QS Semifinals #2 Super Q Answers

SUPER Q - Semi-Final 2 - McCamey -v- Permian

1. Who is the personification of freezing weather? Jack Frost

2. Who was CMA's 2007 Female Vocalist of the Year? Carrie Underwood

3. What New York City political machine did Walt Whitman work with?
Tammany Hall

4. What body of water separates eastern Europe from the Scandinavian countries? Baltic Sea

5. Finish this phrase: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of _________________." Cure

6. The General Accounting Office is the watchdog agency of which branch of the U.S. government? Congress

7. Kingston is the capital of what nation? Jamaica

8. What is 30% of 900? 270

9. Pop star Usher is also a part owner of which NBA team?
Cleveland Cavaliers

10. What is the only day of the week named for a Roman god?
Saturday

11. It’s impossible to take any substance to what point on the Kelvin scale?
Zero (absolute zero)
12. What river marked the eastern extent of the Roman Empire? Tigris

13. Who was the first recorded skateboarder to land the 900? Tony Hawk

14. What is the best known Roman Catholic University in the world?
Notre Dame
15. What noun may be modified by all these adjectives: atomic,
radiant, potential, and kinetic? Energy

16. The production of what fruit is particularly significant in the region
of Bordeaux, France? Grapes

17. Who played Cat Woman and Patience Phillips in 2004? Halle Berry

18. Amnesty International issues annual reports of what kind of abuses
worldwide? Human rights