Regionalists
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
Naturalists
Gatsby
Gatsby
2-D and 3-D Calculations
Analytical Geometry
More Science
Definitely Not Science
What are they talking about?
Who said it?
100
What chore does Tom Sawyer famously trick his friends into doing for him?
Whitewashing a fence
100
In The Great Gatsby, where do Nick and Gatsby live?
West Egg
100
What is the area of a triangle whose base is 3 and height is 6?
9
100
What are the slope and y-intercept of the following line? (No partial points)
y=-3x+6
Slope is -3
y-intercept is 6
100
Which kind of decay is occurring in the following nuclear reaction?
alpha decay (alpha radiation)
100
A solution has a pH of 3. What is its pOH?
11
100
"All wearing rubber surgical gloves, the five suspects were captured inside a small office within the committee's headquarters suite."
What is the Watergate Scandal?
100
"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
What realization causes Armand’s love for Desiree to suddenly disappear?
Their son is of mixed racial heritage/part black.
200
In “Flight,” what fateful object did Pepe inherit from his father?
a knife
200
What is the area of a trapezoid with bases 4 and 7 and a height of 8?
44
200
What are the center and radius of the following circle? (No partial points)
x^2+y^2=36
Center is (0,0)
Radius is 6
200
Adding salt to a liquid will cause the liquid’s boiling point to __________ and its freezing point to __________.
increase, decrease
200
Group 2 elements are also called…
alkaline earth metals
200
"In the President's mind there was reasonable hope for a popular uprising following a successful landing as well as the possibility of setting up a free Cuban government in the beachhead after it had been firmly secured."
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
"Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us."
Who is Malcolm X?
300
To where do Tom, Huck, and Joe Harper run away to begin their careers as pirates?
Jackson's Island
300
Where specifically does the story “To Build a Fire” take place?
The Yukon or the Yukon Territory (Canada)
300
What is the volume of a sphere whose radius is 6? Leave your answer in terms of pi.
288\pi
300
What is the equation of a line passing through (4, 2) and perpendicular to
y-2=3(x+7)?
y=-\frac(1)(3)x+\frac(10)(3)
or
y=-\frac(1)(3)x+\frac(10)(3)
300
What molecular geometry will the compound CCl4 have?
tetrahedral
300
Whose gold foil experiment demonstrated the existence of a tiny, positive, dense nucleus?
(Ernest) Rutherford
300
"Waitresses at F. W. Woolworth Co. ignored the group, many of whom remained in the store this afternoon."
What is the Student Sit-in Movement/Greensboro Sit-ins?
300
"America is the Great Satan, the wounded snake."
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
400
Emily Dickinson is famous for her use of ______ rhyme.
slant
400
What did F. Scott Fitzgerald famously call the 1920s?
The Jazz Age
400
What is the area of a parallelogram whose sides are 10 and 12 and the included angle is 30 degrees?
60
400
After the coordinates (2,3), (-4,1), and (0,-4) are rotated 270 degrees about the origin, where would the new coordinates be?
(3,-2), (1,4), and (-4,0)
400
Based on the equation
BaO (s) + H2O (l) -------> Ba(OH)2 (aq)
BaO can be considered a(n)...
basic anhydride
400
Excited atoms release a handful of specific frequencies of light as their electrons lose specific amounts of energy. A spectrum that contains only these frequencies is known as a _______ spectrum.
line
400
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law."
What is McCarthyism/Joseph McCarthy/The House Unamerican Activities Committee?
400
"For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
What is the name of the well-dressed boy whom Tom “licked” and Becky Thatcher flirted with?
Alfred Temple
500
What is Daisy’s daughter named?
Pammy (Buchanan)
500
What is the area of a hexagon whose side length is 4? Leave your answer in terms of square root not as a decimal.
24\sqrt(3)
500
Find all the intersections points of the two graphs:
(x+1)^2+(y-1)^2=18
y=x+8
(-4,4)
500
In the reversible reaction
2HI(g) <----> H2(g) + I2(g)
an increase in pressure will cause...
no change in equilibrium
500
What is the oxidizing agent in the following reaction?
Cu(s) + 2AgNO3 (aq) ----> 2Ag(s) + Cu(NO3)2 (aq)
AgNO3
500
"To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past."
What is the Tet Offensive/Vietnam War?
500
"The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive."
Who is Harry Truman?