Academic Team 3

Question 1

Which of these is an example of a reflex?

Accepted Answer

blinking when a ball is thrown at your face

Question 2

What is the antecedent of the pronoun in the sentence? The box of spaghetti rests in its shelf.

Accepted Answer

box

Question 3

Russell Freedmon won the Newbery Medal for his photography of which American hero?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 4

Sam sold her bike, and she bought a pair of roller skates. What is the grammatical structure?

Accepted Answer

compound

Question 5

What air pollutants do nuclear power plants produce?

Accepted Answer

none

Question 6

Which of the words below contains the Greek root meaning "over"?

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 7

Which fictional plant or animal does NOT appear in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"?

Accepted Answer

Jertain

Question 8

Find the volume of a pyramid with a base of 50 meters and height of 60.

Accepted Answer

1000 cubic meters

Question 9

(3+7)+(4+2)=?

Accepted Answer

3 + (7+4)+2

Question 10

"The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator kills the old man because he is scared of which body part?

Accepted Answer

eye

Question 11

The Milky Way Galaxy falls into which of the following shape-based categories?

Accepted Answer

spiral

Question 12

If a rectangle is 24 inches long and has a perimeter of 72 inches, find its width.

Accepted Answer

12 inches

Question 13

When someone refers to "jumbo shrimp" or "cruel kindness," they are using what literary device?

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 14

All lines of longitude meet at the ____.

Accepted Answer

poles

Question 15

What is the name for the awards presented in the theater arts?

Accepted Answer

Tony Awards

Question 16

All of the following factors greatly influence climate EXCEPT which one?

Accepted Answer

population

Question 17

In the poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends," Silverstein describes a "silly young kid" who loves

Accepted Answer

peanut butter sandwich

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a Russian born composer?

Accepted Answer

Frederich Chopin

Question 19

Which of the following choices is a renewable natural resource?

Accepted Answer

timber

Question 20

How do you spell correctly the word that means "reckless or dangerous because of urgency"?

Accepted Answer

desperate

Question 21

Identify the Judy Blume book beginning with, "I won Dribble at Jimmy Fargos' birthday party."

Accepted Answer

Tales of 4th Grade Nothing

Question 22

After my cat climbed into bed with me, he cuddled under the warm blanket" How many prepositions

Accepted Answer

3

Question 23

Which of the following is an example of an adjective in its superlative degree?

Accepted Answer

most beautiful

Question 24

An angle whose measure is 15 degrees is known as what type of angle?

Accepted Answer

acute

Question 25

How long must a person have resided in the US to be eligible to run for the office of President

Accepted Answer

14 years

Question 26

Find the eighth term in the following sequence 1/5, 3/5, 1...

Accepted Answer

3

Question 27

If a 3x5 photograph is enlarged to 5x8 size, what is the percent of increase in its area?

Accepted Answer

None of the above

Question 28

Identify the type of paragraph that gives details of an event or experience in story form

Accepted Answer

narrative

Question 29

How many inches are in 1.625 miles?

Accepted Answer

102,960 inches

Question 30

Loops of matter flowing from the sun are called___.

Accepted Answer

prominences

Question 31

Solar energy is an example of which form of heat transfer?

Accepted Answer

radiation

Question 32

Of the following choices, which one is a correlative conjunction?

Accepted Answer

nor

Question 33

Solve the following equation for x. 5x + 8 = 3x - 12

Accepted Answer

-10

Question 34

Which of the following literary techniques is NOT a sound device?

Accepted Answer

foreshadowing

Question 35

The Plain of Attica and the Peloponnese are the areas of _____.

Accepted Answer

mainland Greece

Question 36

What is the value of the largest prime factor of 39270?

Accepted Answer

17

Question 37

They are responsible for hereditary mutation. What term names the various forms of a gene?

Accepted Answer

alleles

Question 38

Which of the solar system's planets has the largest gravitational pull?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Question 39

Of the choices below, which correctly spells the word that is synonym for "bias" and "bigotry"?

Accepted Answer

prejudice

Question 40

Identify the US president buried in Kentucky.

Accepted Answer

Zachary Taylor

Question 41

Find the greatest common factor of 14 and 42.

Accepted Answer

14

Question 42

Which statement about Kilimanjaro is UNTRUE?

Accepted Answer

it is in Kenya

Question 43

Kadir Nelson's "We are the Ship," the story of the African American participants in what sport?

Accepted Answer

baseball

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT a part of soil management?

Accepted Answer

slash and burn agriculture

Question 45

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

He is fierce as a tiger on the football field.

Question 46

The warrior maidens of Norse mythology who carried souls of those slain in battle to Valhalla

Accepted Answer

Valkyries

Question 47

Her Greek counterpart is Artemis. Identify the Roman goddess of the hunt.

Accepted Answer

Diana

Question 48

A tetrahedron has how many edges?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 49

Identify the pronouns that are in the nominative case:

Accepted Answer

we, she, he

Question 50

Which of the following is NOT an element of art design?

Accepted Answer

medium

Question 51

Which of the following are used to connect sentence parts?

Accepted Answer

Both of the above

Question 52

The largest number of individuals an environment can support and maintain for a long period

Accepted Answer

carrying capacity

Question 53

Which inland state bordering the Mississippi River grows more rice than any other US state?

Accepted Answer

Arkansas

Question 54

Which planet similar to Earth in size and mass; 96% of it atmosphere made up of carbon dioxide?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Question 55

What is the median of the following set of numbers? (12, 14, 16, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 11, 21)

Accepted Answer

14

Question 56

What is the greatest common factor of 267 and 623?

Accepted Answer

89

Question 57

Identify the sum of the prime factors of 21.

Accepted Answer

10

Question 58

Which of the following is NOT a prime number?

Accepted Answer

91

Question 59

What is the sum of the number of sides of 10 hexagons and the number of sides of 12 hexagons

Accepted Answer

144

Question 60

Which part of speech can be personal, possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, or interrogative?

Accepted Answer

pronoun

Question 61

After communism collapsed in the early 1990's, the countries of Eastern Europe ______.

Accepted Answer

set up free enterprise systems

Question 62

Mike Fink was a semi-legendary American tall tale figure. What was his occupation?

Accepted Answer

keelboatman

Question 63

Which choice below, a simple carbohydrate, is a product of photosynthesis?

Accepted Answer

glucose

Question 64

Unmanned ship or aircraft whose movements are controlled by onboard equipment or remote control

Accepted Answer

drone

Academic Team 3

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Academic Team 3

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