Scholastic Challenge Tech Practice

At the end of the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded Cuba and what other Caribbean Island to the U.S.?

Answer explanation

Puerto Rico

What style of painting is named after a regular solid with six congruent square faces?

Answer explanation

cubism

According to Newton's explanation of gravity, everything exerts a force on..........

Answer explanation

Everything

The invention of what engine, originally developed for draining mines but rapidly put to use in factories, occurred during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer explanation

steam engine

What is an EMT doing when she presses two fingers against the radial artery in the wrist just below the base of the thumb or against the carotid artery on the right side of the neck?

Answer explanation

taking a pulse

The formula, p = 8s, calculates the perimeter of what equilateral polygon?

Answer explanation

octagon

What point of view is illustrated below?

Rancid began to whimper. He had not only lost a record-book cutthroat, but also his only brass-colored Super Duper.

Answer explanation

Third Person

This sign outside a chromium factory was inspired by a line from what novel?

"There's no plate like chrome."

Answer explanation

The Wizard of Oz

What kind of mathematical set is the set of multiples of 31?

Answer explanation

Infinite Set

These scaley winged insects of the order of Lepidoptera fly only by day.

Their antennae terminate in club-shaped knobs. Their larvae are caterpillars.

What are these insects?

Answer explanation

butterflies