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Answer this about methods of purifying water: Getting water hot enough to do this for long enough will kill almost every germ.
answer: boiling
A deck of 52 cards is dealt out, one at a time, to a group of 7 players. Everyone gets 7 cards. How many players end up with 8 cards ?
answer: 3 [the remainder of (52 ÷ 7) ]
First and last name needed! A 1904 stage play and a 1911 novel are both based on this boy who loses his shadow and who is typically played onstage by a woman. What James Barrie character who becomes friends with Wendy serves as leader of the Lost Boys but refuses to grow up?
answer: Peter Pan
Depending on the computer you use and how you set it, it can look like an underscore, a filled-in rectangle, the letter I, or a vertical line. Give the term for this object, seen on a computer screen, that lets you know where your next character will be typed.
answer: cursor (or pointer)
His symphonies include the one nicknamed "Pastoral" and the one that uses the poem "Ode to Joy." The Fifth of his nine symphonies begins with arguably the most famous 8 notes in classical music. Name this German composer, reported to have said on his deathbed in 1827, "I shall hear in heaven."
answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Made from limestone and chalk, it is heated and made into clinker before being ground into tiny grains and loaded into big bags. Name this hard substance that, when combined with water, turns into concrete.
answer: cement
Give the "plant-like" term for the statistical plot where digits with larger place value are in the left-hand column and the final digit of each data point is in the right-hand column.
answer: stem-and-leaf plot
Trevor Noah's book Born a Crime and Richard Wright's book Black Boy are examples of this genre, along with Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Name this genre in which the main character tells the real story of his own life.
answer: autobiography
After his invasion of Russia failed due to a harsh winter, he was exiled to the island of Elba and eventually to the faraway island of St. Helena. Name this dictator of France who lost to England in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
answer: Napoleon Bonaparte (or Napoleon I) (accept any of the three)
Answer these about sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List: Christians once forbidden to worship in this country built churches in Nagasaki prefecture, far enough from its capital that the atomic bomb there left them intact.
answer: Japan
Pencils and paper ready! How many rectangular tiles 3 inches by 6 inches are sold in a case that contains 1,728 square inches of tile ?
answer: 96 (1728/18)
Give these geometry terms: Generic term for any 4-sided polygon
answer: quadrilateral
Name these fairy tales as written by Frenchman Charles Perrault: This girl talks to a wolf, the beginning of her troubles.
answer: Little Red Riding Hood
Its more than 400 million users include recruiters who use its access to people and resumes as their main method of finding new employees. Name this online company specializing in professional networking.
answer: LinkedIn
Answer these about sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List: Chiribiquete [cheer-ee-bee-KET-tay] National Park in Colombia was added for its cave paintings of these cats half the size of a tiger that can bite harder than a tiger.
answer: jaguar
Name these types of metamorphic rock: Often used in sculpture or buildings, it is made of metamorphosed limestone.
answer: marble
Mark left home at 9:40 am and arrived at work at 10 am. If he drove his car at a constant speed of 45 miles per hour for the whole distance, how far is it from Mark's house to his work?
answer: 15 miles
Give these words from their pairs of meanings: A unit of rain from the sky, or the very last liquid molecules in a glass
answer: drop
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
Its final act includes other fairy tale characters like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots. Name this Tchaikovsky ballet whose title character, the daughter of King Florestan the 24th, is cursed for 100 years until kissed by a handsome prince.
answer: Sleeping Beauty
You may find this group of plants in a forest or wetland, or within a crevice in a rock. Different from moss because of its vascular structure, what group of plants has no seeds or flowers and thus reproduces with spores?
answer: ferns
Give these geometry terms: A line segment with one endpoint that goes off infinitely in one direction.
answer: ray
The words "rucksack" (meaning "a knapsack"), "fife" (a musical instrument), "glockenspiel" (another musical instrument), "hamster" (an animal) and "schnauzer" (a breed of dog) all came to English from – what language that also gave us the words "hinterland", "waltz", "bratwurst" and "gesundheit" ?
answer: German
Its sixth season featured a giant purple cube, while its Season 5 included a Drift and a Huntress outfit as part of its "Battle Pass." Name this video game, created by Epic Games, where 100 people can play against each other at the same time in its wildly popular Battle Royale version.
answer: Fortnite
Identify these art terms as defined by New York's Museum of Modern Art: This 2-word term is "a representation of inanimate objects, [such] as a painting of a bowl of fruit".
answer: still life