Science
Like his Greek counterpart Hermes [HUR-meez], this son of Jupiter was often portrayed wearing winged sandals. Identify this Roman god of commerce who shares his name with both a chemical element and with the smallest planet in our solar system.
answer: Mercury
Pencils and paper ready! The 424 apples for sale in a grocery store are all in bags that each have 8 apples in them. How many bags does the grocery store have ?
answer: 53 [424 ÷ 8]
The English words "biathlon", "bicuspid", "bicameral", "binoculars", "bicep", "bipolar" and "bicycle" all begin with the Latin prefix "bi" that means—what number in English ?
answer: two (prompt on "bi" before it is read)
When repeated more than once, the abbreviation for this term indicates a note or passage that should be played very forcefully. Give this Italian musical term for "loud", considered the opposite of "piano", that is represented by an italicized small letter f.
answer: forte [for-tay]
Name the American statesman whose death in 1826 came just hours before the death of John Adams and whose gravestone terms him the father of the University of Virginia and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
answer: Thomas Jefferson
Identify the well-known constellation, named for a mighty hunter, whose 7 stars include 2 for his shoulders, 2 for his feet and the 3 in his belt.
answer: Orion [o-RYE-un]
Pencils and paper ready! Write down this expression: 3.59 – 2.61 + 1.47 x 0.4. If no parentheses of any kind are added, which calculation should be done first ?
answer: 1.47 x 0.4 (multiply/divide before add/subtract)
Trying to use a "dependent" one of these as a complete sentence only results in a sentence fragment. Name this grammatical construction, defined as "a sentence part with its own subject and verb", whose "independent" type can form a sentence by itself.
answer: clause
18.MISCELLANEOUS Its "minor league" series of races is now sponsored by Xfinity, and those races sometimes precede its "major league" series of races that ends each fall with its final four drivers competing for its Cup. Give the 6-letter acronym of this racing organization that sponsors the Coca-Cola 600 and Daytona 500.
answer: NASCAR
This U.S. President who succeeded in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress. Name this Chief Executive, a former Congressman from Texas, who assumed the Presidency in November 1963 after John Kennedy was killed.
answer: Lyndon B. Johnson (or LBJ) (first name/initial needed)
Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the mass of an object in kilograms that, if moved with a force of 900 Newtons, develops an acceleration of 60 meters per second squared.
answer: 15 kg [F = ma, so m =900/60]
Pencils and paper ready! What actual number is represented by the 6 in the number 37,564 ?
answer: sixty
Authors Maxim Gorky and Boris Pasternak, playwright Anton Chekhov, and poet Osip Mandelshtam were all born in--what present-day country that was also home to authors Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky ?
answer: Russia
Since China began competing in this sport in 1984, they have won more medals in it than any other country. Name this water sport whose Olympic events include both individual and synchronized pairs competitions in both 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard.
answer: diving
He gave an 1895 speech in Atlanta where he encouraged blacks to focus less on civil rights and more on education and work. Name this educator whose autobiography Up From Slavery was published in 1901, 20 years after he began developing what is now Alabama's Tuskegee [tus-KEEG-ee] Institute.
answer: Booker T. Washington
This problem is often treated with a clot-busting drug and is the result of blood flow through a major organ being blocked, making it different from "sudden cardiac arrest" that causes that major organ of your body to simply stop. Give the common 2-word term for this acute health problem, sometimes called a "myocardial infarction."
answer: heart attack (accept "myocardial infarction" before it is read; prompt on "heart")
When talking about circles, it is replaced by the term "circumference." Identify this concept whose formula for a rectangle L by W is 2L + 2W, whose formula for a square of side S is 4S, and can be found for 2-dimensional objects by summing the lengths of the object's sides.
answer: perimeter
Name the Broadway show, based on a Disney movie, whose singing roles include the gorillas Kala and Kerchak, as well as Professor Porter and his daughter Jane.
answer: Tarzan
First considered a caricature of small-town life, its painter responded to criticism by saying, "I had to visit France to appreciate Iowa." Name this 1930 painting by Grant Wood that shows a farmer standing next to his daughter in front of a farmhouse.
answer: American Gothic
Name the states containing these National Parks:
Mammoth Cave
answer: Kentucky
Like the vertebrae in your back, it is divided into four regions. Its 31 pairs of nerves control feeling all over your body, and damage to this structure can lead to numbness or even total paralysis. Name this important part of your central nervous system that stretches from the base of your skull down the middle of your back.
answer: spinal cord
Pencils and paper ready! $20 can buy you 8 loaves of bread, 4 dozen donuts, or 10 dozen cookies. How much are one loaf of bread, one dozen donuts and one dozen cookies together?
answer: $9.50 [$2.50 + $5 + $2]
It serves to equate a specific noun with another word or phrase that also describes the same noun. Name this specific type of verb that can include "feel" or "seem" but is most often a form of the verb "be", such as "is" or "were."
answer: linking verb (prompt on "verb" before it is read)
This object has a colorful type called "contour" and a softer "down" type that serves as insulation and is often used to make pillows for people. Name this biological structure, used by birds.
answer: feathers
Name these rivers that had some effect on Napoleon: After he defeated Austria in 1801, France's borders included the Pyrenees [PEER-a-neez] Mountains and this river that runs through much of Germany.
answer: Rhine River