Fine Arts / Misc
Its two most common subjects were wild animals and the outlines of human hands. Name this specific type of prehistoric art whose discoveries include some in an area near Lascaux [las-KO], France where cool, dark and damp conditions slowed the decay of the art over thousands of years.
answer: cave art/paintings (or rock art/paintings)
MATH Goldbach’s Conjecture states that all even integers greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two of these numbers. Identify this set whose members include 109, 73, 31 and 5.
answer: prime numbers (both words needed)
Dentists number the 12 of these teeth 1 to 3, 13 to 19 and 30 to 32, with 1, 16, 17 and 32 being the "third" type of these teeth that are commonly called "wisdom teeth." Name this type of flat tooth in the back of your mouth, used for chewing and grinding food.
answer: molars
In 1778, he led a group of 5,000 soldiers from his native Massachusetts to try and capture Newport, Rhode Island, just one year after resigning his first term as President of the Continental Congress. Name this Founding Father, famed for his huge signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence.
answer: John Hancock
ARTS Give the relative pronoun that best fills in the blank: "When Rachelle got home, she saw trash all over the driveway from a torn trash bag and began asking everyone in the family [blank] fault it was."
answer: whose
It includes a Russian folk dance tune called "At the Door, At My Door." It honors the Battle of Borodino in which Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers were defeated by Russian troops and by a harsh winter. Name this Tchaikovsky work, famed for its cannon fire at the end.
answer: the 1812 Overture
Mark has 11 times as many crayons as Janelle has. If Janelle has 28 crayons, what expression will tell how many crayons Mark has ?
answer: 11 x 28
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
Written to make the Anti-Federalists happy, only five-sixths of the part of it passed by both houses of Congress was also ratified by individual states to become law, with Virginia being the last state to ratify it in 1791. Give this collective name for the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
answer: Bill of Rights
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
His most recent album begins with a little girl saying, "We don't want no devils in this house." That track, called “Ultralight Beam”, features Chance the Rapper and appears on his album called The Life of Pablo. Name this rap star whose other albums include Late Registration, Yeezus and The College Dropout.
answer: Kanye West
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]
Pencils and paper ready! After a 100-gram sample of water has 20 grams of sugar and 15 grams of salt stirred into it, what is the total mass of the sample ?
answer: 135 grams (conservation of mass)
The Parks Highway in this state connects two of its biggest cities and includes places to see an Athabaskan Indian settlement and learn about gold mining as you drive between Fairbanks and Anchorage. Name this state where the Parks Highway offers excellent views of the former Mount McKinley.
answer: Alaska
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
He played the secretary named Kevin in the female version of the movie Ghostbusters and the title character in The Huntsman: Winter's War. Name this Australian actor, more famous for appearing in several Marvel Comics movies as Thor.
answer: Chris Hemsworth
Pencils and paper ready! What actual number is represented by the 6 in the number 37,564 ?
answer: sixty
These vehicles were first launched to search for water on other planets. Give the term for these NASA “robot geologists” whose examples include Curiosity and Opportunity that have both explored Mars.
answer: rovers
STUDIES In 2016, this city's airport was renamed for astronaut John Glenn, who loved to watch airplanes there as a child and later served 4 terms as a U.S. Senator from the state where this city is the largest by population. Name this home of The Ohio State University and capital city of Ohio.
answer: Columbus, Ohio
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
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]
The medians formed within this shape intersect at the centroid of this figure. Name this common geometric figure that can be classified as "acute", "obtuse", or "right."
answer: triangle
A blood lime, a tangelo [tan-JELL-o] and a plumcot are examples of this type of organism that can be improved to produce bigger and better fruit. Name this manmade result of purposely cross-pollinating two different plants to create a third, different plant.
answer: a hybrid
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)
Give the two words in this sentence that serve as direct objects: "After David threw the Frisbee into the next yard, Carolyn slid under the fence to get it."
answer: Frisbee, it