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Question 1

WHAT CANADIAN PROVINCE on the Maritime Peninsula has the LARGEST POPULATION?

Accepted Answer

Nova Scotia

Question 2

WHICH NFL TEAM has the WORST all-time win/loss record?

Accepted Answer

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Question 3

Among the fifth-generation home consoles, which one had no analog sticks on any of its licensed controllers?

Accepted Answer

Atari Jaguar

Question 4

Who was the US's 22nd and 24th president?

Accepted Answer

Grover Cleveland

Question 5

In Dungeons and Dragons, which creature is historically the most feared and most powerful?

Accepted Answer

Tarrasque

Question 6

If you cut open a comet to view its nucleus, what would you NOT find?

Accepted Answer

Quartz

Question 7

What British poet wrote "Tithonus" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade?"

Accepted Answer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question 8

Who proposed a demon can violate the second law of thermodynamics and made four equations on electromagnetism?

Accepted Answer

Maxwell

Question 9

Designed by Antoni Gaudi, IN WHICH CITY will the La Sagrada Familia, be completed in 2026?

Accepted Answer

Barcelona

Question 10

Calculate the comon logarithm of one-hundred million.

Accepted Answer

Eight

Question 11

Select a representative from Georgia.

Accepted Answer

Tom Price, Karen Handel, David Perdue

Question 12

What's the longest river with one name?

Accepted Answer

Yangtze

Question 13

Whenever an ensemble plays multiple notes at the same time, what is it called?

Accepted Answer

Chord

Question 14

What film directed by Peter Sohn features a reptile named Arlo?

Accepted Answer

The Good Dinosaur

Question 15

What Mediterranean island housed large quantities of copper and conqured by Alexander the Great in 333 bce?

Accepted Answer

Cyprus

Question 16

Which is NOT a character from the 1875 opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet?

Accepted Answer

Figaro

Question 17

Jellyfish belong to which phylum? (author note: they are not fish, so stop calling them jellyfish)

Accepted Answer

Cnidaria

Question 18

Who is the USA's current Secretary of Defense?

Accepted Answer

Mark Esper

Question 19

Which African leader also led the KIKUYU people?

Accepted Answer

Jomo Kenyatta

Question 20

WHICH CITY rivaled Veii and Samnites and was invaded several times by the Persian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 21

Which of the following is FALSE about buffers?

Accepted Answer

Made of strong acids

Question 22

Which adjective best describes constants of the form (n + sqrt(n^2 + 4))/2?

Accepted Answer

Metallic

Question 23

Which of the following religious texts is NOT used by members of Jewish faith?

Accepted Answer

Analects

Question 24

Which 1862 US statute led to NC State University's founding?

Accepted Answer

Morril Act

Question 25

Which sorting algorithm's worst case is NOT run in O(n^2) time?

Accepted Answer

Patience

Question 26

Which coach led the 1906 Chicago Cubs to the most dominat MLB season ever?

Accepted Answer

Frank Chance

Question 27

Who composed a musical about felines, which will be receiving a questionable live-action movie in December 2019?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question 28

Which poetry collection written by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the start of the Romantic movement?

Accepted Answer

Lyrical Ballads

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