40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND 1
The first example of what type of group was composed of Lepidus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar?
first triumvirate
What American organization maintains the largest not-for-profit purebred dog registry in the world?
American Kennel Club (accept: AKC)
What is the only letter in the English alphabet pronounced with more than one syllable?
W
Name the four temperaments in Hippocrates’ proto-psychological theory based on body fluids.
sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic (accept word forms)
Robert Galbraith.
J. K. Rowling (accept: Joanne Rowling)
What space is located diagonally across from Go in Monopoly?
Free Parking
Bred in yellow, black, and chocolate varieties, what breed of dog is the most popular in Canada and the U.S.?
Labrador retriever (accept: Lab; prompt on: retriever)
What amino acid, with single letter symbol W, is often blamed for post-Thanksgiving food comas?
tryptophan
Currer Bell.
Charlotte Brontë (prompt on: Brontë)
How many flats are in the key of E-flat major?
What is the fastest breed of dog on land?
English greyhound
The dot product of force and displacement vectors gives what quantity symbolized W?
work
Lemony Snicket.
Daniel Handler
Marsha P. Johnson was one of the primary protestors at which set of Greenwich village LGBTQ+ demonstrations?
Stonewall protests
What does “www” stand for when used in a URL?
world wide web
Lewis Carroll.
Charles Dodgson