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Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the November 3, 2003, Volume 19/10 1) Which country recently declared a national holiday
following Pope John Paul II's beati-fication of Mother Teresa, who was born to
an ethnic family of this country in the Macedonian capital of Skopje? 2) Which word names the only horse to defeat Man O'War in a
race and means "to disturb mentally or physically" or "to
overthrow or defeat unexpectedly"? 3) The Cincinnati Convention Center is named in honor of
the doctor who developed the oral polio vaccine in the city in the 1950s. Name
him. 4) What name designating the goatlike demon that was to
dance in the ruins of Babylon in Isaiah 13:21 also names the woodland deity, an
attendant to Bacchus, represented as being half goat and half man in Greek
mythology? 5) Identify the surname shared by U.S. guitarist and jazz
improviser Wes; WWII British general Bernard Law, who defeated the Germans at El
Alamein; and Canadian novelist Lucy Maud, who wrote Anne of Green Gables. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the November 10, 2003, Volume 19/11 1) The widow of the head of the Chinese Nationalists from
1949 until 1975 recently died in New York at age 105. Name this woman, born in
China, educated in the U.S., and described as "the iron lady in the velvet
glove." 2) Which college was involved in the 1819 Supreme Court
decision ruling that a charter is a contract and that a college under a charter
is a private institution, which the Con-stitution protects against state
legislative interference? It is located in New Hampshire. 3) What word beginning with R designates both a fee
paid in advance to engage the services of a lawyer and a device holding teeth in
position after they have been altered by an orthodontist? 4) Identify the surname shared by the English authors who
wrote Rebecca and Trilby. 5) Name the ancient British queen whose forces allegedly
massacred up to 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons in a revolt against Roman
rule in A.D. 60 and whose name is the same as that of a house of fashion known
for its statuesque, graceful clothes. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the November 17, 2003, Volume 19/12
1) Some are comparing the secrecy of a 9/11 case headed to
the U.S. Supreme Court to the secret sessions held by an arbitrary English
tribunal abolished in 1641 and known by which 2-word term now naming any secret
meeting of a court or inquisitorial body? 2) Which word designates both a publication issued every 3
months and something occurring at regular intervals 4 times a year? 3) In 1610, when Galileo discovered 4 moons circling
Jupiter, he named them the "______ Planets" after which ruling family
of Florence in the hopes of gaining their favor? 4) Which theatre built in the shape of an O with no roof
over the central area was called "the Wooden O" in Shakespeare's time?
It was destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, destroyed in 1644, and
reconstructed in 1996. 5) Identify the 2 independent countries located within the
borders of Italy. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the November 24, 2003, Volume 19/13
1) Name the Bush administration member whom Newsweek
recently described as having cherry-picked the intelligence on Iraq, then fed
his version of reality to the President. 2) Give the term beginning with L derived from the
German for a recurring theme or idea in a musical composition or novel. 3) Which word designates all of the following: an order of
freshwater bony fishes with a pointed head and sharp teeth; a weapon made up of
a metal spearhead on a long wooden shaft and once used by foot soldiers; and a
mountain with a peaked summit? 4) John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was possibly
as effective in rallying public opinion against deplorable conditions affecting
the Okies in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl as which 1906 work by Upton Sinclair was in
arousing outrage over Chicago's stockyards? 5) Complete the title of Jacques-Louis David's 1793
painting The Death of _________ by naming the revolutionary leader
stabbed in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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