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Question 1. Tell me exactly where the earth, sun, and moon are during both a solar and lunar eclipse.
Answer: Solar eclipse--the moon passes between the earth and sun. Lunar eclipse--the earth passes between the moon and sun.
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Question 2. Edward Gibbon wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Who wrote THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USSHER?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
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Question 3. New textbooks are being printed but they are not expected to be available until November, so until then Iraqi students will tear out pictures and draw lines through references to whom in a de-Baathication process?
Answer: Saddam
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Question 4. The English colony at Fort Rawley on Roanoke Island failed after many hardships. Roanoke Island was then considered part of an area called Virginia. What state is it part of today?
Answer: North Carolina
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Question 5. The U.S. will impose economic sanctions on Cuba, North Korea and Myanmar for failing to take steps to stop what sort of trafficking?
Answer: Humans for modern-day slavery
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Question 6. Which American President lost a great deal of popularity because of the failure of his attack on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
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Question 7. A group of similar cells is called a tissue. What do scientists call a group of similar tissues?
Answer: An organ
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Question 8. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Answer: Little League
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Question 9. October 4, 1957, was the day the Space Age started with the launching of a Russian spacecraft. What was it called?
Answer: Sputnik
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Question 10. Who is zero called the identity number of addition?
Answer: Adding zero to any number of any number to zero does not change the value of the number.
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Question 11. I am; he is; they ___?
Answer: Are
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Question 12. Late maturity or old age in a river is characterized by : (a) a straight course, (b) rapids, (c) meanders and oxbow lakes, or (d) sharp divides?
Answer: (c) meanders and oxbow lakes
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Question 13. The prime minister of which Southeast Asian nation recently told a summit of Islamic leaders that Muslims should unite nonviolently against "Jewish domination"?
Answer: Malaysia
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Question 14. Both he and the headless horseman were in love with Katrina, in the story THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving. Name this character.
Answer: Ichabod Crane
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Question 15. Name the capitals of these three states: Florida, Vermont, Delaware.
Answer: (In order) Tallahassee, Montpelier, Dover
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Question 16. It's 1/4 the size of the earth, has 1/6 the gravity, has no weather, no sound, no light. What is it?
Answer: Moon
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Question 17. An early Gothic cathedral completed in 1250.
Answer: Notre Dame
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Question 18. Name the immortal literary character who exchanges his mother's cow for a handful of beans.
Answer: Jack
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Question 19. Which planet has the most moons?
Answer: Saturn
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Question 20. Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Who was the first of the twelve apostles to be martyred?
Answer: James
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Question 21. There are two types of breast stroke used in the National Swimming Championships. One is the regular breast stroke. What's the other?
Answer: Butterfly
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Question 22. Who is the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency?
Answer: Former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt
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Question 23. What company introduced its new combination cell phone and game console, in attempt to wrest control of the market from Nintendo?
Answer: Nokia
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Question 24. Radio stations throughout the United States must have a name that contains three or four letters in the alphabet, the first of which must be one of only two letters allowed by the FCC. Name these two letters.
Answer: K, W
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Question 25. Peking is the capital of China. What is the capital of Taiwan?
Answer: Taipeh
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Question 26. In what play by Arthur Miller is Willy Loman the title character?
Answer: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
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Question 27. Typically, it is made of diced apples, celery, and nuts dressed with mayonnaise. This salad was named for a famous hotel in new York City. Can you name it?
Answer: Waldorf Salad
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Question 28. What familiar zoo animal has an appetite for insects, especially termites and ants? Its long snout and tongue enable it to burrow under the earth for dinner.
Answer: Anteater
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Question 29. A recent report in the journal Nature finds that certain wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether. Name any two of the wide-ranging carnivores mentioned in the report.
Answer: Polar bears, Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs
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Question 30. Who is called the Father of our Country?
Answer: George Washington
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Question 31. Identify the grammatical error in the following sentence: "I wanted to just shake his hand."
Answer: split infinitive
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Question 32. Killing an albatross causes disaster in what famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Answer: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
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Question 33. What street is celebrated as the Cradle of Jazz?
Answer: Bourbon Street
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Question 34. John Milton wrote PARADISE LOST. Who wrote PARADISE REGAINED?
Answer: John Milton
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Question 35. Students arriving at what Ivy League university found more than 2,500 workers on strike, adding to the reputation as having the most contentious labor relations of any university in the nation?
Answer: Yale University
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Question 36. Whom did Stephen Foster dream of "with the light brown hair"?
Answer: Jeannie
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Question 37. Winnie the Pooh's donkey friend likes to eat thistles. What is the name of this strange creature?
Answer: Eeyore
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Question 38. Today we shop in a variety of stores and we pay with cash, checks, or charge it. But in the simpler days of our country's economy, when most Americans lived on farms, much trade involved the exchange of crops, such as corn or tobacco, for cloth or nails or sugar or other goods. What term describes this simple method of trade?
Answer: barter
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Question 39. Kilauea is a volcano located on what Pacific island?
Answer: Hawaii
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Question 40. If one box of saltines weighs 1 1/3 pounds, how much do five boxes weigh?
Answer: 6 2/3 pounds
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Question 41. Tell me the difference between a carnivore, a herbivore, and an omnivore.
Answer: Carnivore eats meat. Herbivore eats plants. Omnivore eats both.
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Question 42. Alabama’s suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore is sending an offer of giving what item to the Congressional leadership, and the office of Rep. Tom DeLay is researching who has the authority to decide whether to accept it?
Answer: Ten Commandments monument
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