MISCELLANEOUS
What Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist was the archetypal Renaissance man?
Leonardo da Vinci
Ancient Egyptians building pyramids knew it was easier to push a heavy object up a slope than to lift it directly, and constructed long ramps for this purpose. Name this simple machine.
Inclined Plane
Name the two-time female prime minister whose father was the first prime minister of India.
Indira Ghandi
These are lakes in what country? Lake Disappointment, Lake Torrens, Lake Eyre
Australia
Which passageway in the throat is posterior?
Esophagus
In 1846, Congress founded what enormous museum complex at the bequest of the British scholar, James Smithson?
Smithsonian Institution
The highest point of a plane figure or solid with respect to a line or a plane chosen as the base is the ...
Apex
This line of priests began in the 14th century and each one is regarded as the reincarnation of his predecessor. What is the title of any of these Tibetan spiritual leaders?
Dalai Lama
What kind of clouds are typically found in the stratosphere over Europe?
None
In contrast to the smallest capillaries which are only about 5 micrometers in diameter, the largest artery, with an opening of about 2.5 centimeters, is the ...
Aorta
On a balance scale, to measure anything up to 50 pounds, you need a maximum of six different weights. Four of these have weights of 1, 2, 4, and 8 pounds. What are the weights of the other two?
16, 32
On a balance scale, to measure anything up to 50 pounds, you need a maximum of six different weights. Four of these have weights of 1, 2, 4, and 8 pounds. What are the weights of the other two?
16, 32
Who was chancellor of England from 1155 to 1162 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170 during the reign of King Henry II?
Thomas Becket
The headquarters of NATO are in what country?
Belgium
What fills the central cavities of long bones?
Marrow
A massive dark cloud from which rain is falling is what kind of cloud?
Nimbus
What is m if m/8 - m/10 = 3?
120
What former Catholic priest who denied the authority of the pope made this statement? It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other.
Martin Luther
The confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is in what country?
Iraq
For what does the abbreviation stand in this explanation? The ER is a complicated network of folded membranes in the cytoplasm of a cell that functions to synthesize, modify, and transport cellular materials.
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Geneticists studying the DNA in mitochondria claim to have traced the entire human family tree back to a single woman whom they named ...
Eve
A brick that weighs one pound at the Earth's surface is transported to the exact center of the Earth. What is its weight at that location?
0
He is considered to be the first Pope.
Peter
In the late 1990s, its real estate values declined by as much as 80 percent and its equities plummeted by 60 percent. This loss of over $8 trillion in value is the largest collapse of wealth in the history of the world. Name the country.
Japan
In the five-kingdom classification system, which kingdom includes the only organisms that have prokaryotic cells, i.e. cells with no organized nuclei in a nuclear membrane?
Monera