Stay safe; stay armed.
Posted on 12/09/2002 5:33:05 PM PST by Liz
1. Identify the following miscellaneous astronomical items.
a This first known asteroid was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.
b. Discovered by William Balle in 1665, it is known by the name of the Italian astronomer who observed it ten years later.
c. This is the term for the reservoir of cometary nuclei located 50,000 Astronomical Units from the Sun.
2. Identify the artists from their works.
a. Red Disk in Pursuit of the Lark and Ski Lesson, Dog Barking at the Moon
b. The Hunt in the Forest, St. George and the Dragon, Battle of San Romano
c. The Boy with a Squirrel, The Death of Major Peirson, Watson and the Shark
3. Identify the following people and events associated with the Peloponnesian War.
a. Name either city-state, one an ally of Athens, the other of Sparta, whose 435 BC dispute drew both powers into war.
b. In 421 BC, this man succeeded Cleon as the Athenian leader and brought the war's initial phase to a close with a "Peace" which bears his name.
c. Sparta's destruction of the Athenian navy in this 405 BC battle marked the last naval engagement of the conflict.
4. Name the following characters from Ernest Hemingway works.
a. This victim of a rape by Fascists has a short, passionate affair with Robert Jordan in For Whom The Bell Tolls.
b. In The Sun Also Rises, she has an affair with the Spanish bullfighter Romero.
c. In "The Killers," this is the intended victim of the two title thugs.
5. Identify the following geology terms from a definition.
a. An inclined zone of earthquake activity that traces the upper portion of a subducting plane in a subduction zone.
b. This value describes the proportion of the volume of a material that consists of open spaces.
6. Identify the following composers from works.
a. A Life for the Tsar, Ruslan and Ludmilla.
b. Leningrad Symphony, Lady MacBeth of Mtensk.
c. Poem of Ecstasy and "The Black Mass" piano sonata
7. Answer the following questions about the American Civil War.
a. Term applied to the overall Union strategy, which included a blockade on the high seas, and severing the eastern and western Confederacy by controlling the whole of the Mississippi River.
b. On April 28, 1862, a primary aim of the Anaconda Plan was achieved when the city of New Orleans fell to this Union admiral.
c. This Confederate general used delaying tactics as best he could in opposition to William Tecumseh Sherman during the 1864 March to the Sea.
8. Answer these questions about the Presidential election of 1884.
a. He claimed that his failure to disavow a remark made by Samuel Burchard about "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" had cost him the election, though he had already been weakened by the Mulligan letters.
b. This former Union general finished third in the popular vote as a candidate of the Greenback party.
c. This party nominated John P. St. John, who finished fourth to Cleveland, Blaine, and Butler, as its Presidential candidate.
9. The territory of this state includes Lord Howe Island, and rivers running through it include the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Murray and Darling. Its highest point is the 7,330 foot peak Mt. Kosciusko, and it is bounded by the Pacific Ocean, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. Name this state whose capital is Sydney.
10. The largest feature on the surface of this celestial body is a vast, dark, circular island of ancient ice called Galileo Regio, which measures 4000 kilometers in diameter and covers one- third of the hemisphere that faces away from Jupiter. FTP, identify this Galilean satellite located between Europa and Callisto, slightly larger than the planet Mercury, the largest moon in the solar system which is named for an Olympic cupbearer.
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This thread might well win tonight's "Most Entertaining" award.
Some of these posts are hillarious.
Bookmarked.
Following your lead, I will forthrightly submit my post (also a Q/A test) regarding my search for the pontifical neuron.
Laden, or unladen?
;>)
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A man rides his horse out of town on Monday.
He returns two days later on Friday.
How is that possible?
Yeah, I know what you mean...
The horse must be named Friday.
Would people get drunk if bars served a bowl of sponges instead of peanuts???
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10) Ganymede
I need to go back to school and read some more history.
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