Lightning Round
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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Question 42. The only state that touches the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Answer: Florida
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Question 43. Crater Lake National Park is located in what state?
Answer: Oregon
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Question 44. Name the state that contains Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River.
Answer: Minnesota
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NAMES-What word or phrase was coined after or is identified with each of the following names?
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Question 45. Buckminster Fuller
Answer: Geodesic dome or Spaceship Earth
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Question 46. John Philip Sousa
Answer: Sousaphone
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Question 47. Jack Bibb
Answer: Bibb Lettuce
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IRISH
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Question 48. What is the capital of Northern Ireland?
Answer: Belfast
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Question 49. What is the major religion of the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Roman Catholicism
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Question 50. Who was made a bishop and labored for the conversion of Ireland? (His feast day is March 17.)
Answer: St. Patrick
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GOOD DAY-Identify these literary and historical allusions to the word day.
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Question 51. What proverb means “things take time”?
Answer: Rome wasn't built in a day.
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Question 52. Novel and film about an assassination attempt on Charles DeGaulle.
Answer: DAY OF THE JACKAL
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Question 53. Proverb meaning “Even the downtrodden have times of joy or revenge.”
Answer: Every dog has his day.
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PREFIXES-From the following, identify the scientific prefixes which mean these numerical values.
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Question 54. Thousandth part
Answer: Milli
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Question 55. Thousandfold
Answer: Kilo
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Question 56. Tenth part
Answer: Deci
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WHAT'S WRONG?-Correct the error in each statement.
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Question 57. The flag officially adopted for Canada shows a single oak leaf.
Answer: It's a maple leaf.
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Question 58. Medicare is a health insurance program for the poor run by the U.S. government.
Answer: For the elderly (Accept “Medicaid.”)
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Question 59. Salvador Dali is a leading Spanish Cubist.
Answer: Surrealist
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Question 60. The capital of Russia is St. Petersburg.
Answer: Moscow
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AFRICAN-AMERICANS
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Question 61. The first black to play Major League Baseball on a regular basis.
Answer: Jackie Robinson
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Question 62. The educator who founded Tuskegee Institute.
Answer: Booker T. Washington
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Question 63. The civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray.
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Little Boy was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Your next four questions require other identifications sharing the word "little."
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Question 64. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Answer: Little League
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Question 65. A statue by Edvard Ericksen at the water's edge in Copenhagen harbor depicts the heroine of one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories.
Answer: Little Mermaid
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Question 66. Napoleon Bonaparte, at 5'6" tall, was given what nickname?
Answer: Little Corporal
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Question 67. Black Jumbo was his father, Black Mumbo his mother.
Answer: Little Black Sambo
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