Short HS Questions Flashcards
What kind of colloids are dispersions of gases in liquids or solids?
foams
This is a partial synopsis of what play? The exiled duke Prospero releases the recalcitrant Ariel from a pine tree prison, and engages his services in cultivating romance for his daughter, Miranda, and in regaining his dukedom.
The Tempest
Isopropanol, ethanol, and methanol are members of what group of chemical compounds?
alcohols
Who, according to Longfellow, uttered these words? John Alden! You have betrayed me! You who have fed at my board and drunk at my cup, to whose keeping I have intrusted my honor. Let there be nothing between us save war and implacable hatred!
Miles Standitch
What term indicates the bleaching of plant leaves due to light deprivation?
etiolation
What can bacteria do without according to this passage? When in the resting spore stage, bacteria can tolerate extreme desiccation for long periods of time.
water
These plains are adjacent to what continent? Bellingshausen Abyssal Plain Enderby Abyssal Plain Weddell Abyssal Plain Wilkes Abyssal Plain
Antartica
As British forces were torching Washington and everyone was fleeing, she stayed behind to save state papers and presidential portraits. When she finally left, the British were so close that they ate the hot meal she had made for herself. Who was she?
Dolley Madison
Because it moved the presidential and vice presidential inauguration dates from March 4 to January 20, what amendment to the U.S. Constitution is also known as the Lame Duck Amendment?
20th Amendment
What play by Neil Simon could have been, but was not, given this title? Perambulating without shoes or socks in a green tract of public, urban land.
Barefoot in the Park
The Babylonian planet Ishtar was named after the goddess of love. What was the Roman name for this planet?
Venus
Particularly as practiced at the beginning of the 19th century, the policy and act of seizing people for public service was called …
impressment
What distant moon in the solar system is about half as large as the planet it orbits?
Charon
What Dutch sailor is credited with discovering what was known then as Van Diemen’s Land?
Abel Tasman
In some instances, what life form is even smaller than large protein molecules?
viruses
Most freighters operate on a fixed schedule but some travel to wherever cargo is available and to wherever it is to be shipped. These are called …
tramps
In the play, “Mr. Roberts,” who replaced Mr. Roberts when the transfer finally came through?
Ensign Pulver
This siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944. Name the Russian city that withstood this onslaught.
Leningrad
What scientist wrote these works? Die Traumdeutung Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie Totem und Tabu
Sigmund Freud
The country of Denmark and the Jutland Peninsula separate what two major seas?
North Sea or Baltic Sea
The Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 was part of General Grant’s campaign to capture what city serving as the Confederate capital?
Richmond
The developmental process by which a relatively unspecialized tissue undergoes a progressive and usually irreversible change to a more specialized tissue is called …
USA and Canada
What is the title of the second most important religious leader after the Dalai Lama in Tibetan Buddhism?
Panchen Lama
