TREC Answer Key
Questions 1-200
Prepared by Lisa Ferro, the MITRE Corporation
October, 1999

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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