Music
Which instrument is associated with jazz?
A. tuba
B. viola
C. saxophone
D. bass drum
E. French horn
C. saxophone
class
A group that does not have the most votes in an election or a group that contains fewer people than larger groups is a ...
minority
A contractor routinely marks up the cost of building materials by 6% when billing his customers. If his cost for materials for a job was $7400, what would he charge a customer?
$7844
What American academy opened it Annapolis, Maryland, in 1845?
U.S. Naval Academy
According to the song in "Mary Poppins," what is it that helps the medicine go down?
a spoonful of sugar
According to the Linnaean system, every living thing is given a double name. The first part classifies the organism according to its...
genus
Animals such as camels, llamas, and dogs that have been tamed have been...
domesticated
Tamara owned 2/5 of a house in partnership with others. The home was sold for a profit of $26,000. Tamara's portion of the profit is...
$10,400
In the 1920s, when people spoke of Reds, they meant people in what political party?
Communist
Because they lack resonance at the edges, they must be struck in the center. Name these sizable, metallic, Asian percussion instruments usually suspended on cords from a frame.
gongs
In 1799, the Baron Cuvier introduced what term to denote a category of taxonomic classification more general than classes?
phylum
What word including three vowels means to flow or leak out slowly?
ooze
A jerky recipe calls for 3/4 pound of sugar and 1/4 pound of salt. But Yukon Bob only has 1/2 pound of sugar left in his cabin. How much salt should he use?
1/6 pound (or .167 lb)
What battle is known as Custer's Last Stand?
Battle of the Little Bighorn
What instrument is used for taps or reveille?
bugle
Similar genera are grouped into a...
family
What four-syllable term refers to belief in a single god?
monotheism
Four out of five people failed the trial by fire ordeal during the Inquisition. If twenty people failed the ordeal, how many passed it?
5
In the 1860s, Andrew Hallidie invented an underground continuous cable and mechanical gripper, thus making possible what kind of public transportation in the hilly streets of San Francisco?
cable cars
In acoustics, what is the collective name for those frequencies at the lower end of the audible range?
bass
Species is the most specific level of classification used by biologists. What is the broadest level of classification in biology?
kingdom
What is the product of people in lexicography?
dictionaries
In a family with three children, what is the probability that at least two are boys?
1/2 or 1 in 2
Thomas Paine published what pamphlet in 1776 outlining why colonists should free themselves from British rule and establish an independent government to protect man's natural rights?
Common Sense