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Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the November 1, 2004, Volume 20/10

1) Although the U.S. is unable to get the half of its flu vaccine it expected from a U.S. plant in England, it will get another 2.6 million doses in January from a company in which country, for a total from this company of 58 million, or a little more than half of its expected 100 million doses?
Answer: France (from Aventis Pasteur; some are calling the shots "Freedom Shots"; some consider January too late for the shots as the flu season will have peaked).
2) Which word designates both a well-paying job for which little work is required and a smooth-skinned edible fruit with a stone or pit?
Answer: Plum.
3) Which nonmetallic element, whose name comes from a Greek word for "purple," does the thyroid gland take from blood and use to make the hormone thyroxine?
Answer: Iodine.
4) Which 2 verbs complete this line from "Casey at the Bat": "And somewhere men are __________ and somewhere children __________"?
Answer: "laughing" and "shout."
5) Identify the circus girl in Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride who shares her name with the gypsy dancer in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Answer: Esmeralda.

 

Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the November 15, 2004, Volume 20/12
 
1) Identify the 3 Democrats who have lost to a Bush in presidential elections, in 1988, 2000, and 2004.
Answer: Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry, respectively.
 
2) Identify the only 2 independent countries in the Western Hemisphere in which French is an official language.
Answer: Canada and Haiti.
 
3) In which story by Stephen Vincent Benét does Jabez Stone say, "I vow it's enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil! And I would, too, for two cents!"
Answer: "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
 
4) Identify the Norwegian explorer who told of rafting across the Pacific and sailing a papyrus-reed boat across the Atlantic in his Kon-Tiki and The Ra Expeditions.
Answer: Thor Heyerdahl.
 
5) Name the sculptor and king of Cyprus whose prayers for a wife as lovely as the statue of a woman he had sculpted were answered when Aphrodite brought the statue to life.
Answer: Pygmalion.
 
 
Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the November 22, 2004, Volume 20/13
 
1) With which country has Panama opened talks about building an 85-mile road linking North and South America northwest of Bogotą, thus completing a highway from Alaska to Argentina?
Answer: Colombia.
 
2) Identify the human-powered aircraft that crossed the 74 miles between Crete and Thira in 1988 and was named after the mythological character who flew over the sea when escaping from the Labyrinth on Crete with his son.
Answer: Daedalus.
 
3) Identify the Greek dish of marinated lamb chunks skewered between vegetable chunks and cooked over a grill.
Answer: Souvlaki(a).
 
4) Which word designates both the scoring of a point in Canadian football by the punting team when the other team does not advance the ball into the field of play and the reddish cosmetic powder or cream women wear on their cheeks?
Answer: Rouge.
 
5) Which play by Henrik Ibsen is based on a legendary hero of Norse folklore who has many amazing adventures in many lands?
Answer: Peer Gynt.