Title: Well, what do you know
1Well, what do you know?
2Language Literature
SocialStudies
GrabBag
Math
Science
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3Social Studies for 1
Question In 1677, William Penn was the first
person to write a charter separating what?
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4Social Studies for 1
Answer What is church and state?
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5Social Studies for 2
Question What 1857 Supreme Court decision said
that no black, free or slave, could claim
citizenship?
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6Social Studies for 2
Answer What is the Dred Scott decision?
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7Social Studies for 3
Question What Gorbachev policy was named for
the Russian word for "openness"?
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8Social Studies for 3
Answer What is glasnost?
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9Social Studies for 4
Question The fabled stone fortress of Macchu
Picchu was the remains of what ancient empire?
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10Social Studies for 4
Answer What are the Incas?
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11Social Studies for 5
Question What is the imaginary line, located
23 and 1/3 degrees north latitude, which the sun
is directly overhead of on the Summer Solstice?
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12Social Studies for 5
Answer What is the Tropic of Cancer?
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13Math for 1
Question Solve for x 3x 2 17
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14Math for 1
Answer What is x 5?
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15Math for 2
Question In the following number, which numeral
is the denominator?
3
7
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8
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16Math for 2
Answer What is 8?
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17Math for 3
Question ? known as pi is used in combination
with the radius to determine what?
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18Math for 3
Answer What is the perimeter or circumference
of a circle?
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19Math for 4
Question What is the highest prime number less
than 25?
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20Math for 4
Answer What is 23?
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21Math for 5
Question a(bc) ab ac What mathematical
property does this illustrate?
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22Math for 5
Answer What is the distributive property of
addition?
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23Science for 1
Question In three dimensional geometry, it is a
straight line about which an object may rotate
there's one running from the North Pole to the
South Pole. What is it?
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24Science for 1
Answer What is an axis?
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25Science for 2
Question Technically, it's any substance which
produces positive ions in solution, also its
anything with a pH less than 7 and is the
opposite of a base. What is it?
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26Science for 2
Answer What is an acid?
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27Science for 3
Question What name is given to materials, such
as glass, diamonds or quartz, in which the atoms
are arranged in a rigid
geometrical structure marked by symmetry?
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28Science for 3
Answer What are crystals?
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29Science for 4
Question What is the name for radiation with
wavelengths just longer than that of visible
light?
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30Science for 4
Answer What is infrared?
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31Science for 5
Question What do we call the disturbance that
occurs when two waves come together at a single
point in space?
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32Science for 5
Answer What is interference?
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33Language Literature for 1
Question According to the Edward Lear poem, who
"went to sea in a pea green boat?"
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34Language Literature for 1
Answer Who is the owl the pussycat?
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35Language Literature for 2
Question What collection of periodicals by Ben
Franklin contained the line "Early to bed,
early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise?"
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36Language Literature for 2
Answer What isPoor Richard's Almanac?
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37Language Literature for 3
Question What African American author and
leader of the Harlem Renaissance wondered, "What
happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?"
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38Language Literature for 3
Answer Who is Langston Hughes?
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39Language Literature for 4
Question In The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County by Mark Twain, miner Jim Smiley
bets that his frog, named this, could outjump any
other.
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40Language Literature for 4
Answer Who is Dan'l Webster?
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41Language Literature for 5
Question If you count the mention of his death
in Henry V, he has been involved in more plays
than any other Shakespearean character, four in
all.
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42Language Literature for 5
Answer Who is Falstaff?
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43Grab Bag for 1
Question I have found it is what Eureka
means in English and thus is what this scientist
screamed when he figured out liquid displacement
in a bathtub. Name him.
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44Grab Bag for 1
Answer Who is Archimedes?
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45Grab Bag for 2
Question From the French, translate one of the
Seven Sayings of Christ upon the Cross
Aujourd'hui-meme, tu seras avec moi dans le
Paradis.
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46Grab Bag for 2
Answer What is "Today, you will be with me in
Paradise?"
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47Grab Bag for 3
Question Complete this line taken from Martin
Luther King's tombstone Thank God Almighty
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48Grab Bag for 3
Answer What is I'm free at last?
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49Grab Bag for 4
Question While the prefix "mega" means
"million," this question is worth only four
points. Identify the following "mega" word A
pathological state in which a person vastly
overstates his or her own importance.
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50Grab Bag for 4
Answer What is Megalomania?
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51Grab Bag for 5
Question You will hit Polaris, the North Star,
if you draw a line through the two "front" stars
of what constellation?
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52Grab Bag for 5
Answer What is the Big Dipper, also known as
Ursa Major?
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