MD 2002 Pac 9 Flashcards
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; The Mohawk; Oneida; Onondaga; Cayuga; and Seneca were the 5 tribes of what confederacy?
Iroquois
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are two stories by what American author?
Washington Irving
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; 13 feet long in adults; this is the third and final section of the small intestine;
Ileum
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; Dominated by the pleasure principle; it’s one part of the human personality defined by Freud;
Id
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; Situated in downtown Philadelphia; it was the meetingplace of the Continental Congress and site of the proclamation of a 1776 declaration;
Independence Hall
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; This actor played Concorde; Sir Robin; and Roger the Shrubber in Monty Python and The Holy Grail;
Eric Idle
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; In electrical circuits; this is the property of a wound coil symbolized by L and measured in Henrys;
Inductance or Induction
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All answers in this round will begin with the letter I;; It curves around Siberia; the Aleutians; and Kiribati (Ki-ra-BAS) to avoid significant time changes for local residents near the 180th meridian;
International Date Line
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1; Why is a turn in the road a bad thing? - Hidden in this question is the name of the planet whose rings were first reported by Galileo in 1610;
Saturn
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2; CRUET; CRULLER; CRUMPET-Which of these is a small cake of sweet deep-fried dough?
CRULLER
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3;Great Britain; Madagascar; Baffin - place these islands in order from smallest to largest;
Great Britain; Baffin; Madagascar (1;3;2)
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4; (two part question) 1773 saw both Sam Adams and a small group of Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians conduct this famous raid on the three other ships; and saw Pope Clement XIV dissolve this order of the Roman Catholic Church founded by St; Ignatius of Loyola;
Boston Tea Party and Jesuits (or Society of Jesus)
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5; Akihito; Hirohito; Mutsuhito - Which of these men became emperor of Japan in 1989?
Akihito (1)
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6; ;;;you see; a dog growls when it’s angry; and wags its tail when it’s pleased; Now I growl when I’m pleased; and wag my tail when I’m angry; Therefore I’m mad; This truth is spoken by a cat in what Lewis Carroll novel?
Alice in Wonderland
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1; Where does space begin? - Hidden in this question is the color of visible light with the lowest frequency;
red
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2; CAMBER; CAMBIUM; CAMBRIC-Which of these three words is a layer of soft growing tissue in a plant that forms new bark?
CAMBIUM
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3; Sicily; Crete; Ireland - place these islands in order from largest to smallest;
Ireland; Sicily; Crete (3;1;2)
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4; (two part question) The same year; 1914; saw this feminist coin the term birth control; and saw this man return to India after 21 years in South Africa to begin a non-violent campaign against British rule;
Margaret Sanger and Mohandas Gandhi
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5; Errol Flynn; Pat O’Brien; Ronald Reagan - Which of these actors played George Gipp in Knute Rockne - All American?
Ronald Reagan (3)
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6; ;;;that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority; This quote is from what Joseph Heller novel that has characters like Major Major and Yossarian?
Catch-22
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1; In this 1819 Supreme Court case; it was ruled that a state could not alter the terms of a private college’s contract;
Trustees of Dartmouth College v; Woodward
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2; This is the name of the NFL Europe team from Frankfurt; Germany;
Galaxy
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3; This Hemingway novel features ambulance driver Frederic Henry during World War I fall in love with Catherine Barkley; who later dies during childbirth; in the rain;
A Farewell to Arms
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4; Evaluate the expression for x = 2; [x^6 - ((x^3 + 2*x!) / x^2)]
61
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5; In September 1779; this captain of the Bonhomme Richard defeated the Serapis in the North Sea;
John Paul Jones
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6; Crookes Tube; Leyden Jar; Vacuum Tube– Which of these was an early device used to store an electric charge?
Leyden Jar (2)
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7; Running 630 miles from the Massif Central through Orleans to the Atlantic Ocean; this river is the longest in France;
Loire River
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8; Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance; The person who spoke this quote was a Chinese sage whose doctrines are embodied in his namesake religion;
Confucius
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1; This 1962 Supreme Court case ruled that public school officials could not force students to recite a school-sponsored prayer;
Engel v; Vitale
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2; To get out of the Army; this character on MAS*H tries to prove he is crazy by dressing as a woman;
Corporal (or Sergeant) Maxwell Q; Klinger
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3; This Melville work is the story of a young sailor on the Bellipotent; the jealous Claggart; and fair-minded Captain Vere;
Billy Budd
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4; Solve for x; [ln (sqrt ( 6x + 9)) = ln (sqrt (8x - 13))]
11
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5; This British general lost at the Battle of Princeton; and then surrendered after the fateful Yorktown Campaign in October 1781;
Lord Charles Cornwallis
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6; Tangential; Normal; Gravitational - Which of these types of forces always points perpendicularly upward from a surface supporting an object?
Normal (2)
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7; Rising in the Czech Republic; this river formed part of the boundary between East and West Germany; and flows through Hamburg to the North Sea;
Elbe River
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8; Always be a little kinder than necessary; This quote was said by what man; the author of Peter Pan?
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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1; This opera; based on the novella by Prosper Merimee; tells the story of the conflict between Don Jose; a soldier; and Escamillo; a bullfighter; for the love of a woman; Name this most famous work of George Bizet; known by its Toreador’s Song;
Carmen
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2; What is this classic novel; later subject of a sequel by Dionys Burger; a romance in many dimensions by Edwin Abbot; that tells the story of a square and a sphere?
Flatland
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3; Criticized for her recent comments concerning Gypsies; she has remained unrepentant over her activities in Nazi Germany; Name this 101-year old filmmaker who directed the propaganda film; The Triumph of the Will;
Leni Riefenstahl
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4; Alkaid; Mizar; Alioth; Megrez; Phad; Merak and Dubhe are the stars of what famous constellation; according to Greek myth the nymph Callisto; which points to the North Star?
the Big Dipper or Ursa Major
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5; This city reached its peak around the 12th century AD; the largest in North America; but by the 15th century was almost completely abandoned; What North American city; incorporating ceremonial mounds and woodhenges ; was once on the site of modern St; Louis?
Cahokia
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6; What is this Wagner which opera tells the story of a sea captain who attempts to make it around the Cape of Good Hope in a storm; based on a legend of a slaver who is damned to sail until Judgement Day?
The Flying Dutchman
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7; The subject of a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes; she fought in the War of 1812 and the Barbary War; Name this early American naval frigate; currently residing in Boston; with the nickname Old Ironsides ;
USS Constitution
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8; The Song of God ; it tells the story on the eve of battle of a warrior’s conversations with his charioteer; What is this Hindu devotional poem; part of the Mahabharata; in which Arjuna and Krishna discuss the nature of existence?
Bhagavad-Gita
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9; Who were the Arabic dynasty who took control of the Abbasids in the eleventh century ruled for the next two centuries; defeating the Byzantines at the battle of Manzikert in 1071?
Seljuks or Selyuks
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10; Animals in this phylum are pseudocoelomate: they have three concentric tissue layers and a body cavity but are more primitive than annelids; What is this phylum; containing hookworms; C;Elegans; and other roundworms?
Nematoda
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11; He was the first president not a member of the PRI to be elected in 71 years; leading to new hopes for his country as he focuses on economic stability and works toward peace with the Zapatista guerillas; Name this current president of Mexico;
Vincente Fox Queseda
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12; Sometimes used to demonstrate the rotation of the earth; what is this device; which continues swinging in the same plane regardless of the motion of the rest of the world?
Foucault’s Pendulum
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13; The towers of Notre Dame rise over the smoke in the background as over the barricades climbs the main figure; a partly nude woman carrying a French tricolor and a musket; in what painting by Eugene Delacroix?
Liberty Leading the People
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14; She has her head held underwater by double agents; escapes from an electric chair; and duels with her alter ego; including flinging a deadly bowler hat; Name this pop diva; who cameos in the movie as a fencing instructor; who recently released her music video as the theme song for the newest James Bond movie; Die Another Day;
Madonna
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15; Using sophisticated models to explain macroeconomic trends; this field is immensely popular but some economists remain skeptical of its value; Name this specialty subject that unites mathematics; statistics; and economics;
Econometrics
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ex; Designed in 1957 by Jorn Utzon; and featuring dramatic sail-like roof vaults; this is what striking building that overlooks the harbor of the largest city in Australia?
Sydney Opera House
