Intermediate Practice Pack #2 Flashcards
What five-letter word refers to the traditional clothing of a nun?
habit
What is the front of a boat called?
bow (or prow)
In which country did the rock group Led Zeppelin originate?
England
If 21 minus x equal 12, what is the value of x?
9
Who wrote the best-selling non-fiction book “Baby and Child Care?”
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Who wrote the novella that has been adapted for film numerous times, including several films called “Scrooge” and a version starring the Muppets?
Charles Dickens
Which Wonderland creature took Alice to see the Mock Turtle?
Gryphon
Which Augustinian friar is known as the Father of Genetics?
Gregor Mendel
What group of organisms do ichthyologists study?
fish
Part of class Insecta, which order of animals contains the most species?
beetles or coleoptera
Which organ of the body does a pulmonary disease affect?
lungs
In France and Quebec, what is the usual term for an underground railway system?
Metro
What is a device which uses a pendulum to indicate tempo?
metronome
What is a major city in a given country or region?
metropolis
What is the science or system of weights and measures?
metrology
The Churchill River flows through what two provinces?
Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Hazel the Witch and Tubby Tompkins are characters in what comic strip?
Little Lulu
Who is Donald Duck’s girlfriend?
Daisy
Who is Popeye’s good friend who is almost always seen with, but rarely paying for, a hamburger?
Wimpy
Which alliteratively-named youngster was bitten by a radioactive spider, thereby gaining some of its powers?
Peter Parker (or Miles Morales)
In what comic stirp might I find Lucy and Linus?
Peanuts
The Green Hornet’s partner was Kato, but what was his Black Beauty?
car
What was the magic word that allowed Billy Batson to become Captain Marvel?
SHAZAM
Who is Russ Myer’s greenish witch who hangs around with Irwin Troll?
Broom Hilda
Which civil war was fought between 1936 and 1939?
Spanish (Civil War)
The 1854 Battle of Balaclava was fought during which war?
Crimean (War)
What popular actor of the forties and fifties was also the most decorated U.S. soldier in World War II?
Audie Murphy
In which board game would you find Gramma Nutt, Gloppy, and Lord Licorice?
Candyland
The first three letters in the name of what Canadian body of water known for its high tides suggest you’d have a good time visiting there?
(Bay of) Fundy
Name the part of speech that can serve as a “subjective completion” and describes nouns.
adjective
In chess, what is the fewest possible number of moves white can make in order to checkmate black?
three
Who, in 1907, was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit of the British Empire, partly for founding St. Thomas’ Hospital in London
Florence Nightingale
What is a period of a thousand years called?
millennium
Dali, Breton, Ernst, and Magritte are major names in what early 20th century art movement?
surrealism
On what item of apparel would you find “broguings?”
shoes
I am a female athlete, born in 1976 in New York. In my sport I was the youngest player to be rated in the top 10, at just under 14 years, 8 months. As a 16-year-old, I defeated Steffi Graf to win the gold at the 1992 Olympics. Years later, after losing my dominance in the sport, I beat world number one Martina Hingis at the 2001 Australian Open to win my first major championship. Who am I?
Jennifer Capriati
Which ancient thinker developed a law to explain buoyancy and floatation, now named for him?
Archimedes
A two-word name, please: in which huge structure in Region 11 did ancient Rome hold its chariot races?
Circus Maximus
Which Bronze Age civilization flourished on Crete between about 2700 and 1450 BCE?
Minoan
In 1846 he was christened William Frederick Cody. By what nickname was he better known after he became a symbol of the Wild West?
Buffalo Bill
At 14, Cody became a rider for what short-lived attempt to speed up mail delivery in the American West?
Pony Express
In 1883, Cody organized his first Wild West Show. What Sioux chief became a member of this touring group?
Sitting Bull
Which sharpshooter joined the Show in 1885 with her husband, Frank Butler?
Annie Oakley
Express 6 and 1/4 as an improper fraction.
25/4
How many hours will it take an airplane to cover 3000 km at a speed of 1200 km per hour?
2.5 (hours)
If x + 7 = -18, what is the value of x?
-25
An angle measures 24 degrees – what is the measure of its complement?
66 degrees
Which French palace contains the “Hall of Mirrors?”
Versailles
Who became Prime Minister of Canada for the first time in 1968?
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
What do we call the process by which complex foods are broken down in the body into simpler usable materials?
digestion
Name either of the two New Jersey municipalities that border Upper New York Bay, the mouth of the Hudson River.
Jersey City or Bayonne
With what standard recreational equipment are the 2,598,960 possible combinations of five?
(a deck of playing) cards
Born in 1587 and sharing a first name with a state, who is thought to have been the first English child born in America?
Virginia Dare
Which Classical Greek physician is remembered as the Father of Medicine?
Hippocrates (of Kos)
What scientific term refers to the tendency of an object to float or rise in a fluid?
buoyancy
What island country in the Indian Ocean lies close to the southern tip of India?
Sri Lanka
During its colonial history, at different times Sri Lanka was controlled by three European countries. One of these was Britain. Name either of the other two.
Portugal or Netherlands
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1959-1965 and 1970-1972. What unique distinction does she hold?
first woman Prime Minister in the modern world
Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest producer of what product that is usually enjoyed steeped?
tea
The name of what popular flavouring agent that comes from an orchid has come to mean “ordinary” or “standard?”
vanilla
You can buy the “globe” or the “Jerusalem” variety of this plant, though botanically the Jerusalem isn’t one at all. What plant is this?
artichoke
What type of algae is common in Japanese cuisine, where it is known as “nori?”
seaweed (or sea vegetables)
What is the German name for a beef or pork roast that is marinated in vinegar or wine for several days before cooking?
sauerbraten
I am one of the world’s largest countries. Conquerors from Manchuria seized control of me in 1644. During the late 1800s, I was home to a secret society called “The Boxers.” My people treat Canadian Dr. Norman Bethune as a national hero, due to his service with the Communist Eighth Route Army in a war against Japan. What am I?
China
Unscramble the following letters to name a Canadian province: O A M A T I N B
Manitoba
Unscramble these letters and create a Canadian river: A T A T O W
Ottawa
In which province would we find the town of Wawa?
Ontario
What ‘A’ word refers to a Canadian whose primary language is English?
anglophone
In 1901, Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio signal to a receiver in the territory of what future province?
Newfoundland (and Labrador)
John A. Macdonald’s “National Policy” had three core elements: infrastructure, tariffs, and what third?
population growth (or immigration or settlement of the West)
How many stars are in our solar system?
one
Which U.S. city is known as “The Big D?”
Dallas
What term is applied to resources that are being used much faster than they are replenished?
non-renewable
Which Canadian hosted the popular television series “The Nature of Things?”
David Suzuki
Which queen was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt?
Cleopatra (VII Philopator)
Which province has the second-highest percentage of French-speaking inhabitants?
New Brunswick
Which beautiful woman was loved by the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Esmeralda
In internet parlance, what do the letters URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
Which European capital city on the Danube River is name for the two old cities that joined to form it?
Budapest
Who starred in the original “Pink Panther” films as Inspector Jacques Clouseau?
Peter Sellers
What is the eleventh letter of our alphabet?
K
Name the official flower of British Columbia.
Pacific Dogwood
Who is the current Prime Minister of Italy?
Giuseppe Conte
In 1831, who coined the word “dynamo” with respect to electricity?
Michael Faraday
