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Question 1. If you sailed from Trieste to Corfu, you would cross the Adriatic Sea. What sea would you be on if you went from Helsinki to Copenhagen?
Answer: Baltic Sea
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Question 2. A man bought a cow and a calf for $85. The cow cost $55 more than the calf. How much did he pay for the calf?
Answer: $15
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Question 3. Divide 36 by .9. What's the quotient?
Answer: 40
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Question 4. What is a tomahawk?
Answer: A small ax
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Question 5. Where in the human body would you find the cerebrum?
Answer: brain
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Question 6. Mars was the Roman god of war. Who was his Greek counterpart?
Answer: Ares
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Question 7. This branch of engineering deals primarily with the design, construction, and maintenance of public works such as highways, bridges, and waterways. What is this discipline called?
Answer: Civil Engineering
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Question 8. What do we call a mountain of ice, once part of a glacier, that floats in the sea?
Answer: Iceberg
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Question 9. Who was elected president of his nation by a margin of 11 million-to-0 in October 2002?
Answer: Saddam Hussein
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Question 10. Define and spell HYGIENE.
Answer: It means cleanliness.
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Question 11. China said it would launch a satellite to survey what heavenly body within three years?
Answer: The moon
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Question 12. What do we call the important muscle which is between the chest and the abdomen and helps us to breathe properly? Is it the diaphragm, the triceps, or the solar plexus?
Answer: Diaphragm
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Question 13. In what year did Columbus discover America?
Answer: 1492
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Question 14. How many World Wars have there been?
Answer: 2
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Question 15. A college student accused of carrying or hiding banned items aboard six passenger jets told of his actions originally in an e-mail to the TSA, the agency created after the 9/11 attacks that oversees 50,000 government-paid airport security screeners. The initials TSA stand for what?
Answer: Transportation Security Administration
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Question 16. What does 1/2 x 1/2 equal?
Answer: 1/4
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Question 17. Identify the Stephen Vincent Benet story on which was based the 1941 film ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY.
Answer: THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
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Question 18. What do the following snakes have in common: copperhead, water moccasin, coral snake, rattlesnake?
Answer: They're all poisonous.
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Question 19. Brazil and Colombia supply about 50% of the world's resource of what product: bananas, coffee, or sugar cane?
Answer: Coffee
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Question 20. What do you get when you churn milk?
Answer: Butter
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Question 21. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. Roentgen is chiefly remembered for the discovery of what?
Answer: X-rays
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Question 22. The term of office for the United States President is four years. How long is the term of a United States Senator?
Answer: Six years
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Question 23. Equal air pressure is controlled inside and outside the human body by means of a tube connecting the inner ear with the throat. What is this channel called?
Answer: Eustachian Tube
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Question 24. Solve the following problem: .39/6 = ?
Answer: .065
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Question 25. When Pinocchio told a lie, what happened?
Answer: His nose grew.
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Question 26. Pencils are not made of lead at all. Of what substance are they made?
Answer: Graphite
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Question 27. King Ahab was a wicked ruler whose story is told in the Bible. Captain Ahab is a fictional character. Name the book by Herman Melville in which he appears.
Answer: MOBY DICK
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Question 28. What is the name of the world's smallest bird?
Answer: hummingbird
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Question 29. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to reverse course when he said he had no reason to believe that who had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.?
Answer: Saddam Hussein
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Question 30. Heat may be transferred in three basic ways. Convection is one of them. What are the other two?
Answer: Conduction and radiation
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Question 31. A race of monsters in Greek mythology had the chest, arms, and head of a man, and the belly and legs of a horse. Members of this race were called what?
Answer: Centaurs
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Question 32. Who is the only woman vying to become the Democratic presidential candidate?
Answer: Carol Moseley-Braun
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Question 33. This American author is known for helping to make the surprise ending popular. He wrote the short stories THE LAST LEAF and THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF. Can you name him?
Answer: O Henry
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Question 34. Arrange these four immortals in chronological order: Franz Josef Haydn, composer; Sir Isaac Newton, scientist; Rembrandt, artist; Shakespeare, author.
Answer: Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Newton, Haydn
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Question 35. The government is preparing to color-code what in addition to terror-alerts?
Answer: Air travelers
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Question 36. Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale on campus run by Young Conservatives of Texas who sold cookies at different prices based on what two factors, which they claimed showed the flaws in affirmative action?
Answer: Customer’s race and gender (from $1 for white males down to 25 cents for African-Americans)
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Question 37. Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch recently agreed to a $1 million deal. What kind of deal is it?
Answer: A book deal
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Question 38. What does the verb rejuvenate mean?
Answer: To make new
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Question 39. Often called The Gateway to the New World, this was the U.S. Immigration Station from 1891 to 1954. What was it called?
Answer: Ellis Island
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Question 40. An emu is a creature that lives in Australia. What is the name of a similar animal that lives in Africa?
Answer: Ostrich
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Question 41. Subtract 5 3/4 from 7 3/8. Express your answer in whole numbers and fractions.
Answer: 1 5/8
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