Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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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Monday, April 20, 2009

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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