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Question 1. What does valour mean?
Answer: Courage or bravery
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Question 2. Kenya
Answer: Nairobi
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Question 3. The strongest evidence yet has now linked malignant melanoma skin cancer with what method of tanning?
Answer: Using artificial tanning equipment
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Question 4. Man belongs to the biological order, Primates. To which genus and species does man belong?
Answer: Homo sapiens
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Question 5. Match these verbs--ration, ravage, ratify, ransom--with their meanings--rescue, limit, approve, plunder.
Answer: Ration--limit; ravage--plunder; ratify--approve; ransom--rescue
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Question 6. Name any three of the five US states that grew the fastest between 1990 and 2000, according to the 2000 census.
Answer: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah
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Question 7. Completely enclosed shelters for automobiles are called what?
Answer: Garages
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Question 8. Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of what Empire?
Answer: Roman
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Question 9. What celestial object did Edmund Halley correctly predict to appear in 1758?
Answer: A comet
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Question 10. The atomic number of hydrogen is one; helium is 2. What chemical element possesses the atomic number 3?
Answer: Lithium
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Question 11. If a passage of music is marked "pp," what does it mean?
Answer: Pianissimo, or "play very softly"
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Question 12. Bruce Wayne's aunt and housekeeper was ignorant of his true identity, Batman.
Answer: Aunt Harriet
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Question 13. Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, as the world’s two biggest suppliers of what agreed to work on easing rules for setting up joint ventures and to promote joint research?
Answer: Oil
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Question 14. French
Answer: Monsieur
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Question 15. Which company recently announced that it would discontinue its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying that the forums have become unsafe?
Answer: Microsoft (MSN)
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Question 16. Who wrote the novel THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
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Question 17. Petrology is the study of what?
Answer: Rocks
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Question 18. Is the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation: ultraviolet waves, cosmic rays, infrared waves, or X-rays?
Answer: Cosmic rays
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Question 19. Into which river was Achilles dipped by his mother Venus?
Answer: Styx
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Question 20. What kind of mile did the crooked man walk?
Answer: a crooked mile
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Question 21. How many minutes are there in a quarter hour?
Answer: 15
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Question 22. Who composed over 30 piano sonatas, including the PATHETIQUE, the APPASSIONATA, and the MOONLIGHT?
Answer: Beethoven
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Question 23. In an agreement reached by environmentalists and PPL power company, dams will be removed and others changed on the Penobscot River in what state to save the Atlantic salmon population?
Answer: Maine
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Question 24. He was perhaps the first scientist to give the human mind a proper conception of the immensity of the universe. He contributed greatly to our understanding of astronomy, and in 1781, he discovered the planet Uranus. Name this famous English astronomer.
Answer: Sir William Herschel
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Question 25. As you climb higher up a mountain, the reading of a barometer . . .
Answer: Decreases
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Question 26. After the Spanish-American War, what President was authorized by Congress to build the Panama Canal?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
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Question 27. According to the poem DAYS OF BIRTH, "Monday's child is fair of face./ Tuesday's child is full of grace." What about children born on Wednesday and Thursday?
Answer: "Wednesday's child is full of woe,/ Thursday's child has far to go."
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Question 28. Andrew Jackson was a famous President. Identify Andy Warhol.
Answer: A modern American painter and experimental filmmaker.
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Question 29. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This line was penned by the blind poet of England. Who was he?
Answer: John Milton
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Question 30. By acting as huge magnets, the sun and the moon pull the earth toward them. The earth's solid land is not visibly changed, but the water moves because of the moon's pull. What do we call this effect?
Answer: Tides
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Question 31. The Bush administration assured what “Axis of Evil” country that the U.S. does not favor “regime change,” and signaled a new willingness to engage in dialogue?
Answer: Iran
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Question 32. What crop is a special target of the boll weevil?
Answer: Cotton
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Question 33. Who heads the U.S. agency that is a compilation of 22 government agencies, including the Coast Guard, Secret Service and Border Patrol, and is now the second-largest federal department?
Answer: Tom Ridge
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Question 34. In poetry, what do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
Answer: Alliteration
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Question 35. July 4, 1776 was the date of the historic signing of the Declaration of Independence. What event of worldwide significance took place in the U.S. on October 24, 1929?
Answer: The stock market crashed.
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Question 36. One member of the animal kingdom with a very strange and very short name is the emu. Is the emu an antelope, a bird, or a rodent?
Answer: Bird (like the ostrich)
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Question 37. His stories put men and dogs against the frozen wilderness, as in his story TO BUILD A FIRE. His most famous novel is THE CALL OF THE WILD. Who is this writer?
Answer: Jack London
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Question 38. He captured 132 Germans by himself and also an important machine gun post. He was honored as the greatest American hero of the First World War. Later, he became a minister. Who was he?
Answer: Alvin C. York
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Question 39. If one square meter of carpet costs $6.40, how much would enough carpet to cover the floor described in the last question cost?
Answer: $253.44
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Question 40. What continent surrounds the South Pole?
Answer: Antarctica
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Question 41. Thanks to Russia’s Labor Ministry, what theater was ordered to reinstate ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who was fired amid allegations from other dancers that she was too heavy to lift?
Answer: The Bolshoi
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Question 42. A power outage darkened the courtroom of the trial of Washington-area sniper suspect John Muhammad, but what two-day act by him worried his lawyers?
Answer: He acted as his own attorney.
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