TREC Answer Key Questions 1-200 Prepared by Lisa Ferro, the MITRE Corporation October, 1999 Categories: Numeric Time Date Measure Distance Duration Rate Money Age Entity Location Country City Building Organization Person Artifact Explanation Purpose Event Action Weather State Disease Nationality Abstraction Translation Utterance Measurement Psychological Feature Language Phenomenon Process Number: 1 Who is the author of the book, "The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher"? Person: Hugo Young Number: 2 What was the monetary value of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989? Money: $469,000 Number: 3 What does the Peugeot company manufacture? Artifact: automobiles ; cars ; trucks ; sedans ; motor vehicles / motors Number: 4 How much did Mercury spend on advertising in 1993? Money: 12 million pounds ; Pounds 12m Number: 5 What is the name of the managing director of Apricot Computer? Person: Peter Horne Number: 6 Why did David Koresh ask the FBI for a word processor? Explanation: So he could record his revelations. Number: 7 What debts did Qintex group leave? Money: $1.6 billion / $1.4 billion Number: 8 What is the name of the rare neurological disease with symptoms such as: involuntary movements (tics), swearing, and incoherent vocalizations (grunts, shouts, etc.)? Disease: Tourette's Syndrome Number: 9 How far is Yaroslavl from Moscow? Distance: 150 miles Number: 10 Name the designer of the shoe that spawned millions of plastic imitations, known as "jellies". Person: Andrea Pfister Number: 11 Who was President Cleveland's wife? Person: Frances Folsom Number: 12 How much did Manchester United spend on players in 1993? Money: 4 million pounds ; Pounds 4m Number: 13 How much could you rent a Volkswagen bug for in 1966? Measure: $1 a day Number: 14 What country is the biggest producer of tungsten? Country: China Number: 15 When was London's Docklands Light Railway constructed? Date: 1987 / 1980s Number: 16 What two US biochemists won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1992? Person: Edwin Krebs and Edmond Fischer Number: 17 How long did the Charles Manson murder trial last? Duration: nine months ; 9 months / 9 1/2 months; nine and a half months Number: 18 Who was the first Taiwanese President? Person: Li Teng-hui ; Lee Teng-hui ; Lee Tenghui Number: 19 Who was the leader of the Branch Davidian Cult confronted by the FBI in Waco, Texas in 1993? Person: David Koresh Number: 20 Where is Inoco based? Location: Norwich Number: 21 Who was the first American in space? Person: Alan Shepard Number: 22 When did the Jurassic Period end? Date: 130 million years ago Number: 23 When did Spain and Korea start ambassadorial relations? Date: 1950 Number: 24 When did Nixon visit China? Date: 1972 / 1976 / 1989 / 1993 Number: 25 Who was the lead actress in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"? Person: Meg Ryan Number: 26 What is the name of the "female" counterpart to El Nino, which results in cooling temperatures and very dry weather? Weather: La Nina Number: 27 Where did the 6th annual meeting of Indonesia-Malaysia forest experts take place? City: Surabaya / East Java Number: 28 Who may be best known for breaking the color line in baseball? Person: Jackie Robinson Number: 29 What is the brightest star visible from Earth? Location: Sirius Number: 30 What are the Valdez Principles? Artifact: an environmental agenda ; the principles of the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies Number: 31 Where was Ulysses S. Grant born? Location: Point Pleasant / Ohio Number: 32 Who received the Will Rogers Award in 1989? Person: Frank Sinatra ; Francis Albert Sinatra Number: 33 What is the largest city in Germany? City: Berlin Number: 34 Where is the actress, Marion Davies, buried? Location: Hollywood Cemetery; Hollywood Memorial Park Number: 35 What is the name of the highest mountain in Africa? Location: Mount Kilimanjaro ; Mt. Kilimanjaro ; Mt Kilimanjaro / Uhuru Peak Number: 36 In 1990, what day of the week did Christmas fall on? Date: Tuesday Number: 37 What was the name of the US helicopter pilot shot down over North Korea? Person: Bobby Hall Number: 38 Where was George Washington born? Location: Westmoreland County / Virginia Number: 39 Who was chosen to be the first black chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff? Person: Colin Powell ; Colin L. Powell Number: 40 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991? Person: Aung San Suu Kyi Number: 41 What is the legal blood alcohol limit for the state of California? Measure: 0.08 percent / 0.10 percent Number: 42 What was the target rate for M3 growth in 1992? Measure: 3.5 - 5.5 per cent ; 3 1/2 - 5 1/2 per cent / 4-6 per cent Number: 43 What costume designer decided that Michael Jackson should only wear one glove? Person: Bill Whitten Number: 44 Who is the director of the international group called the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) that is trying to coordinate gene-mapping research worldwide? Person: Victor McKusick Number: 45 When did Lucelly Garcia, a former ambassador of Columbia to Honduras, die? Date: February 10, 1994 Number: 46 Who is the mayor of Marbella? Person: Jesus Gil y Gil Number: 47 What company is the largest Japanese ship builder? Organization: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ; MHI Number: 48 Where is the massive North Korean nuclear complex located? Location: Yongbyon ; Yongbyun Number: 49 Who fired Maria Ybarra from her position in San Diego council? Person: Bruce Henderson Number: 50 When was Dubai's first concrete house built? Date: 1956 Number: 51 Who is the president of Stanford University? Person: Donald Kennedy ; Don Kennedy Number: 52 Who invented the road traffic cone? Person: David Morgan Number: 53 Who was the first doctor to successfully transplant a liver? Person: Thomas Starzl ; Thomas E. Starzl Number: 54 When did Nixon die? Date: April 22 Number: 55 Where is Microsoft's corporate headquarters located? Location: Redmond / Washington ; State of Washington / near Seattle, Washington ; a Seattle suburb Number: 56 How many calories are there in a Big Mac? Measure: 562 Number: 57 What is the acronym for the rating system for air conditioner efficiency? Measurement: SEER / EER Number: 58 Name a film that has won the Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival? Artifact: In the Name of the Father / Music Box / Grand Canyon / Skylarks on the String ; Larks / The Wedding Banquet / Mistertao Number: 59 Who was President of Costa Rica in 1994? Person: Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier / Jose Maria Figueres Number: 60 What is the fare cost for the round trip between New York and London on Concorde? Money: $6,400 Number: 61 What brand of white rum is still made in Cuba? Artifact: Havana Club Number: 62 What is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body? Disease: MS ; Multiple Sclerosis Number: 63 What nuclear-powered Russian submarine sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989? Artifact: a Soviet Mike class submarine ; Komsomolets Number: 64 Who is the voice of Miss Piggy? Person: Frank Oz Number: 65 Name a country that is developing a magnetic levitation railway system? Country: Germany / Japan / West Germany Number: 66 Name the first private citizen to fly in space. Person: Christa McAuliffe Number: 67 What is the longest river in the United States? Location: Big Muddy ; Mississippi Number: 68 What does El Nino mean in spanish? Translation: Christ child / boy child Number: 69 Who came up with the name, El Nino? Person: Peruvian fishermen Number: 70 How many lives were lost in the China Airlines' crash in Nagoya, Japan? Measure: 220 / 261/ 262 / 263 / 264 Number: 71 In what year did Joe DiMaggio compile his 56-game hitting streak? Date: 1941 Number: 72 When did the original Howdy Doody show go off the air? Date: 1960 Number: 73 Where is the Taj Mahal? Location: Atlantic City / India / Agra Number: 74 Who leads the star ship Enterprise in Star Trek? Person: James Kirk ; James T. Kirk Number: 75 What cancer is commonly associated with AIDS? Disease: Kaposi sarcoma ; Kaposi's sarcoma Number: 76 In which year was New Zealand excluded from the ANZUS alliance? Date: 1985 / 1986 / 1987 Number: 77 Who played the part of the Godfather in the movie, "The Godfather"? Person: Number: 78 Which large U.S. city had the highest murder rate for 1988? City: Washington ; District of Columbia ; Washington, D.C., D.C. Number: 79 What did Shostakovich write for Rostropovich? Artifact: cello concertos / cello concerto, Op . 126 Number: 80 What is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree? Entity: taxol Number: 81 How many inhabitants live in the town of Ushuaia? Measure: 30,000 Number: 82 How many consecutive baseball games did Lou Gehrig play? Measure: 2,130 Number: 83 What is the tallest building in Japan? Building: Sunshine City Building / Landmark Tower Number: 84 Which country is Australia's largest export market? Country: Japan Number: 85 Which former Ku Klux Klan member won an elected office in the U.S.? Person: David Duke Number: 86 Who won two gold medals in skiing in the Olympic Games in Calgary? Person: Alberto Tomba Number: 87 Who followed Willy Brandt as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? Person: Helmut Schmidt Number: 88 What is Grenada's main commodity export? Entity: nutmeg Number: 89 At what age did Rossini stop writing opera? Age: mid-30s Number: 90 Who is the founder of Scientology? Person: L Ron Hubbard ; L. Ron Hubbard Number: 91 Which city in China has the largest number of foreign financial companies? City: Shanghai ; Shanghai Municipality Number: 92 Who released the Internet worm in the late 1980s? Person: Robert Morris ; Robert T. Morris Jr. ; Robert Tappan Morris ; Robert Tappan Morris Jr Number: 93 Who first circumnavigated the globe? Person: Ferdinand Magellan Number: 94 Who wrote the song, "Stardust"? Person: Hoagie Carmichael Number: 95 What country is the worlds leading supplier of cannabis? Country: Morocco / Ghana Number: 96 What time of day did Emperor Hirohito die? Time: 6:33 a.m Number: 97 How large is the Arctic refuge to preserve unique wildlife and wilderness value on Alaska's north coast? Measure: 100 miles wide by 18 to 40 miles deep / 19 million acres Number: 98 Where is the highest point in Japan? Location: Mt Fuji ; Mt. Fuji ; Mount Fuji Number: 99 What is the term for the sum of all genetic material in a given organism? Entity: genome Number: 100 What is considered the costliest disaster the insurance industry has ever faced? Weather: Hurricane Andrew / Hurricane Hugo Number: 101 How many people live in the Falklands? Measure: 1,900 / 2,000 / 2,100 Number: 102 Who is the Voyager project manager? Person: Norm Haynes Number: 103 How many people died when the Estonia sank in 1994? Measure: 900 / More than 800 / More than 900 / 800 Number: 104 What language is most commonly used in Bombay? Language: Marathi Number: 105 How many people does Honda employ in the U.S.? Measure: 10,000 / 15,000 / 17,000 Number: 106 What is the second highest mountain peak in the world? Location: K2 ; K-2 Number: 107 When was China's first nuclear test? Date: October 16, 1964 Number: 108 Which company created the Internet browser Mosaic? Organization: University of Illinois National Centre for Supercomputing Applications ; NCSA / Netscape Communications Number: 109 Where does Buzz Aldrin want to build a permanent, manned space station? Location: moon Number: 110 Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald? Person: Jack Ruby Number: 111 How long does it take to travel from Tokyo to Niigata? Duration: one hour and forty minutes ; 1:40 Number: 112 Who is the President of Ghana? Person: J.J. Rawlings ; Jerry Rawlings ; Jerry John Rawlings Number: 113 What is the name of the medical condition in which a baby is born without a brain? Disease: anencephaly Number: 114 How much stronger is the new vitreous carbon material invented by the Tokyo Institute of Technology compared with the material made from cellulose? Measure: 1.5 times Number: 115 What is Head Start? Entity: a health and education program for underprivileged preschoolers Number: 116 Which team won the Super Bowl in 1968? Organization: New York Jets Number: 117 What two researchers discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953? Person: James Watson and Francis Crick / James D. Watson and Francis Crick Number: 118 What percentage of the world's plant and animal species can be found in the Amazon forests? Measure: 10 - 20 percent / 15 - 20 percent / 30 percent ; 30% Number: 119 What Nobel laureate was expelled from the Philippines before the conference on East Timor? Person: Mairead Maguire ; Mairead Corrigan Number: 120 Who held the endurance record for women pilots in 1929? Person: Bobbi Trout / Elinor Smith Number: 121 Who won the first general election for President held in Malawi in May 1994? Person: Bakili Muluzi Number: 122 Who is section manager for guidance and control systems at JPL? Person: Christopher P. Jones Number: 123 How many Vietnamese were there in the Soviet Union? Measure: 81,000 Number: 124 What was Agent Orange used for during the Vietnam War? Purpose: herbicide ; defoliant ; to destroy the jungle and fields Number: 125 In what city is the US Declaration of Independence located? City: Number: 126 When did Israel begin turning the Gaza Strip and Jericho over to the PLO? Date: May 4, 1994 Number: 127 Which city has the oldest relationship as a sister-city with Los Angeles? City: Nagoya Number: 128 Who was the second man to walk on the moon? Person: Buzz Aldrin ; Edwin Aldrin Number: 129 How many times was pitcher, Warren Spahn, a 20-game winner in his 21 major league seasons? Measure: 13 Number: 130 When was Yemen reunified? Date: May 22, 1990 Number: 131 Which Japanese car maker had its biggest percentage of sale in the domestic market? UNANSWERABLE Number: 132 What is the capital of Uruguay? City: Montevideo Number: 133 What is the name for the technique of growing certain plants in soils contaminated with toxic metals, wherein the plants take up the toxic metals, are harvested, and the metals recovered for recycling? Process: green remediation Number: 134 Where is it planned to berth the merchant ship, Lane Victory, which Merchant Marine veterans are converting into a floating museum? Location: San Pedro / San Pedro Bay / Los Angeles / Port of Los Angeles Number: 135 What famous communist leader died in Mexico City? Person: Leon Trotsky Number: 136 Who is the Queen of Holland? Person: Number: 137 Who is the president of the Spanish government? Person: Felipe Gonzalez Number: 138 What is the name of the normal process in all living things, including humans, in which cells are programmed to "commit suicide"? Process: apoptosis Number: 139 How many people did the United Nations commit to help restore order and distribute humanitarian relief in Somalia in September 1992? Measure: 4,200 Number: 140 How many people on the ground were killed from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, December 21, 1988? Measure: 11 Number: 141 What is the duration of the trip from Bristol to London by rail? Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes ; 1:04 / 1 hour 11 minutes ; 1:11 Number: 142 What is the population of Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia? Measure: 600,000 Number: 143 Where does most of the marijuana entering the United States come from? Location: Mexico Number: 144 How many megawatts will the power project in Indonesia, built by a consortium headed by Mission Energy of US, produce? Measure: 2,400 / 600 / 1,200 Number: 145 What did John Hinckley do to impress Jodie Foster? Action: tried to kill President Ronald Reagan ; tried to assasinate President Ronald Reagan Number: 146 In what year did Ireland elect its first woman president? Date: 1990 Number: 147 Who is the prime minister of Japan? Person: Tsutomu Hata / Morihiro Hosokawa / Toshiki Kaifu / Kiichi Miyazawa / Tomiichi Murayama / Noboru Takeshita Number: 148 How many soldiers were involved in the last Panama invasion by the United States of America? Measure: 14,000 / 20,000 / 27,000 Number: 149 Where is the Bulls basketball team based? Location: Chicago Number: 150 What is the length of border between the Ukraine and Russia? Measure: 1,270 kilometers ; 850 miles Number: 151 Where did Dylan Thomas die? Location: New York Number: 152 How many people live in Tokyo? Measure: 12m ; 12 million / 11.9 million Number: 153 What is the capital of California? City: Sacramento Number: 154 How many Grand Slam titles did Bjorn Borg win? Measure: 11 Number: 155 Who was the Democratic nominee in the American presidential election? Person: Bill Clinton ; William Clinton / Michael Dukakis ; Michael S. Dukakis / Hubert Humphrey / George S. McGovern Number: 156 When was General Manuel Noriega ousted as the leader of Panama and turned over to U.S. authorities? Date: January 3 Number: 157 Where is Dartmouth College? Location: Hanover / N.H. ; New Hampshire / United States Number: 158 How many mines can still be found in the Falklands after the war ended? Measure: 30,000 / 33,000 Number: 159 Why are electric cars less efficient in the north-east than in California? Explanation: the northeast is colder Number: 160 When did French revolutionaries storm the Bastille? Date: July 14, 1789 Number: 161 How rich is Bill Gates? Measure: $6.3 billion; Dollars 6.3bn / $6.4 billion ; Dollars 6.4bn / billionaire / $7 billion dollars ; Dollars 7bn Number: 162 What is the capital of Kosovo? City: Pristina ; Prishtina ; Prishtine Number: 163 What state does Charles Robb represent? Location: Virginia ; VA ; Va. Number: 164 Who is the leading competitor of Trans Union Company? Organization: Equifax Number: 165 Which type of submarine was bought recently by South Korea? Artifact: German type 209 class Number: 166 When did communist control end in Hungary? Date: October 23, 1989 Number: 167 What nationality is Pope John Paul II? Nationality: Polish Number: 168 Who was the captain of the tanker, Exxon Valdez, involved in the oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989? Person: Joseph Hazelwood Number: 169 Whom did the Chicago Bulls beat in the 1993 championship? Organization: Number: 170 Who was President of Afghanistan in 1994? Person: Borhanoddin Rabbani Number: 171 Who is the director of intergovernmental affairs for the San Diego county? Person: John Sweeten Number: 172 Where is the Keck telescope? Location: Hawaii Number: 173 How many moons does Jupiter have? Measure: four Number: 174 When did Jaco Pastorius die? Date: 1987 Number: 175 When did beethoven die? Date: March 26 , 1827 Number: 176 How many people in Tucson? Measure: 500,000 Number: 177 How tall is Mt. Everest? Measure: 29,028 feet / 29,100 feet Number: 178 What is the capital of Congo? City: Brazzaville Number: 179 What is the capital of Italy? City: Rome ; Roma Number: 180 What is the capital of Sri Lanka? City: Colombo Number: 181 What novel inspired the movie BladeRunner? Artifact: Number: 182 What was the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera? Artifact: Thespis Number: 183 What was the name of the computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Artifact: Hal Number: 184 When was Queen Victoria born? UNANSWERABLE Number: 185 When was the battle of the Somme fought? Date: 1916 Number: 186 Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place? Location: Clervaux Castle / Luxembourg Number: 187 Where was Lincoln assassinated? Location: Ford 's Theatre ; Ford Theater / Washington, D.C. Number: 188 When was the women's suffrage amendment ratified? Date: August 18, 1920 Number: 189 Where is Qatar? Location: Persian Gulf / Middle East Number: 190 Where is South Bend? Location: Indiana ; IN ; Ind. Number: 191 Where was Harry Truman born? Location: Missouri ; MO Number: 192 Who was Secretary of State during the Nixon administration? Person: Henry Kissinger / William P. Rogers Number: 193 Who was the 16th President of the United States? Person: Abraham Lincoln Number: 194 Who wrote "The Pines of Rome"? Person: Respighi Number: 195 Who wrote "Dubliners"? Person: James Joyce Number: 196 Who wrote "Hamlet"? Person: William Shakespeare Number: 197 What did Richard Feynman say upon hearing he would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? Utterance: "Yeah , but I'm sleeping!" Number: 198 How did Socrates die? Event: hemlock poisoning; drinking hemlock Number: 199 How tall is the Matterhorn? Measure: 14,776 feet 9 inches / 14,690 feet / 14,776 Number: 200 How tall is the replica of the Matterhorn at Disneyland? Meaure: 147 feet