Academic League Practice Toss Up Questions
In which of John Greenleaf Whittier's poems do we read: "All day long through Frederick street / Sounded the tread of marching feet. / All day long that free flag tost / Over the heads of the rebel host. / Ever its torn folds rose and fell / On the loyal winds that loved it well."
Ans. "Barbara Frietchie"
After the earliest New Orleans brass bands played a slow, mournful blues song on the way to the cemetery, this lively jazz tune was played on the return. What upbeat tune predominates for the latter use, and inspired the New Orleans NFL team nickname.
Ans. "When the Saints Go Marching In"
My Fair Lady opens in Covent Garden and ends with the male lead asking an unexpected visitor what six-word question?
Ans. "Where the devil are my slippers?"
What are the zeroes of the function f(x) = x2 - 5x - 6?
Ans. (6, -1)
Determine the area of the triangle defined by the line y = (-4/5)x + 4 and the x and y axes.
Ans. 10
Evaluate |3a - 4b| if a = -1 and b = 2.
Ans. 11
Determine the area of the triangle formed by the line y = -2x/3 + 4 and the x and y axes.
Ans. 12
The St. Lawrence Seaway was completed in this year. The Soviet Luna 2 spacecraft crashed into the Moon. Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Alaska was admitted as 49th state. Name the year.
Ans. 1959
Determine the prime factorization of 201.
Ans. 3 x 67
Figure out the surface area of a square pyramid, in square feet, with a base length of 4 feet and a slant height of 3 feet.
Ans. 40
How many valence electrons does a neutral atom of oxygen possess?
Ans. 6
The Federal government owns more land in this state than any other. On October 18, which U.S. state celebrates the transfer ceremony in which the Russian flag was lowered and the American flag raised, formally transferring the ownership of the state to the United States?
Ans. Alaska
The political party dedicated to the opposition of this is the third oldest in the United States, after the Democrats and the Republicans. The term originally referred only to a version with formula CH3CH2OH. What is this term for any organic compound with the hydroxyl functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom?
Ans. Alcohol
It appears as a naked eye, magnitude 3.4 object with a width about six times larger than the full moon. Astronomers say that it is slowly cannibalizing the M32 and NGC 205 galaxies. What is this spiral galaxy, twice as large as the Milky Way, and the biggest galaxy in our "Local Group"?
Ans. Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Act II features the rescue of Mat Burke after a shipwreck. Act III brings conflict as Mat and the title character's father, Chris Christopherson, fight over the fact that Mat wants to marry Chris's daughter. Meanwhile, Mat finds out that she has been working as a prostitute and leaves her. In the final act, all is forgiven on all counts in what 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner by Eugene O'Neill?
Ans. Annie Christie
Hurricane, tobacco, and barbecue are words that come from what language spoken by the Tainos, the original inhabitants of Jamaica?
Ans. Arawak
His engraving of John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence established him as one of the US's finest engravers, and he was president of the National Academy of Design from 1845 to 1861. One of his paintings, depicting Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant on a cliff in the Catskills, was the most expensive American painting when it sold for $35 million in 2005. Who was this painter of Kindred Spirits?
Ans. Asher B. Durand
The NASA ARADS Project tested a life detection drill here because it is so much like Mars in dryness and soil chemistry. Humboldt penguins live on its coast, and Darwin's leaf-eared mouse is one of its few native mammals. What is this area with a two-sided rain shadow caused by the Chilean Coast Range and the Andes, the driest non-polar desert in the world?
Ans. Atacama Desert
This UNESCO World Heritage site is located in the province of Lesser Poland. It was actually a network with three main and 45 satellite areas. January 27 is commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day for the date in 1945 when what Nazi death camp was liberated by Soviet troops?
Ans. Auschwitz
The opera Die Fledermaus is set in this country. It hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics. Kurt Waldheim was once its head. The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz resulted in the Ottoman Empire ceding most of Hungary to this nation. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born there. What is this country that provides the setting for The Sound of Music?
Ans. Austria
Many photos of Emiliano Zapata show him wearing belts across his chest that are fitted with loops for carrying rifle cartridges. What are these belts called?
Ans. Bandoliers
This battle was fought between Eastern emperor Maxentius and the western Emperor, who also happened to be his brother-in-law. It took place at the Tiber River where Maxentius drowned. His opponent had seen a vision prior to the battle and instructed his soldiers to paint the symbol Chi Rho on their shields. What is this 312 battle that marked the beginning of the empire of Constantine I?
Ans. Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Completely deaf at the age of fifty, ten years later he died in a mental asylum. However, this son of a brewer had seen great success as a composer of operas, and his involvement in the 1848 Prague uprising led to his being seen as the father of nationalist Czech music. Who was this composer of works such as the opera The Bartered Bride and the cycle of six tone poems Má vlast, whose most familiar part is "The Moldau"?
Ans. Bedrich Smetana
The son of Zapotec peasants, he was exiled to New Orleans for two years, but this lawyer and judge became president of his nation in 1858. He led the resistance to French control and returned to power after the execution of Maximilian. Who was this five-term president who is seen as a key person in the independence and modernization of Mexico?
Ans. Benito Juarez
Named for its inventor, a British man who also established the town of Sheffield, the process involves the removal of impurities of a molten metal by oxidation. What is this process, the first inexpensive method for the mass-production of steel?
Ans. Bessemer Process
This occupation passed into last names such as Herrero and Schmidt. The European tradesmen of the Middle Ages who forged tools were called what?
Ans. Blacksmiths
These two countries were both larger, losing territory to their neighbors. What are the two South American countries named after people, one after a Venezuelan general and the other after an Italian explorer?
Ans. Bolivia and Colombia
Give me the name of the only nonmetal in the liquid state at STP.
Ans. Bromine
It's similar to revising a sentence with a word processor to delete or change text. They can be a natural function of bacteria as a defense against phages. What is the acronym for the gene-editing technique that allows scientists to manipulate the genetic code of organisms and genetic mutations?
Ans. CRISPR ["crisper"], short for Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
Two nations hold over 48% of foreign-held U.S. Treasury securities. Should they ever dump those securities on the world market, it might trigger the worst U.S. economic crisis since the Great Depression. Name those two Asian nations.
Ans. China, Japan
Gabriel Fauré also wrote a musical piece with this title and both were based on the poem by Paul Verlaine. It's the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque. The most-often performed Debussy composition means "moonlight," but is better known by what French title?
Ans. Clair De Lune
It was featured in Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, written for Woody Herman. Pete Fountain and Artie Shaw were renowned virtuosi. It was the primary instrument of the first jazz bandleader to play Carnegie Hall, the "King of Swing," Benny Goodman. What is this single-reed woodwind?
Ans. Clarinet
This is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. The noun and adjective kinds are more specific than the independent and dependent kinds. What are these sentence fragments containing subjects and verbs?
Ans. Clauses
There are 3.3 x 1030 of these in the CGS unit named for Dutch Nobel laureate Peter Debye [deh-BYE]. It combines the SI unit of electric charge with the base SI unit of length and is itself the SI unit of electric dipole moment. What is this unit?
Ans. Coulomb-meter (accept coulombs per meter)
Poland is the only country that has constitutionally limited this two-word term related to budget financing. Crises concerning this in the federal government have resulted in a shutdown and a downgrade in the debt rating. What the statutory upper limit on the total dollars a county, state, or municipality can owe?
Ans. Debt ceiling
The Amish and the Mennonites, known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, are not Dutch people. The name was probably a corruption of what other nationality?
Ans. Deutsch or German
His controversial Man at the Crossroads was destroyed before it was completed in Rockefeller Center, but he repainted it under the title Man, Controller of the Universe. McCarthyists detested his work, including the fresco Detroit Industry. Portrayed by Alfred Molina in the 2002 film Frida, who was this Mexican painter?
Ans. Diego Rivera
Today this word is applied to both the German Bundestag and the Japanese Parliament, but it is usually applied historically to the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire. What is this word for an assembly that has been attached to Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Worms [vorms]?
Ans. Diet
Under British rule, the region of Bengal was split with this region called East Bengal. In November 1970, it was struck by a storm that killed around 500,000 here and in India, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone on record. What was the name of the region that became Bangladesh?
Ans. East Pakistan [Accept Bangladesh before it is said.]
A hypercube has 32 of them. The number of these in a complete graph with n vertices is one-half times n times the quantity, n −1, close quantity. According to Euler, convex polyhedra have V plus F minus 2 of these. What do we call such segments at which two faces of a solid meet?
Ans. Edges
The highest-ranking officials in this trio are the president, the Speaker of the House, and the Chief Justice. The Schoolhouse Rock song "Three Ring Government" says that what three branches are the rings?
Ans. Executive, legislative & judicial
First awarded in 1936 to Lars Ahlfors and Jesse Douglas, it is given every four years, and its winner receives fifteen thousand Canadian dollars. In 2014, Maryam Mirzkhani became the first woman to win, and Artur Avila became the first Latin American recipient for his work on dynamical systems and spectral theory. What is this "Nobel Prize of Mathematics"?
Ans. Field Medal
Put these Civil War Battles in correct chronological order from earliest to latest by the date of the engagement: Gettysburg, Antietam, First Bull Run, Chancellorsville
Ans. First Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg
Magnetic levitation circumvents the "rolling" type of this force to which conventional trains are subject. The coefficient of this force describes the ratio of the force between two bodies and the force pressing them together. What is this force which resists motion?
Ans. Friction
Jerusalem is a city of three Sabbaths. Match these three days of the week used as a day of rest and worship, with the three major religious groups living there.
Ans. Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).
They were married on January 6, 1945 at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York. This pair has had the longest marriage of any Presidential couple. What President and First Lady had children named Dorothy, Robin, Marvin, Neil, Jeb, and George?
Ans. George and Barbara Bush
The Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide in the belief they would ascend to the spacecraft following it. This comet, due to appear again in 2,400 years, was discovered by two Arizonians on July 23, 1995. Its ensuing visibility to the naked eye for 19 months is the longest such observation on record. Name it.
Ans. Hale-Bopp
Rumors persist today that he may have been an illegitimate son of Danish king Christian VIII. He began writing as a teen at the Royal Danish Theatre. His birthday, April 2, is recognized as International Children's Book Day. The film Frozen was originally conceived as an adaptation of what author's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen"?
Ans. Hans Christian Andersen
Michael Dobbs's 1989 political thriller with this three-word title was adapted into an award-winning mini-series on the BBC which was itself adapted into a Netflix series, gaining multiple Emmy nominations for Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey. What is this phrase taken from a fragile structure built with items normally used for playing games?
Ans. House of Cards
Used by the Roman Catholic Church, this word means "incapable of error in defining doctrines of faith and morals," and refers to the Pope when speaking ex cathedra, or in his official capacity. Used by Protestants, it describes the inerrancy of Scriptures. What is the word?
Ans. Infallibility
Assume a triangle has all of its vertices on a circle. This word, related to the relationship between the angle and the circle, describes this type of triangle. What is this word which also describes a circle which is tangent to all the sides of a polygon?
Ans. Inscribed
She was the foster mother of Anubis and mother of Horus. After Set cut her husband into pieces, she resurrected him and declared him ruler of the underworld. Name this Egyptian goddess, the sister and wife of Osiris.
Ans. Isis
He was born in the Panama Canal Zone and piloted the A-4E Skyhawk light bomber in Vietnam. He sponsored a campaign reform act along with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. He took over Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate in 1987. Name this senior Senator from Arizona who lost the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008.
Ans. John McCain
This word names the first studio album by the rock band Phish. What is this Spanish term that typically refers to an authoritarian government of military officers?
Ans. Junta
This state was the birthplace of two of the four candidates in the Presidential election of 1860. Unlike many slaveholding states, this state did not secede from the Union during the Civil War. During the war, which Union state had the most slaves?
Ans. Kentucky
The tallest building in this city contains a skybridge connecting its two halves. The Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest in the world until 2004. In what city are they located?
Ans. Kuala Lumpur
The Western Athletic Conference, the West Coast Conference, the Mountain West Conference and the Pac-12 Conference all hosted their 2017 Mens Basketball Tournaments in this city. The Outlaws of the XFL and the Posse of Canadian Football League used to play here while the 51s are the current AAA baseball team. What had been the largest U.S. city without a major professional sport before the Golden Knights entered into the NHL?
Ans. Las Vegas
There's a fabled tale in which an arthropod of the class arachnid assumes a relaxed position in the proximity of, and causing great consternation to, a young maid at the time she is ingesting a meal of sorts. What young maid?
Ans. Little Miss Muffet
They were bankers, politicians, and patrons of the arts. Two of their members became popes. Under their rule, Florence became the cultural center of Renaissance Italy. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Florence was a republic controlled by this single family. Name this family, whose members included Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Ans. Medici
The United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognized its current name after a New York businessman and lawyer who frequently vacationed and hunted in the area. It was completed in 1941, and its creator was required to be an artist, an engineer, and a dynamite specialist. Gutzon Borglan, the artist, received the experience by working on Stone Mountain in Georgia. What is it?
Ans. Mount Rushmore
What is the molecular formula of nitrogen at STP?
Ans. N2
Aristotle's term for one who feels pain caused by the undeserved success of another. A brown dwarf theorized to be in a binary system with the sun. The subtitle of the tenth Star Trek movie. They all share what name that also describes the relationship with Lex Luthor to Superman and Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes?
Ans. Nemesis
The SI unit of magnetic flux density is named for him. He was born in Croatia in 1856, but spent most of his adult life as a US citizen. He's considered by many to be one of the most under-appreciated geniuses in modern science and technology, partly because he refined and developed earlier inventions, paving the way for the use of alternating current for power distribution in the US., while Thomas Edison promoted direct current. Name this scientist who won the "war of the currents."
Ans. Nikola Tesla
John Heisman first coached football there. This Midwest college town was an Underground Railroad stop. America's oldest continuously operating music conservatory is there. It's located southwest of Cleveland. What Ohio college was founded in 1833, and was the first interracial and coed college in the US?
Ans. Oberlin
From a notable Cambridge, Massachusetts family, he was descended from Anne Bradstreet, and followed in her literary footsteps even though his first career was medical reformer. First published in the Atlantic Monthly, some of his work was collected in 1858's The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Who was this noted father of a Supreme Court justice, the author of "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides"?
Ans. Oliver Wendell Holmes
This country has variously been under control of Persia, Portugal, the Ottomans and the British. A major trader in slaves, they had a colony at Zanzibar who paid an annual subsidy until its independence in 1964. What current nation is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest?
Ans. Oman (Accept Muscat and Oman until "current nation" is mentioned.)
The author of this novel was part of the literary Latin American Boom, and gives his interpretation of his nation's history in this work. Included are the Thousand Days' War and the dominance of the United Fruit Company. What is this story of seven generations of the Buendía family in Colombia by Gabriel Garcia Márquez?
Ans. One Hundred Years of Solitude
This uprising was preceded four years earlier by a scandal in which recordings implied that President Leonid Kuchma was involved in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, but the U.S. was more upset about the sale of advanced defense weapons to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Demonstrators took to the streets wearing the colors of candidate Viktor Yanukovych. What name was given to the series of successful protests claiming fraud and corruption in Ukraine's 2004 election?
Ans. Orange Revolution
It has been named one of the best 100 small towns in America as well as one of the top six college towns in the nation by USA Today. The seat of Lafayette County, it was named after a British city in its successful attempt to have the state university located there, and its public schools are consistently ranked among the best in its state. What is this town about which Bob Dylan wrote a song dealing with the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi in 1962?
Ans. Oxford
This is the name given to the period when the Proto-Indo-Iranian religion split to form the precursors to Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. It is also the second novel in Lauren Oliver's Delirium trilogy. The word used by John Milton to name the capital of Hell in Paradise Lost, what is this five-syllable word that is used commonly as a synonym for a wild, noisy uproar?
Ans. Pandemonium
Creon decreed that he was to be neither buried nor mourned which led to the events in Sophocles' Antigone. Various versions of his story say that he either shared his kingdom with his brother or expelled his brother, Eteocles, keeping the rule for himself. In either case, they killed one another when their city was attacked by the Seven Against Thebes. Who was this cursed son of Jocasta and Oedipus?
Ans. Polynices
It was discovered in March 1968 by Humble Oil and Atlantic Richfield. It's been operated by BP since 2000. Named for a body of water, what is the largest oil field in the United States?
Ans. Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Until the 13th century, the Christian Church condemned any lending of money at interest as an ignominious sin which it formally called usury. What theological halfway house for deceased usurers was elaborated as a way to get capitalists into heaven eventually?
Ans. Purgatory
It's a member of OPEC, and the world's largest single reservoir of natural gas is located there. Name this 2022 World Cup host country, the headquarters of broadcaster Al Jazeera, whose capital is Doha.
Ans. Qatar
An Indian physicist was headed home from England on a ship, and the color of the Mediterranean inspired him to consider this effect. The effect was named for him, and he won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for it. What is this inelastic scattering of photons when they interact with matter?
Ans. Raman scattering (accept Raman effect)
His victims are the greedy old pawnbroker Alyonya Ivanovna and her handicapped sister Lizabeta, who happened to get in the way. The killing causes him to have a mental breakdown, but because police inspector Porfiry Petrovich is more interested in rehabilitation than vengeance, he only gets eight years in Siberia. Name this axe-murderer, the central character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Ans. Raskolnikov
Attorney General Sessions said he would do it with regard to the FBI investigation into possible Russian involvement in US elections, and subsequently some have called for Rep. Devin Nunes to do the same in connection with the House Intelligence Committee investigation. What expression, that means "dissociating oneself from legal proceedings," applies here?
Ans. Recusing himself
The only mention of the historical person this character is based on comes from Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni where he is referred to as the "prefect of the borders of Brittany." An 8th century epic poem tells of his sword, Durendal, his horse, Veillantif, and his death at the battle of Roncevaux Pass. Name this legendary French hero.
Ans. Roland (accept Orlando)
Born in 1923 in New York and not between Austria and Switzerland, he dabbled in many styles including cubism, abstract expressionism and pop art. Although he later produced reinterpretations of masterworks by Van Gogh, Picasso and Cézanne, his most famous pieces were based on illustrations in the February 1962 issue of All-American Men of War. Who said, "It occurred to me one day to do something that would appear to be just the same as a comic book illustration without employing the then current symbols of art."?
Ans. Roy Lichtenstein
Born in 1787, she's been honored by having a peak, a river, and a pass named for her. Monuments to her stand in the states of Oregon, Montana, North Dakota, and Idaho. Traveling over 3,000 miles at the age of 17-18 while caring for an infant child, this Shoshone was the wife of a French trapper. Born Her name in English, translated from her native tongue, means "Bird Woman." Who was she?
Ans. Sacajawea
A person may be diagnosed with this mental disorder, first isolated by Kurt Schneider, when they show two symptoms over an extended period. Although public perception confuses it with multiple personality disorder, neither condition implies the other. If they suffer delusions or hallucinations and show negative, abnormal social behavior, they may be said to have what condition that also may make it difficult to differentiate between what is real and what is not?
Ans. Schizophrenia
A US attempt to make Brazil a permanent member of this group was blocked by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. One of the six principal organs of the UN, it establishes sanctions against countries such as North Korea. Of what group is the US is a permanent member?
Ans. Security Council
This sect's melody "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple" was used by Aaron Copland in his Appalachian Spring. Wooden furniture that is plain and unadorned is named for this religious group founded in the 18th century. What is this sect, of which only two people are left, due to their belief in celibacy?
Ans. Shakers
A book with this in the title is part of the Young Corgi series by Emily Smith and won the 2001 Nestle Smarties Book Prize for ages six to eight. In wrestling, it names an escape move wherein one mimics the movements of a type of decapod crustacean. What is this animal that is similar to a "prawn"?
Ans. Shrimp
If this part of the heart fails, its function can be taken on by the atrioventricular node. That function decreases in rate when it responds to acetylcholine from the vagus nerve. Located near the opening of the superior vena cava in the right atrium, what is this primary pacemaker of the heart?
Ans. Sinoatrial node
Hawaii consumes more of this food than any other state as it does not require refrigeration, and the surplus army supplies made its way to the native diet. Chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative, in an aspic-like presentation - or, unsolicited, undesired electronic messages. What word fits both definitions?
Ans. Spam
It started as the result of stories about the cruel treatment of rebels, and the hardships suffered by American business interests. The conduct of colonial authorities on an island that was trying to attain self-government was one reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Because of an explosion in which 260 died, Congress declared war. George Dewey destroyed the enemy fleet in Manila harbor. I'm talking about what war?
Ans. Spanish American War
The Marquis de Lafayette became head of the National Guard as a result of this event which took place two days after Jacques Necker was sacked as finance minister. When Louis XVI asked of this event, "Is it a revolt," the answer was, "No, Sire, it is a revolution." What was this incident during which a group of angry Parisians attacked a notorious prison, starting the French Revolution?
Ans. Storming of the Bastille (prompt on "French Revolution")
In 2003, Lindsey Graham replaced him in the Senate. He was the Dixiecrat candidate in the presidential election of 1948. Name this politician from South Carolina who gave a filibuster lasting over 24 hours against the Civil Rights Act.
Ans. Strom Thurmond
Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich adapted this stage play from its written source, and its scenes are introduced by voiceovers that begin with dates. It won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer for Best Drama. Identify this play, in which the title character's family and the van Daans hide from Nazis in the Secret Annex.
Ans. The Diary of Anne Frank
The word comes from the Turkish meaning "new soldier." They were the first standing army in Europe, were paid salaries although they were slaves, and were fiercely loyal to the Sultan. Beginning in the 14th century, Ottoman slaves of Christian persuasion were forced to convert to Islam and serve in an elite infantry called what?
Ans. The Janissaries
The dimensional type is a physical mechanism for turning a pure number into a parameter with a dimension. For alchemists, this word meant the turning of inexpensive metals, such as lead, into gold. Ernest Rutherford performed what for the first time when he changed nitrogen into oxygen?
Ans. Transmutation
His "Three Steps" formed the visible world as well as his supreme abode in the sky. The Brahmanas call him "Gajapati, meaning "the one whom all sacrifices are meant to please." The Protector of Smart tradition and the Supreme God of Hinduism is what deity?
Ans. Vishnu
The only living species of the family Odobenidae, they can be found in the waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Specimens of this marine mammal are beginning to come ashore near an isolated community on Alaska's northwest coast in what has turned into a yearly event caused by a warming climate. This mammal is mentioned in the title of a 1967 John Lennon song. Name this mammal, who consorts with a carpenter in a Lewis Carroll poem.
Ans. Walrus
The equation describing them was discovered in 1746 by Jean le Rond d'Alembert while Leonhard Euler discovered the three-dimensional equation. The velocity with which the overall shape of their amplitudes propagates through space is called "group velocity." What are these physical phenomena that can be longitudinal or transverse and are often seen on the surface of bodies of water?
Ans. Waves
It was Gaugin's largest painting, more than 12 feet wide and 4 1/2 feet high. With symbolical representations of birth, life and death in the form Pacific Island figures, it is currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. What is the usual translation of the title of Gauguin's masterpiece D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous?
Ans. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Founded as Middle Plantation in 1632, it was the capital of the Virginia Colony until 1780. Home of the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, it declined for nearly 150 years until it was restored in 1926. What is this city whose tourism industry is driven by the restored historic district, part of the Historic Triangle with Jamestown and Yorktown?
Ans. Williamsburg
It was created in the 19th century by the puddling process, used to create the Eiffel Tower. In the Aston process, pig iron is refined and poured into iron-silicate slag. Most of the slag is then squeezed out to create what tough, malleable form of purified iron that is used in ornamental ironwork, for example, in French Quarter balconies?
Ans. Wrought iron
Stalin responded to his domestic critics that this agreement was unimportant, saying "We'll do it our own way later." Western concessions to the Soviet Union, after they annexed much of Eastern Europe, went against most of what had been agreed to there. Codenamed "Argonaut" and held at the Livadia Palace in Crimea, what was this conference held just two months before the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the second of three conferences attended by the Big Three?
Ans. Yalta
This company acquired its current name when it was spun off from Lucasfilm as a group now focusing on hardware. According to Forbes, Steve Jobs's best investment was the purchase of this animation company in 1986 for $10 million. In terms of tickets sold, what computer animation studio produced five of the top 10 animated movies of all time?
Pixar
