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Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the September 8, 2003, Volume 19/1 1) Identify the 2-volume Bible the University of Texas
recently put on line. This Bible revolutionized printing in Western Civilization
when it was printed in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s as the first major Western
book printed in movable type. 2) The Antichrist is often identified with a beast
described in the Book of Revelation, a New Testament book also known by which
other name meaning "final destruction"? 3) Which word is used as both a verb meaning "to
strike sharply" or "to criticize sharply" and a noun naming a
form of popular music whose rhymed verses are sung or chanted? 4) Identify the beautiful maiden in a "kingdom by the
sea" in an Edgar Allan Poe poem. 5) Identify either the word for having a childlike
innocence making one easy to fool or its reverse, designating a brand of bottled
water from France.
1) In which country did the government recently blame
Muslim militants for explosions that shook Mumbai, killing at least 50 people,
Muslims and Hindus alike? 2) Identify the villain in the stories of Robin Hood. 3) Which word identifies all of the following: the sac in
which the spores of a moss are produced; a large metal container with a faucet
used for making tea or coffee; and a vase used to hold the ashes of a cremated
body? 4) What 2-word term is used in astronomy to designate the
gas and dust in the space between the stars? 5) Identify the 2 horses in Stephen Vincent Benét's short
story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" described as "matched grays
. . . like greased lightning" and named for the U.S.'s 2 oldest ships, now
located in the harbors of Boston and Baltimore.
Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the September 15, 2003, Volume 19/3 1) At a recent state dinner in Prague, Japanese Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi charmed guests with Asimo, a Honda humanoid that
danced and paid tribute to Czech writer Karl Capek, who coined which word for
"automaton" in his 1921 play R.U.R.? 2) Which word designates all of the following: an upright
piece in the walls of a building; an earring consisting of a small ornament on a
metal post; and any male animal used for breeding? 3) According to the American Film Institute's list of top
screen heroes and villains, the #12 ranked hero is which character named Tom in
John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? 4) Identify the South Carolina soldier nicknamed the
"Gamecock of the Revolution" for leading a successful campaign against
the British in the Carolinas. An island-fort off the coast of Charleston where
the Civil War began was later named for him. 5) Identify the Beethoven opera subtitled Married Love
(Die eheliche Liebe). Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the September 22, 2003, Volume 19/4 1) Under a new agreement, Eskimos would gain a new
territory as big as South Carolina in northeastern Canada. By what other name
beginning with I are Eskimos officially known? 2) Which word completes the idiom burned in __________
or hanged in _________, designating something done symbolically to
someone who is detested? 3) During which war is Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the
Bell Tolls set? 4) Identify the last Moorish stronghold in Spain and
Europe. This former kingdom was located on Spain's southern coast. 5) Identify either the NFL player who recently set the
single-game league record with 295 yards rushing or the team for which he was
playing when they defeated the Cleveland Browns 33-13. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the September 29, 2003, Volume 19/5 1) Which NASA spacecraft just ended its 14-year, $1.5
billion mission by a planned dive into the atmosphere of the largest planet? It
is named after the Italian who was the first to use a telescope to study the
skies, discovering that Jupiter had moons. 2) Identify the German pioneer who in 1900 designed a kind
of airship that came to be named for him and whose name now designates any rigid
airship or dirigible. 3) Identify the geologist after whom the highest peak in
the coterminous U.S. is named. 4) In which Brontë novel does Jane, a governess at
Thornfield Hall, fall in love with Mr. Rochester? 5) Which name is shared by the crime fighter who led a
group of law enforcement officers in Chicago against gangster Al Capone and his
bootlegging activities in the late 1920s and early '30s and the alleged monster
in a Scottish lake?
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