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he Question Bank - Set NOV-070B-OK-17

':ntertai nment:

1. What was the first name of the character portrayed by Jerry Van Dyke on the television show"Coach?"

Answer: Luther

2. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution says the following? "A well-regulated militia,

being necessary to the security of the State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms

shall not be infringed."

Answer: Second Amendment

3. What type of grammatical error is present in the following sentence?

John had to quickly think of an excuse when his mom asked about the dent in the car.

Answer: Split infinitive

Geog raphy:

4. Name the island state of Australia. Its name begins with the letter "T."

Answer: Tasmania

5. Spell the word, beginning with the letter "a," that refers to a collection of selected pieces of

literature.

Answer: a-n-t-h-o-I-o-g-y



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A.merican History:

6. In 1860, this future U.S. state was classified as "Indian Territory." Identify this state which

is home to Black Mesa, the Great Salt Plains, and the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Answer: Oklahoma

iology:

7. If a single arm from a starfish is cut off, an entire new organism will be produced from the() arm. This is an example of which biological process beginning with the letter "r"?

Answer: Regeneration

8. What is the name for the opening play in a hockey game? It begins when the referee dropsthe puck between two opposing players.

Answer: Face-off

9. What word has the following three meanings? A verb meaning to maneuver or manipulate by devious means A brand of popular underwear A person who rides a horse in competitive races

Answer: Jockey

0. Sir John Tenniel became famous for his illustrations in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventuresin Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. One of his most famous drawings was of

two especially stupid brothers named Tweedledee and ....... (what?)

Answer: Tweedledum




U.S. Geography:

11. Name the natural accumulation of tar thatfcHfhedover the site of an ancient oil seep in

what is now Los Angeles' Hancock Park. It is known for its fantastic assemblage of

fossils.

Answer: La Brea Tar Pits

Mathematics· Computation:

12. Oliver Overpaid is the CEO of a major corporation. His end of the year bonus was twentyseven percent of his salary of six million, two-hundred thousand dollars. How much was his

bonus worth?

Answer: $ 1,674,000

13. Which children's book, written by E.B. White, features a spider and a pig as two of its maincharacters?

Answer: Charlotte's Web

. The Brandenburg Gate is a famous structure found in which European capital city? .

Answer: Berlin

. Recent DNA evidence has shown that modern humans did not evolve from which subspeciesof human beings that inhabited Europe immediately prior to the appearance of modern man.The correct answer begins with the letter "N."

Answer: Neaderthals



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athematics - Computation:

C L 1 b e . ~ t r r e fraction three-fourths.

Answer: Twenty-seven over sixty-four (27/64)

Which one of the following five medical procedures would be done by a urologist?Removal of a kidney stone, removal of cartilage from a knee, a face-lift, removal of a brain

,><' tumor, or the removal of a gall stone

Answer: Removal of a kidney stone

8. Name the abbey in England in which George Frideric Handel was buried. Its name beginswith the letter "W."

Answer: Westminster Abbey

t Events:

9. In the past decade, the number of ATM's in the United States has tripled. What do theletters in this acronym represent?

Answer: Automated Teller Machine

matics - Computation:

. How many elevenths are equal to the repeating decimal .63636363?

Answer: Seven



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Subject Category: Percentages

Directions: Solve the following p r o b l e m ~ jny(}lving percentages.

1. 42 percent of 300

2. 25 percent of 68

3. 34 percent of 85

4. 29 percent of 72

5. 0.56 percent of 100




9. 1.5 percent of 600

,0. 99 percent of 500

1. 126

2. 17

3. 28.9

4. 20.88

5. 0.56

6. 141.9

7. 114

8. 143

9. 9

10. 495

E1. 7.75 percent of 130 E1. 10.075

E2. 0.54 percent o f 7,000 E2. 37.8




Subject Category: U.S. Government Acronyms

Directions:" I will state ten acronyms associated with the U.S. g o v e r n m ~ n } : ' · Your task is to identify

what the letters in each acronym represent.

1. FEMA 1. Federal Emergency Management Agency -2. FDA 2. Food and Drug Administration

3. GAO 3. General Accounting Office

4. FBI 4. Federal Bureau of Investigation /

5. SSS 5. Selective Service System ___6. FAA 6. Federal Aviation Agency _

7. SEC 7. Securities and Exchange Commission __

B. CIA 8. Central Intelligence A g e ~ 9. FTC 9. Federal Trade Commission

DEA 10. Drug Enforcement Administration

. FDIC E1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

E2. Interstate Commerce Commission



estion Bank - Set NOV-0708-0K-60-17

Subject Category: Colorful Movie Titles

in the missing wo.rctfromeach one of the following movie titles. In each case, the --'"

missing word is a "color."

1. "The Blank Panther" 1. P ink ' /

2. "The Blank Mile" 2. Green /'"

3. "A Clockwork Blank" 3. Orange -

4. "Blank Submarine" 4 .. Yellow /

5. "Blank Velvet" 5. Blue

6. "Blank Water Summer" 6. White

7. "Blank Lagoon" 7. Blue-

B. liThe Color Blank" 8. Purple -9. "The Thin Blank Line" 9. Red --=

"Men in Blank" 10. Black

"Fried Blank Tomatoes" E1. Green

"The Hunt for Blank October" E2. Red




General Knowledge:

These brightly colored male fish can be found in almost any pet shop in small tanks of

water by themselves. If two males are placed in the same bowl, they will attack eacho other. Name this kind of tropical fish.

Answer: Siamese fighting fish or Bettas

Physical Science:

22. What is the name for the process that separates a substance or a mixture of substancesfrom a solution by boiling them first and then condensing the vapors that formed? The

correct answer begins with the letter "d."

Answer: Distillation

3. According to the Gospel of Matthew, what did Judas Iscariot receive for betraying Jesus?

Answer: Thirty pieces of silver

The following passage refers to which Nobel Peace Prize winner?"She was totally irnmersed in the experience of seeing Jesus Christ in the poorest ofthe poor and worshipping God through her love of them."

This nun dedicated her life to the poor and needy in Calcutta, India.

Answer: Mother Teresa

5. Under the leadership of Pericles from 445 to 430 B.C., this city-state became the centerof intellectual life and the dominant imperial power of Greece. Name it.

Answer: Athens



stion Bank - Set NOV-0708-0K-17

1. What type of tree, beginning with the letters "m-u-I;"'is"the favorite food source of the

silkworm?

Answer: Mulberry

atics - Computation:

Reduce the following fraction to lowest terms. 84 over 210

Answer: Two-fifths (2/5)

The pitch of a train whistle seems higher when it approaches and lower after it passes andr-.. begins to move away. This is an example of which effect? Answer: Doppler Effect

. Name the twelfth sign of the zodiac. It is represented by two fish.

Answer: Pisces

The following geographic features are located in which Canadian province?Lake Athabasca, the town of Moose Jaw, Reindeer Lake, and the city of Regina

Answer: Saskatchewan



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\merican History:

36. Sputnik I was.launcheu by Russia on October 4, 1957. Who was the U.S. Presid.enbat

the time of this launch?

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Entertainment:

37. LeVar Burton portrayed Lieutenant Geordi La Forge on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation." What special piece of equipment did he wear?

X Answer: A visor that allowed him to see.

General Knowledge:

38. Which weapon of war is pineapple-shaped, is used frequently in trench warfare, and requiresa ring or pin to be pulled in order to work?

(J-) \/ Answer: (Hand) Grenade

Spell the name of any isolated hill that has a smaller summit than a mesa.

Answer: b-u-t-t-e

. Within five years, when was the first Super Bowl held?

Answer: 1969 (Accept 1964 through 1974.)



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Subject Category: Missing Words from Famous Lines of Poetry

irections: Provide the missing word or w o r d s f F ( i ) n ' 1 ' : t ~ f o l l o w i n g lines of poetry.

1. "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the blank blank

of Paul Revere"

2. "Blessings on thee, blank blank, barefoot boy with

cheek of tan"

3. "How do I love thee? Let me count the blanks.1I

4. "But there is no joy in blank - mighty Casey has struck out."

5. "To be or not to be, that is the blank."

6. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I blanked weak and weary."

7. "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night sailed off in a blank blank."

8. "Mary, Mary, quite blank, how does your garden grow?"

9. "Under the spreading blank blank, the village smithy stands."

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a blank."

1. Midnight ride

2. Little man

3. ways/

4. Mudv i l l e /

5. Quest ion ' /

6. Pondered /

7. Wooden shoe - -

8. Contrary/'

9. Chestnut tree

10. Tree

"But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Blank" E1. Lee

"But I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I blank." E2. Sleep



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Subject Category: Science - Force and Motion

'Answer the following questions associated with force and motion.

1. Term for any device that requires the application of a

single force to make it work; levers and pulleys are

examples

2. Scientist who formulated three laws of motion

3. The 81 unit of force

4. The force of attraction between all masses in the universe

5. The product of a body's mass times its velocity

6. The tendency of a body at rest to stay at rest

7. Astronomer who formulated the three Laws of

Planetary Motion

8. The SI unit of mass

9. The increase in the speed of an object over a

period of time

The point in any solid where the mass of the

object is balanced equally

1. Simple machine /

2. (Sir Isaac) Newton

3. New ton /

4. Grav i t y ' /

5. Momentum-

6. I ne r t i a -

7. (Johannes) Kepler /"

8. K i l o g r a m ~

9. Acceleration /

10. Center of gravity

Newton's Third Law states that for every action,

there is an equal and opposite ....... (what?) E1. Reaction

Term for a force that occurs in uniform circular motion E2. Centripetal




Subject Category:

Directions: Divide the following numbers. ;.,

1. 576 divided by 32


3. 1,071 divided by 17



6. 4,628 divided by 89

7. 1,828.8 divided by 72

8. 60 divided by 48

9. 4,688 divided by 293

10. 4,371 divided by 93

Division

1. 18

2. 41

3. 63

4. 12

5. 27

6. 52

7. 25.4

8. 1.25

9. 16

10. 47

E1. 1,508 divided by 58 E1. 26

E2. 4,371 divided by 47 E2. 93




word can have the following three meanings?

An individual who can communicate between the earthly world and the spirit world A nutrient solution used to grow bacteria A piece of clothing of average size

Answer: Medium

2. Which author used the letters "0 dash Z" from off a file cabinet as the name for the

fantastic land he created in his famous novel? This imaginary land was inhabited by munchkins, witches, a scarecrow, a lion, and a tin man.

Answer: L. Frank Baum

What kind of vertebrate is a quetzal (pronounced "ket-SAHL")?

Answer: Bird

. Identify the mythological Greek container from which the world's evils escaped.

Answer: Pandora's Box

ematics - Computation:

Divide ten to the third power by ten to the eighth power and express your answer as a decimal.

Answer: 0.00001




Science:

. Name the common sedimentary rock that forms when clay and mud are lithified by

compaction. It is usually black in color.

Answer: Shale

Identify the rock and roll band whose members are Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo, RockyGray, and John LeCompt. In 2006, this band recorded the hit song 'The Open Door."

Answer: Evanescence

He was once described as the second most powerful man in America because of

his key role in managing the supply of money and credit in the U.S. banking system.Name this man who was appointed to the position of Federal Reserve Board Chairmanin 1987 by President Reagan.

Answer: Alan Greenspan

The Queen Anne's Revenge was a stolen slave ship that could store 300 tons of stolenmerchandise. It was the most treasured possession of which pirate who was capturedin 1718? His severed head was mounted on the front of the British ship whichcaptured him. His name began with the letter "B."

Answer: Blackbeard

. Identify the state capital that lies on the southern inlets of Puget Sound, along the PacificCoast in the state of Washington.

Answer: Olympia

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