Round 4
High School – 2014-15 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions
1.
A diagonal of a square has a length of 9 units. In units, calculate the exact perimeter of the square.
18 (TIMES THE) SQUARE ROOT OF 2 (UNITS) (Accept: 18 (TIMES) RADICAL 2 (UNITS))
2.
In this battle, twenty-four French ships under the Comte de Grasse [kawnt duh GRAHS] blockaded
British forces in the Chesapeake Bay. 4,500 troops under the Marquis de Lafayette prevented a
British land escape until General Washington's troops could reinforce them. What final battle of the
American Revolution forced Lord Cornwallis to surrender?
(BATTLE OF) YORKTOWN
3.
One late Renaissance influence on this type of painted scene was Niccolò dell'Abate [nick-o-LOH delah-BAH-tay], who used them to decorate the Poggi [PAW-jee] Palace in Bologna [bo-LOH-nya].
Albrecht Altdorfer [AHL-brekt AHLT-dor-fer] led the Danube school of painting, which was known for
this type of scene. English painter John Constable was known for his paintings of this type of scene,
which in America was often painted by a group associat Name this most common type of scene
painted by the Hudson River School.
LANDSCAPE(S) (PAINTING)
4.
This facility is the birthplace of a project known as ENQUIRE which led to development of the world
wide web. Another project at this site reported neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light,
though project ICARUS later reported faulty wiring had caused the results. Give the facility on the
Franco-Swiss border that houses the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
CERN [SURN]
5.
This work, part of a larger poem, opens on Good Friday in the year 1300. After passing under a sign
proclaiming, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," Virgil guides the narrator past nine circles of
gluttons, heretics, and traitors. Name this first of three installments in Dante's Divine Comedy.
(THE) INFERNO (Not: (THE) DIVINE COMEDY)
6.
Consider a data set, where the interquartile range of the data set is equal to 5. If the third quartile
of the data set is 8, calculate the value of the first quartile.
3
7.
In Latin, this root means "carry." As a stand-alone English word, it can refer to a sweet wine, or to
the left side of a ship. Give this four-letter word for a city or town where ships load and unload.
PORT (Accept stated or spelled)
8.
One artist who worked in this medium created a work showing three babies in sunflower hats
peering out of flowerpots. Another artist in this medium used the half-tone production methodology
in his documentarian work How the Other Half Lives. What medium used by Dorothea Lange and
Ansel Adams, required a darkroom until the digital age?
PHOTOGRAPHY (Accept other word forms and reasonable equivalents)
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9.
These features are believed to be formed by rising mantle material called mantle plumes, that break
through the Earth's crust. As tectonic plates move past these magma plumes, the lava will form
chains of islands. Name this feature that is exemplified by Yellowstone National Park and Hawaii.
HOT SPOTS
10.
This collection of laws refused to recognize marriage by capture, blood feuds, or private retribution.
Written in Akkadian, it is preserved on a stela now housed in the Louvre. Name this set of advanced
laws compiled by a Babylonian ruler.
(CODE OF) HAMMURABI (Accept HAMMURABI'S CODE)
11.
Consider the region bounded by the X-axis and the graph of the function, Y equals sine of X, where
X is between zero and pi divided by 2. In square units, what is the area of this region?
1 (SQUARE UNIT)
12.
He was named chief psychologist at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in 1932, a post he held until 1967.
Objecting to Binet's single-score intelligence test, he developed tests that measured different areas
of intelligence. What Romanian-born psychologist developed the popular WAIS and WISC
[pronounce each letter separately for both] tests for intelligence?
(DAVID) WECHSLER [WECK-slur]
13.
One adherent of this philosophical school derided the idea of "wasted self-sacrifice" in an essay
about the school. Another founder factored the level of intensity and the number of people affected
by an action into a type of hedonistic [hee-duh-NIS-tick] calculus. Name the philosophical school,
associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, that advocates achieving the greatest
happiness for the greatest number of people?
UTILITARIANISM (Accept other word forms)
14.
These endangered Asian mammals build nests in trees and belong to the genus Pongo. Dominance
is determined by the size of this primate's most notable facial feature. Name this endangered
species of great apes, identifiable by their large facial pads, one of which can be seen reading a
book in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
ORANGUTAN
15.
This poet, whose name means "tentmaker," completed a Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of
Algebra. Edward FitzGerald translated his most famous work, which includes the lines, "Take the
Cash, and let the Credit go," and, "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou." Which Persian poet
collected his quatrains in the Rubaiyat [ROO-by-yaht]?
(OMAR) KHAYYÁM [kai-AM]
16.
Characters who fulfill this literary role include Laertes [lay-AIR-teez], Dr. Watson, and Sancho Panza.
Give the term for such a character, who contrasts with the protagonist's traits.
FOIL(S)
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17.
Express your answer as a fraction. Consider the infinite geometric series with a first term of 8 and a
common ratio of negative one-fourth. Find the sum of the series.
32/5
18.
He was the first person elected to three consecutive terms as governor of California, but he resigned
in 1953 to take a federal position. In that position, he presided over Brown versus Board of
Education, Gideon versus Wainwright, and Miranda versus Arizona. What chief justice chaired the
commission that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963?
(EARL) WARREN
19.
One god in this civilization's mythology killed his siblings with a blue snake, and was commonly
portrayed in the form of a hummingbird. Another god used an obsidian mirror to replace a lost foot,
while another created mankind by sprinkling bones with his blood, and is often depicted as a
"plumed serpent." What civilization's gods included Huitzilopochtli [wee-tsee-loh-POHCH-tlee],
Tezcatlipoca [tes-kaht-lih-POH-kah], and Quetzalcoatl [ket-sahl-koh-AHT-ul]?
AZTEC (Accept other word forms)
20.
These objects come in both radio-quiet and radio-loud varieties. Examples of these are Seyfert
galaxies, blazars, and quasars [KWAY-zars]. Name these objects that are believed to be produced
when gas is accreted and heated around a supermassive blackhole, abbreviated AGN.
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
21.
Express your answer as a fraction. Suppose that sine X equals four-fifths, where X is between pi
divided by 2 and pi. Find the value of cosine X.
NEGATIVE 3/5
22.
From 2009 to 2011, she chaired the House subcommittee on space and aeronautics, in part because
she married astronaut Mark Kelly in 2007. She voted to increase the debt ceiling before resigning
from Congress in January 2012. Identify this former Arizona congresswoman, who sustained severe
injuries when Jared Lee Loughner shot her in January 2011.
(GABRIELLE) GIFFORDS
23.
In this play, a philosopher teaches the title character how to pronounce vowels properly after the
protagonist saves him from a fight involving a dancer, a musician, and a fencer. Cleonte disguises
himself as a prince in order to wed Nicole in this play, whose bumbling protagonist wishes to be
called "Highness," but settles for "Your Grace." Name this farce by Molière [mohl-YARE] about a
bumbling man with dreams of aristocracy.
(THE) BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN (Accept: (THE) MIDDLE CLASS GENTLEMAN or (LE) BOURGEOIS
GENTLEHOMME)
24.
This man showed that things would not grow from nutrients, but instead required air exposure,
disproving spontaneous generation. He expanded on Edward Jenner's work with smallpox to
develop a vaccine to cure Joseph Meister of rabies. Name this scientist who developed a namesake
process to heat milk, killing harmful microorganisms.
(LOUIS) PASTEUR
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25.
This story's protagonist fights a gangrenous [GANG-gruh-nuhs] infection in his leg as he and his
wife wait for a flight to Nairobi [nye-RO-bee]. Harry falls asleep and dreams that he flies over the
House of God, where he sees a leopard. The title of which Ernest Hemingway story includes the
name of Africa's highest mountain?
(THE) SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO
26.
Express your answer as an ordered pair and using a fraction. Find the coordinates of the Y-intercept
of the graph of the line with equation, 2X minus 5Y equals 9.
(0, NEGATIVE 9/5)
27.
One American denomination of this religion was founded by Gavin and Yvonne Frost. Gerald
Gardner is considered the modern founder of this religion that worships a feminine goddess, whose
followers often organize in covens. Name this religion whose adherents often call themselves
witches.
WICCA (Accept: NEOPAGANISM and other forms of either word)
28.
The B variety of this illness comes in two types: the Yamagata [yah-muh-GAH-tuh] and the Victoria.
In 2009, type A created this illness's largest pandemic since the Hong Kong variety in the 1960s and
'70s. Name this illness, whose variations include Spanish, Swine, and Avian.
INFLUENZA (Accept: FLU)
29.
The namesake of this body of water was the chancellor of France during the reign of Louis the
Fourteenth. Strictly speaking, the water contains a salinity about half of that of the ocean, so it is
more a lagoon than a true lake. What lake is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Rigolets Strait?
(LAKE) PONTCHARTRAIN
30.
This poet's namesake stanza consists of eight iambic pentameter lines with a final Alexandrine. He
celebrated his own marriage in Amoretti [am-uh-RET-ee] and Epithalamion [ep-uh-thuh-LEY-meeon], and imitated Virgil's pastoral poetry in The Shepheardes Calender. Who created Una and the
Redcrosse Knight in his epic poem The Faerie Queene?
(EDMUND) SPENSER
31.
Express your answer using a rational exponent. Simplify the expression, X raised to the five-eighths
power, divided by, X raised to the one-fourth power.
X (RAISED) TO THE THREE-EIGHTHS (POWER)
32.
In his second novel, the title character commits himself to the secretive Tower Society. He followed
Wilhelm [VIL-helm] Meister's Apprenticeship with a story that inspired copycat suicides, The Sorrows
of Young Werther [VUR-thur]. Name this leading exponent of Weimar [VY-mar] Classicism, who
wrote the drama Faust.
(JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) GOETHE [GER-tuh]
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33.
Incredibly, this film did not win a best picture Oscar, although its creative genius did win as cowriter for original screenplay. However, he also lost to Gary Cooper in the best actor category and to
John Ford in the best director category. Name this 1941 film, considered by many the greatest
movie ever, that was the tour de force of Orson Welles.
CITIZEN KANE
34.
The British Board of Trade convened this meeting to try and ensure the Iroquois League's loyalty to
the British colonies. The northern seven colonies sent delegates to the namesake city, where they
met from June 19 through July 11, 1754. What conference in New York advocated a union of British
colonies to defend against the French?
ALBANY CONGRESS
35.
This branch of the nervous system has large pre-ganglionic and short post-ganglionic neurons, both
of which end with an acetylcholine [uh-SEE-tuhl-KO-leen] receptor. It is highly associated with the
vagus nerve. Name the branch of the autonomic nervous system that is vegetative, responsible for
creating tone, and that regulates the internal organs.
PARASYMPATHETIC (NERVOUS SYSTEM)
36.
In degrees, calculate the sum of the interior angle measures in a convex dodecagon.
1800 (DEGREES)
37.
In the medieval period, these objects were the most-common vehicles for the works of art produced
by rubricators. Images of saints were often interwoven with elaborate depictions of their first initials
in the "illuminated" type of these objects, which were produced in locations known as scriptoria.
Name these objects, to which gilding was often applied to covers and pages after they had been
copied by hand.
BOOK(S) (Accept equivalents; Accept (ILLUMINATED) MANUSCRIPT(S); Accept (THE) BIBLE)
38.
In this comedy, Dionysus [die-o-NIE-sus] arrives in Hades dressed in a lion's skin and carrying a
club. He judges a verse contest between Euripides [yoo-RIP-i-deez] and Aeschylus [ES-kuh-luhs],
but decides to revive the latter playwright in order to help Athens. What is this play with an
amphibian title, written by Aristophanes [ar-uh-STOF-uh-neez]?
(THE) FROGS
39.
This biome covers 1/5 of the Earth. Its main features are extreme temperatures and a lack of
rainfall. Identify this biome that comes in hot and cold varieties, including the Gobi and Antarctica.
DESERT
40.
This civilization, which spoke Nahuatl [NAH-waht-ul], settled on islands in the middle of Lake
Texcoco [tes-KOH-koh]. It celebrated the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl [ket-sahl-koh-AHT-ul], and
grew to six million inhabitants under Montezuma the Second. Which Mesoamerican civilization did
Hernán Cortés [er-NAHN kawr-TEZ] conquer in 1521?
AZTEC (Accept: AZTEC EMPIRE)
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Round 4 - Second Half
High School – 2014-15 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions
1.
Let F of X equal 2 times sine of X times cosine of X. Evaluate the expression, F of negative pi divided
by 4.
NEGATIVE 1
2.
The first of two incidents by this name involved a Reformation-era radical priest and members of a
city council. The second, which preceded the Thirty Years' War, punished two imperial regents who
had violated the Letter of Majesty. What name do historians give these acts of throwing Czech
citizens out of windows?
DEFENESTRATION (OF PRAGUE)
3.
This author set some of his novellas, including Cannery Row, in his native Salinas Valley. He profiled
the Trask family in East of Eden, but earned a Pulitzer for his depiction of Jim Casy, Rose of Sharon,
and Tom Joad. Identify the creator of The Grapes of Wrath.
(JOHN) STEINBECK
4.
This Broadway character describes "bridges you didn't know you'd crossed / until you've crossed"
after lamenting that "getting your dreams" is "a little … well … complicated" in the song "Thank
Goodness." Later, she sings that "I've heard it said / That people come into our lives for a reason"
as she is given the Grimmerie by Elphaba [EL-fuh-buh]. Name this character from the musical
Wicked, a "good" witch.
GLINDA (THE GOOD WITCH) (Accept GALINDA in place of GLINDA)
5.
This compound is created by both the Leblanc Process and the Solvay Process. Its uses include a
namesake test to distinguish between metal ions and as solute to lower the melting point of silica in
glass formation. Name this chemical compound, known as soda ash, with chemical formula Na2CO3.
SODIUM CARBONATE
6.
In some traditions regarding this type of play, each appearance of the doctor results in that
character's becoming more and more inebriated. Such a folk play was often performed after the
actors barged their way into a tavern or private home, and which ended with a request for money.
What type of play most often recounts the heroics of Saint George, and is often performed at
Christmas?
MUMMERS' (PLAY) (Accept: MUMMING (PLAY))
7.
Line L can be represented by the equation, 3X plus 8Y equals 4. Similarly, line M can be represented
by the equation, KX minus 6Y equals 9. If lines L and M intersect to make right angles, find the
value of K.
(K EQUALS) 16
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8.
Pathogens that have been removed from the body by this process are digested by fusion with a
lysosome. That digestion occurs in macrophages, which engulf foreign bodies through this process.
Name this process, a form of endocytosis, in which a cell surrounds and consumes a particle, also
known as "cell-eating".
PHAGOCYTOSIS
9.
This organization, winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, is headquartered in Brussels. Founded by
ten French physicians in 1971, it speaks out against injustice, running the risk of upsetting host
governments. What is this international humanitarian group that provides medical care to natural
disaster and political violence victims?
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
10.
This writer considered his first work, the epistolary [uh-PIS-tuh-lair-ee] novel Nausea, to be his best.
He set forth his philosophical ideas in Being and Nothingness, as well as in the plays The Respectful
Prostitute and The Flies. Which French philosopher rejected his Nobel Prize after claiming that "hell
is other people" in No Exit?
(JEAN-PAUL) SARTRE [SAR-truh]
11.
In response to this event, a U.S. Army Lieutenant was convicted of premeditated murder and
sentenced to life in prison. Despite an initial cover-up by high-ranking army officers, it became
public knowledge when former soldiers confessed. What mass killing of March 16, 1968 involved the
murder of five hundred unarmed Vietnamese villagers, and led to the conviction of William Calley?
MY LAI [MEE LIE] (MASSACRE)
12.
In this dance's "hover corte" step, the male partner steps backwards with he right foot and out with
the left while turning to face diagonally. The dance's standard step pattern is "slow, slow, quick,
quick," similar to a four-four version of a waltz. Name this ballroom dance whose name may have
been inspired by a vaudeville actor with a vulpine surname.
FOXTROT
13.
Originally, this character was based on the satirical Isaac Bickerstaff, who predicted the deaths of
astrologers. He supposedly coined the phrases, "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead,"
and, "A friend in need is a friend indeed!" Identify this fictional farmer, whose namesake almanac
Benjamin Franklin published for years.
POOR RICHARD
14.
Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in circle T, and the measure of angle ABC is 70 degrees. In degrees,
calculate the measure of angle ADC.
110 (DEGREES)
15.
This class of particle has 6 members that come in 3 generations, where the last two generations are
only produced in high energy collisions. The first member of this group was discovered in 1897 by J.
J. Thomson. Name this group of particles that includes neutrinos [new-TREE-nose] and electrons.
LEPTON(S)
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16.
In the Tomlinson model, the friction is proportional to this measure of the potential. The power of a
sinusoidal wave is given by the square of this quantity multiplied by the square of the frequency
multiplied by the wave velocity. Name this measure of an electromagnetic wave that measures its
change in a given period.
AMPLITUDE
17.
One bell tower designed by this architect is visible from a museum that partially extrudes from the
side of the mountain into which it is largely built. The designer of Japan's Miho [MEE-hoe] Museum
used a glass-covered, thin parallelogram as the basis for Boston's John Hancock Tower, and also
used triangular glass panels as the basis for an entrance structure he built at a Paris museum. Name
this Chinese-American architect who built a glass pyramid for the Louvre.
(I. M.) PEI (Accept: (YEOH MING) PEI)
18.
Suppose that log of A equals 0.2 and that log of B equals 0.3. Find the value of the expression, log
of, quantity, A times B, close quantity.
0.5 (Accept: 1/2)
19.
This climatological region is roughly coterminous with Israel's South District. It is arid — its name
means "dry" in Hebrew — with the driest part being the Arabah Valley. The city of Beersheba lies in
what desert of southern Israel?
NEGEV NEG-ev] (DESERT)
20.
This poem's five sections are "The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon,"
"Death by Water," and "What the Thunder Said." It begins, "April is the cruelest month, breeding /
lilacs out of the dead land…" Give the title of this long poem by T. S. Eliot.
(THE) WASTE LAND
21.
In the first of these actions, federal and local authorities arrested over two hundred people at New
York City's Union of Russian Workers. The largest one saw thousands of individuals arrested in over
thirty cities, with five hundred of them being deported. What was this series of anti-communist
actions that the U.S. Department of Justice carried out during the "Red Scare" of 1919 and 1920?
PALMER (RAIDS)
22.
In this long poem, the title figure stops the Wedding-Guest in order to tell him a story. It contains
the lines, "Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, /
Nor any drop to drink." What is this poem, which revolves around a dead albatross and was written
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
(THE) RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
23.
In two works by Igor Stravisnky, this word precedes "à la Russe" and "Fantastique." The second
movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is this type of musical work, which in his Third
Symphony occupies its more usual third movement slot, where it replaces a minuet. Name this type
of fast, lively, humorous musical work, whose name is Italian for "joke."
SCHERZO (Accept: SCHERZO AND TRIO)
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24.
The probability of event Q is 0.4, and the probability of event R is 0.3. If events A and B are
independent, find the probability of A and B.
0.12 (Accept: 3/25)
25.
These compounds, despite the characteristic large number of double bonds, are highly stable and
unreactive. These cyclic, unsaturated compounds have two plus a multiple of four pi electrons as
detailed by Huckel's Rule. Give the name of this group of compounds, including benzene and
pyridine, whose name suggests a pleasant smell.
AROMATIC (COMPOUNDS) (Also: AROMATICS)
26.
In one work, this artist portrayed a bottle sitting on the hyperextended, bent leg of Dutch painter
Jan [yahn] Vermeer. This artist, who placed a crustacean atop the handset of a rotary-dial device in
his Lobster Telephone, created another work in which one of the four most recognizable objects is
covered with ants, while another of them is draped over a mysterious animal. Name this surrealist
painter, whose The Persistence of Memory features four melting clocks.
(SALVADOR) DALI
27.
Originating as a challenge to Louisiana's Separate Car Act, this was the Supreme Court's first major
decision on the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause. The decision stood for almost
sixty years before Brown v. Board of Education struck it down. Which Supreme Court case
established the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation?
PLESSY V(ERSUS) FERGUSON
28.
Paul Ehrenfest described a paradoxical result associated with one of these objects, which was later
dubbed the ultraviolet catastrophe. These objects are modeled in doubly-eponymous laws named
after Rayleigh-Jeans and Stefan-Boltzmann, and their maximum wavelength is described by Wien's
Law. Name this class of object that absorbs all incoming electromagnetic radiation.
BLACKBODY (Do not accept: BLACK HOLE)
29.
The first play performed in this theater was On Baile's Strand by William Butler Yeats. It housed the
world premiere of Juno and the Paycock, and saw a riot erupt when it staged Playboy of the
Western World. Identify this Dublin theater dedicated to producing works by Irish dramatists.
ABBEY (THEATRE)
30.
The proportion of at-bats in which a softball player makes a hit is one-fifth. As a fraction, calculate
the probability will make exactly two hits in three at-bats.
12/125
31.
Introns are removed in a key part of the process that generates these molecules whose final
destination is a ribosome. These substances are divided into codons, which, with the exception of
stop codons, encode for specific amino acids. Name this substance that is decoded by a ribosome to
produce proteins in translation.
MESSENGER RNA (Accept: mRNA)
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32.
One opera by this composer focuses on a woman confined to the "lust" circle of hell in Dante's
Inferno. This composer of Francesca da Rimini depicted "sleigh" and "alarm" types of the title
instruments in a choral symphony based on and named for an Edgar Allan Poe poem, The Bells.
Name this composer, who also imitated bells in the block chord opening of his Piano Concerto No. 2,
a Russian whose other works include the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
(SERGEI) RACHMANINOFF
33.
She was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga [loo-SEE-luh go-DOY all-kah-YA-guh], and made her early
living as a mountain school teacher. She collected her poems, including one written in the aftermath
of her fiance's suicide, in Tenderness, Desolation, and Destruction. Which poet of Sonnets of Death
became the first Latin America writer to win a Nobel Prize?
(GABRIELA) MISTRAL [mees-TRAHL]
34.
The holder of this federal office is the person to whom a resigning resident must submit his written
resignation. It has been held by sixty-five men and three women, including Kentuckian Henry Clay.
What Cabinet post was first held by Thomas Jefferson, and has been held recently by Hillary Clinton
and John Kerry?
SECRETARY OF STATE
35.
This 6-letter term is used to identify a matrix with an equal number of rows and columns. Name the
term that is also used to classify a rectangle with four congruent sides.
SQUARE
36.
Native-language name required. American examples of this architectural style include the New York
City Public Library's main branch, as well as the 1893 Columbian Exposition's "White City." This
style, which emphasized rectangular, flat-roofed designs ringed on all sides with symmetrical rows
of windows, is often known as "Second Empire," due to the time period in which it came to fruition
at the Paris academy for which it's named. Name this architectural style, French for "fine arts."
(ECOLE DE) BEAUX-ARTS [boh-ZAR]
37.
Nichrome can be used to make the wirewound types of these objects, and four of them together
create a Wheatstone Bridge. They are color coded to represent the value for their namesake
quantity, and are represented on a circuit diagram by a zigzag line. Name these simple circuit
elements named for the fact that they restrict the passage of current through them.
RESISTOR
38.
The name for this legal code literally means "the revealed law." Its sources are the Koran, and the
examples set by Muhammad in the Sunnah. What is the name for the religious law of Islam?
SHARIA [shah-REE-ah] (LAW)
39.
This type of conjunction connects two grammatical elements with identical construction. Students
often memorize them with the acronym FANBOYS. So, for, and but are what type of conjunction?
COORDINATING (CONJUNCTION)
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40.
What is the numerator of the sum of the rational expressions, quantity, X plus 3, close quantity,
divided by, quantity, X minus 7, close quantity, and, quantity, X minus 2, close quantity, divided by,
quantity, X minus 1, close quantity?
2X SQUARED MINUS 7X PLUS 11
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Extra Questions
H-1
In music for auxiliary percussion instruments, this musical symbol may take the form of a hollow
box or a pair of vertical lines crossing two spaces on the staff. Writing a small "8" above or below
one of these symbols indicates the music of a staff is to be universally transposed by an octave. The
tenor and alto types of this symbol take the form of a stylized letter C. Name these musical symbols,
whose most common types are treble and bass.
CLEF(S)
SS-2
The 1976 act with this name established a child-care tax credit of up to $800 for two or more
children. The one in 1984 increased the liquor tax, decreased the cigarette tax, and kept the
telephone excise tax. What name was also given to a 1986 act that lowered the maximum tax rate
from 50 percent to 28 percent?
TAX REFORM (ACT)
SC-3
The mechanism for this process was detailed by the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Gerhard
Ertl [UHR-tuhl]. This process uses an osmium-based catalyst until it was found that iron and
ruthenium based catalysts were cheaper and more effective. Name the industrial process that
combines one part nitrogen with three parts hydrogen to produce ammonia.
HABER (-BOSCH PROCESS)
LA-4
This novel's supporting characters include Hungry Joe the photographer, Major de Coverley, and a
man who bombs his own soldiers for profit, Milo Minderbinder. The squadron's leading bombardier
Yossarian decides to survive the war and live forever, or at least die trying. Name this novel, which
lends its name to an impossible situation, written by Joseph Heller.
CATCH-22
M-5
With respect to X, find an expression for the second derivative of the function, Y equals 3X squared
minus 2X plus 1.
(Y-DOUBLE PRIME EQUALS) 6
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