Lightning Round
ANALOGIES
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Question 43. A rainbow is to the east as the Aurora Borealis is to what?
Answer: North
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Question 44. Gutenberg is to printing as Mercator is to what?
Answer: Maps
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Question 45. Daimler is to automobiles as Hughes is to . . . ?
Answer: Airplanes
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Question 46. Stalactites are to stalagmites as ceiling is to what?
Answer: Floor
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SONG QUESTIONS-Now, for some questions about questions. Complete the following “questionable” song verses.
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Question 47. Baa baa black sheep . . .
Answer: Have you any wool?
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Question 48. Do you know the way to . . .
Answer: San Jose?
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Question 49. Pardon me, boy, is that the . . .
Answer: Chattanooga Choo Choo?
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Question 50. How are things in . . .
Answer: Glocca Morro?
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WATER
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Question 51. Name the watery mammal that is the Miami football team nickname.
Answer: Dolphins
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Question 52. Water with a lot of deuterium and tritium instead of regular hydrogen.
Answer: Heavy water
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Question 53. What is the seafaring nickname of the Seattle baseball franchise?
Answer: Mariners
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Question 54. Name any of the astrological water signs.
Answer: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
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SOLID, LIQUID, OR GAS?- Classify these elements as to whether they are solid, liquid, or gas at room temperature.
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Question 55. Iridium
Answer: Solid
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Question 56. Argon
Answer: Gas
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Question 57. Barium
Answer: Solid
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Question 58. Krypton
Answer: Gas
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CALIFORNIA- Tell me if these cities are near Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or in the Central Valley.
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Question 59. Burbank
Answer: Los Angeles
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Question 60. Berkeley
Answer: Bay Area
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Question 61. La Jolla
Answer: San Diego
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PLACES
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Question 62. The three cities of Oea, Lebda, and Sabrata merged to form what city in Libya?
Answer: Tripoli
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Question 63. Where did Robin Hood supposedly live?
Answer: Sherwood Forest
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Question 64. Where was Captain Cook killed?
Answer: Hawaiian Islands
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MEDITERRANEAN CITIES- The city of Istanbul used to be called Constantinople. I'll give you other old or native names for capital cities of Mediterranean countries. You give me the name most Americans know it by.
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Question 65. Roma
Answer: Rome
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Question 66. Alger
Answer: Algiers
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Question 67. Angora
Answer: Ankara
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Question 68. Aelia Capitolina
Answer: Jerusalem
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SISTER CITIES- Many metropolitan areas consist of more than one central city, such as Dallas and Fort Worth. I'll give you a central city in a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and you give me its sister city with the larger population.
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Question 69. Everett, Washington
Answer: Seattle
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Question 70. Davidson, Tennessee
Answer: Nashville
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Question 71. Boulder, Colorado
Answer: Denver
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