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Round 8
Spelling “Vee”
Spell the following words beginning with the letter 'V.'
1. Virulent: extremely poisonous or injurious
2. vexillology: the study of flags
3. vilify: to lessen in value or worth
4. vassal: in the feudal system, a person holding land
5. vengeance: the act of avenging oneself or another
6. Valkyrie: in Norse myth, one of twelve war-maidens
7. verecund: modest, bashful; shy, coy
8. voluminous: full of turnings and windings
9. vignette: a brief verbal description of a person, place, etc.
10. votary: a person bound by vows to a religious life
Ans: v-i-r-u-l-e-n-t
Ans: v-e-x-i-l-l-o-l-o-g-y
Ans: v-i-l-i-f-y
Ans: v-a-s-s-a-l
Ans: v-e-n-g-e-a-n-c-e
Ans: V-a-l-k-y-r-i-e
Ans: v-e-r-e-c-u-n-d
Ans: v-o-l-u-m-i-n-o-u-s
Ans: v-i-g-n-e-t-t-e
Ans: v-o-t-a-r-y
Weather
Identify the following weather terms-each begins with the letter "C"
1. Highest culmination of a flood
2. Indian Ocean counterpart of a hurricane
3. Sudden intense rainstorm
4. Warm dry wind off the eastern Rockies
5. Wispy, high altitude clouds
6. Visible mass of water at high altitude
7. Altitude of cloud layer base that obscures over half the sky
8. Prevailing weather for a region over a period of time
9. Moon phase between new and quarter
10. Heat lost by the skin as caused by wind speed and air temperature
Ans: Crest
Ans: Cyclone
Ans: Cloud Burst
Ans: Chinook
Ans: Cirrus
Ans: Cloud
Ans: Ceiling
Ans: Climate
Ans: Crescent
Ans: Chill Factor
Renaissance
Answer each of the following questions about the Renaissance.
1. Pope whose excesses led to the Protestant Reformation
2. Literary character based on Cesare Borgia
3. Work on which Michelangelo toiled from 1508 to 1512
4. Council called by the Church to begin the Counter Reformation
5. Family whose financial support began the Renaissance
6. Author whose Decameron is considered the finest piece of Italian Prose
7. Painter of The Rape of Europa and Venus of Urbino
8. Florentine who falsely claimed to have made 4 trips to the New World
9. Architect who was the innovator of linear perspective
10. Literary form which began among the Sicilian school of poets
Ans: Leo X (or Medici)
Ans: The Prince
Ans: The Sistine Ceiling
Ans: Trent
Ans: Medici
Ans: Bocaccio
Ans: Titian
Ans: Amerigo Vespucci
Ans: Brunelleschi
Ans: Sonnet
Movie Connections
Given a list of movies identify the common actor/actress who starred in each
1. “Buffalo 66”, “The Opposite of Sex”, “The Addams Family”
2. “Tombstone”, “The Saint”, “The Doors”
3. “White Palace”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “Stepmom”
4. “Simon Birch”, “Eye of the Beholder”, “Double Jeopardy”
5. “Heat”, “Carlito’s Way”, “The Godfather”
6. “Little Women”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Mod Squad”
7. “Batman”, “A Few Good Men”, “As Good as it Gets”
8. “LA Confidential”, “Seven”, “The Usual Suspects”
9. “A Walk in the Clouds”, “Dracula”, “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”
10. “School Ties”, “Chasing Amy”, “Boiler Room”
Ans: Christina Ricci
Ans: Val Kilmer
Ans: Susan Sarandon
Ans: Ashley Judd
Ans: Al Pacino
Ans: Claire Danes
Ans: Jack Nicolson
Ans: Kevin Spacey
Ans: Keanu Reeves
Ans: Ben Affleck