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John Roy Baylor Day Upper School Trivia 2021
John Roy Baylor Day Upper School Trivia 2021
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1
Who of the following was a pioneer of modern dance?
George Balachine
Martha Graham
Bob Fosse
Agnes de Mille
2
Who arranged elements based on periodic law in what is now known as the periodic table?
Dmitri Mendeleev
Alfred Nobel
Gregor Mendel
Albert Einstein
3
Which amendment ensures that the right to vote in U.S. elections will not be limited by race or color?
14th Amendment
15 Amendment
9th Amendment
19th Amendment
4
There are 193 countries in the world (members of the UN). How many of these are considered French-speaking?
31
5
9
21
5
Who was the first actor?
Dionysus
Shakespeare
Euripides
Thespis
6
What Baylor alumnus wrote a novel that was turned into a feature film?
Emma Donoghue
Arthur Golden
Winston Groom
Cormac McCarthy
7
Which of the following American Presidents was the only individual to serve four terms in office?
Ronald Reagan
George Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is the narrator?
Tom Buchanan
anonymous
Jay Gatsby
Nick Carraway
9
Which is closest to sin(1893°)?
-1
1
π
0
10
Which of the following countries is home to the Mayan civilization?
New Mexico
Perú
Argentina
Guatemala
11
Which country did Zoom's founder come from?
Germany
China
Russia
France
12
What is the organizing principle of instruments in the brass section?
Singing into the instrument
Buzzing lips into the instrument
Pressing down buttons to make sound
Humming into the instrument
13
What is NOT a way of saying hello in German?
Moin Moin
Gruezi
Wo geht's?*
Servus
14
In the quadratic formula, the expression (b^2-4ac) inside the square root is called what?
Determinant
Discriminant
Distributive
Denominator
15
Which animal has fingerprints that are almost indistinguishable from human fingerprints?
kangaroo
gorilla
raccoon
koala
16
11:00am on November 11, 1918 marks which event?
Luther's 95 Theses
signing of the Treaty of Versailles
reoccupation of the Rhineland
Armistice
17
What is the correct equation for speed?
Distance/time
Distance x time
Time x distance
Time/distance
18
In Feudalism, a ______ pledges his loyalty and military service to his lord in return for land, or fief.
vassal
crusader
bishop
serf
19
Where was Shakespeare born?
London
Stratford upon Avon
Cornwall
Kent
20
Which element of design refers to the relative comparable size and scale of elements in a design?
repetition
variety
pattern
proportion
21
Which is NOT one of the triangle congruence theorems in geometry?
ASA
AAS
AAA
SAS
22
Which is the correct name for the value 6.626 x 10
-34
Js?
Ideal gas constant
Maxwell-Boltzmann constant
Avogadro's number
Planck's constant
23
Which is not the number of faces on one of the Platonic solids?
12
8
10
6
24
Which language has been taught the longest at Baylor?
Chinese
Spanish
Latin
French
25
Which of the following is NOT one of Newton’s Laws
Every force has anequal and opposite reaction force
Energy is conserved in a closed system
26
Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature?
Eugene O'Neil
Sinclair Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
27
Who was the monster in Beowulf?
Hrothgar
Grendel
Minotaur
Heorot
28
Of which art movement was Salvador Dali a part?
Pointillism
Futurism
Pop
Surrealism
29
During the 1st century AD, which individual is most responsible for the spread of Christianity within the Roman Empire?
Julius Caesar
St. Paul
Jesus Christ
Emperor Constantine
30
Which is closest to the number of digits in the largest known prime number?
25 thousand
25 trillion
25 million
25 billion