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MYTHOLOGY and RELIGION

1 The underwolrd in greek mythology

2 Greek goddess of the earth

3 Son of Aphrodite

4 Roman goddess of wisdom

5 Messenger of the Roman gods

6 The Roman and Greek god of fertility

7 Half human, half horse

8 Roman god of the sea

9 The most beautiful woman; daughter of Zeus and Leda

10 The muse of comedy

LITERATURE

1 The author ofThe Canterbury Tales

2 The author ofDon Quijote

3 The author ofThe Iliad and The Odyssey

4 The author of War and Peace

5 The author of Les Miserables

6 Family of 19th c English writers, including 3 sisters

7 Master of the haiku

8 Often regarded as the greatest English playwright

9 The author ofDivine Comedy

10 The author ofRobinson Crusoe

HISTORY

1 War between the central European powers against the Triple Entente

2 The hero of Tirad Pass

3 Mongol Conqueror who established supremacy over all Mongol tribes

4 First Christian Emperor of Rome5 Name given to the sries of war between Rome and Carthage

6 Pseudonym of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov

7 The pact that ceded the Philippines, along with Cuba, Guam & Puerto Rico to the USA.

8 Magellan's warship

9 The adopted name of Nguyen That, former North Vietnamese President

10 Also known as the Sun King of France

GEOMETRY and TRIGONOMETRY

1 Unit of measurement of an angle

2 A perfect triangle, with equal sides

3 The longest part of a right triangle

4 Greek mathematician whose theory states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the

sum of the squares of the lengths of the two other sides.

5 A polygon with seven sides

6 An angle of more than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees

7 The ratio of the circumference of a cricle to its diameter, roughly equal to 3.141592

8 French mathematician and philisopher who aimed to express physical sciences in

mathematical terms. He founded co-ordinate geometry

9 A triangle with no two sides equal

10 A measure of an angle in a right angled triangle found by dividing the length of the

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side adjacent to the angle by the length of the hypotenuse

CHEMISTRY

1 The symbol of Silver

2 The symbol of Copper

3 All mater can exist in how many states?

4 Molecules which contain atoms of one kind

5 The symbol of Potassium

6 Russian Chemist, framer of the Periodic Law & the Periodic Table

7 The symbol of Tungsten

8 The year of the first explosion of the atomic bomb

9 Inorganic compound formed by the replacement of the acidic hydrogen by a metal or a radical

10 Compounds made up of carbon chains

MATHEMATICS

1 The branch of math concerned with collection & interpretation of data

2 Representing a number as a fraction of 100

3 6! Is equal to?

4 Translate 1,549 to Roman numeral5 The square root of 25

6 Solve for Y in the algebric equation 2X + [24-2(Y)] = 20

7 A fraction wherein the numerator is less than the denominator

8 Branch of mathematics that deals with the method of summation or adding together the

effects of varying quantities

9 What is the weighed mean of: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 10, 10, 10, 12 and 14

10 Method of solving mathematical problems by the use of symbols when figures are inadequate

ASTRONOMY

1 A small body that orbits a planet

2 A hypothetical object whoose gravity would be so great that nothing could escape from it.

3 An icy body orbiting the sun in an elliptical pattern4 First man on space

5 First woman on space

6 First artificial sattelite

7 The Red Planet

8 The event when one astronomical body passes into the shadow of another

9 The national astronomical observatory at UK founded by King Charles II to provide

navigational information to seamen

10 A luminous globe of gas, producing its own heat and light by nuclear reactions

SCIENCE

1 A relationship between two species whereby one benefits from the association and the other

neither benefits nor suffers

2 The process by which plants utilize light energy from the sun to produce food molecules.

3 A complex two-standed molecule that contains, in chemically coded form, all the

information needed to build, contrrol & maintain a living organism.

4 The lowest layer of the atmosphere

5 Swedish scientist who devised the binomial system of nomenclature

6 Type of asexual reproduction where in the genetic information is reproduced exactly in the

new cells, rather than by being split and recombined.

7 A type of lipid, derived from sterols with a complex molecular structure consisting of

four carbon rings.


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8 The minute separate entity that makes up all matter, and is the smallest quantity of an

element to retain chemical properties.

9 The lowest temperature which could possibly exist, equivalent to 273.1 degrees Centigrade

when molecules whould have no energy.

10 The bending of light

ARTS

1 Art movement that avoided emotional & narrative expression to depict almost colorles shapes

split up into a series of semi geometric facets, inter-locking and semi transparent as

though seen from different viewpoints. Developed by Braque and Picasso.

2 The painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, depicting the Old Testament story from

Genesis to the great flood.

3 Dutch individualist painter who painted the Starry, Starry Night

4 Generally thought to be auguste Rodin's greatest sculpture

5 Composer ofThe Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty

6 A solo vocal piece in an opera

7 The first major period of Greek art where the statues of naked standing men show an

Egyptian influence in their rigid frontality.

8 Raphael Santi's masterpiece9 The painter ofImpression, Sunrise from which the impressionism art movement got its name

10 Sculptor ofThe Discus Thrower

GEOGRAPHY

1 Capital of Australia

2 The world's tallest water falls

3 Capital of Papua New Guinea

4 Capital of Vermont, USA

5 The world's highest mountain next to Mt. Everest

6 Capital of Mongolia

7 The world's longest river8 Capital of Somalia

9 The world's largest Island

10 The sea bewteen Saudi Arabia and Egypt


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minerva 1

mercury 1

0centaur 1

neptune 1

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Homer 1

0Victor Hugo 1

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William Shakespeare 1

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Gregorio del pilar 1

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Constantine the Great 10

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Treaty of Paris 1

Victoria 1

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Degree 1Equilateral 1

Hypotenuse 1

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Heptagon 1

Reflex 1

Pi 1

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Scalene 1

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Pythagoras

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Ag 1

Cu 1

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elements 1k 1

Dmitri Mendeleev 0

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1945 1

Salt 1

Organic Compounds 0

Statistics 1

Percent 1

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Proper Fraction 1

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Algebra 1

Moon 1

Black Hole 1

Comet 1

Yuri Gagarin 1Valentina Tereshkova 1

Sputnik 1 1

Mars 1

Eclipse 1

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Star 1

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Photosynthesis 11

Troposphere 1

Carolus Linnaeus 0

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Integral Calculus

DNA

Cloning

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refraction 1

Cubism 1

Michaelangelo 1

Vincent Van Gogh 1

The thinker 1

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Canberra 1

Angel 1

Port Moresby 1Montpelier 0

K2 1

Ulaanbaatar 1

Nile 1

Mogadishu 1Greenland 1

Red Sea 1

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