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ASFL Academic Team C
All answers begin with the letter c
Question | Answer |
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Most abundant member of the Alkaline-Earth family | calcium |
Presidential daughter who graduated from Stanford | Chelsea Clinton |
Art movement associated with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso | Cubism |
Last geological period of the Mesozoic Era; its mane is derived from the Latin word from chalk | Cretaceous |
Author whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" warned of the dangers of pesticides | Rachel Carson |
Julius Caesar's wife or the Finch family cook in "To Kill a Mockingbird" | Calpurnia |
Heavy draft horses named after Scotland's chief commercial river | Clydesdales |
Period of music history represented by Haydn and Mozart | Classical |
Name applied to a group of 17th Century English poets that included Robert Herrick and Richard | Cavaliers |
Originally a heraldic ornament, this V-shaped symbol is used as a sign of rank on a military uniforms | Chevron |
Site where an explosion occurred at a Soviet nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986 | Chernobyl |
Geological period to which the Pleistocene and Miocene epochs belong | Cenozoic |
Legislative capital of South Africa | Capetown |
American author who wrote "My Antonia" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop" | Willa Cather |
Richard Nixon's Cocker Spaniel whose name was given to the speech made by Nixon in 1952 defending his vice-presidential candidacy | Checkers |
Female American painter associated with the Impressionist Movement in France | Mary Cassatt |
Author of "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim" | Joseph Conrad |
Name of the first efficient steam boat, designed by Robert Fulton | Clermont |
Physical state of deep prolonged unconsciousness | coma |
American poet known for his eccentric punctuation and phrasing and use of lower case letters | Edward Estlin Cummings |