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1. What imperial and U.S. customary unit is equal to 258.9988 hectares?
Correct Answer: SQUARE MILE
Your Answer: Square Mile
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: SQUARE MILE
Your Answer: Square Mile
Points Assigned: 1
Only thing I could come up with.
2. What man was the last of the five U.S. Civil War combat veterans (all Union) to serve as president, having enlisted in June 1861 at age 18 in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and ultimately reaching the rank of Brevet Major?
Correct Answer: WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Your Answer: Cleveland
Points Assigned: 2
2. What man was the last of the five U.S. Civil War combat veterans (all Union) to serve as president, having enlisted in June 1861 at age 18 in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and ultimately reaching the rank of Brevet Major?
Correct Answer: WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Your Answer: Cleveland
Points Assigned: 2
Total guess. He had two separate terms separated by another president, so I figured that gave me the best chance and the timing would have been about right.
3. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for their work on phases of matter related to what branch of mathematics concerned with properties that survive continuous deformation (stretching, bending, etc.)? Its name comes from Greek for "study of place", and it is distinct from the similarly named field meaning "description of place" that deals with the representation of the Earth's surface features.
Correct Answer: TOPOLOGY
Your Answer: Geophysics
Points Assigned: 2
3. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for their work on phases of matter related to what branch of mathematics concerned with properties that survive continuous deformation (stretching, bending, etc.)? Its name comes from Greek for "study of place", and it is distinct from the similarly named field meaning "description of place" that deals with the representation of the Earth's surface features.
Correct Answer: TOPOLOGY
Your Answer: Geophysics
Points Assigned: 2
Nope!
4. The Diomede Islands are shared by two countries, with 2.4 miles separating Big Diomede to the west (or perhaps technically, far far east) from Little Diomede. These islands serve as the closest points between what two countries?
Correct Answer: RUSSIA, UNITED STATES
Your Answer: Russia and US
Points Assigned: 1
4. The Diomede Islands are shared by two countries, with 2.4 miles separating Big Diomede to the west (or perhaps technically, far far east) from Little Diomede. These islands serve as the closest points between what two countries?
Correct Answer: RUSSIA, UNITED STATES
Your Answer: Russia and US
Points Assigned: 1
I knew this answer.
5. While shows like The Hitchhiker and 1st & Ten existed previously, what series is widely considered HBO's first true dramatic television series, debuting in July 1997 with the tagline "It's no place like home"?
Correct Answer: OZ
Your Answer: Oz
Points Assigned: 0
5. While shows like The Hitchhiker and 1st & Ten existed previously, what series is widely considered HBO's first true dramatic television series, debuting in July 1997 with the tagline "It's no place like home"?
Correct Answer: OZ
Your Answer: Oz
Points Assigned: 0
This is one of the few important HBO shows I haven't watched, but the tagline made it a gimmie.
6. Dr. Samuel W. Francis of Rhode Island received U.S. patent 147,119 on February 3, 1874, for what hybrid, whose common name was trademarked by Hyde W. Ballard in 1951 and the Van Brode Milling Company in 1970, and which was popularized in large part by KFC beginning in the 1970s?
Correct Answer: SPORK
Your Answer: Deep fat fryer
Points Assigned: 3
6. Dr. Samuel W. Francis of Rhode Island received U.S. patent 147,119 on February 3, 1874, for what hybrid, whose common name was trademarked by Hyde W. Ballard in 1951 and the Van Brode Milling Company in 1970, and which was popularized in large part by KFC beginning in the 1970s?
Correct Answer: SPORK
Your Answer: Deep fat fryer
Points Assigned: 3
Oh! Neat.
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