A person who cannot become ill with a disease again is---to the disease.
immune
100
The two metals most widely used to conduct electricity in homes and copper and...
aluminum
100
What popular names for the armies of the North and South during the Civil War referred to the colors of their uniforms?
blue, gray
100
In the 1870s, the talking telegraph was a fascination of what Scottish-American inventor?
Alexander Graham Bell
100
These people were associated with the history of what ancient country?
Cleopatra
Rameses II
Hatshepsut
Amenhotep
Egypt
200
The site chosen for Jamestown did offer security but was low and swampy, intolerably hot and humid in the summer, and a terrific habitat for mosquitoes carrying what disease?
malaria
200
Electricity can be dangerous and precautions must be taken against two kinds of electrical hazards. These include shock and ...
fire
200
These were significant battles in what war?
Monmouth
Saratoga
Yorktown
Bunker Hill
American Revolution
200
The sounds may be crackling, popping, hissing, rushing, and humming. what is the collective term for various forms of audible interference superimposed over the communications heard through telephone and radio receivers?
static (noise)
200
Professionally, these people were all what?
J.K. Rowling
Beatrix Potter
L. Frank Baum
A.A. Milne
Mark Twain
authors (writers)
300
What condition results when a person has insufficient food for a prolonged period?
malnutrition
300
The tingling you feel when you take off a nylon parka is caused by what form of electricity?
static electricity
300
The United Nations was founded at the end of what war?
World War II
300
What invention replaced the pony express?
telegraph
300
What title did these women hold?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Abigail Adams
Martha Washington
Patricia NIxon
first lady
400
What disease that used to be very common among children and young adults is characterized by painful swelling of the salivary glands?
mumps
400
Around 1800, the Italian, Alessandro Volta, built a primitive device providing a steady current of electricity, a device we now call a...
battery
400
The U.S. was embroiled in what war while these men served as presidents?
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Vietnam War
400
Samuel Morse is associated with what two little marks?
dot, dash
400
What term indicates the relationship between the person and the device?
Galileo-telescope
James Watt-steam engine
Elias HOwe-sewing machine
JOhn Dunlop-pneumatic tire
JOhn Browning-automatic rifle
inventor
500
If you completely avoid any vitamin C in your diet for the next few months, you could share what disease that afflicted great numbers of the 15th-century sailors?
scurvy
500
Electrical charges pass through a wire in the form of...
electrons
500
Aircraft from what country sank the American battleships Nevada and Arizona
Japan
500
What form of written symbols were all these people familiar with?
Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Rameses II
hieroglypics
500
What occupation was shared by these people?
Edvard Grieg
Jean Sibelius
Maurice Ravel
Claude Debussy