Quiz #10 answers

1. bitterness, saltiness, sourness, and umami

2. Brazil

3. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men

4. Sweet’n Low; saccharine

5. boxing

6. Quince años (or Quinceañera)

7. (a) [1900]; (e) [1912]; (d) [1932]; (b) [1963]; (c) [1978]

See http://www.candyusa.org/Classroom/timeline.asp

8. high-fructose corn syrup; aside from the abundance of corn grown in North America, HFCS is used because in place of sugar because of price-support systems (subsidies and tariffs) that make sugar more expensive.

9. Sweet Valley High

10. Popeye

Quiz #9 answers

1. 300; 12
2. a number that is the sum of its factors (excluding the number itself). For example, the factors of 6 are 1,2, and 3, which add up to 6.
3. Nadia Comăneci
4. the ability to determine the pitch (e.g. A, B, C) of a sound or musical note by ear, or to sing at a particular pitch, without using any external basis of comparison
5. 2400; 36
6. Some Like It Hot (1959); the “girlfriend” is played by Tony Curtis.
7. …Now Change; …Crime
8. The phrase typically refers to a market in which no buyer or seller has the individual ability to set the price of a good or service. The characteristics of such a market are usually said to be high information (all information about the product known to all parties); homogenous (fungible) products; a multitude of buyers and sellers; and minimal entry barriers for new competitors.
9. I had finished; I have finished; I will have finished.
10. the United States Constitution; 1787

Quiz #8 answers

1. Steve Martin
2. yards; four times. The designation “small” comes from the diameter, not the length.
3. Vatican City, with about 110 acres and about 800 residents
4. It was commissioned by Walt Disney as accompaniment to the ride of the same name, which debuted at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York and was afterward installed at Disney theme parks.
5. Edward Jenner
6. quarks
7. Volkswagen Beetle [half a point for Volkswagen]
8. one billionth
9. (a) Frank Sinatra; (b) John Cougar Mellencamp; (c) Blink-182; (d) Carrie Underwood

Quiz #7 answers

1. André the Giant
2. the giant tortoise
3. the giant sequoia
4. Sandy Allen
5. Paul Bunyan; Babe the Big Blue Ox
6. Willie Mays; New York City and San Francisco
7. the Cardiff Giant
8. Gargantua
9. (a) Giant; (b) Giant Steps; (c) gas giant; (d) Green Giant

Quiz #6 answers

1. Stephen Foster
2. Mormon settlers in Utah
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Wilma Rudolph; Rome
5. Chile; General Augusto Pinochet
6. Egypt; Camp David
7. most career hits; Ty Cobb
8. Iraq, which had recently invaded neighboring Kuwait
9. Kenneth Starr
10. General David Petraeus [or Ambassador Ryan Crocker]

Quiz #5 answers

1. (d)
2. intelligent design; half a point if you said “creationism.”
3. Larry Mendte; he was accused of repeatedly accessing his former co-anchor Alycia Lane's e-mail accounts with a stolen password.
4. Ontario
5. He was shot in a duel by Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president.
6. The ten-dollar bill
7. Dr Pepper
8. b. Pepper has been in use at least 4000 years in India, and was also in use in Europe and Asia in ancient times, although it is true that European explorers helped to spread its use further.
9. (a) 3; (b) 2; (c) 1; (d) 4

Answers to quiz 4 [Eli Lilly]

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1. Chemist Eli Lilly founded the eponymous pharmaceutical company in:
a) 1876 b) 1896 c) 1916 d) 1936
a) 1876
2. In 1953, the US Central Intelligence Agency gave Eli Lilly a $400,000 grant to supply what chemical substance? What did the CIA use it for? [half point each]
LSD; mind-control experiments
3. Eli Lilly made news in August 2008 when it agreed to purchase what controversial product line from what chemical giant? [half point each]
Polisac, including the articificial hormone rBGH to boost milk production in cows, purchased from Monsanto.
4. “Eli” is a nickname for a student of which college or university? Where does the nickname come from? [half point each]
Yale; the nickname comes from benefactor and namesake Elihu Yale.
5. Who invented the cotton gin? What is a cotton gin? [half point each]
Eli Whitney; a cotton gin is a machine that separates the cottonseed from the fiber surrounding it.
6. Match the person with the description: [half point each; one number doesn’t match any letter]
(a) Eli Manning
(b) Eli Wallach
(c) Eli Sunday
(d) Eli Stone

(1) title character of ABC lawyer show
(2) NFL quarterback
(3) preacher character in the movie There Will be Blood
(4) Actor in movies like The Magnificent Seven, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Nuts who continues to act into his 90s.
(5) architect who designed the Burj Dubai, set to become the world’s tallest building
(a)(2); (b)(4); (c)(3); (d)(1)
7. Match the person with the description: [half point each; one number doesn’t match any letter]
(a) Evangeline Lilly
(b) Lilly Ledbetter
(c) Kristine Lilly
(d) Lilly Truscott

(1) losing plaintiff in a sex-discrimination case and speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
(2) fictional character Hannah Montana's best friend, aka Lola
(3) actress on TV's Lost
(4) president of Argentina since 2005
(5) captain of US women's national soccer team
(a)(3); (b)(1); (c)(5); (d)(2)
8. Lille is a city of over 200,0000 people in what country?
France