What quantity, whose values on the Pauling scale range from 0.7 for francium ["france"-ee-um] to 4.0 for
fluorine, measures an atom?s attraction for bonding electrons?
electronegativity
What is the value of 8 factorial divided by 6 factorial?
56
What Russian?born author of the autobiography Speak, Memory wrote about Humbert Humbert?s
obsession with an adolescent girl in the novel Lolita [loh-LEE-tuh]?
Vladimir Nabokov
Dillon v. Gloss upheld the constitutionality of what Constitutional amendment that enabled Prohibition?
Eighteenth Amendment
Tyrone?s Rebellion took place on what island that was invaded by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 and devastated
by a potato famine in the 1840s?
Ireland
Which Elizabethan playwright wrote about the scheming Barabas in The Jew of Malta?
Christopher Marlowe
What events, which can be classified on the moment magnitude or Modified Mercalli scales, begin below
an epicenter and produce seismic waves?
earthquakes
It?s raw!" is a catchphrase of what Scottish?born celebrity who hosts the reality shows Hell?s Kitchen and
MasterChef?
Gordon Ramsay
What British actor, who played the villain Deckard Shaw in the most recent Fast and Furious movie, starred
with Melissa McCarthy in 2015?s Spy?
Jason Statham
Acetylene [uh-SEH-tuh-leen] is the simplest member of which class of hydrocarbons that have four fewer
hydrogen atoms than an analogous alkane?
alkynes
The main product of Russia?s Rosneft and Malaysia?s Petronas [puh-TROH-nus] firms is what chief export of
Venezuela and the good around which OPEC [oh-peck] formed?
crude oil
What former Portuguese colony on the Pearl River Delta west of Hong Kong was returned to China in
1999?
Macau
What British scientist, who stated a version of the second law of thermodynamics also named for Max
Planck [plahnk], is the namesake of an SI ["S-I"] temperature unit?
Lord Kelvin
What New Deal "administration" run by Harry Hopkins employed millions in construction and fine arts
projects during the Great Depression?
WPA or Works Progress Administration
What German composer, who paired his Tragic Overture with his Academic Festival Overture and wrote the
Hungarian Dances, is best known for a lullaby?
Johannes Brahms
The relationship between antiderivatives and definite integrals is given by the second part of the
"fundamental theorem of" which branch of mathematics?
calculus
Alison Grimes lost a 2014 Senate midterm election to what man who succeeded Harry Reid as Senate
majority leader in 2015, a Kentucky Republican?
Mitch McConnell
What 1929 William Faulkner novel about the decline of the Compson family takes its noisy title from
Macbeth?
The Sound and the Fury
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse ["beetle-juice"] forms a shoulder of what constellation with a three?star
"belt" that is named after a hunter in Greek mythology?
Orion
The 1983 invasion of what Caribbean island was referred to as a "predawn vertical insertion" by the U.S.
government?
Grenada