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Academically Speaking Practice Quiz #1
Academically Speaking Practice Quiz #1
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1
Identify the U.S. city made up of 3 islands and a peninsula. It is the most populous in the US.
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Houston
2
Identify the large pink bird with long, stilt-like legs whose name is Latin for flame.
Flamingo
Sea Gull
Bald Eagle
Sparrow
3
Which youth organization's slogan is "Learn by Doing" and motto is "To Make the Best Better"?
Junior Achievement
Girl Scouts
4-H Club
Boy Scouts
4
What is the name for a positive integer that is equal to the sum of all its factors?
denominator
perfect number
whole number
pi
5
Which holiday is celebrated with the burning of a Yule log?
Dawali
Labor Day
Hanukkah
Christmas
6
How many are in a gross?
1,000,000
2000
155
144
7
The inland sea or lake in northwestern Utah.
Great Salt Lake
Lake Michigan
Caspian Sea
Lake Pontchartrain
8
Which Japanese religion does not worship one supreme being.
Christian
Buddhism
Shinto
Muslim
9
Name the Germanic tribe after whom France was named.
Romans
Visigoths
Celts
Franks
10
This country is the largest in area in western Europe and has a major seaport in Marseille.
Poland
United Kingdom
Spain
France
11
A planet moves in a close path or orbit shaped like a(n):
parabola
orbit
hyperbola
ellipse
12
Identify the only U.S. President whose first name begins with the letter "Z"
Lincoln
Cleveland
Grant
Taylor
13
Name the insect which carry out more cross- pollination between flowers that any other insect.
Spider
Honey Bee
Beetle
Tarantula
14
What percent of 65 is 32.5?
50%
25%
33.3%
99%
15
he Appalachian Trail is 3200 km. long. If Joe walked 25% of it, how far did he walk?
700 km.
1000 km.
50 km.
800 km.
16
Complete the title of the following work by George Gershwin. Porgy and ____________
Of Thee I Sing
Bess
Rhapsody in Blue
White Christmas
17
Name the American car manufacturer who popularized the idea of assembly-line methods.
Buick
Ford
Chevrolet
Daimler
18
Name the inexpensive Ford model known as the "Tin Lizzie"
Model A
Model T
BMW
Corvett
19
Who wrote
Gulliver's Travels
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
Beatrix Potter
Jules Verne
20
What is the sum of the prime factors or 14?
1
355
9
15