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Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the January 3, 2005, Volume 20/17.

 

1) Identify the country whose Supreme Court recently ruled that gay marriage was constitutional, making it possible for the federal government to ask Parliament to legalize same-sex unions nationwide.
Answer: Canada (Prime Minister Paul Martin said his government would introduce a bill of approval after Christmas, which, if passed, would make Canada the 3rd country, after Belgium and the Netherlands, to approve same-sex marriages).
 
2) What Latin phrase taken from Horace means "seize the day" and is used to designate a poetic motif presenting youth as ephemeral and urging the pursuit of pleasure, as in Robert Herrick's line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"?
Answer: Carpe diem.
 
3) Which term designates all of the following: a walking stick; a group of people assisting a leader; and a set of 5 horizontal parallel lines on which music is written?
Answer: Staff.
 
4) Complete the following F. Scott Fitzgerald line from The Great Gatsby: "Gatsby believed in the _____ light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Answer: Green.
 
5) Identify the Italian artist who was born in Urbino probably on April 6, 1483, and died suddenly on the same date, April 6, in 1520. He is known for The School of Athens.
Answer: Raphael (born Raffaello Santi or Sanzio).
 
 
Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the January 17, 2005, Volume 20/19.
 
1) Which island country suffered the second most deaths from the recent tsunami with over 30,000, after Indonesia with over 94,000? Its capital is Colombo.
Answer: Sri Lanka (located off India's southeast coast).
 
2) Name the New York City area featured in a series of paintings Jacob Lawrence completed in 1942-43 featuring his childhood recollections of this large African-American community at the beginning of the 20th century.
Answer: Harlem.
 
3) Which Japanese word designates an herb used like horseradish and having the form of a green paste for seasoning sushi or sashimi?
Answer: Wasabi.
 

4) Which word of French origin designates all of the following: an illicit love affair; a connection between 2 or more things; and the person who acts as a go-between between persons or groups?
Answer: Liaison.
 
5) Which adjective meaning "incapable of being taking away or transferred" appears in the Declaration of Independence after "certain" and before "rights"?
Answer: Unalienable (a typographical or spelling error occurred as "unalienable" was printed instead of "inalienable").
 
 

Sample questions from our Accent on Academics publication for the January 31, 2005, Volume 20/21.

1) Identify the ailing 80-year-old chief justice who recently administered the oath of office to George W. Bush for his second term.
Answer: William Rehnquist (he has now administered the oath 5 times).
 
2) Because there was little actual fighting during the 1688 Glorious Revolution, by what other name is it known?
Answer: Bloodless Revolution.
 
3) Which word beginning with P and meaning "the act of making rigid" or "the act of making numb, as with fear" first named the process by which minerals are carried by groundwater into empty cells of decaying wood gradually turning the wood into stone?
Answer: Petrifaction (accept petrification).
 
4) Identify both the American who actually wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and the one who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, whose surname contains that of the other.
Answer: Gertrude Stein and John Steinbeck.
 
5) Name the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Answer: Edward Gibbon.