Academic Team Brandywine Set #2

Question 1

This city famed for thermal springs, contains the Millennium Underground Railway. Name the city

Accepted Answer

Budapest

Question 2

Poisoned by a monk, identify the Shakespeare play whose title monarch signed the Magna Carta?

Accepted Answer

The Life & Death of King John

Question 3

What language gave us the word "kopeck" and "ruble"?

Accepted Answer

Russian

Question 4

In ancient Rome, what officer counted the population & served as a guardian of public morality?

Accepted Answer

censor

Question 5

George Washington began the tradition of Presidents serving 2 terms, what amendment changed it

Accepted Answer

22nd

Question 6

What 19th c. U.S. inventor developed the telegraph-& the code used to send messages with it?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 7

What Pacific country will vote on a new national flag with a silver fern?

Accepted Answer

New Zealand

Question 8

It began in Weimar, moved to Dessau in 1925 & closed in Berlin in 1933. Name the school of art

Accepted Answer

Bauhaus

Question 9

In Longfellow poem The Courtship of Miles Standish, Miles sends -what man to propose for him?

Accepted Answer

John Alden

Question 10

In a scientific experiment, you use your observations to make--what reasonable conclusions?

Accepted Answer

inference

Question 11

Name the medievel ruler, called "Karl de Grose", who served as the King of the Franks.

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 12

What 19th c. French author wrote 20 novels about the Rougon-Macquart family?

Accepted Answer

Emile Zola

Question 13

Name the black American who wrote the plays Seven Guitars & Two Trains Running?

Accepted Answer

August Wilson

Question 14

In photosynthesis, it is the ratio of light energy output to chemical energy input.

Accepted Answer

efficiency

Question 15

What state's former Governor Lincoln Chafee dropped out of the 2016 Democrat presidential race?

Accepted Answer

Rhode Island

Question 16

Name from a phrase by British poet John Donne, this Ernest Hemingway novel-Span Civil War time.

Accepted Answer

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Question 17

What Asian island nation has a world class botanic garden begun by the British in 1859?

Accepted Answer

Singapore

Question 18

Name the body part whose function is not clear, and thus removed when it becomes inflamed.

Accepted Answer

appendix

Question 19

Named for a former US President since 1896, its name was officially changed during Obama's term

Accepted Answer

Denali

Question 20

What most recent of the 5 prehistoric extinctions, some 65 mill years ago, wiped out dinosaurs?

Accepted Answer

Cretaceous/Tertiary

Question 21

IN Oct 1962, US & Russia almost went to war, name the event that let to this.

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

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