CHEM135_Assessment_3
CHEM135_Assessment_3
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of this is my own work.
Questions
1. Category: COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Question: This Dallas bowl game has been played at the same site consecutively longer
than any other major bowl game
Answer: Cotton Bowl
2. Category: IT’S A SCIENTIFIC FACT
Question: (<a href=”http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-07-06 DJ 14.wmv”>Here
is the clue. Pay attention to Sarah.</a>) Chairs, a broom, some string, and a can full
of sand are all you need for the experiment that creates one of these swinging devices,
similar to the one physicist Foucault used to show the earth’s rotation
Answer: a pendulum
3. Category: REMEMBER THESE LADIES
Question: In a letter to Abelard, she not-so-subtly hinted, ”letters from absent friends
are welcome”
Answer: Hlose
4. Category: AULD LANG SEINFELD
Question: His crazy schemes have included a bra for men & a coffee-table coffee-table
book
Answer: Cosmo Kramer
5. Category: ”G”
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Question: Unfortunate crystalline mandible for a prize fighter
Answer: glass jaw
6. Category: CLASSY CLASSICAL CLASSICS
Question: 3-word title of the celebratory composition heard <a href=”http://www.j-
archive.com/media/2006-05-23 J 02.mp3”>here</a>
Answer: ”Pomp And Circumstance”
7. Category: WHERE THE ”H” ARE WE?
Question: The Malecon, Morro Castle, Revolution Square
Answer: Havana
8. Category: ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Question: Edward James Olmos gained 40 lbs. for the weighty role of a math teacher in
this ’88 release
Answer: ”Stand And Deliver”
9. Category: THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER
Question: Spending for a congressman’s local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container
game
Answer: Pork Barrel of Monkeys
10. Category: SPORTS-POURRI
Question: This NHL ”Golden Brett” said coach Mike Keenan was ”the kind of guy who
will stab you in the back right to your face”
Answer: Brett Hull
11. Category: CAMERAS
Question: Many consider this, whose name is New Latin for ”dark chamber”, the earliest
form of the camera
Answer: the camera obscura
12. Category: INSPIRED CHARACTERS
Question: The heroines of this 1860s novel were based on the author & her sisterns Anna,
Elizabeth & May
Answer: Little Women
13. Category: A PUB QUIZ
Question: In 1655 the British Royal Navy began to replace its sailors’ beer rations with
this alcoholic beverage
Answer: rum
14. Category: SUPREMES
Question: Missouri’s motto ”Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto” means the people’s welfare
shall be the supreme this
Answer: Law
15. Category: KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY
Question: Until 1792 Kentucky was a part of this state
Answer: Virginia
16. Category: ’80s FILM COMEDY
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Question: This film starring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg & a robot electrified audi-
ences in ’86
Answer: Short Circuit
17. Category: CHEESE
Question: (<a href=”http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-20 DJ 04.jpg” target=” blank”>Jimm
of the Clue Crew presents in front of metal shelves stocked with cheese in Wisconsin.</a>)
This cheese making stage, also called ripening, can be as simple as keeping the cheese in a
cooler until the flavors have matured
Answer: aging
18. Category: DRUMMING
Question: (<a href=”http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-09-18 DJ 23.jpg” target=” blank”>Jon
of the Clue Crew sits at a drum set.</a>) The bass drum, the lowest-pitched drum in the
set, also has this other common 4-letter name
Answer: kick drum
19. Category: PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Question: George Bush’s father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was a U.S. senator from this
state
Answer: Connecticut
20. Category: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON
Question: An M1 Abrams is one of these vehicles with a moving turret that rides on
caterpillar tracks
Answer: tank