General Academic Trivia

Question 1

Who wrote, "Good fences make good neighbors"?

Accepted Answer

Frost

Question 2

Vocabulary - Urge them to cooperate

Accepted Answer

exhort

Question 3

Who said, "To thine own self be true"?

Accepted Answer

Polonius

Question 4

Spelling - which is correct?

Accepted Answer

cemetery

Question 5

(5!)(3!) = N What is N?

Accepted Answer

6!

Question 6

Who took control of Yugoslavia in 1945?

Accepted Answer

Tito

Question 7

Who invented the polio vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Salk

Question 8

Vocabulary - Argue with the referee

Accepted Answer

expostulate

Question 9

Name the capitol of Egypt

Accepted Answer

Cairo

Question 10

Vocabulary - The right to change one's mind

Accepted Answer

prerogative

Question 11

Who invented the photo image?

Accepted Answer

Daguerre

Question 12

Who united the Prussian empire in 1862?

Accepted Answer

Bismarck

Question 13

Who wrote, "Half a League onward"?

Accepted Answer

Tennyson

Question 14

Gus reads 300 words per minute. If there are 250 words per page, how many pages per hour?

Accepted Answer

72

Question 15

3x + 5 = 4x - 2 What is x?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 16

11 x 4 + 11 - 7 x 3 = ?

Accepted Answer

34

Question 17

Name the capitol of Paraguay

Accepted Answer

Asuncion

Question 18

Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Accepted Answer

Smith

Question 19

Two endpoints of a line segment are (1,4) and (1,10). How long is the segment?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 20

Who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1964?

Accepted Answer

Goldwater

Questions 20