Science
Pencils and paper ready! Using the correct sign and unit, calculate the average acceleration of a particle whose velocity changes from 60 feet per second to 6 feet per second over a period of 6 seconds.
answer: -9 feet per second squared (or feet per second per second)
Pencils and paper ready! The Belmont Stakes horse race covers 11⁄2 miles, or-- how many furlongs, if one furlong is 1⁄8 mile ?
answer: 12
King Arthur had one of these called Rhongomiant. Odin's version of this weapon was so well-balanced that it would always hit an enemy, no matter how badly it was thrown. Name this sharp weapon whose "javelin" type is thrown in the Olympics.
answer: spear
His Facebook group called "Dank Meme Stash" developed after his 8-hour filibuster against extending George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2010. What former mayor of Burlington and current Vermont Senator was apparently kept from winning the 2016 Democratic primary that he lost to Hillary Clinton ?
answer: Bernard (Bernie) Sanders (accept either)
Its two most common subjects were wild animals and the outlines of human hands. Name this specific type of prehistoric art whose discoveries include some in an area near Lascaux [las-KO], France where cool, dark and damp conditions slowed the decay of the art over thousands of years.
answer: cave art/paintings (or rock art/paintings)
Convection in this region creates seafloor spreading and tectonic plate movement. Name this layer of Earth, bounded by the Moho Discontinuity and the Gutenberg Discontinuity, that is located between the crust and the outer core.
answer: mantle
Pencils and paper ready! At Zane's Scout campout, 10 boys will be eating 3 meals a day for 3 days. Give the cost per meal per boy if the total food bill is $288.
answer: $3.20 (288/90)
King Arthur's knight Yvain is said to have saved one of these creatures from a serpent. One of these animals was thought to have killed Thisbe [THIZ-bee] in mythology. Name this type of animal whose other examples include the one roaring at the beginning of every MGM movie and the cowardly one in Oz.
answer: lions
The St. Mary’s River flows out of Whitefish Bay to the east of this lake. Islands and Isle Royale are situated within this lake whose port cities include Marquette, Thunder Bay, and Duluth [da-LOOTH]. Name this lake north of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the largest Great Lake.
answer: Lake Superior
It includes a Russian folk dance tune called "At the Door, At My Door." It honors the Battle of Borodino in which Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers were defeated by Russian troops and by a harsh winter. Name this Tchaikovsky work, famed for its cannon fire at the end.
answer: the 1812 Overture
Conifers are the most common tree in this biome that is thought to have once been totally covered by glaciers. Give the Russian word for this largest terrestrial biome, found mostly in Russia, Alaska and Canada, that separates temperate forests from tundra.
answer: taiga [TYE-ga] (accept boreal forest before "Russian" is read)
A person described by this term may be "white hat" or "black hat." Give this term for anyone who tries to get into a computer system they shouldn't be trying to get into.
answer: hacker
Each year, the summer solstice [SOAL-stuss] begins the summer season in the U.S. and the winter solstice begins winter. Spell the word "solstice."
answer: S-O-L-S-T-I-C-E
Name the armed conflict when the city of Seoul changed hands four times that, since 1953, has been suspended by an armistice agreed on by its two major opponents.
answer: Korean War
Its two national championships in men's basketball were coached by Billy Donovan. Two of its three national championships in football featured quarterback Tim Tebow. Name this SEC college, located in Gainesville, that plays its home football games in "The Swamp."
answer: University of Florida (or Gators)
Its main types include "isometric", "triclinic" and "cubic." Give the term for this type of solid whose atoms form a regular pattern and whose common examples include salt and sugar.
answer: crystal
Pencils and paper ready! A group of 400 students can be divided into three groups: 0.21 of them who prefer chocolate ice cream, half who prefer vanilla, and-- what number of students who prefer some other flavor ?
answer: 116 (do not accept 29% or equivalents, as "what number" is specified)
Used to make compound adjectives, the Blue Book of Grammar says this mark notifies the reader that elements in a sentence are linked together. Name this punctuation mark that looks like a dash but is shorter and used differently.
answer: hyphen
Once equal to a certain weight in silver, it is now divided into 100 parts like the American dollar after being divided for centuries into "shillings" and "pence." Identify this unit of currency whose value plummeted for a short time after Great Britain voted to leave the European Union.
answer: British pound sterling
His most recent album begins with a little girl saying, "We don't want no devils in this house." That track, called “Ultralight Beam”, features Chance the Rapper and appears on his album called The Life of Pablo. Name this rap star whose other albums include Late Registration, Yeezus and The College Dropout.
answer: Kanye West
Name the simple machine, found on the lid of a jar or the end of a light bulb, that combines a nail with a thread, or inclined plane, that is wrapped around the nail.
answer: screw
Pencils and paper ready! If using the area method to multiply 79 x 63, what number goes into the top left corner of the large rectangle because it equals 70 x 60 ?
answer: 4,200
His 17 years living in Hartford, Connecticut saw the writing of his non-fiction work Roughing It. Name this native of Missouri whose fiction written during his years in Hartford included The Prince and the Pauper and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)
In 1778, he led a group of 5,000 soldiers from his native Massachusetts to try and capture Newport, Rhode Island, just one year after resigning his first term as President of the Continental Congress. Name this Founding Father, famed for his huge signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence.
answer: John Hancock
Originally written as a parody of God Bless America, some of its lyrics talk about seeing a "No Trespassing" sign and seeing "the sparkling sands of [America's] diamond deserts." Name this Woody Guthrie folk song whose chorus talks about the redwood forests and the Gulf Stream waters.
answer: "This Land is Your Land"