Challenge
Muir Woods in California features what kind of trees?
Red Woods or Sequoias
A silhouette has how many dimensions?
2
This description includes what figure of speech? "He looked like a bulldog chewing a wasp."
simile
What point of view is illustrated in these lines?
-It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
-Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed.
-There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
third person
The mass of what microorganisms that live throughout the biosphere exceeds that of all plants and animals together?
bacteria
Stratopheric shlorine has caused a thinning of what layer of the atmosphere above Antarctica?
ozone layer
When Sony's laptops were found to be a fire hazard of when many General Motors' cars were found to have faulty ignitions, the companies requested the return of those products for repairs and parts replacement. What is the term for such requests?
recalls
Hedda Hopper hopped ten yeards east, turns right and hops another ten yards. She again turns right and hops ten yards. She then makes a 45-degree turn to the left and hops straight. IN which direction is Hedda hopping now?
southwest
Military History
IN the 1980, the first female cadets graduated from what U.S. military academy in New York that was founded in 1802?
West Point (U.S. Military Academy)
Ancient Literature
These were literary works from what ancient civilization?
Teaching for King Merykara
The Contendings of Horus and Seth Isis, the Rich Woman's son, and the Fisherman's Wife
Egypt
What proverb about feathered bipeds has a meaning opposites of this one? Opposites attract.
Birds of a feather flock together
What is the objective form of the third person, singular, masculine pronoun?
him
These were ancient cities in the land that became what modern country?
Capua
Brindisi
Vercelli
Turin
Genoa
Italy
Displacement
How many cubic inches of water will spill over the sides of a full barrel if you place a bowling ball in it with a volume of 268 cubic inches?
268 cubic inches
Through what process is a legislative proposal submitted to a vote of the people?
refereudum
Alexander Mackenzie's journey across Canada in 1793 occurred ten years prior to what other famous expedition to reach the Pacific Ocean across land that would become the United States?
Lewis and Clark
An animal with the scientific name Giraffa camelopardalis belongs to what genus?
Giraffa
A compressible medium is necessary for you to detect the stimuli that produce what sensation?
sound
Winds
Microbursts and downbursts caused by thunderstorms are examples of what meteorological phenomenon relating to wind?
wind shear
Royalty
Before becoming theDuchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William was Kate who?
Middleton
The equation 2x - 5 = 9 is only true for what value?
7
If you sailed north across the Bay of Biscay and continued to hug the coast, you would enter what major channel?
English Channel
These disorders are all related to what organ? strabismus, macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, conjectivitis, photophobia
eye
In the first verse of Lewis Carroll's "jabberwocky," up through and including the word "babe," there are how many syllables?
16
Commandments
In "Animal Farm" there are how many commandments?
7