Maths
Given the data set: 5, 8, 9, 7, 8, 6, 5, 9, 8, 7, and 6, what is the median of the data set?
7
This character, the young son of Bob Cratchit, has been crippled from birth. After a change of heart, Ebenezer Scrooge treats the boy as his own son. Which character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol says, "God bless us, every one!"?
Tiny Tim
This politician served as the first Governor of Virginia after independence. Give this statesman who famously said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
The organs of this system are responsible for the control of the body and communication among its part. What organ system includes not only the spinal cord and the brain, but also the system that transmits information to and from the brain?
Nervous System
Watty Piper wrote the book on which this Broadway play is based. Determination and perseverance help the title character move the Piney Vale Express. What is this play about a small train engine that defies expectations?
The Little Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle
Simplify the following: The absolute value of 25 minus the absolute value of negative 13.
12
Identify the complete subject in the following sentence: The woman at the bike shop told us she could fix the tire.
The woman at the bike shop
This colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh off the coast of North Carolina in 1565. Upon his return, the town had disappeared, with only the word "CROATOAN" carved into a tree. Identify this settlement, often nicknamed "The Lost Colony."
Roanoke
This measure of distance is just under 9.5 trillion kilometers. Identify the term for the distance that visible electromagnetic radiation travels in 365 days.
Light Year
Sometimes a dance will pop onto the dance scene and is dubbed this. What are these "new" dances that are considered contemporary short-lived dance fads?
Craze
If three cans of mixed vegetables cost 99 cents, then in dollars, how much would 12 cans cost?
$3.96
This Carlo Collodi creation has a name meaning "pine cone" in Italian. Gepetto carves him from wood, but he eventually becomes a real boy. Name this naughty puppet, whose nose grows when he tells a lie.
Pinocchio
This Spanish explorer established a settlement in present day Panama in 1510. His most famous discovery was made at San Miguel Bay, and named for the direction he traveled to reach it. Give this first European to see the Pacific from the New World.
Balboa
This form of growth in response to a stimulus occurs as a result of an unequal distribution of auxin. What type of plant orientation or movement occurs in response to light?
phototropism
This deity is one of the manifestations of Brahman. He is married to the goddess Shakti or Kali. What is this Hindu deity called the Destroyer who is covered with white ashes, and from whose hair the Ganges River flows?
Shiva
A rectangular prism has a length of 8 feet, a width of 5 feet, and a height of 2 feet. What is the surface area in square feet of the rectangular prism?
132 square feet
This poem begins, "Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold." Eventually, "leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief, / So dawn goes down to day." Identify this poem that was written by Robert Frost.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
This statesman served as the subject of Walt Whitman's O Captain, My Captain! Though he opposed slavery, his first priority was to keep the nation united with minimal losses. Who is this sixteenth president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865?
Abraham Lincoln
Name, in order from outermost to innermost, the four main parts of a complete flower.
SEPALS, PETALS, STAMEN, PISTIL (OR CARPEL)
Irving Berlin composed the music lyrics of this Broadway musical that is a fictionalized version of the life of one of America's famous "gun-toting" females. Identify this musical in which the title character is based on the Wild West Star, Annie Oakley
Annie Get Your Gun
Given that a marathon is approximately 26 miles long and that a mile is approximately 5000 feet, approximately, how long, in feet, is a marathon?
130,000 feet
This goddess was Zeus's sister. She was the jealous protector of marriage and punished the women whom Zeus seduced. Identify the Greek goddess who was also Zeus's wife.
Hera
This explorer followed Bartolomeu Dias' route around the southern tip of Africa. He continued up the continent's east coast until he reached Calicut, a city in Asia. Identify this Portuguese explorer, the first European to reach India by sea.
Vasco Da Gama
Catherine Thimmesh's book Team Moon tells how four hundred thousand people helped the spaceflight succeed. Which mission allowed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to be the first humans on the moon?
Apollo 11
This musical work was premiered at an educational event in February 1924. It is an excellent representation of jazz and the blues. What is this musical composition by George Gershwin that begins with a two-and-a-half-octave glissando for the clarinet?
Rhapsody In Blue