Lightning Round: Letter F

You have 60 seconds to identify the items that begin with the letter F.

1. ___________ The force that makes objects resistant to moving against each other
   
2. ___________ Country whose capital is Helsinki
   
3. ___________ Army post where an army psychiatrist allegedly murdered 12 people on Nov. 5, 2009
   
4. ___________ A food shortage that causes widespread hunger and death
   
5. ___________ Pulitzer Prize-winner who read his poem "The Gift Outright" at J.F.K.'s inauguration
   
6. ___________ Chemical symbol for the element iron
   
7. ___________ The part of a flowering plant which contains the seeds
   
8. ___________ This man became U.S. President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon
   
9. ___________ The place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
   
10. ___________ Jewish girl who wrote a now famous diary while hiding from the Nazis

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Lightning Round: Category E

You have 60 seconds to identify the items that begin with the letter E.

1. ___________ Partially enclosed area where freshwater meets the sea's salt water
   
2. ___________ A supportive covering on the outside of an animal's body
   
3. ___________ Inventor known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
   
4. ___________ President whose campaign slogan was "I like Ike"
   
5. ___________ Country whose capital is Cairo
   
6. ___________ A triangle with three equal sides
   
7. ___________ The sword of King Arthur
   
8. ___________ 984-foot tower in Paris which was designed for the 1889 World's Fair
   
9. ___________ A letter, usually formal and didactic, sent to a person or group of people
   
10. ___________ The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

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Lightning Round: Category D

You have 60 seconds to identify the items that begin with the letter D.

1. ___________ Explosive device invented by Alfred Nobel
   
2. ___________ A polyhedron with twelve faces
   
3. ___________ Surrealist best known for his painting The Persistence of Memory which features melting clocks
   
4. ___________ Extinct, flightless bird from the island of Mauritius
   
5. ___________ Author of A Christmas Carol and ATale of Two Cities
   
6. ___________ City in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated
   
7. ___________ Biblical character who killed Goliath
   
8. ___________ The bottom part of a fraction
   
9. ___________ The headmaster of Hogwarts during Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
   
10. ___________ A period of time in which there is less rainfall than expected

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Lightning Round 3; Category: C

You have 60 seconds to identify the items that begin with the letter C.

1. ___________ The feline known for his smile in Alice in Wonderland
   
2. ___________ Element with atomic number 6
   
3. ___________ The third most populous city in the U.S.
   
4. ___________ Also known as a "horn of plenty"
   
5. ___________ Only U.S. President to serve two nonconsecutive terms
   
6. ___________ South American country whose capital is Santiago
   
7. ___________ Equal to pi x the diameter of a circle
   
8. ___________ Medal awarded to the artist of the best children's picture book of the year
   
9. ___________ Meat-eating animals
   
10. ___________ Avant-garde art movement started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

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Lightning Round 2; Category: Musical B's

You have 60 seconds to identify the following music-related items which all begin with the letter B.

1. ___________ This composer's only opera is Fidelio
   
2. ___________ A brass instrument with no pitch altering devices; traditionally used to play Taps
   
3. ___________ A male singing voice which is between a bass and a tenor
   
4. ___________ A singing trio of brothers famous for the disco hit Stayin' Alive
   
5. ___________ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr
   
6. ___________ Composer of a famous lullaby: Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht, Op. 49, No. 4
7. ___________ Instrument traditionally used to play "Grandfather" in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf
   
8. ___________ Sub-genre of country music which is named after Bill Monroe's band
   
9. ___________ German composer of the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations
   
10. ___________ A stick used by a conductor for directing a musical performance

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10 Elements with Odd Symbols

These 10 elements have symbols that don't seem to quite go with their names.

1. Sodium
• Chemical Symbol: Na
• Atomic Number: 11
2. Potassium
• Chemical Symbol: K
• Atomic Number: 19
3. Iron
• Chemical Symbol: Fe
• Atomic Number: 26
4. Silver
• Chemical Symbol: Ag
  
• Atomic Number: 47
5. Tin
• Chemical Symbol: Sn
  
• Atomic Number: 50
6. Antimony
• Chemical Symbol: Sb
  
• Atomic Number: 51
7. Tungsten
• Chemical Symbol: W
• Atomic Number: 74
8. Gold
• Chemical Symbol: Au
  
• Atomic Number: 79
  
9. Mercury
• Chemical Symbol: Hg
  
• Atomic Number: 80
10. Lead
• Chemical Symbol: Pb
  
• Atomic Number: 82

Lightning Round 1; Category: A

Category: A

Instructions: You have one minute to complete to identify each of the following which start with the letter A.

1. _______________ Small mammal whose name means 'little armored one'
   
2. _______________ Author of Little Women
   
3. _______________ The antonym of synonym
   
4. _______________ The 21st U.S. President
   
5. _______________ A pattern of sounds characterized by the repetition of the initial consonant sound
   
6. _______________ America's largest online retailer, founded by Jeff Bezos
7. _______________ The fruit that is the main ingredient in guacamole; also know as the alligator pear
8. _______________ The ancient civilization whose main city was Tenochtitlan
9. _______________ A broken chord where the notes are played in sequence
   
10. _______________ An organism who partially or totally lacks the melanin pigment in their eyes, hair, and skin

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