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1. There are six distinctly named phase changes of matter: freezing (liquid to solid), melting (solid to liquid), condensation (gas to liquid), vaporization (liquid to gas), deposition (gas to solid), and what sixth, which is solid to gas?
Correct Answer: SUBLIMATION
Your Answer: Sublimation
Points Assigned: 3
Correct Answer: SUBLIMATION
Your Answer: Sublimation
Points Assigned: 3
I was just talking about this with my friend the other day.
2. What is the name of the digital optical storage format, first released in 2006, that is named after the type of laser used to read the data, and the distinctiveness of that laser's wavelength on the visual spectrum compared to that of the format's predecessor?
Correct Answer: BLU-RAY
Your Answer: Bluray
Points Assigned: 2
2. What is the name of the digital optical storage format, first released in 2006, that is named after the type of laser used to read the data, and the distinctiveness of that laser's wavelength on the visual spectrum compared to that of the format's predecessor?
Correct Answer: BLU-RAY
Your Answer: Bluray
Points Assigned: 2
I had to think for a bit, but once the answer came to me it seemed like it must be right.
3. The second-highest mountain in Africa (after Kilimanjaro) shares its name with what country?
Correct Answer: KENYA
Your Answer: Kenya
Points Assigned: 2
3. The second-highest mountain in Africa (after Kilimanjaro) shares its name with what country?
Correct Answer: KENYA
Your Answer: Kenya
Points Assigned: 2
I just knew this.
4. The title of the 2004 box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as its cover art, is a play on the title of a compilation album released 45 years earlier by what artist?
Correct Answer: ELVIS PRESLEY
Your Answer: Elvis
Points Assigned: 1
4. The title of the 2004 box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as its cover art, is a play on the title of a compilation album released 45 years earlier by what artist?
Correct Answer: ELVIS PRESLEY
Your Answer: Elvis
Points Assigned: 1
Total guess, but the timing and phrasing seemed very Elvis.
5. The painters Francisco Goya and Eugene Delacroix, the authors Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Lord Byron, and the composers Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt are associated with a broad artistic movement of 19th century Europe best known by what term, used by contemporary critics such as August Schlegel as a counterpoint to "classic"?
Correct Answer: ROMANTIC
Your Answer: Romanticisim
Points Assigned: 0
5. The painters Francisco Goya and Eugene Delacroix, the authors Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Lord Byron, and the composers Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt are associated with a broad artistic movement of 19th century Europe best known by what term, used by contemporary critics such as August Schlegel as a counterpoint to "classic"?
Correct Answer: ROMANTIC
Your Answer: Romanticisim
Points Assigned: 0
I think he will count this.
6. What is the term in mathematics for the three-dimensional curve, sometimes called a "coil" and derived from the Greek for "twisted", that resembles a corkscrew or spring and is generated by a line that encircles a cone or cylinder at a constant angle?
Correct Answer: HELIX
Your Answer: Spiral
Points Assigned: 1
6. What is the term in mathematics for the three-dimensional curve, sometimes called a "coil" and derived from the Greek for "twisted", that resembles a corkscrew or spring and is generated by a line that encircles a cone or cylinder at a constant angle?
Correct Answer: HELIX
Your Answer: Spiral
Points Assigned: 1
I thought I had a chance of being right. Math gets me again.
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