Social Studies
Name the explorer most famous for his climb with Tenzing Norgay, when he became the first white man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
answer: Sir Edmund Hillary
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
Pencils and paper ready! What actual number is represented by the 6 in the number 37,564 ?
answer: sixty
The best hometown players ever to appear in this stadium include outfielder Ted Williams and designated hitter David Ortiz. Name this baseball stadium whose 37-foot-high wall known as the "Green Monster" plays a part in almost every Boston Red Sox home game.
answer: Fenway Park
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
This U.S. President who succeeded in getting the CivilRights 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)
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
Pencils and paper ready! As a decimal, give the sum of one-half and 23.64%.
answer: 0.7364
Singer Karen Carpenter died from this illness whose warning signs include stressing out about your weight and telling people you're not hungry even if you haven't eaten all day. Identify this eating disorder that is actually a mental illness telling you that you're too fat even when you're too thin to be healthy.
answer: anorexia nervosa
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
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
The ghost who scares Clara and her family in the novel where she appears is actually this title character, who sleepwalks when she begins to miss her grandfather and her friend Peter back home in the Swiss Alps. Name this orphan girl, created by Johanna Spyri.
answer: Heidi
Pencils and paper ready! At Zane's Scout campout, 10 boys will be eating 3 meals a day for 3 days. Give the cost per meal per boy if the total food bill is $288.
answer: $3.20 (288/90)
This artist based his sculpture Profile of Time on his most famous work and painted a Disintegration of that work. He depicted three swans whose reflections are elephants in one painting. Name this Spanish Surrealist who painted a group of ants walking over a melting clock in his work The Persistence of Memory.
answer: Salvador Dalí
Singer Karen Carpenter died from this illness whose warning signs include stressing out about your weight and telling people you're not hungry even if you haven't eaten all day. Identify this eating disorder that is actually a mental illness telling you that you're too fat even when you're too thin to be healthy.
answer: anorexia nervosa
Name the armed conflict when the city of Seoul changed hands four times that, since 1953, has been suspended by an armistice agreed on by its two major opponents.
answer: Korean War
King Arthur's knight Yvain is said to have saved one of these creatures from a serpent. One of these animals was thought to have killed Thisbe [THIZ-bee] in mythology. Name this type of animal whose other examples include the one roaring at the beginning of every MGM movie and the cowardly one in Oz.
answer: lions
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
Its two national championships in men's basketball were coached by Billy Donovan. Two of its three national championships in football featured quarterback Tim Tebow. Name this SEC college, located in Gainesville, that plays its home football games in "The Swamp."
answer: University of Florida (or Gators)
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
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
Each year, the summer solstice [SOAL-stuss] begins the summer season in the U.S. and the winter solstice begins winter. Spell the word "solstice."
answer: S-O-L-S-T-I-C-E
Pencils and paper ready! What is the fourth interior angle of a quadrilateral whose other three angles are 55o, 115o and 130o if the sum of all four is 360o?
answer: 60o [360 – 55 – 115 – 130]
The Virginia museum that discusses this time period considers the Berlin Airlift to have been sometime after its beginning and the reunification of Germany to have been shortly before its end. Identify this time period that ended with the fall of the former Soviet Union without any official gunfire between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
answer: Cold War
Identify the type of storm, common in America's Midwest, that results from a condensation funnel touching the ground and causes damage by the rotation of air at high speed.
answer: tornado