| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: May 18 07:58PM -0700 On 5/17/19 12:56 AM, Mark Brader wrote: > 2. This is widely accounted the world's oldest desert at 43,000,000 > years. Located on the coast of southern Africa, it overlays > southern Namibia and extends into Angola and South Africa. Kalahari > 3. This desert constitutes over 55% of Israel's land area. > Throughout the ages it has been settled by nomads, the Byzantine > Empire, and the Romans. Negev > 4. Name the village on the North/South Korean border which has been > used as a meeting place for the two countries to resolve > disputes. Panmunjon > 5. Name the village in Portugal where, in 1917, three children > allegedly saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Fatima > 6. Name the village in the former Czechoslovakia that Hitler ordered > eradicated in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard > Heydrich. Lidice > where they are used. On what country's version would you find... > 7. ...the letters RF? > 8. ...a musical instrument? Ireland > * Ports > 10. The port of Mocha is known for coffee, but what country is > it in? Yemen > * Rivers > 13. The name Mesopotamia derives from the Greek for "land between > two rivers". One river is the Tigris; what's the other? Euphrates > 14. What river is the second-longest in North America, by > measurement from the farthest headwaters of any tributary to > the main river's mouth? Columbia; Mackenzie > 15. The Blue Nile and White Nile join to form the Nile at what > African city? Khartoum > ** Final, Round 3 - Science > * Solar System Probes > 1. The space probe Voyager II visited four planets. Name any *two*. Jupiter, Saturn (and the other two are Uranus and Neptune) > 2. The space probe Dawn visited two asteroids. Name *either*. Vesta (and Ceres) > 3. The space probe Huygens landed on which moon? Titan > * Math > All answers are integers. > 4. 4 factorial (4!) equals what? 24 > 5. If the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 13 units and > one side is 12 units long, how many units long is the other wise? 5 > 6. If t can represent any angle, what is sin²t + cos²t (sin squared > of t + cos squared of t)? tan squared of t > of genetics and instead proposed his own theory which was more > in accordance with Marxist principles. It is believed that > application of his theories contributed to major crop failures. Lamark > *what form* of clean energy? Other scientists who attempted > to reproduce their work were unable to do so. Be sufficiently > specific. cold fusion > what claim about the star called Barnard's Star? Later > information showed that he was mistaken and the false results > came from inherent defects in the telescope he was using. it has a planet (They recently found a planet around Barnard's, but it's not certain and the orbital parameters are much different than van de Kamp's planet. Also, I believe he later claimed there were 2 planets at Barnard's.) > elements such as bones. The muscles also provide for movement, > deformation, and changes in stiffness. What structure in the > human body meets this description? tongue > 11. This bone is not connected to any other bones in the body. > It sits atop the larynx and provides an anchor for the muscles > of the floor of the mouth. Name it. hyoid > sensitive than the human eye. The effect is the result of free > radicals interacting with free-floating lipids and proteins. > What is it? electroluminescence > * Forensic Science > 13. Luminol exhibits chemiluminescence when it contacts trace > amounts of blood, because it reacts with what? hemoglobin > interpretation of the effects of various drugs and poisons > on the human body. Tools include mass spectrometry, liquid > chromatography, and immunoassays. pathology -- Dan Tilque |
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