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Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the March 1, 2004, Volume 19/25 1) What is the middle name of John Kerry, who shares the 3
initials of the 35th President, or JFK? 2) The proverb "You can't go home again," meaning
"you cannot recapture the past," is taken from the title of a novel by
which North Carolina-born author? 3) Which word designates all of the following: military
officers of high rank; bold insolence; and a yellowish metal that is an alloy of
copper and zinc? 4) Which Shakespearean play do superstitious actors not
refer to directly by name because they believe it is bad luck, calling it
instead "the Scottish play"? 5) According to John 19:5, what color robe did the soldiers
put on Jesus after they put the crown of thorns on Him? Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the March 8, 2004, Volume 19/26
1) Which word, increasingly in the news as U.S. companies
take steps to reduce cost, is defined as "work done for a company other
than by its regular employees, and some-times done overseas, especially in
countries such as India"? 2) Which number completes the idiom at sixes and
_________, meaning "in a state of disorder and confusion" or
"at odds"? 3) Identify Liberia's capital, named for the 5th U.S.
President, who served from 1817 to 1825 and is known for his doctrine telling
Europe not to interfere in American affairs. 4) Identify the adventurers of Greek mythology whose name
Bret Harte borrows in portraying California gold miners as "The __________
of '49," even though the miners had no Jason to lead them on their quest. 5) What name is given to Felix Mendelssohn's 1842 Symphony
No. 3 in A minor, which was inspired by a visit to Holyrood Castle in Edinburgh
in the 1820s? Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the March 15, 2004, Volume 19/27 1) The rover Opportunity recently found proof that
some rocks on Mars were once soaked with liquid water, doing so by using its
instruments to study a fine, layered rock named after which mass of granite that
rises about 3,600 feet above the valley floor in California's Yosemite National
Park? 2) Identify the 2-word Latin phrase meaning "clean
slate" used by philosophers to describe the nature of man's mind as blank
at birth before it receives outside impressions. 3) Which word designates both a metal cleat inserted into a
snow tire to increase traction and any of a series of rounded nailheads used to
decorate a surface, such as leather? 4) Name the "Father of Western Local‑color
Stories" whose descriptions of such characters as the gambler John Oakhurst
helped shape the local color movement in American fiction. 5) Identify the American painter whose middle names are
Abbott McNeill. He is best known for a painting of his mother. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the March 22, 2004, Volume 19/28 1) Name the Florida Indian tribe recently ordered to update
its lottery machines to comply with federal gambling rules. Florida State
University teams are nicknamed for them. 2) Identify Macbeth's friend who is with him when they
encounter the witches, is later murdered by Macbeth's henchmen, and after death
appears as a ghost at dinner to portend Macbeth's tragic end. 3) Which word designates all of the following: a
double-eagle or 3 under par on any hole in golf; a gooney bird; and,
figuratively, a burden, as derived from the bird killed in The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner and hung around a sailor's neck for bringing bad luck? 4) Identify the U.S. senator whose March 7, 1850, speech
supporting Henry Clay's compromise included acceptance of the provisions of the
Fugitive Slave Bill. 5) Which word completes both _____ Law, designating
the principle that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, and _____
disease, for a disease characterized by tremors and muscular rigidity? Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the March 29, 2004, Volume 19/29
1) Identify the country whose prime minister recently said,
"March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." 2) Which 2-word term designates the formerly frowned upon
grammatical structure in which the word to is separated from the verb
accompanying it? 3) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
uses a poetic meter based on that of the Kalevala, an epic poem of which
country? 4) Which word beginning with C, meaning "a
roundabout or indirect way of speaking," does Charles Dickens use in naming
the government office of evasiveness in Little Dorrit "The
__________ Office"? 5) Identify the leader of the Fifth French Republic who
said about his country, "How can one govern a country that has 265 kinds of
cheese?"
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