1. Calvary, the execution site where Jesus was crucified, is also known by which of the following
names -- Bethesda? Damascus? Golgotha? or Galilee?
2. Name the famous black man from American folklore who was known as "a steel-driving man"
and who died from exhaustion after he out-performed a steam drill in a contest.
3. Explain in plain English what the expression "blood is thicker than water" means in the
following sentence. "Because blood is thicker than water, George was proud of his Confederate
ancestors."
4. Which of the following would a lawyer or an insurance company usually not consider
"an act of God" -- death in a hurricane? death in a mass murder? death in a volcanic eruption?
or death in an earthquake?
5. Hans Christian Andersen wrote many fairy tales such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and
"The Ugly Duckling." What country was Andersen from?
6. In the 19th Century women often published their writing under a man's name. Under what
male nom de plume did Mary Ann Evans publish her famous novel Silas
Marner?
7. Identify all the auxiliary verbs in the following sentence: "She might have been elected had
she not been a woman who irritated most men."
8. In what art, activity, craft, occupation, or profession did an early 20th Century American
named D.W. Griffith become most famous?
9. Which of the following stones allowed scholars to finally translate Egyptian heiroglyphics -- the
Blarney Stone? the Rosetta Stone? the Philosophers Stone? or the Learning Stone?
10. Give the exact date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which provoked the United
States to enter World War Two.
11. The Mexican-American War lasted for three years. Name any one of those three years.
12. The Spanish-American War only lasted for about three months. Name the year when that
war was fought.
13. Which of the following terms refers to a pardon granted by a government for a whole class of
offenders, especially political offenders -- detente? recision? acquittal? or amnesty?
14. What is the function of the U.S. government agency known as the Selective Service
System?
15. Name the little island in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy. This island is an internationally
famous tourist attraction because of its great natural beauty.
16. What is the name of the major geological fault that runs from San Francisco to San
Diego?
17. In recent years Olduvai Gorge, a deep ravine in Tanzania, has become very famous because
of what the Leakeys and others found there. What did they find?
18. Which of the following terms does an economist use to refer a small factory or shop in which
very poorly paid employees are working very long hours in dangerous, over-crowded, and
otherwise unsatifactory conditions -- monopoly? sweatshop? hotbox? or union shop?
19. In geometry the name of the unit equal to 1/360th of a circle is called what?
20. In physics the amount of radioactive material that must be present before a chain reaction
can sustain itself is called which of the following -- the meltdown factor? enriched uranium? the
Chernobyl effect? or the critical mass?
21. What is the fourth major planet out from our Sun?
22. What is the common name for the usually audible sound of air rushing to fill empty spaces
created when air has been expelled by the passage of lightning?
23. In which of the following places would a biologist look for cambium -- under the bark
of a tree? under yellow mushrooms? in the stomach of an eagle? or between the ribs of a
vertebrate?
24. Exactly what does the acronym AIDS stand for?
25. The Eustachian tube connects which of the following -- England with France? your ear to
your mouth? Lake Michigan with the Chicago River? or your liver to your stomach?