1. Located this side of the Kuiper Belt, but outside the asteroid belt are objects called centaurs, because they have characteristics of both asteroids and what other celestial objects? Ans. Comets 2. Discovered in 1699, it is now crossed by the world's longest highway built over water, and is connected to both the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Name this large shallow lake in Louisiana. Ans. Lake Ponchartrain 3. Romare Bearden is famous for his work in what medium which included pieces of photographs and other found images and patterns glued together? Ans. Collage 4. It’s one of the Prairie Provinces of Canada, the one located right in the middle. Its name is from an Indian word for “swift flowing.” Montana and North Dakota are on its southern …show more content…
1800 6. The daughter of Belus and sister of Pygmalion, this character swore fidelity to her late husband, Sychaeus, who had been killed by her brother. Cupid tricks her into falling in love, but when her lover leaves, she commits suicide and predicts her people, the Carthaginians, will have eternal strife with his people. Who was this doomed lover of Aeneas from Virgil's Aeneid? Ans. Dido 7. The Arafura Sea lies to its west, and the Coral Sea and Torres Strait are on its east. Its shape, like that of a bird-of-paradise, gives it two peninsulas named “Bird's Head” and “Bird's Tail.” What is this island, split between Indonesia and another nation, the second largest island in the world? Ans. New Guinea 8. A square has an area of 121 square inches. What is the perimeter, in inches, of the square? Ans. 44 9. A dropout from Kazan University, he began writing his trilogy of books Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth while he was in the Imperial Russian Army. Born the son of nobles, he turned to poverty and asceticism as a religious choice in his later years. Name this author who influenced Gandhi with The Kingdom of God is Within You, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Ans. Leo