American Literature
The Uncle Remus stories were collected and compiled by what American journalist and longtime associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution?
Joel Chandler Harris
two x plus four; x minus three (2x + 4; x – 3)
Two x squared minus two x minus twelve (2x2 - 2x – 12)
A Spanish explorer named Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from Central America in 1513. He was in what is now what country of Central America?
Panama
Due to the influence of works such as the “Maple Leaf”, Joplin earned the nickname as the “King of” what musical genre that is somewhat related to bluegrass and jazz?
Ragtime
Large bumps on the forearm indicate the presence of what infectious bacterial disease that was once known as consumption and that is tested for using the Mantoux PPD skin test?
Tuberculosis OR TB
What trickster bunny uses his brains rather than brawn to outwit other characters such as a fox and a bear and is the main character of many of the Uncle Remus tales?
Br’er Rabbit (prompt on “Br’er” alone)
three x minus five; two x plus one (3x – 5; 2x + 1)
Six x squared minus seven x minus five (6x2 – 7x – 5)
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by traveling by the sea, doing so in 1498. Name this explorer.
Vasco da Gama
Joplin's compositions were largely done on what musical instrument? “The Entertainer” is a famous song played entirely on this instrument.
Piano
TB is referred to as Pott’s Disease when it manifests itself in what bone that usually takes on a slight “S” shape in upright humans?
Spine or Vertebrae (prompt on “backbone” or “back”)
In 1904, Joel Chandler Harris wrote a series of four articles discussing the problem of race relations in the south. Those articles were published in what magazine that often used Norman Rockwell creations on its covers?
Saturday Evening Post
four x plus nine; five x plus eight (4x + 9; 5x + 8)
Twenty x squared plus seventy-seven x plus seventy-two
(20x2 + 77x + 72)
This Italian-born explorer for France is said to be the first European to explore the bay of what is now New York City. A bridge in New York that opened in 1964 bears his name. Who was this explorer?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Joplin posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for what 1911 opera that centers on a slave woman who is taught to read, who in turn teaches fellow slaves the value of education?
Treemonisha
Bedaquiline (BAY-duh-kwy-line) is an antibiotic used to treat TB that was created by what company that also produces Neutrogena products, Band-Aids, and Tylenol?
Johnson & Johnson (do NOT accept “SC Johnson”)