Academic Decathlon (AcaDec ) TESTS COMPILATION BUNDLE

What is the broadest definition of music? Correct Answer: Sound organized in time What kinds of sounds qualify as music? Correct Answer: Noises and tones produced by any means What is required for music? Correct Answer: A time frame, sound waves, and a cognizant mind to perceive and interpr...

Art history Correct Answer: This discipline is dedicated to reconstructing the various contexts in which a work of art was produced. Aesthetics Correct Answer: This term refers to the philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of beauty. Art criticism Correct Answer: This term ref...

On average, how many days can a human live without water? Correct Answer: ~3 days Who first studied the paradox of Value Correct Answer: Plato How did Adam Smith explain the logic behind the Paradox of Value? Correct Answer: although diamonds can be produced industrially, diamonds are never...

How has water been used in literature? Correct Answer: 1 -- develop plots; 2 -- drive conflict; 3 -- create imagery; 4 -- establish themes Where did early civilizations and budding empires emerge? Correct Answer: On the shores of important waterways such as the Nile, Ganges, and Mediterranean. ...

Scarcity Correct Answer: an inescapable fact of human existence that results from the fact that the available resources are always less than our limitless desires Opportunity Cost Correct Answer: the cost of any choice is what must be given up by making that choice Rationality Correct Answer...

Number of diagonals in a convex polygon with n sides Correct Answer: n(n-3)/2 Volume of a pyramid with base B and height h Correct Answer: 1/3Bh Surface area of a cone with radius r and slant height l Correct Answer: πr²+ πrl Surface area of a sphere with radius r Correct Answer: 4π...

Oceanography Correct Answer: the scientific study of the oceans that integrates biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, and physics marine biology Correct Answer: The study of the living organisms that inhabit the seas and their interactions with each other and their environment. Aristotle...

What is the definition of economics? Correct Answer: Handling of good and services in a society How many items does the average supermarket carry? Correct Answer: 47,000 Who wrote 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations'? Correct Answer: Adam Smith What is s...

Chathi Mata Correct Answer: Hymns for the Chathi Fast Kachi Ghuldalo Correct Answer: Manganiars of Rajasthan Maddalam Chenda Keli Correct Answer: Temple Musicians of Kerala Manade Ra Mohan (Mira Bhajan) Correct Answer: Padmaran & Mahesharam Ekdin Matir Bhitar Hobe Ghar Correct Answer...

What is the title of Adam Smith's book of economics? Correct Answer: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations What is the most fundamental element of economics? Correct Answer: choices What is the number of different items an average supermarket carries? Correct Answer...

Democritus and Leucippus Correct Answer: envisioned atomos (invisible particle) Plato Correct Answer: proposes aether (dodecahedron) fire (tetrahedron) water (icosahedron) air (octahedron) earth (cube) Kanada Correct Answer: said that atom was indestructible Aristotle Correct Answer:...

Art History Correct Answer: An academic discipline dedicated to the reconstruction of the social, cultural, and economic contexts in which an artwork was created Aesthetics Correct Answer: The philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of beauty Art Criticism Correct Answer: The e...

Mathematics A rectangular field represented with dimensions (2x-3) and (x^2 +1), whats the area function of the field? Correct Answer: 2x^3 - 3x^2 + 2x - 3 Mathematics The patient zero of a virus infects 47 people within the span of three days. If the graphical analysis of the virus's in...

You are scheduled to walk Mrs. Wilson's dog on Saturday for fifteen dollars. However, on Friday afternoon your friend invites you out for an all-expenses paid weekend at the beach. Although the trip is free, the fifteen-dollar loss you are incurring is the of going on the trip. Correct Answer: opp...