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Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the April 5, 2004, Volume 19/30
1) The 7 former soviet-bloc nations that recently
officially joined NATO, making it a 26-member organization, have names ending in
–ia. Name 4 of them. 2) Which word of Italian origin meaning “courage” or
“swagger” and beginning with B is used in music to designate a
brilliant passage displaying the composer’s skill and technique? 3) Which word designates all on the following: a
diamond-shaped pane of glass, tile, or stone; figuratively, anything hunted; and
a place where stone is cut out for use in building? 4) According to Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem “The
Deacon’s Masterpiece: or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay,” how many years did
the cehicle last before spontaneously falling apart? 5) Name the capital in whose harbor the Graf Spee, a
German battlecrusier, was damaged by British ships on December 12, 1939, and
scuttled by its captain in Uruguay. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the April 12, 2004, Volume 19/31 1) In which country did the military government that has
ruled since 1962 say it will invite Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party to
a constitutional convention on May 17? 2) Which word from the Greek word for “red-purple”
identifies a Semitic people of the Mediterranean and alludes to the special dye
they used? These people established the cities of tyre and Sidon. 3) Which state capital is nicknamed the “Oldest and
Quaintest City in the U.S.”? It was founded by Spanish missionary Don Pedro de
Peralta in 1609 or 1610 as the capital of the Spanish colony of New Mexico. 4) Which word for “a warship” completes Emily
Dickinson’s lines: “There is no _____ like a Book / To take us Lands
away”? 5) Identify the central character in Gioachino Rossini’s
opera La Cenerentola, which tells of her life with stepsisters Clorinda
and Tisbe. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the April 19, 2004, Volume 19/32 1) In her testimony insisting the U.S. couldn't have
stopped the 9/11 attacks, what 2-word term for "a simple, easy solution to
a complex problem" did Security Adviser Condo-leezza Rice use in saying,
"There was no _______ that could have prevented [them]"? 2) Which word not only completes the expression ______
in the rough, for a quality person or thing that lacks polish, but also
designates a baseball infield and the mineral ranked #10 on the Mohs scale of
hardness? 3) Identify the person whose skull Shakespeare's Hamlet
salutes with the words: "Alas, poor __________! I knew him, Horatio." 4) Identify Rhode Island's first settlement, which was
named in commemoration of God's foresight and is now its capital. 5) Identify the Wagner opera whose title character, the
child of Siegmund and Sieglinde, is raised by the dwarf Mime after his mother
dies giving birth to him. Sample questions from our Accent
on Academics publication for the April 26, 2004, Volume 19/33 1) Name the world's only supertall structure in a highly
active seismic zone. This building, the world's tallest at 1,671 feet, opened
last year and is to be completed this year. 2) In which state did the bold leadership of Benedict
Arnold help defeat Lieutenant General John Bourgoyne at the Second Battle of
Freeman's Farm on October 7, 1777? 3) Which word designates all of the following: a wide hook
to the head in boxing; a wide curving pitch in baseball; and a circular building
with a center turntable used for storing and repairing locomotives? 4) Which name is shared by the northwest Ohio city on Lake Erie and the Maumee River that is a major shipping center and the Spanish city near the Tagus River that served as a Moorish capital for 300 years and is featured in an El Greco
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