Congratulations and welcome to the finals.
How do you measure up? List these things that help us measure things.
1. This is the scale used to measure the strength of a tornado.
Fujita Scale
2. This is the scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
Richter scale
3. This is the scale used to measure the strength of a hurricane.
Saffir-Simpson Scale
4. This is the device used to measure air pressure.
Barometer
5. This is a device used to measure temperature.
Thermometer
6. This is a device used to measure humidity.
Hygrometer
7. This is a device used to count the number of steps a person takes.
Pedometer
8. This device is used to measure movements in the earth’s plates, and its needles get very active during earthquakes.
Seismometer (or seismograph)
9. This measures distance travelled.
Odometer
10. This device is used to measure radiation, and will give an audible tick to warn users that radiation is present. The faster the ticks, the greater the radiation exposure.
Geiger counter
Name has been changed.
The following questions deal with people who changed their names at some point during their life.
1. I was born in Liverpool, England in 1940 as Richard Starkey. I changed my name and became a drummer for one of the biggest rock groups of all time, the Beatles. Who am I?
Ringo Starr
2. I was born Leslie Lynch King in 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. My mother remarried when I was three, and I took the name of my step-father. I became an All-American center for the Michigan football team in the 1930s. Later, I represented Michigan in the US Senate. I hold the distinction of being the only person to hold the office of President of the United States without receiving a single vote in a national election, when I replace Richard Nixon after his resignation. Who am I?
Gerald Ford
3. I was born with the name William Blythe in 1946 in Arkansas. My father died in a car accident when I was three months old, and my mother remarried and I assumed my step-fathers name. After becoming a Rhodes Scholar and completing Yale Law School, I eventually became governor of Arkansas and then President of the United States in 1992. Who am I?
William Jefferson Clinton
4. I was born in Louisville, KY in 1942. I won a gold medal in boxing at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. I then fought my way up to become world heavyweight champion in boxing. I changed my name from Cassius Clay, and went on to become the most recognizable athlete in the world. I was given the honor of lighting the Olympic Torch at the 1996 Atlanta games. Who am I?
Muhammad Ali
5. I was born Lew Alcindor in 1947. I helped UCLA win three successive NCAA championships in basketball. I then went on to become the leading scorer in NBA history with 38,387 points. I was a member of 6 NBA championship teams, and was league MVP six times. Who am I?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Picture this: These next 5 questions will be about photography.
1. According to the CNET website, these two companies sell the most cameras to professional and serious amateurs worldwide.
Nikon and Canon
2. This A word is used to describe the hole or opening in a lens that controls the amount of light allowed to hit the film or the photo-receptive plate.
Aperture
3. This is the smallest unit that can be represented or controlled in a digital picture. It represents a single dot. It is a combination of the terms Picture and Element .
Pixel
4. According to many professional photographers, the most common mistake that is made by amateur photographers using digital cameras is the failure to set their AWB correctly on their cameras. In this case, A stands for Automatic, B stands for Balance. What does the W stand for?
White
5. This S word identifies the plate that opens for a determined period of time inside the camera when you push the button to take the picture, thus controlling the amount of light that is exposed to the film.
Shutter
Space program. The next 10 questions deal with space.
1. This person holds the record for longest time in between his first space flight and his last space flight, just over 35 years.
John Glenn
2. This was the name of the first American astronaut to survive a successful rocket launch, enter space, and return safely to earth, in 1961
Alan Shepherd
3. This is the name for NASA’s first manned space program. It consisted of two sub-orbital flights and four orbital filghts, with a single astronaut on board.
Mercury
4. This was the name for the NASA space program that had two astronauts occupying the spacecraft. It was during one of these flights that Ed White became the first American to walk in space, on June 3, 1965.
Gemini
5. Name the two space shuttles involved in disasters in which their crews did not return safely to earth.
Challenger and Columbia.
6. What was the name of the Russian Space Station that became the first such station to dock with an American Space Shuttle?
Mir
7. Who was the first American woman to fly in space?
Dr. Sally K. Ride
8. Who is considered the father of rocketry?
Robert Goddard
9. Which president declared that before the “current decade is out” (the 1960s) the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth?
John F. Kennedy
10. In what country do Russian manned spaceflights actually lift off?
Kazakhstan
Subs In****1016
Let’s play some games: Please answer these questions dealing with the following popular games.
1. In the game Yahtzee, what exactly do you have to roll to get a Yahtzee?
Five of a kind on one roll.
2. In the card game of pinochle, which two cards constitute a pinochle?
Queen of Spades and jack of diamonds
3. One club is the lowest bid in bridge. What is the highest bid?
Seven no-trump
4. What compound word finishes a game of chess in which one player is victorious?
Checkmate
5. In the card game Hearts, what does your opponent get if you shoot the moon successfully?
26 points
6. How many pips are on a pair of dice?
42
7. In the game UNO, when does a player announce “Uno”?
When they only have 1 card left.
8. What is the best hole cards you can get in the game of Texas Hold’em?
A pair of aces.
9. If I go from onesies to twosies, and make it all the way to fivesies, what game am I playing?
Jacks
10. If you are playing a board game, and run into the characters Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, and Colonel Mustard, which game made by Hasbro are you likely to be playing?
Clue
General Questions.
1. Mr. Green invests $5000 in an account in which it grows at a rate of 6% interest compounded annually. What is the value of the account at the end of the third year rounded to the nearest dollar?
$5955.
2. What would you call a male honey bee?
Drone
3. Who was the composer of the ballet Swan Lake?
Tchaikovsky
4. This Austrian scientist experimented with peas, and found characteristics can be passed generation to generation. He is known as the Father of Genetics.
Gregor Mendel
5. This American poet is built a cabin on Walden’s Pond on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and wrote a famous poem about it.
Henry David Thoreau.
6. This is the last name of the man who invented a decimal system that librarians use today to organize their books.
Melvil Dewey
7. This person is the current president of Iran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
8. He is the current Chief Justice on the US Supreme Court.
John Roberts.
9. This country was in the news in December when its leader, Kim Jong-il , died, and his son, Kim Jong-un succeeded him.
North Korea
10. This is the county that was home to a celebrated jumping frog in a Mark Twain story.
Calaveras
11. Math time again. How many seconds are in a week?
604,800
12. These are the last two people to serve as US Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice
13. This is the length of term of a member of the United States Supreme Court.
Life
14. Who is the founder of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
15. What does the acronym SCUBA stand for?
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
16. What type of precipitation is characterized by solid balls of ice falling from a cumulonimbus cloud?
Hail
17. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, is actually a monument to which US President?
Thomas Jefferson
18. What is the volume of a rectangular prism with a height of 6 meters, a length of 10 meters, and a width that is half of the sum of the height and length?
480 cubic meters
19. What is the current cost to mail a first class letter up to one ounce in the USA?
45 cents
20. Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, which started the season of Lent. What are the three disciplines that Catholics should follow during this season?
Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
Extra question
1) What is the equation used to calculate the volume of a sphere?
V = 4/3 pi r-cubed
2) What is the equation used to calculate the area of a rectangle?
A = length X width
This concludes our series on the 2012 RSPS Academic Challenge. I sincerely hope that your brains will recover nicely from the infusion of knowledge that you received this week. Caputo's Corner will be back later with more quality content that you have come to expect from us here at the blog.
This concludes our series on the 2012 RSPS Academic Challenge. I sincerely hope that your brains will recover nicely from the infusion of knowledge that you received this week. Caputo's Corner will be back later with more quality content that you have come to expect from us here at the blog.
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