Description : Using the fewest names of the members of this family, identify the tree family which includes among its members the: Chinese, cut-leaved, manchurian, persian, english, black and american. Name the tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: WALNUT
Description : Using the fewest names of the members of this family, identify the tree family which includes among its members the: Fink, myrtle, turkey, jacks, laurel, white, live and pin. Name the tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: OAK
Description : Identify the tree family which includes among its members the: New Mexico, Texas honey, thornless honey, water, black and honey. Name this tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: LOCUST
Description : With many thousands of species, this is one of the largest families in the plant kingdom. Identify this plant family which includes among its members the: Brome, Love, Foxtail, Sudan, Buffalo, Saint Augustine, Burmuda and Blue.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GRASS or GRAMINACEAE
Description : Name the order of insects which includes among its members the: Hawk, Death's Head, Brown-Tail, Carpenter, Clear-Winged, Clothes and Gypsy. Name this insect order.
Last Answer : ANSWER: MOTHS / BUTTERFLIES (accept Lepidopterw)
Description : The following are the names of man-made structures in the United States. Identify the type of structure. Hungry Horse, Yellowtail, Dworshak, Don Pedro, Cougar, Glen Canyon, Grand Coulee and Hoover. Name the type of structure.
Last Answer : ANSWER: DAMS
Description : The principle species of this tree family include the: Black, Eastern, Mountain, Canadian, Formosan, Western and Carolina. Name this tree.
Last Answer : ANSWER: HEMLOCK
Description : What vitamin complex includes thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin?
Last Answer : ANSWER: VITAMIN B
Description : What are the names of the cycles in a 4-stroke gasoline engine?
Last Answer : ANSWER: COMPRESSION; IGNITION; POWER; EXHAUST (take in any order)
Description : In 1976, Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act designed to protect public health and the environment from improper management of hazardous waste. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act categorizes hazardous wastes into four groups. Identify three of the four groups.
Last Answer : ANSWER: TOXIC (POISONOUS), REACTIVE, IGNITABLE, AND CORROSIVE
Description : Wmong well-known examples of this formation are Grindelwald in Switzerland, Bossons in France, Dinwoody in the United States, and Wilson Piedmont in Antarctica. Identify these cool formations.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GLACIERS
Description : Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE animal.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GIANT SQUID
Description : Members of the order Apodes, these elongated slender fishes are without pelvic fins and in some species lack pectoral or median GENR-92; Short Answer: What is a shark's skeleton made of?
Last Answer : ANSWER: CARTILAGE
Description : This black engineer was granted a patent in 1872 for the first automatic oil lubricator. The lubricating cup regulated the flow of oil onto moving parts of machines, revolutionizing the machine industry. ... well-known inventor: w) Elijah McCoy x) Lewis Latimer y) Leonard McFall z) Branville Woods
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- ELIJAH McCOY
Description : Taxol is a drug currently being used to treat cancer, particularly resistant forms of breast cancer. A natural source of Taxol is: w) bark and leaves of the yew tree x) apricot pits y) periwinkle flowers z) ginkgo leaves
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- BARK AND LEAVES OF THE YEW TREE
Description : Only one tree is known to live longer than the Giant Sequoia. Is this tree: w) Bristlecone pine x) Grey Oak y) Japanese Chestnut z) Ponderosa pine
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- BRISTLECONE PINE
Description : Name the tropical American tree which produces the least dense wood known?
Last Answer : ANSWER: XALSA
Description : I will be describing a chemical element. Try to identify it with the fewest number of clues. This element is a halogen wh is a liquid at standard conditions. The element volatilizes readily at ro ... . The atomic number of this element is 35 and its chemical symbol is Br. Name this element.
Last Answer : ANSWER: BROMINE
Description : I will be describing a chemical element. Try to identify it with the fewest number of clues. This chemical element is the most abundant of the rare-earth group. The element is a silver-gray metal ... factor in color television tubes. The atomic number of this element is 58. What is this element?
Last Answer : ANSWER: CERIUM (Ce)
Description : I will be describing a chemical element. Try to identify it with the fewest number of clues. This chemical element is a silver-white metal, with bluish tinge, capable of taking a high polish. T element ... crust and used to make drink cans. The atomic number of this element is 13. Name t element.
Last Answer : ANSWER: ALUMINUM
Description : In the mammalian body, this element plays many important roles. Try to identify this element with the fewest number of clues. This element is required to insure the integrity and permeability of ... involved in blood coagulation and is the most important element of bone salt. Name this element.
Last Answer : ANSWER: Calcium
Description : What is the political party that has the fewest members called?
Last Answer : In the British Parliament, the party in government is the party that gained the most votes at the last General Election - which was the Conservatory Party (though with a reduced majority). The Official ... the House of Commons. Therefore, the party that came second is known as the opposition party.
Description : Using X-ray crystallography, this woman scientist determined the structures of large biochemical molecules, including penicillin in 1949 and vitamin B12 in 1956. In 1969 she determined the three ... X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances." Name this woman scientist.
Last Answer : ANSWER: (DOROTHY) CROWFOOT HODGKIN
Description : Which of the following vacuum pumps operates by using a very cold surface to trap the gases on the cold surface? Is it a: w) sublimation pump x) turbo pump y) cryopump z) diffusion pump.
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- CRYOPUMP
Description : In 1991, the frozen body of a late stone age man was found amazingly intact in the Alps near the Italian-Austrian border. Its age was determined to be about: w) 2,200 years x) 5,300 years y) 12,800 years z) 30,000 years
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 5,300 YEARS
Description : Name this much publicized group of compounds, of which there are 209 congeners. It was first discovered as an environmental pollutant in 1966, and its widespread use in electrical transformers has ... food chain to such an extent that most adults have small concentrations in their fatty tissue.
Last Answer : ANSWER: PCB's (Accept POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL'S)
Description : What science deals with the structure of the universe and its origin?
Last Answer : ANSWER: YOSMOLOGY
Description : Name the branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it appears in its natural surroundings, and as it affects a community of people rather than a single individual.
Last Answer : ANSWER: EPIDEMIOLOGY
Description : As of December, 1990, which of the following countries generated the greatest percentage of its electricity by nuclear power? w) England x) Japan y) United States z) France
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- FRANCE
Description : Spent fuel from a nuclear power plant cools down and loses most of its radioactivity through decay. In the first year, spent fuel loses about what percentage of its radioactivity? w) 10 percent x) 50 percent y) 80 percent z) 100 percent
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 80 PERCENT
Description : The per capita birth rate of a population is known as its: w) mortality x) natality (pron: nay-tal-eh-ty) y) population density z) carrying capacity
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- NATALITY
Description : What is the name of the largest North American terrestrial rodent, distinguished by its spiny covering?
Last Answer : ANSWER: PORCUPINE
Description : he system of ............... generally ran one job at a time. These were called single stream batch processing. A) 40's B) 50's C) 60's D) 70's
Last Answer : B) 50's
Description : Distemper is used to coat a) External concrete services b) Internal surfaces not exposed to weather* c) Woodwork d) Compound walls
Last Answer : b) Internal surfaces not exposed to weather*
Description : 10. Catalytic converters are fitted into automobiles to reduce emission of harmful gases. Catalytic converters change un burnt hydrocarbons into (a) carbon dioxide and water (b) carbon mono oxide (c) methane (d) carbon dioxide and methane.
Last Answer : (a) carbon dioxide and water
Description : Evaporation from water surfaces exposed to air is not dependent of the: w) velocity of the wind x) humidity y) temperature z) depth of the water
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- DEPTH OF THE WATER
Description : For a DC motor, what major component in addition to the field winding and the armature winding is necessary? w) a commutator x) a stator y) a battery z) a rotor
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- A COMMUTATOR
Description : Dante is the name of an eight-legged robot designed to repel into the crater of Erebus. This volcano is located in w) Italy x) the Hawaiian chain y) Antarctica z) Japan
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- ANTARCTICA
Description : Who is known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb? w) Albert Einstein x) J. Robert Oppenheimer y) General Leslie Groves z) Edward Teller
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Description : Movement exhibited by plants toward the "center of the Earth" is called?
Last Answer : ANSWER: GEOTROPISM
Description : What is the phase relationship between the voltage and current in a capacitor?
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- CURRENT LEADS BY 90 DEGREES
Description : The sun makes up approximately what percent of matter in our solar system? w) 17% x) 50% y) 85% z) 99%
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- 99%
Description : Name a component of gasoline that has been classified by the U.S. EPA as a "known human carcinogen".
Last Answer : ANSWER: XENZENE
Description : Deforestation is not a major environmental problem in w) the Amazon x) Borneo y) Oregon z) West Germany
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- WEST GERMANY
Description : Who was the first scientist credited with pointing out that certain gases could cause a greenhouse effect? w) John Tyndall x) Charles Darwin y) Roger Tory Peterson z) Stephen Jay Gould
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- JOHN TYNDALL
Description : What range of frequencies are usually referred to as the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Band? w) 3 to 30 Mega Hertz x) 30 to 300 Mega Hertz y) 300 to 3,000 Mega Hertz z) 30,000 to 300,000 Mega Hertz
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 300 to 3,000 MEGA HERTZ
Description : If a quiet whisper is 10 decibels, then what is the average pain threshold in decibels for humans?
Last Answer : ANSWER: 120 DECIBELS (ACCEPT 110 TO 130)
Description : Which of the following is considered a renewable resource? w) Coal fired power plant x) Hydroelectric dam y) Combustion turbine facility z) Nuclear fission power plant
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- HYDROELECTRIC DAM
Description : In the human body, what tendon attaches the gastrocnemius muscle to the calcaneus bone?
Last Answer : ANSWER: ACHILLES TENDON
Description : What is the name for the metric unit of pressure defined as 1 Newton per meter squared?
Last Answer : ANSWER: PASCAL