of water? | Atlantic Ocean |
| What substance in carbonated beverages preseves them from spoiling? | carbon dioxide |
| Complete this thought by Johann Sebastian Bach with a reflexive pronoun. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays ... | itself |
| What city is on the southern shore of the strait called the Golden Gate | San Francisco |
| With what type of electrical current is its direction reversed 120 times per second? | alternating current (AC) |
| Name the products found by multiplying the numerator of one fraction by the denominator of another fraction and the denominator of the first fraction by the numerator of the second. | cross products |
| In relation to its object, where do you always find a preposition in a sentence? | before the object |
