Varsity Masterminds

Question 1

If you were to play a scale in C sharp major on the piano, what two white key notes are played?

Accepted Answer

C and F

Question 2

Three Americans contracted Ebola in this West African country with capital city Monrovia.

Accepted Answer

Liberia

Question 3

Name this fourth largest island in the world with capital Antananarivo, home to many lemurs.

Accepted Answer

Madagascar

Question 4

Which newspaper hired Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to investigate the Watergate scandal?

Accepted Answer

The Washington Post

Question 5

Music by Rimsky- Korsakov features runs of sixteenth notes on violin to depict the "Flight of"?

Accepted Answer

the bumblebee.

Question 6

Name this calcium carbonate rock, a common sedimentary rock used in building the Great Pyramids

Accepted Answer

Limestone

Question 7

Nicknamed the "American Moses" name this Mormon leader and first governor of the Utah Territory

Accepted Answer

Brigham Young

Question 8

Which country contains the Murray River, Gibson Desert, and borders the Timor and Tasman Seas?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 9

Subtypes include irregular and lenticular. Name these collections of gas, dust, and stars.

Accepted Answer

Galaxies

Question 10

In 1819, Jefferson founded this university in Charlottesville in his home state.

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 11

Genetics have increased crop yields.This pioneer geneticist first experimented with pea plants.

Accepted Answer

Mendel

Question 12

A Houston scout quit his job when this player wasn't picked in 1992. He had 3000 hits by 2011.

Accepted Answer

Derek Jeter

Question 13

If the map scale is 1/2 inch per mile, what is the actual length of a road 2 ft long on the map

Accepted Answer

48 miles

Question 14

Given the data set of 5, 7, 7, 10, and 11,determine the mode and the mean of the 5 numbers.

Accepted Answer

mode is 7 mean is 8

Question 15

In which century did the the first ship go through the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

20th

Question 16

Name this President, a violinist who served as Secretary of State and a Democratic-Republican.

Accepted Answer

Jefferson

Question 17

In 2014, Isiah Thomas joined Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic to play for this team in Arizona.

Accepted Answer

Phoenix Suns

Question 18

The word gymnosperm means “naked” these in Greek. Edible ones include beans and peanuts.

Accepted Answer

Seeds

Question 19

Name the Class of Arthropods containing exoskeletons. Crabs, lobsters and shrimp are members.

Accepted Answer

Crustaceans

Question 20

Identify this creator of Thought, and the sculptor of "The Thinker" who said "Nothing is ugly"?

Accepted Answer

Rodin

Question 21

Einstein field equations are used in this theory relating space-time to energy and momentum.

Accepted Answer

General relativity

Question 22

The Leyden Jar was the first of these electrical devices to be developed that store electricity

Accepted Answer

Capacitor

Question 23

What city, the setting for the Simpsons, contains the Planet Hype restaurant and a Kwik-E-Mart?

Accepted Answer

Springfield

Question 24

This philosopher hypothesized that events have four causes. Name who taught Alexander the Great

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 25

Cronus was overthrown by him, the king of the Olympians from the Silver Age to the Iron Age.

Accepted Answer

Zeus

Question 26

This woman was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, and the sister of Jacob’s first wife, Leah.

Accepted Answer

Rachel

Question 27

Name this Robert Frost poem in which the speaker chooses between two “equal” paths that diverge

Accepted Answer

The Road not Taken.

Question 28

Figaro sings "Largo al factotum" in an opera composed by this man better known for William Tell

Accepted Answer

Rossini

Question 29

500 bushels of corn harvested from 4 acres equals this many bushels per acre.

Accepted Answer

125 bushels/acre

Question 30

Most conifers have both female cones that hold the seeds and male cones that produce this

Accepted Answer

Pollen

Varsity Masterminds

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Varsity Masterminds

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