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| The smallest state in the U.S. is... | Rhode Island |
| Name those geological ages when glaciers covered much of North America, Europe and Asia. | ice ages |
| what kick is used with the sidestroke? | scissors kick |
| Sometimes after a rainstorm, sunlight is refracted, reflected, and refracted again in droplets of water. The resulting dispersion is called a... | rainbow |
| At what temperature on the Fahrenheit scale do water molecules vaporize? | 212 degrees |
| Knowing that the writer addressed his poem to a thesaurus, what phrase completes this verse? Though I could keep this up all day, This lyric, elegiac song, Meseems it's come the time to say Farewell! Adieu! Good-bye! ... | So Long! |
| The last word in this ditty by Ogden Nash is a play on what word? Why wants my jellyfish? I'm not sellyfish. | selfish |
| A long, pointed, hollow tooth of a venomous reptile is called a ... | fang |
| What butterfly that summers all over the United States and Canada migrates to Mexico, Florida, and southern California for the winter? | monarch |
| What civilization counted years by Olympiads? | Greeks |
| What countries were parties in the gadsden purchase? | Mexico, United States |
| The Red Poll, Golden Guernsey, and Aberdeen Angus are breeds of ... | cattle (livestock, cows) |
| Ernie's Excavating mixes 12 tons of sand at $6 per ton with 8 tons of gravel at $4.50 per ton. What is the per ton of the mixture? | $5.40 |
| -16 divided by -1/2 equals... | 32 |
| The lessons that fables teach about life are called... | morals |
| What name completes this verse of a ballad? "This infant was call'd John Little," quoth he. Which name shall be chang'd anon, the words we'll transpose, So wherever he goes, his name shalled be called ..." | Little John |
| What term rhyming with "festoon" means to put a person ashore on a deserted island? | maroon |
| Restate this line in standard English. A little rain never hurt no one. | A little rain never hurt anyone (anybody). |
| What unit of measurement equals 39.37 inches? | meter |
| What term refers to the imaginary heavenly circle in which 12 major constellations lie? | zodiac |
| A body of citizens sworn to weigh the evidence and decide the the facts of a legal case is a ... | jury |
| What creature is usually in this tongue twister? How much wood could a groundhog chuck if a groundhog could chuck wood? | woodchuck |
| What word from a Dr. seuss book about Christmas has come to be used as an allusion for any mean, miserly person? | grinch |
| Take 30% of the product of 200 and 3. Divide that result by 4 and after dividing that quotient by 5, square it. | 81 |
| In 1903, Bishop Milton Wright said "It is only given to God and angles to fly." Name his two children who just a few days later showed their father to be absolutely wrong. | Wilbur, Orville |
| What state is between Vermont and Maine? | New Hampshire |
| How much time in months and days elapses in any given year between independence day and Christmas? | 5 months 20 days |
| What character in "The Lord of the Rings" loses a finger to Gollum? | Frodo |
| What national park in Arizona is named after a giant cactus? | Saguaro National Park |
| There are two acceptable plurals for the words "appendix," "helix," and "matrix." What two combinations of three letters form the ends of these plurals? | xes, ces |
| All of the precipitation that falls on the west side of what natural barrier in the U.S. flows toward the Pacific Ocean? | Continental Divide (Rocky Mountains) |
| What occupation is described below? Embarking from the mother ship in small open boats, crews of six rowed silently. A harpooner stood in teh bow of each boat. | Whaling |
| What common tiny bird can hover in still air and also fly backward? | hummingbird |
| A settlement of differences in which both sides make concessions is a ... | compromise (negotiation) |
| Identify the elements of the set of fractions with numerators of 1 and whose denominators are whole numbers between 1 and 5. | 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 |
| Another name for the North American buffalo is the ... | bison |
| restate this line as an interrogative sentence. A merry old soul was he. | Was he a merry old soul? |
| Spell the plural of "tomato." | tomatoes |
| What relatively small boat with powerful engines are used for towing or pushing large ships and barges? | tugboats (tugs) |
| What term indicates the verb along with its modifiers and complements in a sentence? | predicate |
| Photovoltaic cells convert solar energy directly into... | electricity |
| People began making pictures and designs out of bits of colored stone at least 2000 years ago. Name this art form. | mosaic |
| This is about what Greek mythical character? Because the river water did not touch his heel, it was the only part of his body that could suffer harm. | Achilles |
| An astoundingly useful simple machine consists of just a wheel and ... | axle |
| Within just eleven years during what century did these things occur? Dias sailed around the tip of Africa. Columbus reached the West Indies. John Cabot reached Newfoundland. Da Gama reached India by sea. | 15th century |
| infectious diseases can be passed from one person to another. These diseases are... | contagious (communicable) |
| Who painted a word with this title? Self-Portait of Jean Fouquet | Jean Fouquet |
| You can spell the name of what animal with this first letters of the names of the contintnetal U.S. states bordering the Pacific? | cow |
