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