And, we finish now..
ROUND 15
141. If you increase each side of a square by 10%, by how much does the
square's area increase?
a. 10%
b. 21%
c. 100%
142.. Name the three African countries through which the Atlas Mountain
Range passes.
143.. The Seven Hills of Rome form the geographic center of Rome. Name
one of these seven hills.
144. Three chemical elements have only a single vowel as their symbols.
What are these elements?
145. What is the only positive integer which is equals its square root,
square and cube?
146. Which dinosaur name literally means "Thunder Lizard?"
a. apatosaurus
b. brontosaurus
c. velociraptor
147. Caliban, Prospero and Miranda are characters in Shakespeare's Play,
"The Tempest." They are also the names of moons orbiting which planet?
a. Uranus
b. Neptune
c. Saturn
148. One hundred degrees Celsius is equal to 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
One hundred degrees Fahrenheit is equal to which temperature Celsius?
(Closest upper and lower integers acceptable.)
149. In physics, "velocity" refers to a particle's change of position
with time; "acceleration" measures the change of a particle's velocity
with time. What term refers to the change of a particle's acceleration
with time? This term is also used as a common insult.
a. cad
b. jerk
c. dork
150. If someone says to you, "Carpe noctem," what are they literally
telling you to do?
a. buy wholesale
b. eat fish on Saturday
c seize the night
ROUND 15 ANSWERS:
141. 21%
142. Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco
143. Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palantine, Quirinal,
Viminal
144. Iodine (I); Oxygen (O) and Uranium (U)
145. 1
146. b. Brontosaurus
147. a. Uranus
148. 37.7 C (37 and 38 both acceptable.)
149. b.Jerk.
150. c. "Seize the Night."
ROUND 16
151. Name three of the countries that border the Caspian Sea
152. Which famous Russian novel begins with the sentence, "All happy
families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way?"
a. War and Peace
b. Anna Karenina
c. The Brothers Karamazov
153. In Classical Mythology, which mortal woman thwarted Apollo's
advances and was therefore cursed by him with the affliction of unheeded
prophecy?
a. Cassandra
b. Phoebe
c. Penelope
4. In which city are the 2016 Summer Olympics being held? (The opening
ceremony is about to begin.)
a. Rio de Janeiro
b. Madrid
c. Melbourne
155. Which Greek astronomer is credited with having discovered the
precession of the equinoxes and with the development of the magnitude
brightness scale?
a. Thales of Miletus
b. Hipparchus of Nicea
c. Anaximander
156. In the northern part of which country will one find the Great Bear
Lake, the eighth largest lake in the world?
a.Norway
b. Sweden
c. Canada
157. Which Chinese philosopher composed the Tao te Ching?
a. Lao Tzu
b. Confucius
c. Li Peng
158. Which Dickens' novel featured the character Little Nell?
a. Great Expectations
b. The Old Curiosity Shop
c. The Pickwick Papers
159. The approximate shape of a molecule can be predicted by the VSEPR
model. What does VSEPR stand for?
160. Which fifteenth century Italian artist painted "The Birth of
Venus?"
a. Botticelli
b. Botticelli
c. Salvador Dali
ROUND16 ANSWERS:
151. Russia, Azerbaijan , Iran, Turkemenistan, Kazakhstan
152. b. "Anna Karenina"
153. a. Cassandra
154. a. Rio de Janeiro
155. b. Hipparchus of Nicea
156. c.Canada
157. a. Lao Tzu
158. b. The Old Curiosity Shop
159. Valence-shell electron-pair repulsion
160. a/b Botticelli (So, we gave you a hint.)
ROUND 17
161. Which 17th century astronomer made the first quantitative
measurement of light speed through observations of Jupiter's moon Io?
a. Galileo
b. Ole Christensen Romer
c. Johannes Keper
162. In Greek Mythology, what was the name of the Island of the
Blessed?
a. Gilligan
b. Elysium
c. Asphodel
163. Which military conflict is depicted at the end of the Bayeux
Tapestry?
a. Battle of Hastings
b. Battle of Bull Run
c. Battle of Bosworth
164. If you toss two six-sided die, which number are you most likely to
roll?
a. 2
b. 7
c. 12
165. According to current scientific research, what is moving away from
Canada toward Russia at almost 40 miles per year? (No choices)
166. Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice?
a. Marie Curie
b. Albert Einstein
c. Jon Bardeen
167. Which French author created the character "The Phantom of the
Opera" in the book of the same title published in 1910?
a. Marie Le Pen
b. Gaston LeRoux
c. Renee Fecteau
168. Which constellation includes the star "Cor Caroli," which means
"The Heart of Charles?"
a. Ursa Major
b. Bootes
c. Canes Venatici
169. The islands Java and Borneo are both parts of which country?
a. Madagascar
b. Indonesia
c. Philippines
10. Most protein synthesis occurs in which part of the cell?
a. endoplasmic reticulum
b. nucleus
c. Golgi bodies
ROUND 3 ANSWERS:
161. b. Ole Christensen Rømer
162. b. Elysium
163. a. The Battle of Hastings
164. b. 7
165. The Northern Hemisphere's magnetic pole
166. c. Jon Bardeen (1956, with Walt Brattain and William Shockley for the
invention of the transistor; 1972, with Leon Cooper and John Schrieffer
for the first microscopic theory of superconductivity.)
Note: Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize in physics and another in
Chemistry
167. b. Gaston LeRoux
168. c. Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs
169. b. Indonesia
170. a The Endoplasmic Reticulum
ROUND 18:
171. What is the second lightest of the noble gases?
a. helium
b. neon
c. argon
172. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first and second men to
step on the Moon, respectively. Name either the third or the fourth
man to step on the Moon.
173. Which mountain range defines the boundary separating Europe and
Asia?
a. Atlas Mountains
b. Ural Mountains
c. The Alps
174. There are five Platonic solids. Which one has the greatest
number of sides?
a. dodecahedron
b.icosahedron
c. tetrahedron
175. Which librarian at the Library of Alexandria was the first to
measure Earth's circumference?
(hint: it was the answer to a previous question)
176. Ohm's Law relates three quantities: voltage, resistance and what?
a. capacitance
b. current
c. charge
177. Which Shakespearean character said, "Now is the winter of our
discontent made glorious summer by this sonne of York?"
a. Richard III
b. MacBeth
c. Othello
178. What is the northernmost national capital?
a. Moscow
b.Ottawa
c. Reykjavík
179. Which is the only US state to have a Royal Palace?
a. Hawaii
b. Delaware
c. Maryland
180. In Celtic Mythology, who was the "Good God," the ruler of life
over death and the leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann?
a. Dagda
b. Thor
c. Freya
ROUND 18 ANSWERS:
171. b. Neon
172. Charles "Pete" Conrad; Alan Bean
173. b. Ural Mountain
174. b. The icosahedron. (20 sides)
175. Eratosthenes of Cyrene
176. b. current
177. a. Richard III (also, acceptable Duke of Gloucester, who wasn't yet
king when delivering that speech.)
178. c.Reykjavík, Iceland
179. a. Hawaii
180. a.Dagda
Now, the last two rounds will offer no choices...
ROUND 19
181. Who was the British Prime Minister when World War II started?
182. What arises in the academic study of logic when all of a set of
premises are asserted to be true, but the conclusion deduced from these
premises negates one or more of them?
183. The French dish "Confit de canard" consists of the legs of which
animal?
184. Which Disney film was the first animated movie to be nominated for
Best Picture?
185. Whose principle states that as the velocity of a fluid increases,
the internal pressure decreases?
186. If it is 6:00 a.m. at the Greenwich Royal Observatory, what time is
it at the North Pole?
187. Hastshehogan and Hastsheyalti are the two great Yei (benevolent
deities) in the mythological tradition of which Native American
peoples?
188. Beta radiation consists of which elementary particles?
189. Which fictional work by Edwin Abbott features a community of
geometrical shapes, with a main character named "A. Square?"
190. Starting at about 500 kilometers above Earth's surface, which
layer of the atmosphere is the highest?
ROUND 19 ANSWERS
181. Neville Chamberlain
182. A paradox
183. A duck's
184. "Beauty and the Beast." (1992 Academy Awards. "Silence of the
Lambs" won the Best Picture Award that year.)
185. Bernoulli's
186. 6:00 a.m.
187. Navajo
188. Electrons
189. Flat Land
190. The Exosphere
ROUND 20:
191.. Which Amazonian queen did Theseus kidnap?
192. What is the only inanimate object amongst the thirteen Zodiac
constellations?
193. Name one of the two independent nations which are smaller than New
York City's Central Park.
194. What is the only day of the week whose letters can form another
word?
195. What is the only country whose name begins with "Q?"
196. In Star Trek, what did the T stand for in the name James T. Kirk?
197. The 1939 Novel "Gadsby" is noteworthy as it was devoid of what?
198. What is the largest isthmus in the world?
199. During what type of solar eclipse is the outer edge of the Sun
still visible?
200. Which artist painted the gruesome "Saturn Devouring His Son?"
ROUND 20 ANSWERS
191. Hippolyta
192. Libra the Scales
193. Vatican City; Monaco
194. Monday (Dynamo)
195. Qatar
196. Tiberius
197. The letter "e"
198. Panama
199. An "annular" eclipse.
200. Francisco Goya
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