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Gov cup 3

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the capitol of Kentucky?
a)
Louisville
b)
Frankfort
c)
Lexington
2.
1. After tracing outlines and using stamps for his first series, this artist turned to screen printing to achieve uniformity. He turned from commercial objects to reproductions of newspaper pages in his Death and Disaster series. Identify the creator of Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), as well as celebrity portraits.
a)
Andy Warhol
b)
Donatello
c)
Georgia O'Keefe
3.
3. An English explorer, soldier, and writer, this nobleman became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth after he served in her army in Ireland. Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1585, after which he led three expeditions to America, exploring from North Carolina to Florida and naming the region Virginia in honor of the queen. Who founded the first English settlement in the New World near Roanoke Island?
a)
Sir Walter Raleigh
b)
John Smith
c)
Sir Edward Lambert
d)
Sir Henry
4.
3. An English explorer, soldier, and writer, this nobleman became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth after he served in her army in Ireland. Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1585, after which he led three expeditions to America, exploring from North Carolina to Florida and naming the region Virginia in honor of the queen. Who founded the first English settlement in the New World near Roanoke Island?
a)
Sir Walter Raleigh
b)
John Smith
c)
Sir Edward Lambert
d)
Sir Henry
5.
5. 54 is 30 percent of what number? 
a)
180
b)
18.0
c)
360
d)
90
6.
6. Almost one-third of this poet's works were elegies to influential political, spiritual, and economic leaders. "To the University of Cambridge in New England" was probably her first poem, but her elegy for Reverend George Whitefield gained her international fame. Name this colonial woman, who collected her verse in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
a)
Wheatley
b)
Paulsen
c)
O'Henry
7.
8. Biologically, this is another term for equilibrium. American physiologist Walter Cannon coined this term which is related to what he called "fight or flight" responses. Give the eleven-letter term that is defined as an organism's ability to maintain internal stability, such as glucose levels and body temperature?
a)
HOMEOSTASIS   
b)
Homestacious
c)
HOMOSTATAIS
8.
9. Before taking up his most famous position, this statesman served as the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War. Members of his cabinet included Stephen Mallory, Robert Toombs, and Alexander Stephens. Name this first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Abe Lincoln
c)
Cassius Clay
d)
Henry Clay
9.
11. Hiawatha allegedly founded this confederacy, which was managed by a council of sachems [SEY-chumz], peace chiefs appointed for life. Five nations established this 16th century league to defend themselves against the Hurons. Identify this New York State confederacy, which consisted of the Seneca, Cayuga [KAY-YOO-guh], Onondaga [on-un-DOG-guh], Oneida [oh-NIGH-duh], and
Mohawk.
a)
Iroquois
b)
Powhatan
c)
Cherokee
10.
10. Fungi of the order Ustilaginales [US-till-AH-jin-AH-leez] cause this botanical disease. It commonly affects cereal grasses, such as corn and wheat, causing enormous damage. Marked by black, powdery masses of spores, give the common name of this fungal disease.
a)
smut
b)
scum
c)
matter
matter
d)
smog
11.
13. A cross-section of this type of geometric solid, taken parallel to its polygonal base, will always be similar to the base, but not congruent. Its faces are polygons, and its volume is one-third of the prism in which it is contained. What geometric solid is also the shape of the only extant Wonder of
Ancient World.
a)
PYRAMID 
b)
GAZA
c)
Great Wall