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1. In a January 1973 speech describing the Paris Peace Accords of that month ending direct U.S. military combat in the war in Vietnam, President Richard M. Nixon, varying on a theme during his 1968 campaign, declared his goals for "peace with" what?
Correct Answer: HONOR
Your Answer: Honor
Points Assigned: 1
1. In a January 1973 speech describing the Paris Peace Accords of that month ending direct U.S. military combat in the war in Vietnam, President Richard M. Nixon, varying on a theme during his 1968 campaign, declared his goals for "peace with" what?
Correct Answer: HONOR
Your Answer: Honor
Points Assigned: 1
Had to decide between dignity and honor. Chose the right one.
2. What major Pacific coast city developed around the massive natural harbor known as Port Jackson?
Correct Answer: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Your Answer: Sydney
Points Assigned: 3
2. What major Pacific coast city developed around the massive natural harbor known as Port Jackson?
Correct Answer: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Your Answer: Sydney
Points Assigned: 3
I lived in Sydney for a year and half.
3. In diving competitions, there are four possible official dive positions undertaken during the flight of the dive. Three are straight, tuck, and free—what is the fourth?
Correct Answer: PIKE
Your Answer: Pike
Points Assigned: 1
3. In diving competitions, there are four possible official dive positions undertaken during the flight of the dive. Three are straight, tuck, and free—what is the fourth?
Correct Answer: PIKE
Your Answer: Pike
Points Assigned: 1
I am just glad that is the one they left out. I would have probably would have gotten tuck, but none of the others.
4. Although he had a long and successful career in popular music—both solo and with his wife Mary Ford—what guitarist has a greater legacy as a pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar, studio multitracking, electronic echo, and other modern recording techniques?
Correct Answer: LES PAUL
Your Answer: Gibson
Points Assigned: 2
4. Although he had a long and successful career in popular music—both solo and with his wife Mary Ford—what guitarist has a greater legacy as a pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar, studio multitracking, electronic echo, and other modern recording techniques?
Correct Answer: LES PAUL
Your Answer: Gibson
Points Assigned: 2
Nope.
5. The U.S. Department of Energy's national accelerator laboratory located in Batavia, Illinois, operated jointly by the University of Chicago and a not-for-profit research university consortium, is named after what nuclear physicist?
Correct Answer: ENRICO FERMI
Your Answer: Fermi
Points Assigned: 2
5. The U.S. Department of Energy's national accelerator laboratory located in Batavia, Illinois, operated jointly by the University of Chicago and a not-for-profit research university consortium, is named after what nuclear physicist?
Correct Answer: ENRICO FERMI
Your Answer: Fermi
Points Assigned: 2
I had a professor that worked at Fermilab that discovered the top quark. They flew him once a week to Rochester to teach a Physics 100 class. I just checked and he is now Yale's physics department chair.
6. What term is derived from the name of a Greek philosopher who declared that happiness and the absence of pain are the greatest goods and has come to mean, in the context of food and wine, a person of refined tastes?
Correct Answer: EPICURE/EPICUREAN
Your Answer: Epicurian
Points Assigned: 0
6. What term is derived from the name of a Greek philosopher who declared that happiness and the absence of pain are the greatest goods and has come to mean, in the context of food and wine, a person of refined tastes?
Correct Answer: EPICURE/EPICUREAN
Your Answer: Epicurian
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie-ish
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