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1) Where was the world's first human heart transplant performed in 1967?
Cape Town, South Africa
2) Who wrote "A Pilgrim's Progress"?
John Bunyan
3) How many days do ants live on average?
60
4) What did psychologist Carl Jung develop?
Archetypes
5)Which country split from Ethiopia with a peaceful vote?
Eritrea
6)Which Canadian painter, born and educated in Scotland, painted large-format works using Lucite?
Jock MacDonald
7) A dependent clause can never be what?
A sentence
8) Which pairs of minerals are almost always found together?
Azurite and Malachite
9) What country did king Hussein rule
Jordan
10) How often do you take medicine labeled Q.I.D.?
4 times a day
11) What special disease does an endocrinologist study?
Diabetes
12) Which literary term means a story illustrating a moral lesson?
Allegory
13) Which leader was known for a "Cultural Revolution"
Mao Zedong
14)What type of art emerged at exhibition titled "The Young Contemporaries" in 1961?
Pop Art
15) In which sea animal species does the male carry the young?
Seahorse
16) What is a Herkimer diamond?
Quartz Crystal
17) With whom was Gatsby obsessed in Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby"?
Daisy
18) Which was the last province to enter confederation in Canada?
Newfoundland
19) Which of these medical terms means "to leak outside of a blood vessel"?
Extravaste
20) Which word can be a linking verb ?
Become
21) What is the capital of Australia's Northern Territory?
Darwin
22) Where in England was the Magna Carta signed in 1215?
A field near Runnymede
23)Who was the father of Hercules ?
Zeus
24) In what year Renoir paint "Spring Bouquet"?
1866
25) Which is the world's largest lizard?
The Komodo Dragon
26) What is the first thing you do to a wound that is bleeding profusely?
Apply direct pressure
27) Which of these is an example of personification?
Weary Street Echoes with pain
28) Which is Earth's nearest neighbor in space?
The Moon
29) Who set a record for days in space by a woman in 1995?
Elena Kondakova
30) Which of these is a kingdom in the classification of living things?
Fungi
31) What are the three main colors of the African Liberation Flag?
Red Black Green
32) In medical terms, what does the suffix "-genic" mean?
Genetic
33)What is another name for the West Indies ?
Antilles
34) Which of the following grows the tallest?
California Redwood Tree
35) What can produce a shock of up to 650 volts?
C. Electric Eel
36) Which is a plural possessive word?
Birds'
37) You can visit Alcatraz prison in which of these states?
California
38) Whom did Churchill call the "American Carnot" in WWII?
George Marshall
39) What means having two eyes facing forward?
Forward Vision
40)Which artist was called "Jack the Dripper"?
Jackson Pollock
41) What color is lobster's blood?
Clear
42)What unit is force measured in?
Newton
43) Famous painter Picasso went by the first name of?
Pablo
44) What is a salpingoophrectomy?
Removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries
45) Which medical term means "based on experience"?
Empiric
46) Who wrote the novel "Little Women"?
Louisa May Alcott
47) Which sea separates Asia Minor from Greece?
Aegean
48) What does a present perfect progressive verb express?
Past Action Which Continues
49) Where are the mineral-rich Star Mountains?
In Papua New Guinea
50) What is the addictive chemical in cigarettes?
Nicotine
51) Which war was concluded by the Treaty of Utrecht?
War Of Spanish Succession
52) Which 2 of these medications are antibiotics?
Biaxin and levaquin
53) Which Ernest Hemingway story is about abortion?
Hills Like White Elephants
54) What is the energy from the internal heat of the earth called?
Geothermal Energy
55) What was the original name of Burkina Faso?
Upper Volta
56) The medical term "triple zero" refers to what?
Absence of Pulse, Respirations Or Blood Pressure
57) What layer of the skin is just below the surface?
Dermis
58) What is an Oophorectomy?
Removal of the Ovaries
59) What leader said: "The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs"?
A. Napoleon
60) How many people are rescued alive from the ice cold waters surrounding the great Titanic?
6
61) In "Pinocchio", what are all the bad boys on Pleasure Island changed into?
Donkeys
62) On which diagnostic test would PVCs found?
EKG
63) Where is an earthquake's epicenter?
On the surface above the focus
64) What post-impressionist artist is known for painting Tahitian subject matter?
Paul Gauguin
65) Who was the Israeli prime minister during the 1973 war?
Golda Meir
66) Which country covers the largest total area?
Virgin Islands
67) Which word is preposition?
Below
68) Which is another name for a red blood cell?
Erythrocyte
69) Which of these scientific instruments measures mass?
Analytical Balance
70)In what country is Stonehenge located?
England
71) The Heidelberg School was a group of landscape painters located near which large city?
Melbourne
72) What is the largest island in Baltic Sea?
Gotland
73) The Jurassic period was found in which era?
Mesozoic
74) What punctuation ends a declarative sentence?
A Period
75) How tall was the single piece of marble Michelangelo used to create "David"?
17 feet
76) Which painkiller was recalled in 1982 because of product tampering?
Tylenol
77) Who does Heathcliff love in Charlotte Bronte's Classic Novel "Wuthering Heights"?
A. Catherine Earnshaw
78) What is the term used to describe the inflammation of the brain?
Encephalitis
79) Who is the speaker of the dialogue "Go now", Mary said?
Mary
80) What do the words "Dalai Lama" mean?
Ocean Of Wisdom
81) What is the syllabic pattern of the haiku?
5,7,5
82) What is the population of the former Portuguese territory of Macau, which was returned to china in 1999?
Approximately 450,000
83) Who was the "Grate Grey Poet"?
Walt Whitman
84) Which Irish city would you be near if you were at Dun Laoghaire port?
Dublin
85) A meter is equivalent to how many millimeters?
1,000
86) Which type of poetry is in a long narrative style?
Epic
87) Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting of a night sky with swirling yellow stars is called what?
Starry Night
88) On which continent is Burundi located?
Africa
89) If you are talking about electricity, what does "DC" stand for?
Direct Current
90) What is the capital of east Timor?
Dilli
91) How long does it take for the Earth to rotate around completely on its axis?
24 hours
92) When a person says they are allergic to cats, what are they really allergic to?
Dander
93) Which poetry term means the repetition of vowel sounds?
Assonance
94) What GATT stand for?
General Agreement On Trade And Tariffs
95) In medical terms, what does the suffix "-lysis" mean?
Disease
96) What is Pablo Picasso's daughter's name?
Paloma
97) Who is the father in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Atticus Finch
98) What ethnic group is primarily afflicted with sickle cell anemia ?
Black
99) What fraction of Earth's gravity is the Moon's gravity?
One-Sixth
100) Which Brazilian state was the major producer of gold for the Portuguese crown in the 18th century?
Minas Gerais
101) Which conjunctions are always together?
Whether, Or
102) What does the name "Iwo Jima" mean in Japanese?
Sulfur Island
103) How many legs do insects have?
6
104) Which is a noun used as an adjective in this phrase: bean soup and bread?
Bean
105) What military leader is quoted as saying "I came, I saw, I conquered?"
Julius Caesar
106) The peanut is really a what?
Legume
107) Which artist most famously employed the technique know as pointillism?
Seurat
108) What BMI stand for?
Body Mass Index
109) Which sentence contains a verb in the present perfect tense?
I have eaten all of the pie
110) Who developed the vaccine for polio?
Jonas Salk
111) Which sea lies at one end of the Great Wall of China?
The Yellow Sea
112) What famous artist worked in a loft called "The Factory"?
Andy Warhol
113) Where are carpal bones found?
Wrist
114) What form of writing uses mostly dialog?
Play
115) Where are the Pampas located?
Argentine
116) Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of what?
Penicillin
117) Matters related to what sense are referred to as olfactory?
Smell
118) What is the name for a 100 foot tall tidal wave?
Tsunami
119) Which of these is not a plant?
Marsh Hawk
120) What is the capital city of New Brunswick, Canada?
Frederiction
121) What is the name for the submerged fringe of a continent?
Continental Shelf
122) What organ does a deer lack?
Gall bladder
123) What type of animal is an Arctic tern?
Bird
124) Which country is the Ananda Temple located in?
Burma
125) The Louvre is located in what country?
France
126) Which of these brain structures is part of the limbic system ?
Hippocampus
127) where did Ponce de Leon go to look for the fountain of youth?
Florida
128) In what capital city would you find the [Bob] Marley museum?
Kingston
129) What country did Iraq invade in 1990, based on claims of disputed oil?
Kuwait
130) Which of these does not have the Union Jack on its flag?
Wales
131) What is the first priority in a trauma code?
Airway
132) What war was said at the time to be “the war to end all wars”?
World War I
133) The medical term "stratify" is best defined as?
Arrange In Groups For Analysis Of Results
134) Which sentence contains a verb in the past perfect tense?
He Had Studied Law Before Then
135) What name did Jacques Cousteau call his main research vessel?
Calypso
136) What is the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter called?
Asteroid Belt
137) What word means to think about something and then do it on purpose?
Premeditated
138) How is Indira Gandhi related to Mohandas Gandhi?
