Academic Team Questions

What do you call a person that studies diseases and their effects on people?

Epidemiologist

What group is represented by characters Ben Grimm, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, and Susan Storm in Marvel comics?

Fantastic Four

What group or artist recorded the song "The Time - Dirty Bit" in 2010?

The Black Eyed Peas

Newton's three laws deal with forces, but what did Kepler's three laws deal explain?

Planetary Motion (Elliptical Motion)

What is the process of arranging your home in order to balance the flow of energy?

Feng Shui

What city beginning with the letter "B" is the most populous city in Alabama?

Birmingham

What character claims to have "a brain the size of a planet" in a book written by Douglas Adams?

Marvin (the Robot)

What type of wood beginning with the letter "T" as often been used in shipbuilding because of it ability to resist rooting in water?

Teak

Although the Mississippi river carries more water, what is the longest river in the US?

Missouri River

Spell the name beginning with "A" for the line that curve approaches, but will never touch.

A-S-Y-M-P-T-O-T-E

What does a hematologist study?

Blood (Blood Borne Diseases)

What retired player was the first person to play in both a Super bowl and a World Series? He was sometime know as "Primetime" or "Neon" during his playing days.

Deion Sanders

The act of spreading out troops over the battlefield

Deploy

The act of a train falling off the tracks

Derail

To increase by a factor of two

Double

What is the Spanish translation of the English phrase, "Please speak more slowly"?

Por favor hable más despacio

Spanish sign that means men working

Hombres Trabajando

French sign that means stop

Arrêt (Signe d'arrêt)

The porcupine, capybara, nutria, and chipmunks are all members of what biological order?

Rodentia (Rodent)

Lynx

Felidae (Feline)

Dingo

Canidae (Canine)

Mustang

Equidae (Equine)

This game uses famished animals whose names actually mean water horses

Hungry, Hungry, Hippos

In this retro game you try to knock the head of your opponent's mechanical automaton

Rock'em Sock'em Robots

A version of this game includes the weapons of a poisoned donut, slingshot, and a saxophone

Clue

In his career e had 160 homeruns and was an all star 17 times. Name this players that has not been allowed to enter the baseball hall of fame because of the allegations that he gambled on baseball games.

Pete Rose

The country is the first to enter during the opening ceremonies

Greece

This is the shortest running distance at the summer Olympics

100 meters

Traditionally this country is the last team to enter at the closing ceremonies of the games

Host country

In grams per centimeters cubed, what is the density of pure water?

1.0 g/cm^3

These organisms beginning with the letter "S" live on dead and decaying mater and include mushrooms

Saprophytes

Urushiol is the chemical in this plant that makes it toxic

Poison Ivy

The bark from this tree is used to make cork

Oak

Her name is the comic strip actually Patricia Reinhardt and she calls the main character Chuck. What is the candy sounding name for which most people know this character from Peanuts?

Peppermint Patty

Candace Flynn

Phineas and Ferb

Carl Wheezer

Adventures of Jimmy Neutron

Ron Stoppable

Kim Possible

What is the official nickname of the gem state, but it could just as easily be called the potato state?

Idaho

Who was the president of the United States when he British burned down the White House in 1814?

James Madison

Final true Bourbon King of France who was executed in 1793

Louis XVI

Final Romanov Czar who was executed in 1918

Nicholas II

Last Stuart Queen of England who died in 1714

Anne

States that border Mexico - It is the first in this category to become a state

Texas

States that border Mexico - Petrified Forest National Park is located in this state

Arizona

States that border Mexico - It contains the oldest city in the US which is a capital city

New Mexico

The fruit of this tree is often used to make suntan lotion. What tree produces coconuts?

Palm Tree

What type of drum has metal or plastic cords strung along the bottom of the drum head?

Snare Drum

What US representative was gravely injured when she was shot at a rally in Tucson, Arizona?

Gabrielle Giffords

The sonnet "New Colossus" is set in the pedestal of what work of what work of art?

The Statue of Liberty

What type of coffee, beginning with the letter K, is unique to the islands of Hawaii?

Kona

The B & O Railroad on a monopoly board is named for what city and state that were at opposite ends of this railroad line.

Baltimore and Ohio

What southwestern Native American group has the country's largest reservation?

Navajo

How would a French person say "I don't know"?

Je ne sais pas

In what material is Han solo frozen in the movie the Empire Strikes Back?

Carbonite

What group or artist in 2010 recorded the song "Like a G-6"?

Far East Movement

In 1959, what friend of Che Guevara came to power on the island country of Cuba?

Fidel Castro

Whom did Sméagol or Gollum originally take the Ring of Power from in the Lord of the Rings?

Deagol

The University of New Jersey was an Ivy League school that changed its name to what in 1896?

Princeton University

What god was the principal sun god in Egyptian mythology?

Ra (Amun-Ra)

Charles Dawes completed his famous ride, but what other more famous American was caught trying to warn the minutemen?

Paul Revere

What war was commonly called Mr. Madison's Ware by opponents of this president?

War of 1812

What do many birds do during a full solar eclipse?

Fall asleep