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Question 1. Was Peru once ruled by the Aztecs, the Toltecs, the Incas, or the Mayas?
Answer: Incas
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Question 2. What state capital is nearest the equator?
Answer: Honolulu
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Question 3. What is the product of .831 and .30?
Answer: .2493
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Question 4. He was born in 1847 in Missouri. At the age of 15, he joined the Confederate forces and earned a reputation for marksmanship and great daring. At the end of the war, he was declared an outlaw, and with his brother Frank, he formed a band of bank and train robbers. Name him.
Answer: Jesse James
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Question 5. In the Bible, who received a kiss just before his betrayal?
Answer: Jesus Christ
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Question 6. Several congressmen at the time of the Civil War felt that the states should keep many rights, such as the right to secede from the Union. Which state was the first to vote to secede?
Answer: South Carolina
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Question 7. Which of these words is out of place: sway, stride, saunter, stroll?
Answer: Sway (The others are ways of walking.)
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Question 8. If a car can travel 12,000 miles on a set of four tires, how many miles can the same car go using five new tires and changing them from time to time?
Answer: 15,000
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Question 9. One summer week 2,191 persons visited the community swimming pool. If the pool is open daily, what is the average number of people who visited the pool each day?
Answer: 313
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Question 10. Name the fur-trading post established in 1811 by John Jacob Astor, of New York, in the Oregon territory.
Answer: Astoria
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Question 11. George contracted to drive his own truck to haul oranges from Miami, Florida, to Bangor, Maine--a distance of 2,800 kilometers. If George averages 52 kilometers per hour, how many hours should the trip take?
Answer: 54 hours
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Question 12. Add 4 1/3 + 5/6 + 6 5/8.
Answer: 11 19/24
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Question 13. Former POW Jessica Lynch has agreed to a $1 million book deal with which publishing house?
Answer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Question 14. Panama hats are made from toquilla fiber, but they are not made in Panama. Where are they made?
Answer: Ecuador
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Question 15. Three customers entered the convenience store. Now there are 11 customers in the store. How many were there before the 3 entered?
Answer: 8
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Question 16. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, winding up a two-day visit in Iraq, came to Halabja on Sept. 15 to the site of the mass graves and a memorial museum dedicated to the 5,000 people who lost their lives in what kind of attack in 1988 -- a reminder, he said, of why the United States went to war to oust Saddam Hussein's regime.
Answer: Chemical attack
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Question 17. Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this part, containing the verb. Name it.
Answer: Predicate
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Question 18. If a rancher has 37 cattle and then buys "x" more, what mathematical expression would represent the rancher's total livestock?
Answer: 37 + x
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Question 19. Name either one of the two official languages of Belgium.
Answer: Flemish or French
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Question 20. Maurice Clarett, the suspended sophomore running back for Ohio State, sued the National Football League, asking that a judge throw out a league rule that prohibits a player from entering the League until how many years after high school?
Answer: Three
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Question 21. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in America. What was the second?
Answer: Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Question 22. The Intel Corporation said its third-quarter profit more than doubled and exceeded its own forecasts based on strong sales to which two continents?
Answer: Asia and Europe
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Question 23. Although executives admit that the changes may be extreme, many companies are reducing or eliminating what method of communication in order to stop the spread of disruptive viruses and spam?
Answer: E-mail
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Question 24. A study released by the United Nations labor agency reveals that what nation’s workers are the world’s most productive – at $60,728 output per worker last year?
Answer: The United States
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Question 25. According to The Princeton Review, the five toughest colleges to get into are two service academies and three Ivy League schools. Name them all.
Answer: West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), Princeton, Harvard, Yale
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Question 26. MARSEILLAISE
Answer: France
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Question 27. A character in a famous American novel survives a shipwreck by clinging to a coffin. The author is Herman Melville. The title is MOBY DICK. Who is the character?
Answer: Ishmael
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Question 28. There are 16 ounces to a pound. How many pounds make up a short ton?
Answer: 2,000
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Question 29. Proliferate means to spread rapidly. What does prognosticate mean?
Answer: To predict or foretell
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Question 30. Mr. Kendall is eleven times as old as his daughter Lynn. If Lynn is four years old, how old is Mr. Kendall?
Answer: 44
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Question 31. The esophagus is the tube joining the throat and the stomach. What is a sarcophagus?
Answer: A tomb or stone coffin
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Question 32. What two ‘80’s bands – one with Steve Tyler and the other with Gene Simmons – are having such a successful tour together that they have extended their schedule of performances by adding 24 dates?
Answer: Arrowsmith and Kiss
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Question 33. This word has two meanings. As a verb, it means to shudder or tremble. As a noun, it names the container in which an archer carries his arrows. What is the word?
Answer: Quiver
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Question 34. What do the names Amenhotep III, Akhenaton, and Ramses III have in common?
Answer: They were Egyptian pharaohs or kings.
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Question 35. What musical instrument did the famous Benny Goodman play?
Answer: Clarinet
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Question 36. Giraffe
Answer: Africa
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Question 37. Who is Captain Flint in TREASURE ISLAND?
Answer: A parrot
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Question 38. Did the Christian church have its beginning in Antioch, Rome, Athens, or Jerusalem?
Answer: Jerusalem
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Question 39. A federal judge ruled that which NFL team could keep its trademark name and logos because a group of activists didn’t provide enough evidence that the team’s moniker insulted a substantial number of Native Americans?
Answer: Washington Redskins
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Question 40. What is the opposite of "amateur"?
Answer: Professional
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Question 41. How many decades are there in a century?
Answer: 10
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Question 42. What biblical lad dreamed that his parents and brothers bowed down before him and worshipped him?
Answer: Joseph
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