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WorksheetsHS Written Round #5
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
Sediment progressively loses its original water content due to the effects of ...?
inflections
projections
retractions
subductions
compactions
"Metonymy" is illustrated in which line?
A storm of no small force ...
A pen is mightier than a sword
I see before me the gladiator lie
The more haste - the less speed
Starlight starbright - the first star I see tonight
Bo is 2500 feet and Ed is 4000 feet down a path from its start. If Bo walks 10 feet per second and Ed walks 5 feet per second, how many minutes will it take Bo to catch Ed?
2
3
4
5
6
In 1886, Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles at what fort in Arizona?
Fort Bent
Fort Bliss
Fort Bowie
Fort Bragg
Fort Benning
The timberline is at the lowest elevation in what country?
Spain
Japan
Norway
Tanzania
Australia
Which process initiated by a petition and signed by a percentage of the electorate provides for the removal of an elected official from office?
recall
suspension
referendum
arraignment
impeachment
Which words were not derived from the language with which they are paired?
cigar, rodeo - Spanish
campus, picture - Latin
cosmos, diagram - Greek
bureau, matinee - French
bambino, cantata - Dutch
Which is not part of a mammal's hind limb?
femur
fibula
radius
patella
metatarsal
Which city-states participated in Panhellenic Games?
Uruk and Ur
Tyre and Sidon
Sparta and Athens
Thebes and Memphis
Cichen Itza and Tikal
What words come next in this excerpt from George M. Cohan's "You're a Grand Old Flag"?
Every heart beats true ...
in our land born anew
yes, this land is for you
in the morning's light dew
'cause the banner's in view
'neath the red, white, and blue
Who began a narrative with this line?
How do people get to this clandestine archipelago?
Leo Tolstoy
Anton Chekhov
Boris Pasternak
Feodor Dostoyevsky
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Whenever deadlocks developed during national political conventions in the 1800s and early 1900s, they were broken by selecting a ...?
cold fish
lone wolf
salty dog
dirty bird
dark horse
William Lloyd Garrison was a ...?
mining engineer
plantation owner
newspaper editor
poet and novelist
naval commander
You would expect to find hydrophilic substances in ...?
lubricants
desiccants
illuminants
humectants
antioxidants
An example of a clast is an individual ...?
ray of light
grain of sand
cell of an organism
particle of an atom
monopole of a magnet
Adult athletes such as Lionel Messi, LeBron James, Von Miller, and Roger Federer will, for themselves, absolutely never personally require the services of what kind of surgeon?
plastic
obstetric
pediatric
orthopedic
dermatologic
A treelike diagram in which the endpoints represent particular species of organisms is called a ...?
barogram
histogram
pictogram
cladogram
mammogram
In the Soviet Union, what was the TASS?
a news agency
an economic program
a military police unit
a nuclear weapons facility
a network of intelligence officers
Possible legal consequences for U.S citizens convicted of felonies do not include ...?
deportation
disenfranchisement
loss of a professional license
ineligibility to serve on juries
exclusion from possessing firearms
What are the first three words of Max Ehrmann's poem, "Desiderata"?
Life is love
I accept myself
You have wings
Go placidly amid
Yesterday a butterfly
On the coordinate plane, where do these lines intersect?
x + y = 5
y = 7
0,7
5,7
-2,1
-2,7
2,-5
Setting off a major diplomatic crisis between Britain and the U.S., the American Navy boarded what British mail steamer and arrested two Confederate envoys in 1861?
Kent
Trent
Ghent
Brent
Advent
The main source of the fresh water entering the Chesapeake Bay Estuary is the ---- River?
Kennebec
Suwannee
Tennessee
Rio Grande
Susquehanna
Spelt is a species of ...?
rye
rice
oats
corn
wheat
Among dozens of other women, Gwyneth Paltrow has alleged a sexual harassment experience at the hands of ...?
Roy Lichtenstein
Harvey Weinstein
Arthur Rubinstein
Oscar Hammerstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
When light passes through a transparent substance such as air, water or glass, its speed is reduced and it is ...?
reflected
refracted
polarized
projected
compacted
Which spy once worked for M.I.6.?
Kim Philby
Felix Bloch
John Walker
Aldrich Ames
Julius Rosenburg
An enormous earthquake in 1812 created ...?
Rainy Lake in Minnesota
Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee
Okeechobee Lake in Florida
Chautauqua Lake in New York
Pontchartrain Lake in Louisiana
Two characters in a tale by Victor Hugo are ...?
Lucie and Charles
Mercedes and Edmond
Buttercup and Westley
Catherine and Heathcliff
Esmeralda and Quasimodo
Max ate three-fourths as many eggs as Luke. Luke ate twice as many eggs as Igor. All together, they consumed 36 eggs. How many eggs did Luke eat?
12
14
16
18
20
Who was a major general in the Continental Army?
Israel Putnam
Cotton Mather
Caesar Rodney
Daniel Webster
William Bradford
Which archaic word means "tinged with blood or with a passion for bloodshed?"
puissant
equipollent
sanguinolent
contumelious
septentrional
Chiaroscuro is based on ...?
contrast
symmetry
perspective
superposition
texture gradations
Variant forms of genes become obvious as different ...?
ecotypes
phenotypes
prototypes
stenotypes
stereotypes
The same plane would require the longest runway when taking off from ...?
Canberra Airport, Australia
Lhasa Gonggar Airport, China
Khartoum International Airport
Stockholm-Bromma Airport, Sweden
Odessa International Airport, Ukraine
A type of what is associated with Pyrrhus of Epirus?
victory
treasure
love affair
philanthropy
architecture
Which term is most often associated with aneurysms?
burl
burn
bash
bulge
bruise
Which character is not paired with his role?
Tom Canty - pauper
Nero Wolfe - detective
John Watson - physician
Gunga Din - water carrier
Arthur Dimmesdale - merchant
The side of the largest possible square cut from a circular piece of wood with a diameter of 10 inches is closest to ---- inches?
4
5
6
7
8
What American tycoon was highly involved in creating the Southern Pacific's "Sunset Route" from New Orleans to California?
Jay Gould
Howard Hughes
Phillip Armour
Collis Huntington
John D. Rockefeller
In chemistry, the separation of electric charges in a molecule is called ...?
parity
polarity
celerity
molarity
viviparity
After South Carolina Congressmen Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the U.S. Senate in 1856, throughout the South Mr. Brooks was ...?
lionized
itemized
amortized
cauterized
euthanized
What is the term for a worldwide change in sea level?
eustasy
ecstasy
isostasy
apostasy
homoplasy
A U.S. government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another is called extraordinary ...?
rendition
perdition
coalition
attrition
partition
Which was an Italian abbey destroyed in World War 2?
Monte Rosa
Monte Carlo
Monte Leone
Monte Cassino
Monte Albergian
Natural killer cells that recognize and kill virus-infected cells are ...?
adiopocytes
sporocytes
lymphocyytes
melanocytes
gametocytes
Complete this verse by Poe.
"Over the Mountains of the Moon, /Down the Valley of the Shadow,/ "Ride, boldl ride," the shade replied,/ "If you seek for ...?"
Eldorado
Avocado
Colorado
Coronado
Amontillado
The altitude of an equilateral triangle whose side is 6 equals 3 times the square root of ...?
1
2
3
5
6
In 1998, the man known as the Unabomber pled guilty to charges relating to 17 years of sending package bombs that killed 3 people and injured at least 20 others. His name was Ted ...?
Pulaski
Kaczynski
Stokowski
Lobachevski
Yastrezemski
Which is not an African landlocked country?
Chad
Benin
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
Burkina Faso
As illustrated by the huge storm that hit the northern east U.S. coast in early 2018, what is the term for when an area of low pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours?
zygogenesis
abiogenesis
sporogenesis
bombogenesis
parthenogenesis
Which sublimes at -78 degrees C?
dry ice
silicon
mercury
gasoline
seawater
Which illustrates Gothic architecture?
Stonehenge
Hagia Sophia
the Parthenon
Notre Dame Cathedral
the mosque at Cordoba
Which is not a commonly recongized pair?
Marx and Engels
Watson and Crick
Leaky and Hawking
Gilbert and Sullivan
Michelson and Morley
A pilot reports that his radio receptions are loud and clear by saying ...?
two by two
three by three
four by four
five by five
six by six
Which characters are not in the same general line of work as Mike Hammer and Ellery Queen?
Simon Templar, Nero Wolfe
Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot
Philip Marlowe, Charlie Chan
Nick Adams, Allan Quatermain
C. Auguste Dupin, Sam Spade
Which has exactly two real number solutions?
x + y = 6
8 - 3x = 2
2x + 3 = 11
x squared = 4x
x squared + 1 = 0
Who was a 19th century fur trader?
William Travis
William Hearst
William Sherman
William Sublette
William Rehnquist
Harmonic tremors often precede ...?
eclipses
tornadoes
hailstorms
meteorite strikes
volcanic eruptions
What visible part of the ear acts as a funnel that directs sound into the ear canal?
pinna
manna
hosanna
savanna
bandanna
