Lightning Round
VARIETY
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Question 42. They used to be called airplane flight stewardesses. What are they called now?
Answer: Airplane flight attendants
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Question 43. Maple syrup is produced only in the United States and what other country?
Answer: Canada
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Question 44. Identify the year following 1 B.C.
Answer: A.D. 1
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ARITHMETIC
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Question 45. What is 4 divided by 1/2?
Answer: 8
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Question 46. At 50 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 325 miles?
Answer: 6 1/2 hours
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Question 47. How many quarts are in 2 1/2 gallons?
Answer: 10
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WORD POWER
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Question 48. Does arbiter mean judge, worker, counsel, or fighter?
Answer: Judge
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Question 49. Does atrophied mean drugged, relaxed, wasted, or frozen?
Answer: Wasted
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Question 50. Does blatant mean noisy, fearless, swollen, or gaudy?
Answer: Noisy
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PSYCHOLOGY
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Question 51. What is the term for the transference of a suppressed desire to a new object?
Answer: Channeling or sublimation
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Question 52. A complete or partial loss of memory is called what?
Answer: Amnesia
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Question 53. A feeling of well-being which is exaggerated and not in touch with reality is called happiness, euphoria, joy, or pleasure?
Answer: Euphoria
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Identify these q words.
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Question 54. To drink deeply
Answer: Quaff
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Question 55. 25 sheets of paper
Answer: Quire
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Question 56. A waiting line or a pigtail
Answer: Queue
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Let's test your I.Q. about famous doctors.
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Question 57. He was also Mr. Hyde.
Answer: Dr. Jekyll
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Question 58. Name the hero of a book that won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Answer: Dr. Zhivago
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Question 59. This English physician discovered the circulation of the blood.
Answer: William Harvey
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Question 60. The doctor aboard the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE was . . .
Answer: Dr. McCoy
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ANIMAL
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Question 61. This animal is found at the beginning of an encyclopedia.
Answer: Aardvark
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Question 62. A beast of burden in Peru is . . .
Answer: Llama
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Question 63. This bird sings its name at dusk.
Answer: Whippoorwill
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Tell me who was responsible for these inventions.
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Question 64. Battery
Answer: Volta
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Question 65. Wireless telegraphy
Answer: Marconi
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Question 66. Modern machine gun
Answer: Gatling
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Question 67. Photography
Answer: DaGuerre
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