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1) In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, what were Caesar’s last words? Answer: Et tu Brute? Then fall Caesar.
2) In Greek Mythology, name the following gods and goddesses. Messenger God? Goddess of Love and Beauty? God of War? Goddess of Wisdom? Answer: Messenger God – Hermes, Goddess of Love and Beauty – Aphrodite, God of War – Ares Goddess of Wisdom - Athena
3) What is William Shakespeare’s popular theater? Answer: Globe Theatre
4) What is the name of Julius Caesar’s loyal friend? Answer: Marc Antony
5) Why was Julius Caesar killed by his fellow Senate members? Answer: Cassius, Brutus, and the other conspirators thought he was becoming too much of a tyrant.
6) According to the Greek myth Echo and Narcissus, who was Narcissus in love with? Answer: Himself
7) According to the Greek myth Apollo and Daphne, what object did Daphne turn into? Answer: A laurel tree
8) What did each flag represent at a Shakespeare’s play? Red? Black? White? Answer: Red – History, Black – Tragedy, White - Comedy
9) According to the Greek myth Pygmalion and Galatea, who was Galatea? Answer: A marble statue that turned into a woman
10) What musical instrument did the talented Orpheus play in the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice? (It must be pronounced correctly) Answer: The lyre (pronounced liar)
Language Arts (Writing, Grammar)
11) What are the 8 “be” verbs? Answer: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
12) What are the adjective questions? Answer: What kind? Which one? How many?
13) What are the adverb questions? Answer: How? When? Where?
14) What are 10 of the prepositions? Answer: (any 10) aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, down, during, except, for from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, out, outside, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until up, upon, with, within, without
15) What is plagiarism? Answer: The act of stealing or passing off ideas or words as one’s own
16) What is a thesis statement? Where in a research paper is it located? Answer: One sentence of a research paper that will be the focus of the paper; A thesis statement is the last sentence in an introductory paragraph
17) What does it mean to paraphrase? Answer: Paraphrase – Putting a passage from material into your own words, but it must be attributed to the original source
18) What is an interrogative sentence? What is an exclamatory sentence? What is an imperative sentence? What is a declarative sentence? Answer: Interrogative-Question, Exclamatory- Strong Feeling, Imperative- Command, Declarative- Statement
19) What are the core parts to a Pattern 1 sentence? Pattern 2 sentence? Pattern 3 sentence? Pattern 4 sentence? Pattern 5 sentence? Answer: Pattern 1 = subject noun, verb, Pattern 2 = subject noun, verb-transitive, direct object, Pattern 3 = subject noun, verb-transitive, indirect object, direct object, Pattern 4 = subject noun, linking verb, predicate noun, Pattern 5 = subject noun, linking verb, predicate adjective
20) What is the difference between a metaphor and simile? Answer:
Metaphor – a type of figurative language that compares without using the
words like or as
Simile – a type of figurative language that uses like or as
to show similarities between two different things
Science
21) Starting with the Vena Cava and ending with the Aorta, give the stages of blood flow through the heart. Answer: Vena Cava to Right Atrium to Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Arteries to Lungs to Pulmonary Veins to Left Atrium to Left Ventricle to Aorta
22) What is the definition of a desert? Answer: An area of land where less than 10 inches of rainfall per year and few plants grow.
23) Which blood type is the universal recipient? Which blood type is the universal donor? Answer: Recipient-AB Donor-O
24) What are the three types of bacteria and their shapes? Answer: Cocci-Round/Ball, Bacilli-Rod/Staff, Spirilla-Spiral/Corkscrew
25) What are the three fossil fuels? Answer: Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
26) What is light speed? Answer: 186,000 miles per second
27) What is the name of Alfred Wegner’s theory about Earth’s continents once being joined? Answer: Pangaea
28) What is the scientific name for bottom-living marine life? Free-swimming marine life? Small drifting plants and animals? Answer: Bottom-Living= Benthic, Free-Swimming= Nekton, Small Drifting Plants & Animals= Plankton
29) Gravity shapes our universe. What is gravity? Answer:
A force that forms an attraction between objects.
30) What are the three main types of pathogens, disease-causing organism?
Answer: Viruses, Bacterium, and Fungi
American & World Geography
31) What famous mountain is home to the Greek Gods and Goddesses? Answer: Mount Olympus
32) What state was formed entirely by volcanoes? Answer: Hawaii
33) What are the four regions of Latin America? Answer: South America, Central America, Mexico, and Caribbean
34) Which mountain range did Hannibal cross to attack Ancient Rome in the Punic Wars and where is it located? Answer: Alps-Southern Switzerland & Northern Italy
35) At what latitudes are hot deserts typically found? Answer: 30 degrees N Latitude or 30 degrees S Latitude
36) Which region of the world is birthplace to the religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Answer: Middle East
37) Which Latin American country gained its independence through the help of a slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture? In which region of Latin America is this country? Answer: Haiti- Caribbean
38) Name all 7 Central American countries. Answer: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
39) What is an isthmus? Name an isthmus in Latin America. Answer: Narrow strip of land that joins two larger bodies of land – Isthmus of Panama
40) Napoleon Bonaparte fell from power for a variety of reasons. One reason surrounded his desire to capture Russia. 450,000 men left on this journey and only 40,000 men returned. Name the beginning point of this march and where Napoleon was headed. Answer: Paris to Moscow
American & World History
41) We have studied the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, which are different time periods in History. What is a revolution? Answer: A sudden or drastic change
42) According to Greek custom, why were the Olympics first held? Answer: To honor Zeus
43) What is the meaning of “Cogito Ergo Sum” and who stated it? Answer: I think, therefore I am- Rene Descartes
44) Who is known as the Father of Mexican Independence and why? Answer: Miguel Hidalgo- Led an uprising against Spaniards to fight for Indian rights
45) What are the two purposes of the Statue of Liberty? Answer: (1) Welcome immigrants, (2) 100th Birthday present from France
46) Who were the three most famous Ancient Greek philosophers? Answer: Socrates- Plato- Aristotle
47) What do the French celebrate on July 14th? Answer: Bastille Day- Independence Day
48) What were the three distinct social classes comprising the Ancient Roman Republic? Answer: (1) Patricians- Wealthy, (2) Plebeians- Working class, (3) Slaves
49) In the law of supply and demand…if supply is high and demand is
low, what will the price be?
Answer: High Supply-Low Demand---Low Price
50) What is the “melting pot” theory? Answer: As immigrants started to arrive in America, citizens wanted everyone to melt into a common American mold, rather than keep their own customs.
Mathematics
51) What is the square root of 121? Answer: 11
52) What is 3 cubed? Answer: 27
53) What is the product of 4 and 3 multiplied by the sum of 7 and 5? Answer: 144
54) What is the reciprocal of 5/6, 7, and 1/9? Answer: 6/5, 1/7, 9
55) How many feet in a mile? How many quarts in a gallon? How many ounces in a pound? Answer: 5,280 feet in a mile, 4 quarts in a gallon, 16 ounces in a pound
56) What are the simple fractions for the following percents? 50%? 25%? 40%? 60%? 30%? 90%? Answer: 50%=1/2 25%=1/4 40%=2/5 60%=3/5 30%=3/10 90%=9/10
57) How many degrees are in a corner? Triangle? Half Circle? Full Circle? Answer: Corner=90 degrees Triangle=180 degrees Half Circle=180 degrees Full Circle=360 degrees
58) How many sides does a triangle have? Pentagon? Octagon? Hexagon? Heptagon? Quadrilateral? Answer: Triangle=3, Pentagon=5, Octagon=8, Hexagon=6, Heptagon=7, Quadrilateral=4
59) What is the 24-hour clock time for 8:57 pm? 3:12 am? Midnight? 11:59 pm? Answer: 8:57= 20:57 3:12 am=3:12 Midnight=24:00 11:59 pm=23:59
60) What are the formulas for…area of a circle? Area of a triangle? Area of a parallelogram? Answer: Area of a circle = ? x r x r or ?r²; Area of a triangle = bxh/2; Area of a parallelogram = bxh
Spelling
61) When do you drop the final e from a word? Answer:
When the next morphograph begins with a vowel
62) What is a morphograph? Answer: Smallest unit of meaning
63) Which letter acts like two consonants? Answer: x
64) When do you double the final c in a short word? Answer: When the word ends cvc and the next morphograph begins with v
65) Which two letters act as vowels at the end of a morphograph? Answer: y, w
66) What is the a-l insertion rule? Answer: When the word ends in the letters i-c, add the morphographs a-l before adding l-y
67) When do you use an o-r ending, rather than e-r? Answer: When a form of the word ends in ion
68) When do you change the y to i in a word? Answer: When the word ends consonant-and-y and the next morphograph begins with anything, except i
69) Spell conscientious. Answer: C-0-N-S-C-I-E-N-T-I-O-U-S
70) Use each “there-their-they’re” correctly in a sentence and give the appropriate spelling.Answer: T-H-E-R-E (place) T-H-E-I-R (possession) T-H-E-Y-‘-R-E (they are)
Music
71) In chronological order, which musical period comes between Baroque and Romantic: Answer: Classical
72) To which musical period did Bach belong? Answer: Baroque
73) To which musical period did Haydn belong? Answer: Classical
74) Who composed the Brandenburg Concerti? Answer: Bach
75) Which composer bridged the Classical and Romantic periods?
Answer: Beethoven
76) What is a composition for solo instrument accompanied by the orchestra? Answer: a concerto
77) What is a composition in which the theme, called the subject, is repeated many times? ANSWER: a fugue (pronounced fyoog)
78) What chamber ensemble is composed of two violins, one viola, and one cello? Answer: a string quartet
79) Which composer lived in Vienna at the time Napolean’s army invaded it? Answer: Haydn
80) What kind of composition is a Bible story sung without acting? Answer: an oratorio
81) What does decrescendo mean? Answer: gradually get softer
Spanish
Give the Spanish for:
82) I like to run. Me gusta correr.
83) My mother is tall. Mi madre es alta.
84) I’m ten years old. Yo tengo diez años.
85) 200 doscientos
86) to wear Ilevar
87) church iglesia
88) nose nariz
89) 500 quinientos
90) to want querer
91) to sleep dormir
Art
91) Tell the name of one of the most famous classical Greek architectural buildings. ANSWER: Parthenon
92) Corinthian columns in architecture is an indication that the building is of the ______________ period. ANSWER: Classical
93) The type of column that has no base is call a ________________ column. Answer: Doric
94) Name one of the most famous Roman architectural buildings. Answer: Pantheon
95) What period was first used to define the architecture and most easily recognized in cathedrals? ANSWER: Gothic
96) The movement or period that provided the model of the many-sided, achievement-oriented individual or creative genius referred to as “The Universal Man,” was called the ____________________. ANSWER: Renaissance
97) Name a term used in the method of perspective. ANSWER: Vanishing
point, guide lines, or horizon
98) What is the name of the term used to refer to the point in perspective
where objects disappear? ANSWER: Vanishing point
99) How can you tell if a sculpture of a person is Roman? Answer: a stump is used to support the figure
100) The type of art that is characterized by emphasis on proportion
and idealization of the human form is called _________________________?
Answer: Classical
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