Humanities

This American poet was a Harvard professor much admired by his peers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne. Name this author who gave us "A Psalm of Life," "The Village Blacksmith," and "Evangeline."
Pull Down for Answer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Egyptian mythology, Nephthys was the consort of what god of the desert who slew his brother Osiris?
Pull Down for Answer Set (Seth)

What jeweler to Nicholas II, the last Tsar, is famous for his highly decorated Easter eggs?
Pull Down for Answer Faberge

This artist married Saskia van Uylenburgh in 1634. Their marriage was happy, but three of their children died in infancy, and in 1642 Saskia died soon after their fourth child was born. Who was this Dutch painter of "The Night Watch?"
Pull Down for Answer Rembrandt (van Rijn)

What Shakespeare play contains the following lines: "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Pull Down for Answer Richard III

What Hungarian composer wrote Cantata Profana and Duke Bluebeard's Castle?
Pull Down for Answer Bela Bartok

Social Science

During what Civil War battle did Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson die?
Pull Down for Answer Chancellorsville

What African-American founded the Tuskeegee Institute in 1881?
Pull Down for Answer Booker T. Washington

What central Asian country is the ninth largest country in the world and the second largest of the 15 former Soviet republics?
Pull Down for Answer Kazakhstan

During the Second Punic War, Roman forces were bedeviled by what crafty Carthaginian general?
Pull Down for Answer Hannibal

Sublimation, repression, displacement, and reaction formation are examples of what types of individual psychological reactions?
Pull Down for Answer defense mechanisms

Natural Science

The phenomenon known as ENSO occurs roughly every 2 to 7 years and is an oscillation in global weather patterns resulting from changes in rainfall patterns. Provide the name for this episodic warming which is represented by the first two letters of ENSO.
Pull Down for Answer El Nino

Prokaryotic in nature, they are placed in the kingdom Monera. What are these organisms which cause such human diseases as tetanus, botulism, diphtheria, and syphilis?
Pull Down for Answer bacteria

What chemical element is so vital to the microelectronics industry that it has lent its name to a specific geographical site where that industry is centered in the U. S.?
Pull Down for Answer silicon

Around the beginning of the 20th century, this scientist observed perturbations in the orbit of Neptune and calculated the probable location of Pluto. Name this astronomer who died 14 years before the planet was identified.
Pull Down for Answer Percival Lowell

What anatomical term designates the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord?
Pull Down for Answer meninges

Mathematics

One card is drawn from a standard 52-card deck. What is the probability that it is a black jack?
Pull Down for Answer 1/26 (or 2/52)

What is 30(cos 270 + i sin 270) in standard form?
Pull Down for Answer -30i

What name is given to the curve formed by a point which moves so that the sum of the distances from two fixed points is a constant?
Pull Down for Answer ellipse

Find the following limit: lim x -> 0 1-cosx/x
Pull Down for Answer 0 (zero)

Find the third derivative, with respect to x, of sin (2x).
Pull Down for Answer -8 cos (2x)

A box contains 7 apples, 3 oranges, and 2 pears. If one selects a piece of fruit at random from the box, what is the probability that it is not an orange?
Pull Down for Answer 9/12 (3/4)