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Sample questions from our Accent on Academics
publication for the August 30, 2004, Volume 20/1 1)
Within $10 billion, what is the White House projection for the record
federal deficit in 2004, which will be the nation's 3rd consecutive deficit?
Answer: $445 billion
(accept $435-$455 billion; in 2001,
President Bush projected a $262 billion surplus; White House
predicts the deficit will be $229 billion in 2009). 2)
Identify the famous physicist, heir to the Cambridge professorship once
held by Isaac Newton, who recently admitted he was wrong about black holes, now
saying that they do not forever annihilate all traces of whatever matter falls
into them.
Answer: Stephen Hawking (he
recanted a position he had held for 30 years). 3)
Identify the dish of beef fillet covered with paté de foie gras, wrapped
in pastry, and then baked, and named after the 1st Duke of _____.
Answer: Beef Wellington. 4)
Which word for a test of judging something as genuine or valuable
originally designated a type of smooth black stone once used to test the purity
of gold or silver by the color of the streak left on the stone when it was
rubbed with the metal?
Answer: Touchstone. 5)
Which adjective meaning "having a wild, wasted look, as from grief
or illness" is the surname of the author of King Solomon's Mines, She,
and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold?
Answer: Haggard (H. Rider
Haggard is the author).
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