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1. The titles of the Chinua Achebe novel Things Fall Apart, the Robert B. Parker novel The Widening Gyre, Elyn Saks's autobiography The Center Cannot Hold, Woody Allen's anthology Mere Anarchy, and Joan Didion's essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem are all taken from lines in a 1919 poem by whom?
Correct Answer: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Your Answer: Thomas
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Your Answer: Thomas
Points Assigned: 1
Nope.
2. A TV series from the mid-1970s starring Danny Thomas as an elderly New York physician and a dramatic series that debuted in the late 1990s with Dylan McDermott as a brooding Boston lawyer share what title?
Correct Answer: THE PRACTICE
Your Answer: The A Team
Points Assigned: 2
2. A TV series from the mid-1970s starring Danny Thomas as an elderly New York physician and a dramatic series that debuted in the late 1990s with Dylan McDermott as a brooding Boston lawyer share what title?
Correct Answer: THE PRACTICE
Your Answer: The A Team
Points Assigned: 2
Nope.
3. Different types of substances known as colloids include aerosols (dispersions of liquid or solid particles in a gas), foams (dispersions of gases in liquids or solids), sols (solid particles in a liquid), and a colloidal system in which the dispersed and continuous phases are both liquids. This latter type is most commonly known as what?
Correct Answer: EMULSIONS
Your Answer: Gel
Points Assigned: 2
3. Different types of substances known as colloids include aerosols (dispersions of liquid or solid particles in a gas), foams (dispersions of gases in liquids or solids), sols (solid particles in a liquid), and a colloidal system in which the dispersed and continuous phases are both liquids. This latter type is most commonly known as what?
Correct Answer: EMULSIONS
Your Answer: Gel
Points Assigned: 2
Nope.
4. The war fought in late 1956 between Egypt and a coalition of the United Kingdom, France, and Israel, which is known in the Arab world as the tripartite aggression and in Israel as the Sinai War, was instigated in part by Egypt president Abdel Nasser's nationalization earlier that summer of what?
Correct Answer: SUEZ CANAL
Your Answer: Suez Canal
Points Assigned: 1
4. The war fought in late 1956 between Egypt and a coalition of the United Kingdom, France, and Israel, which is known in the Arab world as the tripartite aggression and in Israel as the Sinai War, was instigated in part by Egypt president Abdel Nasser's nationalization earlier that summer of what?
Correct Answer: SUEZ CANAL
Your Answer: Suez Canal
Points Assigned: 1
Relatively easy world history question.
5. The standardized system of product barcoding developed by IBM in 1971 was the basis for the UPC, adopted by a consortium of grocery companies in 1973 and still in use today. What does the "U" in UPC stand for?
Correct Answer: UNIVERSAL
Your Answer: Universal
Points Assigned: 0
5. The standardized system of product barcoding developed by IBM in 1971 was the basis for the UPC, adopted by a consortium of grocery companies in 1973 and still in use today. What does the "U" in UPC stand for?
Correct Answer: UNIVERSAL
Your Answer: Universal
Points Assigned: 0
I just knew this. I think this may be easy.
6. It can be shown from first principles that d(sin x)/dx = ___ x (fill in the blank). Put another way, the derivative of sin x = ____ x.
Correct Answer: COS (COSINE)
Your Answer: cosine
Points Assigned: 3
6. It can be shown from first principles that d(sin x)/dx = ___ x (fill in the blank). Put another way, the derivative of sin x = ____ x.
Correct Answer: COS (COSINE)
Your Answer: cosine
Points Assigned: 3
Total guess! I got a math question right! I am surely going to get 3 points for this.
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