Speed Round 1
The hydrologic cycle involves the transport of water between the land, the sea and what else
the atmosphere (sky)
What type of light lies just beyond the violet end of the spectrum?
ultraviolet light
What country that is geographically closest to the United States also calls its unit of currency a dollar?
Canada
What flightless African bird has the largest eyes of any land animal?
ostrich
What is the meaning of the suffix in such words as laryngoscope, bronchoscope, otoscope and arthroscope?
look at (see, view)
What towns in both Georgia and New Jersey were named for the inventor of the phonograph and incandescent lamp
Edison
If a former prominent U.S. secretary of education were to be hire as the superintendent of a rural school district, he would be a big fish in what?
small pond
What was manufactured in 1909 by the American Wright Company
airplanes (aircraft)
In which body system do tapeworms make their home?
The royal Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was the great-great-grandson on what woman who was exiled from Boston in 1637?
What part of a fishhook caught in the skin makes its removal most difficult
barb
The canary current is in what ocean?
Atlantic
What word in this headline has a double meaning?
New Vaccine May Contain Rabies
contain
Paul Revere made is historic ride on the night of April 18 in what year?
1775
It's pretty tough to find something to eat at 3000 feet below sea level, but what toothy fish has a light-producing organ on its dorsal spine to attract prey?
angler fish
This is about what contemporary national leader?
His beard, cigars and frequent wearing of combat uniforms have given him a distinctive appearance among heads of governments
Fidel Castro
In medieval times, what did a fletcher make?
arrows
What two continents are connected by the Isthmus of Suez?
Asia, Africa
What word is missing in these bits of advise?
Silence is the best way to react while ___
Never make a decision when you are ____
Getting ___ is actually punishing yourself for the mistakes of others.
Never go to bed ____. Stay awake and plot your revenge!
angry
What law expressed in a poem by Rudyard Kipling has these meanings?
dog eat dog eat or be eaten
law of the jungle
The earliest North Americans had no fixed homes and moved according to the seasons in search of food and water. What anthropological adjective describes such people?
nomadic
What kind of accident may lead to an injury that is sometimes called gravity-assisted concrete poisoning?
a fall
The lifting structures on boats called hydrofoils are similar to what corresponding structures on aircraft?
airfoils
What kind of symmetry is illustrated by sea snakes, crayfish and tuna?
bilateral
In what novel is a boy named Jonas selected to be the person to store all the past memories of the time before Sameness?
The giver