Whose preoccupation with the idea of a machine for the electrical transmission of speech resulted in a practical demonstration of the first magneto-electric telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell (Bell)
100
The largest island of the West Indies is
Cuba
100
Jason and the Argonauts sought the Golden...
fleece
100
What is the last adjective in this statement? Coal-burning power plants exposed the people living around them to more radioactivity from traces of Uranium, Thorium, and Radon in their smoke, then do normally operating nuclear plants.
Nuclear
100
Standard guitars have how many strings?
6
200
What inventor of a curved sheath knife died defending the Alamo?
Jim Bowie (Bowie)
200
The Aleutian Islands separate the Pacific from what Sea?
The Bering Sea
200
The Greek gods live on Mount
Olympus
200
What article, besides "the" is appropriate to use before a word beginning with a vowel sound?
an
200
What is the collective name for musical instruments whose tones are produced by blowing through a cup or funnel-shaped mouthpiece and whose bodies are made of metal?
brass
300
Who devised a machine in 1793 that revolutionized cotton production and made it a cash staple of Southern agriculture?
Eli Whitney (Whitney)
300
An ice sheet as much 3,400 meters thick depresses five sixths of the surface of the world's largest island. Name that island.
Greenland
300
Curiosity plays a central role in the story of Bluebeards wives and also what Greek mythical woman who couldn't keep from opening a box?
Pandora
300
What part of speech is the last word in the quote from the movie, "Citizen Kane"?
Old age is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.
Preposition
300
What category of musical instruments are played by striking, shaking, or scraping them?
percussion
400
In 1844 a band of 15 Texas Rangers attacked a party of 300 Comanches, killing half of them and intimidating the rest with new revolvers that could fire six shots without reloading. Who invented and manufactured these weapons?
Samuel Colt (Colt)
400
What country east of Vietnam has zero kilometers of land boundaries, 36,000 kilometers of coastline, and a total are about equal to that of Arizona, most of which is on Luzon and Mindanao?
Philipines
400
The Colossus of Rhodes was a huge statue depicting Helios, the god of the...
sun
400
How many nouns are in this sentence?
The first thing to do when you are being attacked by an angry mob with raspberries is to release a tiger.
4
400
Violins in the hands of frontiersmen were referred to as...
fiddles
500
Russell Freedman wrote "Out of the Darkness" about what inventor of a special alphabet?
Louis Braille (Braille)
500
Cyprus is in the eastern part of what sea?
Mediterranean
500
What term has all three meanings?
-a genus of plants with leaves shaped like swords
-the Greek goddess of the rainbow
-the colored part of the eye
Iris
500
What type of adjective is illustrated in the phrase, "Herculean labor"?
proper
500
Usually played in pairs with the hands, name the small, single-headed drums of Afro-Cuban origin used in Latin America dance bands.