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Variety Set 1
Scholar's Bowl QuestionSet 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In this city, Wissahicken Creek goes through Fairmont Park. This city can be entered by crossing the Delaware on the Betsy Ross Bridge. One of its buildings is where the Second Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Independence. What is this city? | Philadelphia |
| Who wrote the 16th century novel "The Prince" | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| This man stabbed Henry Rathbone to begin his escape. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt was one of 4 people hanged for conspiring with this man who was shot and killed in a burning barn. Samuel Mudd was arrested for treating his leg after he killed Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| This author wrote about Prendick and human-animal hybrids in the "The Island of Dr. Moureau". In another novel, Martians invade Earth but are killed by common disease. Name this author of "Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds". | H.G. Wells |
| This US President used the US Army to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and helped create the nation's Interstate Highway system. He was the Supreme Commander during the D-Day invasion. Name this man who was president after Truman | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Name the German composer of "Lohengrin", "Tristan and Isolde" and "Das Rheingold"which begins his "Ring of the Nibelung" operas | Richard Wagner |
| This author wrote about an old woman who refused payment to a thieving doctor because she couldn't see her belongings. In other stories, a mouse saves a lion from hunters and a farmer kills a goose that lays golden eggs. Who is this Greek author? | Aesop |
| Name the 490 BCE battle after which Phedippides ran 26 miles to Athens | Battle of Marathon |
| This was the Greek goddess of spilled the blood of her lover into sea anemones after he was killed by a bear. She was the lover of Adonis and the wife of Hephaestus. Name this Greek goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| Felix Mendelssohn is best known for a set of incidental music for this Shakespeare play, including a Wedding March that is used in most weddings today. . Name this play | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Name the country on the Horn of Africa that is considered a failed state for its inability to control a civil war for its territory or piracy in its waters | Somalia |
| This is the scientific term for the reaction in which is fuel is burned. Some liquids are so volatile that they will spontaneously undergo this type of reaction at room temperature | Combustion |
| Burning hydrocarbons such as gasoline, in the presence of oxygen results in the formation of two other gases. Name either | Carbon Dioxide or Water Vapor |
| This scientific term describes reactions such as combustion reactions that result in a net release of energy | Exothermic |
| This poem describes the decorations on the sides of the title vessel. Name this poem that proclaims "Beauty is truth-that is all/Ye know on earth and all ye need to know? | "Ode to a Grecian Urn" |
| This author wrote "Ode to a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Hyperion" | John Keats |
| Name this period from 1865-1877, a time of recovery from the US Civil War that saw the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments | Reconstruction |
| Reconstruction ended when federal troops left the south under this president who defeated Samuel Tilden in the election of 1876. | Rutherford B Hayes |
| Which amendment resulted in the passage of the Federal Income Tax? | 16th |
| Which amendment stated that the Quartering of Troops is illegal? | 3rd |
| Who wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "A Farewell to Arms", and "The Sun Also Rises". He lived and work in Key West Florida | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Shinto religion is practiced by inhabitants in this country | Japan |
| In one novel by this writer, a character named Protopopov becomes the lover of Natasha. Name this Russian author of "The Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard", | Anton Chekhov |
| Density equals mass divided by this quantity. Give this term for the amount of space an object occupies for which a cube equals side length cube | Volume |
| The US government suggested using race as the basis of this practice in the 1990's. It was first used in 1812 and was named for the former Governor of Massachusetts who used this practice to redraw the Congressional boundaries to favor one political party | Gerrymandering |
| This document replaced the word "property" in John Locke's list of unalienable rights listing instead "the pursuit of happiness". It was written by a committee including John Adams. 56 men signed this document attacking King George III. | The Declaration of Independence |
| The deepest part of this body of water is known as "Calypso Deep" Major cities on this body of water include Ajaccio, Palermo, and Beruit. Islands include Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily. Name this body of water found in Europe and Africa | Mediterranean Sea |
| What force is greatly reduced in a situation where a car is sliding on an icy road? | Friction |
| What is the name of the island that shares the two countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic? | Hispaniola |
| For any odd number greater than one, there exists one of these types of sets where that number is the smallest of the three elements. Name these sets of three integers a, b, c, which satisfy the equation a squared plus b squared equals c squared. | Pythagorean Triples |
| This document called for 5 million dollars of war reparations from Germany and the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France. Name this document that ended World War I named for the place in which it was signed | Treaty of Versailles |
| Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" and Bizet's "Carmen" are operas from this country | Spain |
| This planet and Earth are the only ones whose atmospheres are mostly nitrogen. It was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. Charon is thought to be its satellite. Name this celestial object that is now considered a dwarf planet | Pluto |
| The trial in this novel is presided over by Lucas de Beaumanoir. One character in this novel captures the daughter of Issac of York named Rebecca. Athelsane disclaims the daughter of Cedric the Saxon named Rowena. Name this work written by Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| Wedge and rope type are informal terms to denote small and large ones of these phenomena. 28 different damage indicators measure their severity on the Fujita Scale. Name these violently rotating windstorms that occur in the famous "Alley" part of the US | tornadoes |
| One figure involved in this event is drunk with the blood of saints. During it 7 vials are poured by 7 angels in order to wreak havoc. It is set to take place on the Hill of Megiddo. Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence are the "Four Horseman" of this event | Apocalypse or Armageddon |
| This city in upstate New York, just downstream from Niagara Falls, annually gets feet of snow caused by Lake Erie. This city has the second most people in New York, after NYC. | Buffalo |
| John Jay wrote four of the five initial essays in this collection, which was mostly written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. This collection argued in favor of the Constitution | Federalist Papers |
| Device that measures pressure within blood vessels, usually via a cuff around the arm. | sphygmomanometer |
| This holiday celebrates the re-dedication of a holy building, when a day’s worth of lamp oil lasted for eight days. Name this Jewish winter holiday that includes the lighting of candles in a specialized nine-branch menorah | Hannakuh |
| The sides of this top, often played with during Chanukah, are inscribed with Hebrew letters that traditionally stand for “a great miracle happened there.” | dreidel |
| This system persisted in Russia until the 1861 abolition of serfdom, Name this social system of medieval Europe in which lords provided land to vassals, who then protected the lords. | feudalism |
| In return for being granted a fief, a vassal had to finance an army for the lord. These mounted warriors, commonly depicted wearing suits of armor and following a code of chivalry, were the primary fighters in those armies. | knights |
| While this term can refer to the property, wealth, and/or rights given by a lord to his vassal, it most often refers to the parcels of a lord’s land provided to the vassal. | fiefdom |
| The 2015-16 NBA season ended with 3 legends leaving the game. This Los Angeles Lakers legend turned the season into his personal farewell tour. In this player’s final game, he scored 60 pts against Utah while putting up the most shot attempts in the NBA | Kobe Bryant |
| After hanging from Yggdrasil for nine days, Odin discovered this alphabet, composed of angular symbols used in Norse culture. | runes |
| Reactions that give off heat to their surroundings are known by this term, which uses a Greek root for “outward.” | exothermic |
| The Boston Tea Party was carried out by this group, led by Samuel Adams. This group popularized the motto “no taxation without representation.” | Sons of Liberty |
| Adventure Time and the Powerpuff Girls reboot both air on this TV channel, which once produced the Boomerang block of classic animation and still airs the Adult Swim block at night. | Cartoon Network |
| In Pride and Prejudice, this man overcomes his own prejudices about Elizabeth Bennet to marry her. | Fitzwilliam Darcy |
| Name this ancient Greek mathematician whose namesake theorem notes that, if a triangle has side lengths of a, b, and c such that the equation a squared plus b squared equals c squared, the triangle is a right triangle. | Pythagoras |
| After the Pequod is destroyed in Moby Dick, Ishmael floats to safety on one of these objects, which had been brought along on the voyage by Queequeg. | coffin |
| This man was killed in the Audubon Ballroom in New York. This husband of Betty Shabazz broke with Elijah Muhammad, leading to death threats in 1965. Who was this civil rights leader who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in 1965? | Malcolm X |
| Colostrum is the “first” produced of this substance, which passes antibodies between individuals . It also contains lysozymes to kill bacteria. It has oxytocin which promotes production of this liquid in the mammary glands that is food of young mammals | Milk |
| This type of wave makes up the cosmic background radiation. | microwave |
| This wave has the highest frequency on the EM spectrum and is released in nuclear decay | gamma rays |
| John Brown was a militant advocate of this cause, which achieved its goal with the 13th Amendment. | Abolitionism |
| John Brown also participated in the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre, part of a conflict between supporters and opponents of slavery in this “Bleeding” state. | Kansas |
| Name given to the intersection of the x, y-axes of the coordinate plane (Stars with O) | origin |
| American markswoman and star attraction of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (Stars with O) | Annie Oakley |
| Author of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into the Night (Starts with O) | O'Neill |
| Canadian hockey player, first defenseman to score 100 points in a season (Starts with o) | Orr |
| Alabamian who won 4 gold medals in track and field in 1936 Olympics | Owens |
| Kind of shoe laced over the instep or an English university (Starts with o) | Oxford |
| Unit of electrical resistance (Starts with o) | Ohms |
| Court painter and goldsmith designer for Henry VIII (Starts with H) | Holbein the Younger |
| The most abundant element in the universe | Hydrogen |
| US President from 1877 to 1881 who withdrew Federal troops from the South | Rutherford B Hayes |
| Carthaginian general who led a train of elephants across the Alps | Hannibal |
| Iron-protein complex in red blood cells that functions as oxygen carrier (Starts with H) | Hemoglobin |
| Hilo, Oahu, Kilouea are cities in what US State? | Hawaii |
| The Cavalier poets were so called because they supported this leader in the English Civil War. Name this son of James I, who was disliked by his country's legislature. He was executed after the English Civil War. | Charles I |
| One leader of opposition to Charles I of England was this man who later became Lord Protector. His cavalry led the New Model Army to victory over Charles at the Battle of Naseby. | Oliver Cromwell |
| The Aztec god of this, Tlaloc , received child sacrifices so that this would occur. In Mayan mythology, Chac was the god of this. The Hopi tribe performs dances to make this happen so that crops can grow | Rain |
| In this novel Daisy Buchanan runs over and kills her husband's mistress Myrtle Wilson. Name this novel that sees the title character hold lavish parties at his West Egg home in hopes of attracting his love Daisy. | The Great Gasby by F Scott Fitzgerald |
| This term, taken from the Latin word for "humpbacked", is used to describe the moon when it is more than half full but not completely full. | Gibbous |
| Impressionists like Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir hailed from this European nation. A Post-Impressionist from this country was Paul Cézanne. | France |
| The 2008 Supreme Court case D.C. v. Heller dealt with this Constitutional amendment. Name this amendment which establishes a right to bear arms. | 2nd Amendment |
| This politician leads the the Liberal Democratic Party in the National Diet and is the current Prime Minister-designate of Japan. | Shinzo Abe |
| Animal body plans can be described by the # of axes that divide the body into equal parts. Arthropods & animals with backbones show the bilateral type, in which a line drawn down the middle yields a left & right side that are mirror images | Symmetry |
| Jellyfish and adult starfish show this kind of symmetry in which multiple lines can be drawn through the center of the body to give equal halves. | Radial Symmetry |
| Nickname of Louisiana because of its many marshy slow moving inlets | Bayou State |
| Author who wrote Superfudge" & "Are you there God it's me Margaret"? | Judy Blume |
| Animal used as a symbol of the US on the Great Seal | Bald Eagle |
| Lumberjack known for digging Lake Michigan for water for hsi ox | Paul Bunyan |
| Kentucky pioneer hero known for his hunting and shooting skills | Daniel Boone |
| Branch of biology dealing with plant life | Botany |
| Word that designates both a group of kangaroos and a group of at least 5 Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts (starts with t) | troop |
| Term for paint in which pigment is mixed with egg yolk as a binder (starts with t) | Tempura |
| Verb designating the oxidation that takes place on the surface of silver (starts with t) | Tarnish |
| 19th century American author of the essay "Civil Disobedience" (starts with t) | Thoreau, (Henry David) |
| Metal that with copper makes up an alloy used by people in the city of UR in Mesopotamia to make bronze articles (starts with t) | Tin |
| Device that increases or decreases the voltage of an alternating current (starts with t) | Transformer |
| Christian season beginning on the 4th Sunday before Christmas (starts with a) | Advent |
| First African American to win the Wimbledon Men's single tennis championship (starts with a) | Arthur Ashe |
| In the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Miles Standish asks this young man to propose to his love Priscilla Mullens for him. (starts with a) | John Alden |
| Homogeneous mixture of 2 or more metals such as bronze (starts with a) | Alloy |
| 4 letter word for prevariacator (starts with L) | Liar |
| Capital of the "Cornhusker State" (starts with L) | Lincoln (Nebraska) |
| Saint Exupery's character who cleans 3 miniature volcanoes each week on Asteroid B-612 (Starts with L) | Little Prince |
| Brother of Mary and Martha who was raised from the dead by Jesus after 4 days in the tomb (Starts with L) | Lazarus |
| American aviator known as "The Lone Eagle". (Starts with L) | Lindbergh |
| French marquis who aided the US during the Revolutionary War (starts with L) | LaFayette |
| Latin name for the constellation whose name means Balance | Libra |
| Country freed from Iraq by Operation Desert Storm in 1991 (starts with K) | Kuwait |
| US President for whom the Washington D.C. Center for the Performing Arts is named (Starts with K) | Kennedy |
| Title of the rulers of Germany from 1871-1918 (starts with K) | Kaiser |
| Sacred Muslim shrine at Mecca (Starts with K) | Kaaba Stone |
| Leaping, plant eating marsupials native to Australia (starts with K) | Kangaroos |
| British pirate whose legendary British treasure was prominently featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (Starts with K) | Kidd (Captain James) |
| Village on the Nile, site of ancient Thebes (Starts with K) | Karnak |
| American author of the lines "I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree" (Starts with K) | Kilmer (Joyce) in poem Trees written in 1913 |
| Soviet leader who said in 1956 "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" (Starts with K) | Nikita Kruschev |
| Former name of the Asian country of Cambodia (Starts with K) | Kampuchea |
| African desert partly located in Botswana (Starts with K) | Kalahari |
| Pitch thrown without a spin in baseball (Starts with K) | Knuckle Ball |
| Robert Louis Stevenson novel featuring David Balfour (Starts with K) | Kidnapped |
| 5 letter English term for American French Fries (Starts with C) | Chips |
| Russian ruler nicknamed "The Great" and known as the "Little Mother of All Russians" (Starts with c) | Catherine |
| Hill on which Jesus was crucified (Starts with c) | Calvary |
| Name given to the Louisiana descendants of the French settlers from the Ascadian region of Eastern Canada (Starts with c) | Cajuns |
| American equivalent for the British word biscuit (Starts with C) | Cookie |
| Celestial body sometimes called "A dirty snowball" made up of dirt and ice | comet |
| Author of "Last of the Mohicans" (Starts with c) | Cooper |
| Ancient Egyptian queen who loved Marc Anthony (Starts with C) | Cleopatra |
| Science dealing with the climate and climatic conditions (Stars with c) | Climatology |
| Supernatural beings that can take human form in Arabian folklore (Starts with J) | Jinn |
| Word completing the idiom "Naked as a ......" meaning to wear nothings (Starts with J) | Jaybird |
| Olympic sprinter who became the first man to win gold in both the 200 and 400 meters at the 1996 Summer Olympics (Start with J) | Michael Johnson |
| Only US President sworn into office by a woman. He was sworn in aboard Air Force One | LBJ |
| Adjective meaning "of or having to do with the planet of Jupiter. (Starts with J) | Jovian |
| Flag flown on pirates ships (Starts with J) | Jolly Roger |
| Missouri bankrobber who formed a gang with his brother Frank | Jesse James |
| Commander of the Bonhomme Richard that captured Britain's Serapis in September 1779 (Starts with J) | John Paul Jones |
| Middle name of President William Clinton (Starts with J) | Jefferson |
| Rainbow Coalition leader who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 & 1988 (Starts with J) | Jesse Jackson |
| US President who wife Claudia Taylor is known as "Lady Bird" | LBJ (Johnson) |
| Large Indonesian island or any coffee (Starts with J) | Java |
| Mideast country of King Hussein I with Amman its capital (starts with J) | Jordan |
| French woman who led troops into battle and was burned at the stake (starts with J) | Joan of Arc |
| Nursery Rhyme character who built a house in which a cat killed a rat (Starts with J) | Jack Sprat |
| "Steel-drivin man" who beat a steam drill in digging a hole (Starts with J) | John Henry |
| Combat on horseback between mounted warriors with sharp long poles especially as a part of a contest in the Middle Ages (starts with J) | jousting |
| First Chief Justice of the US (Starts with J) | John Jay |
| American naval hero known for saying "I have not yet begun to fight" in the Revolutionary War (Starts with J) | John Paul Jones |
| Discoverer of vaccination as a means of preventing smallpox (Starts with J) | Edward Jenner |
| Muslim term for holy war (Starts with J) | Jihad |
| American general who defeated the British army at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 (Starts with J) | Jackson (Andrew) |
| Poem that includes the line "Twas brillig and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" (Starts with J) | Jabberwocky |
| Spanish queen who with her husband King Ferdinand sponsored Columbus voyage to America in the 15th century (Starts with I) | Isabella |
| Singular for the word plural is indices (Starts with I) | Index |
| Court of the Roman Catholic Church convened in the Middle Ages to suppress heresy (Starts with I) | Inquisition |
| Law term for exemption from a duty or legal punishment (Starts with I) | immunity |
| Imaginary north-south line that runs approximately along the 180th meridian in the Pacific Ocean (Starts with I) | International Date Line |
| Country whose name is included in the name of the Hoosier State (Starts with I) | Indiana |
| US state whose name is included in the name of its capital (Starts with I) | Indianoplis Indiana |
| Minnesota Lake that is the source of the Mississippi River (Starts with I) | Itasca |
| Induction or installation of an official into office with a formal ceremony (Starts with I) | Investiture |
| Shelia Burnford novel that includes the line "This journey took place in a part of Canada which lies in the Northwestern part of ..Ontario (Starts with I) | Incredible Journey |
| Famous sled dog race each year from Anchorage to Nome (Starts with I) | Iditarod |
| North Atlantic island that is the westenmost country of Europe (Starts with i) | Iceland |
| Peninsula on which Spain is located (Starts with i) | Iberian |
| Grammatical label for an exclamatory word such as "HEY"! (Starts with I) | Interjection |
| Mytholigcal goddess of the rainbow | Iris |
| Another name for polio (Starts with I) | Infantile Paralysis |
| Word describing the body's acquired resistance to diseases (Starts with i) | Immune |
| Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, a killer strain of which claimed many lives in 1918 | Influenza |
| The Ellsworth Mountains in this landmass are bounded to the north by the Bellingshausen Sea. The Russian-owned Vostok Station can be found in Princess Elizabeth Land in this continent. it has the largest desert in the world. Name this cold continent. | Antartica |
| In this book, Professor Charity Burbage is killed by a snake. Characters discover the secret identity of R.A.B with help from the elf, Kreacher. In this novel, Horcruxes must be destroyed in order to kill Voldemort. Name this 7th book by JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| These animals have a vocal organ at the base of their trachea called the syrinx. These animals have an organ called a gizzard that stores swallowed stones to grind food. Name these animals who have wings and feathers. | Birds |
| This composer’s 6th symphony features a Scene by the Brook , & his 3rd symphony, honors Napoleon, & is titled “Eroica.” He depicted “fate knocking at the door” in the beginning motif “G-G-G-E flat” of his 5th symphony, & his 9th is called“Ode to Joy.” | Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| One version of this software introduced the Charms bar, which displays 5 icons used to navigate. This operating system’s past versions include Vista, 95 & XP. Name this OS created by Microsoft & whose current version is 10. | Windows |
| “Abby” & “Jay Leno” were the first 2 of these characters captured when this game was played on Twitch. Characters are ranked using CP, & 6 of these characters can be used when battling at a gym. It has creatures such as Magikarp & Pikachu. | Pokemon |
| This poet wrote that “I shall but drink the more” & that “I taste a liquor never brewed.” She claimed in another work that the title emotion “perches in the soul.” This poet wrote “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” & Because I could not stop for Death | Emily Dickinson |
| Paul von Hindenburg a national hero during this war. French forces stopped a German advance at Marne, resulting in 4 years of trench warfare.Name this war started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended with the Treaty of Versailles | World War I |
| This is the number of stories in a J. D. Salinger short story collection. Name this number which is also the number of circles of hell in Inferno, a section of Dante’s Divine Comedy | 9 |
| Proclaiming that “I am the state”, this Louis, nicknamed the “Sun King”, signed the treaty of Utrecht with his grandson Philip V and commissioned the palace of Versailles. | Louis XIV |
| Michelangelo painted ignudi to frame the ceiling of this chapel. Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” appears on the ceiling of this chapel, located in the Vatican | Sistine Chapel |
| The Pacific plate is surrounded by a zone of active underwater volcanoes commonly referred to by this 3 word phrase. | Ring of Fire |
| French is the official language of this largest and most populous island of French Polynesia. | Tahiti |
| The writer of this work emphasized his desire to invade Russia and expand German living space. Name this autobiographical work and Nazi manifesto, which outlined the life and future plans of a German leader. | Mein Kampf |
| Hitler, the author of Mein Kampf , wrote it during his imprisonment after this failed coup to seize Munich. Other leaders of this coup included the acquitted Erich Ludendorff and Rudolf Hess, who edited Mein Kampf. | Beer Hall Putsch |
| This fictional character feeds painkiller to his Aunt Polly’s cat Peter. Name this character who testifies against Injun Joe and later gets lost in McDougal’s cave with Becky Thatcher | Tom Sawyer |
| This starting shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors only took 11 dribbles when scoring 60 points in 29 minutes against the Pacers. This man won the 3 point contest during the 2016 All-Star Weekend in Toronto | Klay Thompson |
| This stage is the beginning and longest stage of a star’s life. Hydrogen fuses into helium as the star expands in it. | Main Sequence |
| These stars lie on the upper right side of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, which classifies stars by their luminosity & temperature. Name these stars whose lower temperatures produce their namesake color. These stars will eventually become white dwarfs. | Red Giants |
| Joseph Welch asked this man “Have you no sense of decency?” during his Senate hearings. Name this Wisconsin senator who accused 57 individuals in the State Department of being Communist Party members. | Joseph McCarthy |
| Joseph McCarthy’s statements fueled anti-communist “scares” named after this color. This is the primary color of the Bolshevik flag | Red Scare |
| Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Gustav Mahler’s “Tragic” Symphony are both in this key. Name this key, the relative minor of C major. To find this key, you can go down three half steps from C. | A Minor |
| This note is the subdominant of C major. This note’s minor key has four flats, and this note’s major key only contains B flat. | F |
| The Egyptian god Osiris engaged in a power struggle with this jealous god, his brother. This god eventually killed Osiris by chopping him into pieces and throwing his remains into the Nile. | Set |
| This son of the god Osiris was conceived after his wife Isis gathered all of his pieces from the Nile. This god eventually avenged Osiris by forcing Set off the throne of Egypt. | Horus |
| Located near the Euphrates River, this ancient wonder of the world was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II to help cure Amytis’ homesickness for Media’s natural beauty. | Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| Constructed by Sostratos during Ptolemy II’s reign, this ancient wonder of the world was located on the island of Pharos, and helped guide ships in the Nile River out of the harbor. | Lighthouse of Alexandria |
| This Greek mathematician introduced the idea of simple machines. He famously remarked, “Give me a place to stand on and I will move the Earth.” | Archimedes |
| This simple machine is made of helical ridges, or threads. Name this simple machine that can be thought of as an inclined plane wrapped around a rod. | Screws |
| In this novel, the protagonist spends the majority of her life on her family’s plantation, Tara, before having to leave due to the Civil War. Name this novel written by Margaret Mitchell. | Gone with the Wind |
| Identify this protagonist of Gone with the Wind , who chases after Ashley Wilkes despite being married to Rhett Butler. | Scarlet O Hara |
| Irritation of this organ leads to hiccups. Name this sheet of muscle that lies just below the lungs. It contracts and expands, allowing one to breathe | Diaphragm |
| This part of the respiratory system allows air to pass by connecting the larynx to the lungs. | Trachea |
| British troops burned Washington in retaliation for an attack on this territory that was meant to limit supplies to the Niagara peninsula. Name this former territory of British North America, land that became America’s northern neighbor | Canada |
| A woman and man are shrouded in this material in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, which is covered in this material’s decorative “leaf” form. Name this precious metal that can best be hammered into a thin, decorative sheet when its purity is roughly 22 karats | gold (Gold leaf) |
| He wrote about Reverend Hooper wearing a mysterious “Black Veil”. In another book, Roger Chillingworth changes his name while pursuing his wife, who was marked with the title shameful symbol. What author wrote The Scarlet Letter & Twice Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| In this city, hundreds of stone lions line a bridge named for Marco Polo. In a photo taken in this city , a man stands in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. The Forbidden City, the former home of the Emperor, is in what capital of China? | Bejing |
| Clementine is saved from these creatures in a Telltale game.A “bungee” version of this creature abducts Crazy Dave . Many Call of Duty games pit the player against, what reanimated corpses who serve as the main threat of The Walking Dead? | Zombies |
| One of these creatures, fetched the apples of the Hesperides. Another had his liver eaten by birds every day as punishment for giving fire to humans. These old gods, including Atlas & Prometheus, were overthrown and replaced in a war against Zeus. | Titans |
| Heather Heyer was killed while counter-protesting a rally against the removal of one of these objects, many of which promote the “Lost Cause” theory & celebrate white supremacism. Name this type of controversial public art now banned in many US cities | Confederate Statues |
| Nephrons are the primary unit of this organ, which filters blood. Patients who have damaged or lost one of these bean-shaped organs may undergo dialysis | kidneys |
| King Edward, Queen Mary, and their half-sister, Elizabeth, were the only children of this man, who split from the Catholic church and married six women in a desperate attempt to father more heirs | Henry VIII |
| Mordred betrayed this legendary king, who established the Round Table, went to war with Lancelot over his wife Guinevere, and was transported to Avalon after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann | King Arthur Pendragon |
| This mystic was unable to protect King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann because he had been imprisoned in a cave by the sorceress Nimue, who had been this man’s student. | Merlin |
| The musical concept of a raga, a progressive set of notes that provides emotions, is used in this country’s two primary schools of classical music, Carnatic and Hindustani. Name this country whose composers have included Ravi Shankar playing the Sitar. | India |
| In this epic poem, Hephaestus forges a magnificent shield decorated with scenes of farming, marriage, trial, & battle. Name this poem, in which Thetis asks Hephaestus to make the shield so her son can avenge the killing of his friend Patroclus by Hector | The Iliad |
| A great shield is made for this Greek hero, who had been made nearly invincible when his mother, Thetis, dipped him into the river Styx. This warrior does eventually kill Hector, who predicts this man’s eventual death. | Achilles |
| Achilles dies before the Greeks finally defeat Troy with the use of this enormous, wooden structure. This apparent “gift” to Troy contains hidden Greek soldiers, allowing them to attack from inside the city | Trojan Horse |
| The Seattle SuperSonics were moved in 2008 to become this team. Name this NBA team that recently acquired Paul George and Carmelo Anthony to pair with Russell Westbrook. | Oklahoma City Thunder |
| These inventors developed three-axis control, which is key to maintaining a fixed-wing aircraft, in a patent filed in 1903. Name this pair of brothers who built and flew the first successful airplane | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| The Wright Brothers successfully tested their airplane in 1903 on this east coast state’s Outer Banks in the city of Kitty Hawk. | North Carolina |
| This constant was defined by 12 grams of carbon-12, but recent measurements are based on a 1 kilogram silicon sphere. Name this chemistry constant, equal to about 6.02 X 10 to the 23rd power, that is the number of particles in one mole of any substance. | Avagrado's Number |
| Avogadro’s number, along with balanced equations and molar masses, is crucial to this branch of chemistry that calculates amounts of reactants and products in reactions | stoichiometry |
| Nine candles are burned in a namesake holder during this Jewish winter holiday that commemorates the eight days during which the oil in the Temple in Jerusalem miraculously burned. | Hanukkah |
| Red, black, and green candles represent struggles, humans, and hope when held in a Kinara during this American cultural holiday | Kwanzaa |
| In the early 19th century, British ships impressed American sailors into service and British forces supported Native American raids on American settlers; in Congress, War Hawks agitated until James Madison asked for the declaration of this war. | War of 1812 |
| During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend with support from this native tribe. Despite their service, this tribe was forced off their land with the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. | Cherokee |
| Give this number. It is the base of the decimal system and, as such, inspires the workings of the metric system. | 10 |
| Because of slash-and-burn agriculture needed to grow palm trees on rainforest soil, palm oil is usually not considered this type of crop. Give this term, which is applied to foods like coffee & cocoa if their production does not degrade the environment | sustainable |
| Pirithous was punished for eternity for trying to kidnap this goddess. This goddess lived with her mother in the summer, but was forced to spend part of each year with her husband after consuming pomegranate seeds. Name this “Queen of the Underworld". | Persephone |
| This city’s downtown area is home to a Freedom Trail, where tourists can visit Paul Revere's House, Faneuil Hall, and the Old North Church. Colleges in and around this city include MIT and Harvard. What is this capital city of Massachusetts? | Boston |
| A character in this novel nails a doubloon to his ship’s mast, and employs Queequeg and Starbuck. The narrator joins the crew of the Pequod & asks the reader to “Call me Ishmael.” Name this Herman Melville novel about a big whale | Moby Dick |
| Characters in this 2016 film are employed above a Chinese restaurant. Patty says “I don’t know if it was a race thing or a lady thing” shortly before her team uses their proton packs to capture a paranormal being in NYC. “Who ya gonna call?” | Ghostbusters |
| Before this event, a pillar of “cloud & fire” moved behind a fleeing group to confuse a pursuing army. After the event, Miriam led a song celebrating the defeat of the drowning army during this part of the exodus from Egypt. Name this biblical event. | Parting of the Red Sea |
| Because of its value in 1884, this element was used for the capstone of the Washington Monument. The ore bauxite is the primary source of this metal & is the most abundant metal in Earth’s crust. , Name this metallic element used to make soda cans. | Aluminum |
| This country's colonial empire included Angola & Mozambique &forts to protect Indian trade in Goa & Mumbai. Name this European country that sponsored caravel voyages by Vasco da Gama & Pedro Cabral, but not Christopher Columbus during the Age of Discovery | Portugal |
| Portugal’s expansion in the Age of Discoveries was driven by this prince, known for his love of exploration. This son of John I captured and colonized the Azores. | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| Portugal’s colonies in the New World included the eastern coast of this modern-day country, gained in the Treaty of Tordesillas . Today, this South American country’s official language is still Portuguese | Brazil |
| There is a conspiracy theory that this 1791 opera was a political attack on the queen Maria Theresa. This Mozart opera begins with the Queen of the Night singing high notes. The enchanted title object of this opera is given to Tamino to protect himself | The Magic Flute |
| This 18th century economic theory often led to high tariffs, monopolies, economic wars, & a devotion to keeping a trade surplus. Name this policy in which a nation tried to maximize the amount of gold & silver it possessed. | mercantilsim |
| This Scottish economist was a vicious opponent of mercantilism, attacking it in works like The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. | Adam Smith |
| The egg-rolling done by geese and the spinning of webs by spiders can be described with this term. Name this type of behavior that is genetically hardwired from birth and done without any prior experience | Instinct |
| Many non-instinctual behaviors are learned through this process, in which rewards reinforce a behavior while punishments discourage it. During World War II, B. F. Skinner used this type of learning to train pigeons to guide navy missiles. | Operant Conditioning |
| Answer the following about Jesus’s parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The parable appears in this gospel, the first book of the New Testament. This book is named for its apparent author, and precedes the books of Mark, Luke, and John. | Book of Matthew |
| The Pearl of Great Price also appears in an apocryphal Gnostic gospel attributed to this “doubting” disciple, who could not believe in the resurrection until he had felt Jesus’s wounds | Thomas |
| Ernest Hemingway used his experience, this time as a reporter, to provide detail for this work set in the Spanish Civil War. In the novel, which takes its name from John Donne, Robert Jordan works with guerrillas to destroy a bridge. | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Ernest Hemingway’s last work was this calmer short story which focuses on Santiago’s attempt to catch a marlin. This work ends with Santiago dreaming of his youth after losing the marlin to a group of sharks. | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Anthropologists flocked to this desert area in the 1940s after pilots “discovered” a series of geoglyphs. Name this South American plain, north of the Atacama Desert, where a series of namesake “lines” appear in shapes like spiders, monkeys, & birds | Nazca Plain |
| The Nazca plains and Atacama Desert are among the incredibly dry regions west of this South American mountain range, the longest continental range in the world. | Andes Mountains |
| Hooke’s law includes k, the namesake constant for one of these devices. Name these elastic devices that can store energy in volutes, leaves, or more commonly, compressed metal coils. | Springs |
| Balshar -al -Assad is the dictator of this Middle Eastern country, where protests began in the capital city, Damascus. | Syria |
| By far the most popular video-streaming website in the US is this Google-owned website, which offers an ad-free “red” version. This site is the main outlet of JennaMarbles, Smosh, and the Fine Brothers | You Tube |
| While YouTube dominates pre-recorded footage, this website reigns supreme in livestreams. Due to its recent acquisition by Amazon, Prime members can subscribe to one channel on this website for free each month | Twitch TV |
| This company has repeatedly tried to enter the streaming market, going as far as buying the rights to the sixth season of Community, but hasn’t found much success. In 2016, this company replaced its “Screen!” service with the Hulu-partnered View! | Yahoo! |
| This is another unit for direct distance measurements. There are 30 of these between the Sun and Neptune, and exactly one between the Sun and Earth | Astronomical Units |
| These creatures included the dryads, the spirits of trees and forests, and the naiads, the spirits of rivers and waterways. Name these semi-divine creatures from Greek myths, feminine spirits attached to specific natural features | Nymphs |
| For her talkativeness, this nymph was cursed to only be able to repeat the words of others, and eventually wasted away to only her repetitive voice. | Echo |
| Echo’s beloved was this beautiful human, who died when he fell in love with his own reflection, and transformed into a namesake waterside flower. | Narcissus |
| In this play, King Claudius marries his sister-in-law, Gertrude, immediately after the death of the title character’s father. Name this Shakespeare play about a Prince of Denmark who suspects Claudius of having murdered his father. | Hamlet |
| In Shakespeare's Hamlet, this daughter of Polonius is devastated when Hamlet seems not to love her any longer. This woman goes mad and eventually drowns herself under a willow tree. | Ophelia |
| After protesting against this policy, Eugene Debs said “while there is a soul in prison, I am not free". Name this 1917 governmental policy affecting young men It was enacted after voluntary enlistment failed to create a 1 million man force in WWI | the Draft |
| In this battle, William Howe ordered cannons on Copp’s Hill to fire on the Americans. The order “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was given during this battle, fought outside Boston. Name this Revolutionary War battle | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| This man’s presidency lasted less than 900 days, the shortest term for any US president who didn’t die in office. Name this Republican politician, who lost his only Presidential election to Jimmy Carter | Gerald Ford |
| A month after taking office, US President Gerald Ford controversially carried out this presidential action, noting that “someone must write the end to” a national tragedy. | pardoning former US President Richard Nixon |
| Gerald Ford became President because he was Vice President when Nixon resigned; he had become Vice President in accordance with this Constitutional amendment, which clarified presidential succession and was adopted in 1967 | 25th amendment |
| Andy Serkis played the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke in this franchise, whose film subtitled “The Last Jedi” focused on Rey’s relationship with Luke Skywalker. | Star Wars |
| Andy Serkis also played this corrupted hobbit whose only goal is to reclaim his “precious.” At the end of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, this character smiles as he falls into the fires of Mt. Doom, having achieved his goal | Gollum |
| In his most recent film, Andy Serkis reprised his role as this leader of the “planet of the apes.” This character was originally the pet of Will Rodman, who likely named him after a Roman leader. | Caesar |
| Aphrodite was the lover of this extraordinarily beautiful mortal man, and became so distraught at this man’s death during a hunt that she caused anemone flowers to bloom where his blood fell. | Adonis |
| One section of this river separates the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and Georgetown from Rosslyn in Arlington County. Name this river, which flows past Ronald Reagan National Airport south of the Lincoln Memorial. | Potomac |
| The Potomac River ultimately flows into this bay, bounded on the east by the Delmarva Peninsula. Cities on its northern shores include Annapolis and Baltimore. | Chesapeake River |
| Name this novel about Henry Fleming’s experience as a Union soldier in the Civil War. In this work, Henry talks to the Tattered Soldier moments before the latter’s death. | Red Badge of Courage |
| According to legend, Abraham Lincoln called this author the “little woman who started the big war,” because she exposed the horrors of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Name the Judeo-Christian patriarch whose wives, Leah and Rachel, escalated a war of child production by offering this man their handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah, making this man the father of twelve sons, including Judah and Joseph | Jacob |
| Buffalo Bill Cody worked with this sharpshooting woman to help popularize his show; that history inspired an Irving Berlin musical about this woman “[getting] her gun.” | Annie Oakley |
| A member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show was this Lakota chief who, with Crazy Horse, defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn | Sitting Bull |
| The class Chondrichthyes, containing sharks and rays, has skeletons made of this flexible tissue also found in the human nose and outer ear. | Cartilage |
| Arthropods like insects and crustaceans have exoskeletons made of this tough polysaccharide that also makes up fungus cell walls | chitin |
| This feat was done 195 times in 2017 by both Chris Davis & Khris Davis. Doing this 4 times earns a golden sombrero. Symbolized by a letter K, what baseball stat can be earned by swinging & missing 3 times? | Strikeout |
| This brother of Orthrus was unable to pierce the Nemean Lion skin worn by Heracles during his twelfth labor, during which this creature was captured from Hades. Name this three-headed guard dog of the Greek underworld. | Cerebus |
| A religion in this country practices Harae which involves washing away sin with water. Monks in this country created rock gardens to aid them in their meditations. Temples are fronted by red gates called torii . Zen Buddhism & Shinto are found where? | Japan |
| Many books in the Tanakh and biblical Old Testament have a well-established tradition regarding their authorship. Name this first book of both the Torah and Old Testament, which details the creation of the world and is usually attributed to Moses | Genesis |
| King David is credited with writing most of the poems in this book of the Bible, including a verse that begins “The Lord is my shepherd / I shall not want.” | Psalms |
| The rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma is believed to be related to the rise in this process, used in the oil and natural gas industry, in which pressurized liquid is used to crack underground rock, allowing the gas or oil to be collected. | Hydraulic Fracturing |
| In 2009, Chrises Hemsworth and Pine united to play George and James Kirk in a J.J. Abrams reboot of this sci-fi franchise. This Gene Roddenberry-created franchise returned to television in 2017 with the premiere of Discovery. | Star Trek |
| The third film in a Marvel superhero franchise will boast the highest concentration of Chrises yet. In this film,Hemsworth, Pratt, and Evans will reprise their roles as Thor, Starlord, and Captain America to defeat Thanos. | Avengers: Infinty War |
| Christa McAuliffe was killed in the failure of this vehicle, which was launched in unusually cold conditions. Name this Space Shuttle that broke apart during liftoff in 1986. | Space Shuttle Challenger |
| Christa McAuliffe was to become the first person with this job to travel in space. The Challenger disaster was witnessed live on television by millions of people because of McAuliffe’s role in the mission. | teacher |
| Rhapsody in Blue opens with a famous solo for this instrument which glissandos despite being a single-reed instrument and not, say, a trombone. | Clarinet |
| The protagonist of this novel muses about where ducks go in the winter after visiting Central Park. For ten points each, Name this novel by JD Salinger , in which Holden Caulfield wanders around New York City after being expelled from Pencey Prep. | Catcher in the Rye |
| During the American Revolution, soldiers in the British army were known as “lobsters” and as this colorful term, based on their uniforms. | Redcoats |
| At the opposite end of the Mohs scale from diamond is this very soft mineral, used as a coating on rubber gloves and sometimes found in baby powder. | Talc |
| A sclerometer is normally used to find a mineral’s rank on this scale, though the Vickers scale has largely replaced it. Name this traditional scale of mineral hardness. Diamond ranks a 10 on this scale because it can scratch all common materials. | Mohs Hardness Scale |
| This mythical figure was the sister of Stheno and Euryale, and became the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus after her death. Name this snake-haired Gorgon woman, whose gaze turned all who saw her into stone. | Medusa |
| This Greek hero, the son of Zeus and Danae, slew Medusa and later married Andromeda. | Perseus |
| The Strait of Hormuz is the only route for ships to leave this body of water and enter the Indian Ocean. Name this body of water, in which the island country of Bahrain lies. | Persian Gulf |
| Kuwait was invaded on the orders of this Iraqi dictator. A decade later, US forces invaded Iraq, took Baghdad, and captured this man | Saddam Hussein |
| Name this van Gogh painting of the interior of a restaurant with red walls and a green ceiling. A man in white stands near the center of this painting, next to a pool table in the center of the room. | The Night Cafe |
| To predict the results of a trihybrid cross, one of these diagrams would need 64 individual boxes. For ten points each, Name this diagram used to determine the genotypes of offspring produced by parents with known allele | Punnett Square |
| If a breeding experiment results in 75% of the offspring showing the dominant phenotype, it is likely both parents have this genotype containing both a dominant and recessive allele. | heterozygous |
| Punnett squares are used to model the rules of inheritance as proposed by this 19th century Austrian friar, whose work on pea plants inspired the development of genetics. | Gregor Mendel |
| This term, from the Latin for “deceptive” or “false,” describes a form of reasoning that is either logically unsound or argumentatively questionable | Fallacy |
| As a Congressman from Tennessee, this man opposed the Indian Removal Act; that stance cost him re-election in 1831. Name this politician who later fought in the Texas War for Independence. This figure became known later as the“King of the Wild Frontier.” | Davy Crockett |
| Davy Crockett died while defending this San Antonio mission during the Texas War for Independence. William Travis and James Bowie also died at this fort. | The Alamo |
| In filming a commercial for this brand, Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire in a pyrotechnics accident. In World War Z, a character uses this drink to distract zombies. Kendall Jenner ends a protest by giving a police officer a can of what soda? | Pepsi |
| This philosopher described the “four causes” of objects in his Metaphysics, which some believe are a series of lecture notes from his school, the Lyceum. This teacher of Alexander the Great. was an ancient Greek philosopher, the student of Plato | Aristotle |
| A later thought experiment, proposed by Erwin Schrodinger, posits that one of these animals trapped in a box can be alive and dead at the same time until the moment it is observed. | Cat |
| The Latin name of a sword inspired this term. Name this athletic occupation, usually held by slaves, that fought in arenas for the enjoyment of Roman citizens | Gladiators |
| The grandest examples of gladiatorial combat took place in this Roman arena, the largest amphitheater ever built | Colosseum |
| The “Pink” one in Shiraz has extensive stained glass windows, & Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem is the “furthest” one of these buildings, to which Muhammad was transported during the Night Journey. Name these places of worship in Islam. | Mosque |
| The Blue Mosque in Istanbul has six of these towers. In many mosques, muezzins call out the adhan-the call to worship-from these tall, thin towers | Minaret |
| This university in Massachusetts, whose leaders have included Increase Mather and Charles Eliot, is the oldest American university | Harvard |
| One of these kicks can directly score a goal but is rare. Name this method of restarting play in soccer, named for the position in the field where the kick is made. This play happens the ball is kicked out of bounds over the goal line by a defender. | Corner Kick |
| A frameshift mutation in the NOD2 gene results in this inflammatory bowel disease, named for its American discoverer, that is caused by the immune system attacking patches throughout the digestive tract. | Crohn's Disease |
| This world of the Norse afterlife was named for the daughter of Loki, and was home to those who died of age or sickness rather than in battle. | Helheim |
| In this ancient culture’s myth system, Xolotl guided the dead to Mictlan, an afterlife governed by Mictlantecuhtli. Quetzalcoatl used the bones from Mictlan to create the fifth version of the world in this culture’s myth system | Aztec |
| This continent is home to the Drakensberg, a 600 mile long formation in the Great Escarpment, and Mount Kenya, which features over a dozen peaks. Name this continent whose highest peak, Kilimanjaro, stands over Tanzania | Africa |
| This common Ph indicator is extracted from a lichen and often embedded in a namesake paper that turns red in acids and blue in bases. | Litmus paper |
| According to some legends, this man reached Greece as a slave from Ethiopia. Name this ancient fabulist whose tales, such as “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” are catalogued in the Perry Index. | Aesop |
| The Bonus Army built one of these settlements in Washington, D.C., and in Central Park, Manhattan. Give this term for shantytowns built in the 1930s. “honoring” the US President blamed for the economic troubles that led to the widespread homelessness. | Hoovervilles |
| The book of Matthew presents this text as a replacement for long, pagan-style prayers. In Catholicism,this text is recited between the decades of the rosarys. Name this common prayer that begins “Our Father, who art in heaven.” | Lord's Prayer |
| This console’s games included Earthbound, F-Zero game, & Donkey Kong Country, and its controller used X and Y buttons in addition to A and B buttons. Name this 16-bit game console that was released in the US in 1991 and re released in 2017 with 20 games | Super Nintendo |
| The Super Nintendo Classic also includes the first game in this racing series, in which Luigi and Yoshi can fire shells at each other on Rainbow Road. | Mario Kart |
| The northernmost land action of the Civil War took place in this state, when Confederate soldiers raided the city of St. Albans. Name this New England state, the home of the Green Mountains and the cities of Burlington and Montpelier | Vermont |
| Name this Hindu creator god, who is usually depicted with four faces, each facing a cardinal direction. This god is part of the Trimurti with Shiva and the preserver, Vishnu. | Brahma |
| After the god Ganesha came between Parvati and Shiva, Shiva beheaded him and replaced his head with that of this large animal, with ivory tusks and large ears | Indian Elephant |
| The 2017 “Medicare for All” bill was introduced by this Vermont Senator, an independent who ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton. | Bernie Sanders |
| This Frenchman and his colleague, Emile Roux, first showed that a “dead” virus vaccine could work when they saved Joseph Meister from rabies in 1885 | Louis Pasteur |
| Though the organs of the poor were liquified and drained, wealthy Egyptians’ stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver were stored in these containers, which were decorated with and guarded by the four sons of Horus | canopic jars |
| This poet wrote “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” in his poem, “Mother to Son.” Name this African-American poet of “I, Too” and “Theme for English B.” This author asked “What happens to a dream deferred?” in his poem Harlem. | Langston Hughes |
| This Sci Fi BBC series cast Jodie Whittaker as the thirteenth actor, and first woman, to play the title time lord, taking over from Peter Capaldi. Other stars of this show have included David Tennant and Matt Smith | Doctor Who |
| This Fox show’s 2017 reboot was given another season in 2018. It follows the supernatural investigations carried out by FBI agents Mulder and Scully | X Files |
| In 1989, this physical barrier dividing the east and west halves of a German city was opened after 28 years | Berlin Wall |
| A statue of this story’s title character sits on a coastal rock in Copenhagen. Name this short story in which the youngest daughter of the Sea King bargains with a witch to get legs so that she can fall in love with a human prince. | Little Mermaid |
| In this Hans Christian Andersen tale, a tiny girl escapes from a toad, a beetle, and a mole, and eventually marries a flower-fairy prince, who gives her wings. | Thumbelina |
| The ability for organisms to live in seawater is highly dependent on this quantity, which is higher in brackish water than fresh water. The Dead Sea has a value over 30% for this quantity, and ocean water is usually 3.5%. | Salinity |
| The dissolved salts in the ocean give seawater a higher value for this property of mass per unit volume, making it easier to float in seawater compared to freshwater. | Density |
| Sun Tzu, a general during China’s ancient Spring and Autumn Period, wrote this influential treatise on military tactics. Its 13 chapters include entries on using spies and moving armies. | The Art of War |
| After this god’s mother, Semele, died at the sight of Zeus in his full glory, this god was reborn from Zeus’s thigh and spread the cultivation of grapes for wine throughout Greece. Name this Greek god of wine, merrymaking, and divine inspiration. | Dionysus |
| This Greek goddess governed the harvest. This goddess made summer when her daughter lived with her, but let the plants die into winter during the parts of the year her daughter lived in Hades. | Demeter |
| This first-born daughter of Cronus and Rhea oversaw the preparation of food from the plants that Demeter made grow. In some stories, this goddess kept the peace by giving up her seat in Olympus to Dionysus. | Hestia |
| An Wagner opera based on this legendary story was inspired by an experience fleeing Latvia through stormy seas. Name this legendary doomed ghost ship that is cursed to sail the oceans forever unless its captain can convince a faithful woman to marry him | Flying Dutchman |
| With a steady hand and some help from this force, nearly 50 drops of water can fit on a penny. Name this interaction between fluid molecules that allows insects to walk across the surface of a pond | Surface Tension |
| This iron structure was built for the 1889 World’s Fair. It remains the world’s most visited monument and the tallest structure in Paris. | Eiffel Tower |
| When Seattle hosted the 1962 World’s Fair, they commissioned this 600 foot tall observation tower, painted in “Astronaut White.” | Space Needle |
| The Crazy Horse memorial is being built in this state’s Black Hills, a short drive from Mount Rushmore. | South Dakota |
| In this film, Etta Candy helps a character buy modern clothing &Isabel Maru makes a poison that can destroy gas masks. This film’s title character deflects bullets with her bracelets. What 2017 film stars Gal Gadot as an Amazon warrior? | Wonder Woman |
| Name this state of matter that has definite shape and volume. Matter in this state may be amorphous, but often has a crystalline structure. | Solid |
| At low pressure, phase diagrams show that solids can transition directly into gases by this phase change. Dry ice becomes carbon dioxide gas by this phase change | Sublimation |
| The Four Seasons are, like hundreds of Vivaldi’s works, concertos written for this instrument. A traditional string quartet features a pair of these instruments. | Violin |
| Name this annual publication, filled with astronomical information, poems, proverbs, and a calendar, that was extremely popular in the American colonies. | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Poor Richard’s Almanac was written under the name “Richard Saunders” by this inventor and founding father | Ben Franklin |
| When the mythical Greek King Oeneus snubbed this goddess, she released a vicious boar on his city-state of Calydon. Name this Greek goddess of the hunt, whose actions led to the Calydonian Boar Hunt | Artemis |
| This legendary huntress and devotee of Artemis landed the first wound on the Calydonian Boar. This woman was later tricked into marrying Hippomenes when he beat her in a foot race. | Atalanta |
| Aaron Judge broke his home run record with 52. The record for home runs in a rookie season was 49 by this Oakland Athletic in 1987. As a St. Louis Cardinal in 1998, he broke Roger Maris’ single season record, finishing with 70 home runs | Mark McGwire |
| Chthonians and Hot Jupiters are two types of these objects discovered by the Kepler space telescope.Name this term for large bodies found orbiting a star outside of Earth’s solar system. Named examples of these include Draugr, Arion, and Hypatia | Exoplanets |
| About 20 percent of Sun-sized stars have an orbiting exoplanet within this zone, where temperature and radiation levels are thought to be “just right” for supporting life | Goldilocks zone |
| This man’s brother, Hasdrubal, was killed at the Battle of the Metaurus, after which his head was cut off and thrown into this man’s camp. Name this Carthaginian general who invaded Italy over the Alps to attack Rome with Elephants | Hannibal |
| “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” and “The Locusts” are from this American science fiction writer’s collection The Martian Chronicles. This man also wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes and “A Sound of Thunder.” | Ray Bradbury |
| Name this quantity, often measured as the number of species in a given area, that is particularly high in “hotspots” like Madagascar and Colombia. | Biodiversity |
| One major threat to biodiversity is this type of non-native species that can out-compete native plants and animals. The brown tree snake in Guam and the zebra mussel in America are examples | Invasive Species |
| This Japanese climbing vine was introduced to the US in the 19th century and quickly “took over” the American South. | Kudzu |
| I.M. Pei’s pyramidal glass design for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is similar to his front entrance design for this Parisian palace-turned-art museum, which holds Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne & the Mona Lisa | Louvre |
| This theorem, named for an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, sets the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. As a formula, it’s usually written a squared plus b squared equals c squared | Pythagorean Theorem |
| If two angles of a triangle have known sizes, the size of the third angle can be found by subtracting the two known sizes from this value. | 180 degrees |
| The Thursday before Good Friday, which commemorates the Last Supper, is often given this name, which is thought to come from the Latin for “commandment.” | Maundy Thursday |
| Although fuel concerns & improving American counterattacking forced a withdrawal, Admiral Yamamoto later lamented the cancellation of the third wave of this attack. Name this December 7, 1941 surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet. | Pearl Harbor |
| Over 1,100 men were killed in the sinking of this battleship in Pearl Harbor. A floating memorial over the hull of this ship commemorates those lost during the attack. | USS Arizona |
| Name this concept. It names an 18th century period in which philosophers like Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and David Hume argued for separation of church and state, liberty, and increased reliance on scientific examination of the world | Age of Enlightenment |
| During the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot & French thinkers collaborated on one of these works, which collect human knowledge. While these works are often organized alphabetically, they provide much more detailed information than a simple dictionary. | Encyclopedia |
| Discourse during the Enlightenment in France took place in these gatherings, which were often organized by upperand middle-class women in their homes. | Salons |
| During that writing contest, Mary Shelley told a story that would later become this novel, in which the title medical student creates a living monster out of the body parts of the dead | Frankenstein |
| This principle is often stated as the inability to exactly measure a particle’s position and momentum at the same time. Name this quantum physics principle. It was first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 | Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle |
| This singer is seen as a “Miley Cyrus impersonator” in a music video for a song that claims that “karma’s not a liar / she keeps receipts.” Another song says has the “eye of the tiger / dancing through the fire.” Name this artist behind "Roar" | Katy Perry |
| During this war, the submarine H.L. Hunley sank twice during testing and once more in a real attack. Name this war in which the Monitor and Merrimack, two ironclads, clashed at Hampton Roads. | American Civil War |
| In an attempt to end the Civil War, Winfield Scott developed this plan to economically “strangle” the South. This plan, commonly depicted in newspapers as a snake, was a massive blockade of every Southern port. | Anaconda Plan |
| A key aspect of the Anaconda Plan was to take complete control of the Mississippi River by seizing this city. David Farragut captured this city without a fight; as a result, historic buildings in its French Quarter survived the war | New Orleans |
| Gods were not the only common subject of classical sculpture; a highly-regarded sculpture by the Greek artist Myron shows a nude athlete bending at an odd angle to perform this title action. | Throwing a Discus |
| Name these heavy, slow-moving masses that can carve sharp ridges called cirques into mountains. Some, but not all, of these masses disappeared at the end of the last ice age | Glaciers |
| The Pali Canon collects the teachings and sayings of this man, who developed the philosophy of the “Middle Way.” Name this man, who founded a namesake Indian religion and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree | Gautama Buddha |
| This symbol appears with pi in the exponent of the e in Euler’s formula. Name this letter that symbolizes the basic unit of imaginary numbers, the square root of negative 1. | i |
| Disney is struggling to find Middle Eastern & Indian actors for this film’s lead roles, a live action remake of a 1992 movie and critics are doubting whether Will Smith can live up to Robin Williams’ original performance as the Genie. | Aladdin |
| Donald Glover and James Earl Jones will play a father and son pair in this Disney remake, slated for 2019. Beyonce is in talks to join this film, both in the cast as Nala and on the soundtrack. | The Lion King |
| To correctly identify metals in a flame test, you can heat a sample with one of these devices, named for a German chemist, that uses a valve to adjust the gas-air mixture for a hotter flame | Bunsen Burner |
| Solutions are often prepared in one of these glass containers with a narrow neck and wide bottom. These containers come in volumetric and Erlenmeyer types. | Flasks |
| This goddess neglected to ask the mistletoe plant not to harm her son, which ultimately led to his death. Name this Norse goddess, the wife of Odin, whose blind son Hodr was tricked into killing her other son with a spear of mistletoe. | Frigg(a) |
| Frigg made everything in the world except mistletoe promise not to harm this god after he had prophetic dreams of his own death. This son of Frigg was killed by his brother, Hodr. | Baldr |
| Name this body system that relies on the circulatory system to transport the hormones secreted by glands like the pituitary, pancreas, and thyroid. | Endocrine System |
| Negative feedback loops are key to this property of the endocrine system in which factors like body temperature, glucose level, and blood pressure are maintained at stable values | homeostasis |
| DACA (Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals) applies to some 800,000 people often known by this term, derived from an acronym from a 2001 bill. To have this title one must have a high school diploma, a clean criminal record, and meet other requirements | DREAMERS |
| Name these Asian people, known for their mounted archers. These people established the Golden Horde in the 13th century. | Mongols |
| In this book, Greta moves in with a family in Stillwater. Greta, her children, & Captain Cook become performers but are eventually released at the North Pole by Admiral Drake. Name this book about a man who takes care of some birds who prefer the cold | Mr. Poppers Penguins |
| Frank Sinatra was nominated for 6 of these awards in 1958. The group Pentatonix won one of these awards in 2015 & 2016 for their a cappella arrangement work. Name these music awards given by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. | Grammys |
| This substance is created in the anther & is stuck to the stamen. It can be blown by the wind or carried by insects to reach the pistil, where it will fertilize the plant . Name this substance made of small grains which allow plants to reproduce | pollen |
| Rabbis are seen as masters and teachers of this collection of five Biblical books, including what we know in English as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy | Torah |
| The Elgin Marbles came from this ancient Greek building. Name this historic temple in Athens, which was mostly destroyed by the Ottoman Empire in 1687. | Parthenon |
| This animated Disney movie from 2000 was set in South America. Name this movie about Kuzco, who is turned into a llama and goes on an adventure with Pacha. | The Emperor’s New Groove |
| This character is upset about how much attention his younger brother Manny gets. Name this main character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. | Greg Heffley |
| Greg’s best friend in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is this kid, an only child who often goes on expensive vacations with his family. | Rowley Jefferson |
| At the 2016 Grammys, Lady Gaga performed a tribute to this British singer who had recently died. He collaborated with Queen on the hit song “Under Pressure.” | David Bowie |
| This writer wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash. Name this writer, more famous for children’s poetry like his book Falling Up. | Shel Silverstein |
| In 2 Kings 5, this army commander was told by a girl from Israel that the prophet in Samaria could heal him. This man first rejected Elisha’s directions, but was later persuaded. Name this leper who was made clean by washing 7 times in the Jordan River. | Naaman |
| This term is used in biology to mean the way our bodies take in nutrients through the intestines or the way that chemicals enter through the skin. This term is used to describe what dark colors do to light and heat. Name this scientific term | Absoprtion |
| In this book, the Cloud Men throw hail at the main characters as they are traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. Those characters include James Henry Trotter and Miss Spider. Name this Roald Dahl book about bugs who travel with a boy inside a large fruit | James & GiantPeach |
| This instrument developed from the sackbut. To change the pitch of this instrument, players move part of the instrument to one of 7 positions 3 inches apart. This instrument represents the adults’ voices in Charlie Brown cartoons. Name this instrument | Trombone |
| This place was formerly a U.S. military building called Fort Gibson. About 5,000 people a day passed through this place in New York near the Statue of Liberty, Name this immigration station from the early 20th century. | Ellis Island |
| This person was the only woman to ever serve as the British Prime Minister, and she earned the nickname “The Iron Lady” for her tough negotiation skills with the Soviets. Name this leader of the Conservative Movement in the UK and friend to Ronald Reagan. | Margaret Thatcher |
| This character is burned while trying to distract a dragon with a rock he turned into a dog. Name this student who, alongside Harry Potter, represented Hogwarts in the Triwizard Cup | Cedric Diggory |
| During Goblet of Fire, Cedric is killed by this wizard, a friend of James Potter who becomes a Death Eater and who can transform into a rat. | Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) |
| This chess piece is allowed to move only along the diagonals of the chess board, meaning it always remains on the same color. | Bishop |
| These animals build nests called drays. Some species can rotate their back paws and go down a tree head-first. The flying type of this animal glides using its skin like a parachute. Name these furry rodents, whose diets mostly consist of nuts & acorns | Squirrels |
| This presidential candidate participated in civil rights demonstrations in Chicago, &won the 2016 New Hampshire primary. He identifies as a democratic socialist. Name this Vermont senator who ran for president in 2016 | Bernie Sanders |
| Rick Riordan has written a book series featuring Norse mythology, starring this character who discovers that he is the son of the Norse god Frey. | Magnus Chase |
| This character gives a lipstick tube that he finds to X-Ray, not realizing that it belonged to Kate Barlow. [Name this character from Holes whose first name is his last name spelled backwards. | Stanley Yelnats |
| The authors Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel wrote about their experiences in this place. Name this concentration camp that Anne Frank’s father survived. | Auschwitz |
| A type of velocity is this one, which occurs when an object is falling so that gravity is the only force acting on it; in other words, the object is in free fall. | Terminal Velocity |
| One type of velocity is known by this name, which describes the velocity needed to leave Earth’s gravitational pull | Escape Velocity |
| During this phase, the majority of the moon is lit up by the Sun, but as the days pass, the amount lit decreases until the third quarter. | waning gibbous |
| Elijah travels to this mountain after fleeing Jezebel. Moses had received the Ten Commandments at this mountain. | Mount Horeb |
| Peter Pettigrew turns into a rat named Scabbers and, for a while, becomes the pet of this other character in the Harry Potter Series | Ron Weasley |
| These animals were sacred to the Egyptian goddess Hathor. Nandi is one of these animals owned by Shiva. One of these animals was made out of gold by the Israelites when Moses went to Mount Sinai. Name this animal, represented in the zodiac by Taurus. | cow |
| Over 2,500 entertainers have stars on this place’s “walk of fame,” along a boulevard sharing this place’s name. A famous sign spelling this place’s name is made up of 45-foot tall white letters. Name this LA neighborhood, home to America’s film industry. | Hollywood |
| This artist created several scenes of the Rouen Cathedral & the London Parliament. He also painted Haystacks & water lilies & launched an artistic movement with his paintings . Name this artist who painted Impression: Sunrise. | Claude Monet |
| Insects molt because they outgrow this structure, which is usually made of chitin . This protective structure is also present in crustaceans and shelled mollusks such as snails and clams. Name this structure that supports an animal from the outside | Exoskeleton |
| This band’s music video for “Night Changes” has scenes in an Italian restaurant. They were created on The X Factor by Simon Cowell. This band’s album Four was the last to include Zayn Malik. Name this British boy band who sang “What Makes You Beautiful.” | One Direction |
| Who was the only U.S. president to have earned a Ph.D.? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Which of the 48 contiguous U.S. states has the fewest people? | Wyoming |
| What’s the fastest swimming marine mammal? | Killer Whale |
| What French port did 200,000 British troops flee on June 4, 1940 during WWII? | Dunkirk |
| What was the nickname of frontierswoman Martha Jane Burk? | Calamity Jane |
| Who was the first U.S. President to hold a televised news conference? | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Why is the funny bone so called? | It is the Humerus |
| News of this battle prompted the Greek navy to withdraw to Salamis. The Thebans chose to stay & make a last stand against the advance of the 10,000 Immortals. Name this 480 BCb fought the Persians | Battle of Thermopylae |
| This Muslim leader helped end the Third Crusade by allowing Christians free passage to the holy land. Name this sultan, the Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who ruled much of the Middle East until his 1193 death | Saladin |
| This group sang about “reading books of old” about Hercules, Achilles, & Spiderman in one song and described a “Blink 182 song/that we beat to death in Tuscon” Name this EDM-pop duo of “Something Just Like This” and “Closer.” | The Chainsmokers |
| Walter Cronkite described this war as a “stalemate” after the Tet Offensive. Name this war in Southeast Asia, defined by jungle warfare against the communist forces of Ho Chi Minh. | Vietnam War |
| American city in which “West Egg” and “East Egg” are fictional parts of Long Island in the The Great Gatsby | New York |
| Year-long period of chaos between 1793 and 1794 in France in which thousands of people were executed on orders of the Committee of Public Safety | Reign of Terror |
| Russian scientist who published the first periodic table in 1869. | Dmitri (Ivanovich) Mendeleev |
| Synonym for “man-made” that describes Technetium and Plutonium, which cannot be naturally found on Earth. | Synthetic |
| Disease, also known as consumption, that Violetta Valery suffers from in Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. | tuberculosis (or TB) |
| Musician of “Candle in the Wind” who worked with Tim Rice to adapt Verdi's opera Aida into a Broadway musical. | Elton John |
| German agents orchestrated this man’s return from exile via a sealed train ride from Switzerland. Name this first leader of the Soviet Union, a communist who led the Bolsheviks during the chaos of World War I. | Vladimir Lenin |
| To cross from the world of the living to the world of the dead, a soul had to pay a coin to this ferryman, who transported souls across Styx and Acheron. | Charon |
| Once in the Greek underworld, the dead were put before a panel of three judges: Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, and this man, whose wife Pasipha¨e had an affair with a bull. | Minos |
| Souls were prevented from leaving Hades in the Greek underworld by this three-headed dog, who guarded the underworld. He was eventually captured by Heracles during his twelve labors. | Cerberus |
| Anne of Green Gables is by this Canadian author. | Lucy Maude “L.M.” Montgomery |
| In this novel, Joe Gargery apprentices his brother-in-law to a blacksmith before the boy acquires a mysterious benefactor who trains him as a lawyer. Name this Charles Dickens novel where the convict Abel Magwitch gives the protagonist a bright future | Great Expectations |
| Niels Bohr described these entities as concentric paths. Molecular types can be classified as bonding or antibonding, while atomic ones are separated into s, p, d, and f types. Name these models of how electrons “revolve around” a molecule or atom. | orbitals |
| Electric charge is measured in this unit, whose unit abbreviation is a capital C in honor of its namesake. This unit is equal to one ampere per second. | coulomb |
| In a 2015 song, Mike Posner laments an instance of drug use on this Mediterranean island. Name this Balearic island off the coast of Spain, known for its nightlife | Ibiza |
| This Libyan dictator was overthrown during the Arab Spring. This author of the Green Book had ruled Libya for 42 years | Muammar Gaddafi (or Qaddafi) |
| It is the home of a granite structure known as the Ka’aba Name this birth city of Muhammad, the holiest city in Islam. | Mecca |
| Muslims face Mecca while performing their five daily prayers as part of this pillar of Islam | salah |
| During the Hijra, Muhammad traveled to this city to the north of Mecca to escape persecution. | Medina |
| This substance is composed of adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Name this molecule that provides the genetic instructions for life and whose double helix structure was discovered by Watson and Crick | DNA |
| Carcinogens can cause these events in DNA. The “frameshift” type of these events includes the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide, changing the genetic code | Mutations |
| Richard Nixon was pardoned for various crimes arising from this scandal by Gerald Ford in 1974. Name this scandal that began with a break-in at the namesake hotel, where the Democratic National Committee was headquartered. | Watergate |
| As a result of the Watergate scandal, Nixon became the only President to do this action, doing so shortly after it became clear that he’d probably be impeached | resign |
| About a year before resigning, Nixon gave a speech in which he claimed the “people have got to know whether or not their President is” one of these people, before claiming “I am not” one of these people. | crook |
| Class of arthropods with 8 legs, such as spiders and scorpions. | Arachnids |
| In 2011, NASA reported the discovery of what may be salty water flowing downslope on this planet. That discovery was made using orbital pictures, not data gained by the Curiosity rover | Mars |
| George Washington was forced to leave this city & hold meetings in Germantown due to a 1793 yellow fever outbreak. This city’s Gazette & University were founded by Ben Franklin. The Declaration of Independence was signed in what Pennsylvania city? | Philadelphia |
| This woman never actually cried “let them eat cake” when told of a famine affecting French peasants. Name this queen, who was executed a few months after her husband, Louis XVI, during the French Revolution | Marie Antoinette |
| Two members of this political family were investigated by Kenneth Starr in the Whitewater Scandal. The husband was impeached, but not removed from office, for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Name this family that includes Bill and Hillary. | Clinton |
| An English mathematician quarreled with Gottfried Leibniz over who invented this branch of mathematics. Leibniz used dy-dx [”d” “y” “d” “x”] notation in explaining derivatives, one of the primary operations of this branch of math. | Calculus |
| A landing at Inchon allowed one side to end the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter in this war. In part because he wanted to use nuclear bombs against the Chinese, Douglas MacArthur was relieved by Harry Truman during this war. Name this war | Korean War |
| Voting for the President and members of Congress takes place in this month, even though the electoral college doesn’t meet until December. | November |
| Only two states do not have a winner-take-all system for allocating their electoral votes for the presidency. Name either. | Nebraska and Maine |
| “If music be the food of love, play on!” Name this type of metrical line, consisting of 10 alternating unstressed and stressed syllables | Iambic Pentameter |
| This “Bard of Avon” used iambic pentameter in most of his works, including a poem that begins “Two households, both alike in dignity/ in fair Verona, where we lay our scene…” that opens his Romeo and Juliet. | William Shakespeare |
| The prologue to Romeo and Juliet, as well as 154 of Shakespeare’s poems, are in this poec form, whose 14 lines are divided into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. | sonnet |
| Once known as brimstone, this element is an important component of black gunpowder and fertilizer. Name this element with atomic number 16 and chemical symbol S. | Sulphur |
| South of the states of New South Wales and Victoria is this Australian island-state, named for a Dutch explorer. | Tasmania |
| This god swallowed Halahala poison to save the world, and gained a blue-nted throat in the process. Name this Hindu god, whose powers of death and rebirth complement the maintainer Vishnu and the creator Brahma. | Shiva |
| Twenty American and Soviet tanks had a standoff in October 1961 at this crossing in the Berlin Wall, near where Peter Fechter was shot in 1962 | Checkpoint Charlie |
| This quanty is meant to stay within 1.5 to 2 percent per year. Give this term for the general increase in the price of goods and services in the economy | Inflation |
| The Federal Reserve has 3 Congressionally-required objecves: stabilizing prices, maximizing employment, &controlling these values over the long run. If this rate is less than the inflation rate, the investment’s value will decrease over time. | Interest Rates |
| In this play, John Proctor cries that he is “not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang.” Name this Arthur Miller play, set in 17 the century Salem and written as an allegory of Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for Communists in the government | The Crucible |
| Near the end of the Crucible play, John Proctor refuses to submit his signed confession, shouting “I have given you my soul; leave me [this thing].” | my name |
| This man altered the system to beat the Kobayashi Maru simulation, that tests an officer’s ability under pressure. This man screams “KHAAAN!” in a film that ends with the death of Spock. Name this captain of the USS Enterprise on the series Star Trek. | James Tiberius Kirk |
| Biological examples of this type of chemical are called enzymes. Give this term for a chemical that accelerates a reaction without being consumed in it. | Catalyst |
| Pollination by birds is called: | ORNITHOPHILY |
| Linseed oil comes from what plant? | Flax |
| What is the name given to the process, discovered by Goodyear, of adding sulfur to heated rubber? | VULCANIZATION |
| What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium? | STAINLESS STEEL |
| The branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it affects a community of people is called: | EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| The study of how people use tools to perform work and how people physically relate to their working environment is called: | ERGONOMICS |
| Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a decrease in a persons hearing ability. What is the name of the tube that becomes blocked to cause this problem? | EUSTACHIAN TUBE |
| The science of weights and measures is called: | METROLOGY |
| The word atom is from a Greek word meaning: | INDIVISIBLE |
| This large bird of prey is related to the eagle. The bird is found on all continents. Three species, the swallow-tailed, white-tailed and the Mississippi are found in North America. What creatures travel in gaggles? | Geese |
| Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE animal. | Giant Squid |
| Pollination by wind is called: | ANEMOPHILY |
| Name the type of camel that has two humps. | BACTRIAN |
| The art of growing dwarfed trees in small pots, a technique perfected by the Japanese, is known as what? | BONSAI |
| What is made from chicle? | CHEWING GUM |
| The study of poisons is called: | TOXICOLOGY |
| A device used to measure the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is called a: | HYGROMETER |
| Who was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"? | Thomas Edison |
| What is meant by the statement that an animal is oviparous? | IT LAYS EGGS |
| Name the tropical American tree which produces the least dense wood known? | Balsa |
| If a scuba diver suffers from the "bends", this means that which gas is being rapidly released from the blood and tissues? | NITROGEN |
| An alloy consisting mainly of tin and lead is called: | PEWTER |
| "Fool's gold" is a common name for this mineral: | PYRITE |
| What science deals with the structure of the universe and its origin? | COSMOLOGY |
| Recent discoveries of ancient cratering near the Yucatan Peninsula support the theory that a meteor or cometary impact may have resulted in mass extinctions of species on Earth about 65 million years ago. During which geologic period was that impact? | Cretaceous Period |
| What common flavoring comes from the long slender fruit of a climbing orchid? | Vanilla |
| In the Tyndall Effect, the intensity of scattered radiation is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength. Which one of the following colors of light would exhibit the most intense Tyndall scattering? | Violet |
| One trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros. What is 1 followed by 18 zeros? | Quintillion |
| In the human body, what tendon attaches the gastrocnemius muscle to the calcaneus bone? | ACHILLES TENDON |
| This Congressional Act of 1862 gave Americans free land if they farmed the Great Plains | Homestead Act |
| Name the writing material made from tall water plants of ancient Egypt | Papyrus |
| What type of business transaction has occurred when one corporation ceases to exist by becoming part of another continuing corporation? | Merger |
| What bluish mineral, technically a hydrated phosphate of aluminum and copper, is used in Indian jewelry of the American Southwest? | Turquoise |
| The bassoon, clarinet and flute are part of which instrument group? | Woodwind |
| The nickname “doughboys” was given to American soldiers during which war? | WWI |
| ) What kind of front is indicated on a surface weather map by a line from which small triangles are emerging? | Cold (front) |
| Letters are used as symbols which represent numbers in which branch of mathematics? | Algebra |
| This recessive genetic disorder stunts growth and causes sweat to be overtly salty. The disorder causes one's lungs to fill with a thick mucus, causing difficulty breathing and often leading to pneumonia. | Cystic Fibrosis |
| As of 2015, this 8-bar song by Patty and Mildred Hill is no longer under restrictive copyright protection, and can thus be sung as freely in movies and television as it can at your own annual party | Happy Birthday |
| Macau and Hong Kong sit on the delta of a river named for this precious object. They can be farmed from oysters for use as jewelry. | Pearl |
| This devious python in the Jungle Book hypnotizes Bagheera and the bear until they are freed by the “man-cub | Kaa |
| Robert Herrick’s poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” begins by commanding the young to “gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” and is a classic example of this poetic movement, whose name is Latin for “seize the day.” | Carpe Diem |
| This man was Secretary of State as part of a deal that gave John Q Adams the election of 1824. As Speaker of the House, this man successfully negotiated the Missouri Compromise. Name the Kentucky politician who was defeated in 3 presidential elections | Henry Clay |
| Mozart wrote one of these pieces nicknamed “Coronation,” while J.S. Bach’s masterpiece of this type is in B minor. These pieces usually begin with a Kyrie and end with an Agnus Dei. Name these choral pieces intended to be used at church services. | Masses |
| In this novel, a toxic black smoke and “heat-rays” finally stop, and destructive tripods are halted, when common Earth bacteria prove fatal to extraterrestrials Name this novel by H.G. Wells about a Martian invasion. | War of the Worlds |
| This phenomenon stems from differences in water temperature & on land, causing atmospheric convection in the form of sea breezes. The Himalayan Mts cause this by forcing rain. Name this weather pattern where a reversal of winds brings heavy rain to Asia | Monsoons |
| This leader gave the “History will Absolve Me” speech 6 years before he overthrew Fulgencio Batista. Nikita Khrushchev failed to arm his country during a 1962 Missile Crisis. Name the Communist leader who ruled Cuba for over forty years and died in 2016. | Fidel Castro |
| Sheila Burnford novel that includes the line "This journey took place in a part of Canada which lies in the northeastern part of Ontario." (Starts with I) | Incredible Journey |
| Small county bordered by Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Starts with I) | Israel |
| North Atlantic Island that is the westernrmost country of Europe (Starts with I) | Iceland |
| Grammatical label for an exclamatory word such as "Hey!" (Starts with I) | Interjection |
| To move to a foreign country as a permanent resident (Starts with I) | immigrate |
| Mythological goddess of the rainbow (Starts with I) | Iris |
| A word meaning "a hanging piece of ice formed from dripping water"(Starts with I) | icicle |
| Word describing the body's acquired resistance to a disease (Starts with I) | immune |
| Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, a killer strain of which claimed many lives in 1918 (Starts with I ) | influenza |
| Indian group Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered in Peru in 1533 | Incan |
| State in which the Carters of the Moon National Monument is located (Starts with I) | Idaho |
| Spanish queen who with her husband Ferdinand sponsored Columbus voyage to America in 15th century | Isabella |
| Singular word whose plural is indices | Index |
| Minnesota Lake that is the source of the Mississippi River (starts with I) | Lake Itasca |
| Law term for exemption from a duty or legal punishment (Starts with I) | immunity |
| Court of the Roman Catholic Church convened in the Middle Ages to suppress heresy (Starts with I) | Inquisition |
| Country whose capital is Tehran | Iran |
| Imaginary north-south line that runs along the 180th meridian in the Pacific Ocean (Starts with I) | International Date Line |
| Country whose capital is Dublin | Ireland |
| US state who name is included in the name of the capital | Indianapolis |
| State whose capital is Boise | Idaho |
| Phrase or expression recognized as a unit in a given language (Starts with I) | Idiom |
| Image of a god used as an object or worship (Starts with I) | idol |
| "Rainbow Coalition" leader who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. (Starts with J) | Jesse Jackson |
| US President who wife Claudia Taylor was known as "Lady Bird" (Starts with J) | Johnson |
| Large Indonesian island or any coffee (Starts with J) | Java |
| Mideast country of King Hussein I with Amman as its capital | Jordan |
| Disease condition of the body characterized by a yellow coloration of the eyes ,urine, and skin (Starts with J) | Jaundice |
| "Steel-Driving Man" who beat a steam drill in digging a hole (Starts with J) | John Henry |
| Country in the West Indies whose capital is Kingston | Jamaica |
| US City in which the Gator Bowl is played (Starts with J) | Jacksonville |
| First Chief Justice of the United States (Starts with J) | John Jay |
| American naval hero known for saying "I have not yet begun to fight" (Starts with J) | John Paul Jones |
| Muslim term for "holy war" (Starts with J) | jihad |
| American general who defeated the British army at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. (Starts with J) | Andrew Jackson |
| Nursery rhyme character who build a house in which a cat killed a rat. (Starts with J) | Jack Sprat |
| Middle name of US President William Clinton (Starts with J) | Jefferson |
| National flower of the US adopted in 1986 | rose |
| Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who succeeded Warren Burger in 1986 (Starts with R) | Reinquist |
| Brazilian city whose name literally means "River of January" | Rio de Janeiro |
| Jewish religious teacher (Starts with r) | rabbi |
| Name this city, whose elected officials included tribunes, quaestors, praetors, and censors. This city’s inhabitants spread out over the Italian peninsula, displacing the Etruscans and Gauls. | Rome |
| Rome’s enemy during the Punic Wars was this Phoenician city-state, originally founded as a colony of Tyre. This city was destroyed at the conclusion of the Third Punic War | Carthage |
| This Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War was defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama | Hannibal |
| Early versions of this device employed filaments of platinum and carbonized bamboo, before tungsten was found to last longer. Name this invention, which consists of a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that the filament glows. | Incandescent Light Bulb |
| This American poet wrote “The Death of the Hired Man” and other poems of rural life, including “Birches” and a poem that claims “good fences make good neighbors.” | Robert Frost |
| This goddess tied Europa to a tree and put Argus’s eyes on the feathers of the peacock, which was sacred to this goddess. She was the daughter of Cronos and Rhea. Name this jealous goddess, the wife of Zeus | Hera |
| Two of these events can combine in the Fujiwhara effect. Name these storm systems with wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour that develop from tropical storms. | Hurricanes |
| This area of low pressure around which hurricanes form is the quietest area of the storm. It is surrounded by a dense wall | eye |
| This scale measures the strength of hurricane based on windspeed, though it’s been criticized for not considering other factors like storm surge. | Saffir-Simpson |
| This man described “the shot heard round the world” in the poem “Concord Hymn” and wrote essays like “The Over-Soul.” Name this transcendentalist author of the essays “Self-Reliance” and“Nature.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He wrote about the soldier Rinaldi in the short story " In Our Time". Name this American author, who also included Rinaldi in a novel about English nurse Catherine Barkley caring for American World War I soldier Frederic Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. | Ernest Hemingway |
| In this novel by Ernest Hemingway, the impotent soldier Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Bill Gorton conflict over the affections of Lady Brett Ashley | The Sun Also Rises |
| This god gave birth to four beings from his mind. Legend says this Hindu god was hatched from a golden cosmic egg , and in the Puranas, it is said this god was born from a lotus that emerged out of Vishnu’s navel.Name this four-headed Hindu creator god | Brahma |
| The Church of the Nativity was constructed in this city to commemorate the birthplace of Jesus. Upon arriving in this city for a census, Joseph and Mary were turned away from all of the inns. | Bethlehem |
| Although Bethlehem was Joseph’s childhood home, Jesus grew to adulthood in this Galilean city, the hometown of Mary | Nazareth |
| Jesus spent the first years of his life in Egypt when Joseph and Mary fled from this murderous Roman king. After Jesus was born, the Magi reported his location to this king, who wanted to kill the “King of the Jews.” | Herod the Great |
| In the classic Latin poem Inferno, who is the the poem’s author and narrator, who journeys through nine Circles of Hell? | Dante Alighieri |
| The ancient Roman poet who leads the narrator in Dante's Inferno through Hell | Virgil |
| The woman who later leads the narrator of Dante's Inferno through Heaven | Beatrice |
| Island that makes up the ABC Islands with Bonaire and Curacao | Aruba |
| This is the name of base 16, a popular base in computing because it’s a power of 2 that doesn’t require nearly as many digits to write as binary. | Hexadecimal |
| Roosevelt stated “the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself” during this 1933 speech, in which he outlined how he would respond to the Great Depression. | FDR's 1st Inaugural Speech |
| In addition to his more formal speeches, Roosevelt also gave these more informal radio addresses to the general public. The first of these addresses announced a “bank holiday.” | Fireside Chats |
| In this novel, the “Sons of Adam” and “Daughters of Eve” reward the Beavers and Tumnus in the castle Cair Paravel. Aslan helps the Pevensie children become kings and queens in what first-published novel in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia? | The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| In an eighteenth century addition to the Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade tells the story of this man, who marries a princess after discovering a djinn in a magical oil lamp in a cave. | Aladdin |
| In some stories, Atlas is the son of Aether and this personification of the Earth, who also gave birth to Uranus. | Gaia |
| With Uranus, Gaia conceived this wife of Cronus, who was considered the mother of the Olympians by the ancient Greeks. | Rhea |
| Name the sculpture that may represent Dante Alighieri. This nude, seated man hunches over with his chin on his fist as he carefully considers the plight of sinners. | The Thinker |
| The Thinker is part of this sculpture group inspired by Dante’s Inferno. This set of sculptures includes depictions of sinners suffering for eternity for their earthly sins. | The Gates of Hell |
| Name this physical constant that is symbolized with a lowercase c. No object can travel faster than this constant in a vacuum, and it remains constant in every reference frame | Speed of Light |
| This physicist pioneered quantum theory by positing that light energy is emitted in discrete packets. A photon’s energy is equal to the frequency times this man’s constant, symbolized “h.” | Max Planck |
| Identify the geographical term defined as distance measured by degrees or time east or west from the prime meridian. | longitude |
| Identify the literary term defined as a comparing of two things without using the words "like" or "as" | metaphor |
| What is the name for the new technology whereby a glass fiber carries as much information as hundreds of copper wires? | fiber optics |
| Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman with this job by piloting Vostok 6. Others include the dog Laika, who died inside Sputnik 2. Yuri Gagarin, the first person in outer space, served as, what Soviet counterpart to US astronauts? | cosmonaut |
| In 2008, Otis McDonald sued Chicago over a ban on these items;Charlton Heston stated that Al Gore could take one from his “cold dead hands.” The Brady Bill requires federal background checks be performed before buying what objects in the 2nd Amendment? | guns |
| A solution of chromate ions has this color, as does the precipitate formed when lead nitrate reacts with potassium iodide. Sodium compounds give off this color in a flame test.Name this color associated with elements like sulfur and gold. | Yellow |
| In this short story by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford survives a shipwreck only to hunted like an animal by the sadistic Zaroff. | The Most Dangerous Game (accept The Hounds of Zaroff) |
| Hunting individual humans can be tiring, so this Irish satirist devised a plan to cook and eat the young children of starving Irish families during the potato famine in his essay “A Modest Proposal.” | Jonathan Swift |
| In the Damon Knight short story “To Serve Man,” which was made into a 1962 Twilight Zone episode, the narrator finds out that the title work is not a guide for aliens on how to help humankind, but is instead this type of book | Cookbook |
| This math operation can be expressed as fractional exponents, such as 64 to the 1/3 power. Name this operation symbolized by a checkmark-like symbol that extends over the input. | root |
| If the universe is closed, then all space may contract back into a single point in an event called this, the opposite of the Big Bang. | Big Crunch |
| Though his attempt to synthesize quinine was a failure, William Perkin became a rich and famous chemist anyway. Perkin’s failed experiment resulted in this first synthetic dye. Its name is now synonymous with a pale purple color | mauve |
| James Tallmadge wrote that slavery in this state would exist, but eventually die away.Name this state, the subject of an 1820 compromise that allowed this state to have slavery as long as every new state north and west of it entered as a free state. | Missouri |
| The Missouri Compromise also admitted this free state to the Union, keeping a North/South balance in the Senate. This state had previously been Massachusetts’ territory. | Maine |
| A passing remark in the ruling of this infamous Supreme Court case invalidated the Missouri Compromise. More directly, this 7-2 decision ruled that slaves were not US citizens and could not sue in court. | Dred Scott v Sanford |
| In a song, this singer says, “You held me down, but I got up” before proclaiming that she has the “eye of the tiger / dancing through the fire.” Name this artist behind “Swish Swish” and “Roar.” | Katy Perry |
| The pulla type of this garment was worn in mourning, and the picta was dyed purple to be worn by Emperors. Name this large, woolen garment that was draped and folded over ancient Roman men. | togas |
| This novel’s protagonist joins a pickpocket organization led by Fagin after a run-in with the Artful Dodger. Name this Charles Dickens novel about a title orphan who says “please, sir, I want some more.” | Oliver Twist |
| A student of this branch of math may use Thales’s [thay-lees’s] theorem to construct a tangent line. Name this branch of math studied in Euclid’s Elements, which defines objects like points, lines, and angles. | Geometry |
| The Roosevelt Corollary modified this man’s namesake doctrine, & his goodwill tour of America was described as the “Era of Good Feelings.” Name this 5thPresident of the United States whose namesake doctrine limited European involvement in North America | Monroe (James) |
| Teenagers on the island of T’au in this body of water were studied by Margaret Mead. Thor Heyerdahl’s raft Kon-Tiki crossed this ocean in a test of Polynesian technology. Coming of Age in Samoa studied island residents of what ocean? | Pacific Ocean |
| India and Thailand are the largest exporters of this crop, whose varieties include Japonica, Jasmine, and Basmati. Name this important cereal crop in many Asian cultures that is grown in paddies. | rice |
| The dog Argus recognizes this man, who is held captive by (*) Calypso and tricks Polyphemus, a cyclops, by claiming to be “no one.” Name this title character of a epic poem by Homer, who has a ten-year journey home to Ithaca | Odysseus |
| During this war, the submarine H.L. Hunley sank twice during testing and once more in a real attack. Name this war in which the Monitor and Merrimack, two ironclads, clashed at Hampton Roads. | American Civil War |
| In an attempt to end the Civil War, Winfield Scott developed this plan to economically “strangle” the South. This plan, commonly depicted in newspapers as a snake, was a massive blockade of every Southern port | Anaconda Plan |
| A key aspect of the Anaconda Plan was to take complete control of the Mississippi River by seizing this city. David Farragut captured this city without a fight; as a result, historic buildings in its French Quarter survived the war | New Orleans |
| Gods were not the only common subject of classical sculpture; a highly-regarded sculpture by the Greek artist Myron shows a nude athlete bending at an odd angle to perform this title action | throwing a discus |
| Both the special and general theories of relativity were developed by this physicist, whose multiple breakthroughs in 1905 led to that year being called his Annus Mirabilis | Albert Einstein |
| Albert Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize cited his 1905 explanation of the effect in which shining light on metals causes them to emit these subatomic particles. | electrons |
| Name these autonomous, humanoid machines from science fiction, which are governed by “Three Laws” that dictate that these things cannot injure a human or allow a human to come to harm | robots |
| This author’s Three Laws of Robotics appear in his short story collection I, Robot. This prolific author also wrote the Foundation series. | Isaac Asimov |
| This robot from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy does not follow Asimov’s Three Laws very well, possibly because of his extreme depression, which causes a bridge on Squornshellous Zeta to destroy itself and take an entire crowd of people with it | Marvin the Paranoid Android Robot |
| Centuries ago, Adam’s Bridge was a land connection linking Sri Lanka to this subcontinent, now the second-most populous country in the world. | India Indian subcontinent) |
| The distinctive pyramidal peak of the Matterhorn resulted from many of these objects moving simultaneously. Name these heavy, slow-moving masses that can carve sharp ridges called cirques into mountains. Some disappeared at the end of the last ice age. | glaciers |
| The Pali Canon collects the teachings and sayings of this man, who developed the philosophy of the “Middle Way.”Name this man, who founded a namesake Indian religion and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree | Gautama Buddha or Siddhartha Gautama |
| Some passages of the Pali Canon are memorized and recited as a form of this spiritual practice, which is often done to promote relaxation. The Buddha achieved enlightenment by doing this under the Bodhi tree | meditation |
| This symbol appears with pi in the exponent of the e in Euler’s formula. Name this letter that symbolizes the basic unit of imaginary numbers, the square root of negative 1. | i |
| Peter the Great ruled as Tsar of this country, which he led into the Great Northern War with Sweden | Russia |
| Among Peter’s the Great's methods of Westernizing his people was placing a tax on this fashion choice. The tax was unpopular, as many men felt that this fashion choice was a religious duty. | wearing a beard |
| This man is rumored to have stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. Name this character who hides trinkets in a tree outside his house and who carries Jem home after he is attacked. | Arthur Boo Radley |
| To correctly identify metals in a flame test, you can heat a sample with one of these devices, named for a German chemist, that uses a valve to adjust the gas-air mixture for a hotter flame. | Bunsen Burner |
| The protagonist of this work is described as a “prince of yesterday” and a “fools’ pope.” Name this Victor Hugo novel about Quasimodo, the title deformed bell-ringer of a Paris cathedral. | Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Homeostatic regulation of this process is controlled by melatonin produced by the pineal gland, setting circadian rhythms. This process goes through REM and non-REM phases over the course of, optimally, eight hours per night | Sleep Cycle |
| The frequency of this action increased during the Obama administration to roughly 400,000 people per year. Name this process of expelling foreign nationals, commonly illegal immigrants, from a country. | deportation |
| A woman and man are shrouded in this material in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, which is covered in this material’s decorative “leaf” form. Name this precious metal that can best be hammered into a thin, decorative sheet when its purity is roughly 22 karats | gold leaf |
| In a novel by this author, Roger Chillingworth changes his name while pursuing his wife, who has been marked with the title shameful symbol. Hester Prynne was created by what author of Twice-Told Tales and The Scarlet Letter? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| This man appointed Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court & passed the Affordable Care Act, & ran with the slogan “Yes We Can” to defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Name this first African-American president of the US | Barack Obama |
| In this book, Professor Charity Burbage is killed by a snake. Characters discover the secret identity of R.A.B after receiving help from the elf, Kreacher. Horcruxes must be destroyed in order to kill Voldemort. Name this 7th book by JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows |
| This composers 3rd symphony was originally composed to honor Napoleon, is titled “Eroica.” He depicted “fate knocking at the door” in the beginning “G-G-G-E flat” of his 5th symphony, & his 9th symphony is a setting of Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” | Ludwig von Beethoven |
| An opposite of this concept, determinism, says that there is a single, unavoidable course of events. Name this philosophical concept that holds people can make choices about their future actions. | Free will |
| For two months of this battle, soldiers defended Pavlov’s House against Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth Army, who eventually surrendered to Georgy Zhukov. Name this lengthy World War II siege of a Russian city named for the Soviet premier. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| Robert Goddard realized the third law of motion would allow these devices to operate in a vacuum. Wernher von Braun studied these devices. Solid or liquid propellants power what projectiles that include the German V-2 and NASA’s Saturn V? | Rockets |
| In Jainism, the arihat achieve this goal at death. The Eightfold Path is a guide for reaching this state, which frees a person from dukkha and samsara. Name this goal of Buddhism, a state of enlightenment which ends the karmic cycle of reincarnation. | Nirvana |
| A musical work with this number includes a setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy.” In four-four time, two whole notes and a quarter note tied together will last this many beats. Give this number of Beethoven’s final symphony. | 9 |
| August Spies was executed in this city for his role in the Haymarket Square bombing. In 1871, Mrs O’Leary’s cow legendarily started a “Great” fire in, what largest city of Illinois? | Chicago |
| Undercooked beef may be contaminated with this prokaryote that can divide every 20 minutes in a Petri dish. Name this Gram-negative, rod-shaped species that is normally found in the human large intestine, the most important bacterial model organism. | E Coli |
| Lines from this poet’s works are commonly translated as “should old acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind?” and “the best-laid plans of mice and men / oft go awry.” Name this Scottish poet who wrote “Auld Lang Syne” and “To a Mouse.” | Robert Burns |
| Morgan Spurlock relied on this company for 30 days as part of his 2004 documentary Super Size Me. In 2017, this company hosted a giveaway for their 1998 special, Szechuan sauce. Name this fast food chain that sells Big Macs under the “golden arches.” | Mc Donalds |
| For circles, this concept is called circumference. Name this geometric quantity, the total length of the path around a shape. | Perimeter |
| An orange sits on a windowsill in the left side of this painting as well as a pair of wooden shoes, a small dog , and a woman in a long, green dress. Name this painting of an Italian merchant and his new bride, created by Jan Van Eyck. | The Arnolfini Wedding |
| This god and Zephyrus both fell in love with Hyacinth, who was accidentally killed by this god. This god pursued the nymph Daphne, and received his lyre from Hermes. Name this Greek god of light and music, the twin brother of Artemis. | Apollo |
| In 2009, this city’s CN Tower lost its title as tallest tower in the world. This city, often nicknamed “the Six,” lies on the northwest shore of a Great Lake named for its Canadian province. Name this most populous city in Ontario and all of Canada. | Toronto |
| In HG Wells novel The Time Machine, the Traveller brings back 2 of these objects to prove his story. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote that her beloved “has brought me many” of these things “plucked from the garden". Name this colorful part of a plant. | Flowers |
| In 1992, 63 people died during the Rodney King race riots in this city, and looting was particularly bad in this city’s Koreatown neighborhood. | Los Angeles |
| Algorithms for performing this operation include “Bubble,” which checks pairs of adjacent elements and swaps if necessary. Name this computational task that is usually done to create ascending or descending lists out of randomly listed numbers | sorting |
| This mathematical term describes an arrangement of all the elements of a set. This term is often contrasted with combination, a similar concept that ignores the order of a set | permutation |
| Name the Spanish artist, who painted La maja desnuda, La maja vestida, and The Third of May, 1808 | Goya |
| This is the colorful collective name for the fourteen paintings Goya created on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo, so called because of the very dark colors that dominate these paintings | Black Paintings |
| In one of Goya’s Black Paintings, this Roman counterpart of the Titan Cronus is shown Devouring His Son, gnawing on the left arm of a bloodied and headless body. | Saturn |
| In this work, Elie Wiesel recounts how he was deported from a ghetto in Sighet and his eventual arrival at Auschwitz. Wiesel’s loss of faith is shown in this work when he states god is “hanging here on the gallows.” | Night |
| This writer wrote of falling in love with Peter van Pels while hiding in an annex in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, this young girl’s namesake diary had to be published posthumously as she did not survive her time at Bergen-Belsen. | Anne Frank |
| This man recruited Castor, Pollux, Heracles, Atalanta, and other heroes to accompany him on a difficult quest set by this man’s uncle, Pelias. Name this Greek hero, who led the Argonauts on a quest for the golden fleece | Jason |
| Pelias sent Jason after the golden fleece after Jason arrived in Iolcus wearing only one of these pieces of clothing. An oracle had warned Pelias that he would be threatened by a man wearing only one of these strappy pieces of footwear | sandals |
| After Jason returned with the golden fleece, this woman helped him claim Pelias’s throne by tricking Pelias’s daughters into killing him. When Jason tried to marry Glauce, this sorceress killed Glauce and the sons she had with Jason in revenge | Medea |
| Dr Hastie Lanyon dies of shock after witnessing the transformation of this novel’s protagonist. Name this novel, in which the respectable first title character creates a potion that transforms him into the ruthless second title character | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were created by this Scottish author, who also created the character David Balfour in "Kidnapped". | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The photograph Pillars of Creation shows stars being formed within the “Eagle” one of these bodies. Name these interstellar clouds of dust and gas. They may be planetary, like the Cat’s Eye, or supernova remnants, like the Crab | nebulae |
| Astronomers seeking stellar nurseries often search for this type of radiation, found between UV rays and gamma rays on the EM spectrum. | X Ray |
| Martin Luther’s break from the Catholic Church began this period of religious history, in which Protestants tried to change the workings of the church. | Protestant Reformation |
| This current President of France defeated Marine le Pen in the 2017 elections. | Emmanuel Macron |
| The struggle of this novel’s central family is paralleled by an old turtle attempting to cross a road. Name this John Steinbeck novel about the Joad family’s westward-trek to California. This novel’s title refers to the hardship the Joads will face. | The Grapes of Wrath |
| The losing side in this battle was led by a brother of Tecumseh known as “the Prophet,” . Name this 1811 battle. 29 years later, the winning general capitalized on his victory at this battle by using it in a campaign slogan | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| When Elizabeth saw this figure, her baby jumped in her womb, foretelling John the Baptist’s relationship with this immaculately-conceived woman’s son. name this biblical woman, who traveled to Bethlehem with Joseph and gave birth to Jesus. | Mary |
| A personal feud led the first head of this organization to (*) wiretap John F Kennedy’s house. Name this governmental agency, once led by J. Edgar Hoover, that is the primary law enforcement agency of the US. | FBI |
| The order “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was given during this battle, which was fought outside Boston. Name this early Revolutionary War battle that, despite its name, was fought mostly on Breed’s Hill | The Battle of Bunker Hill |
| This landmass formed when Laurasia and Gondwana collided, and was first proposed by Alfred Wegener as a result of continental drift. The global ocean Panthalassa surrounded what most-recent supercontinent that broke up 200 million years ago? | Pangaea |
| Name this novel by Miguel de Cervantes about an imaginative man who convinces himself he is a knight and rides out to seek adventure on an old farmhorse | Don Quijote of La Mancha |
| Give these two terms. Music written in one style is often described as bright or cheery, while the other is often described as dark or sad. | Major and Minor |
| A minor third can also be described as this type of third, because it is one note lower than the major third. Notes may be described by this term if lowered by half a step, or by “sharp” if raised half a step. | flat |
| This man’s presidency lasted less than 900 days, the shortest term for any US president who didn’t die in office. Name this Republican politician, who lost his only Presidential election to Jimmy Carter. | Gerald Ford |
| Andy Serkis plays the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke in this franchise now owned by Disney | Star Wars |
| Aphrodite was also the lover of this extraordinarily beautiful mortal man, and became so distraught at this man’s death during a hunt that she caused anemone flowers to bloom where his blood fell. | Adonis |
| According to legend, Abraham Lincoln called this author the “little woman who started the big war,” because she exposed the horrors of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Athens and Sparta feuded in this series of 5th century BCE wars. This conflict ended with Athens’ navy getting destroyed at Aegospotami and Sparta installing the Thirty Tyrants to control Athens. | Peloponnesian War(s) |
| Name the Judeo-Christian patriarch whose wives, Leah and Rachel, escalated a war of child production by offering this man their handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah, making this man the father of twelve sons, including Judah and Joseph. | Jacob |
| A member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show was this Lakota chief who, with Crazy Horse, defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. | Sitting Bull |
| During the American Revolution, soldiers in the British army were known as “lobsters” and as this colorful term, based on their uniforms. | redcoats |
| This mythical figure was the sister of Stheno and Euryale, and became the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus after her death. Name this snake-haired Gorgon woman, whose gaze turned all who saw her into stone. | Medusa |
| To predict the results of a trihybrid cross, one of these diagrams would need 64 individual boxes.Name this diagram used to determine the genotypes of offspring produced by parents with known alleles. | Punnett squares |
| If a breeding experiment results in 75% of the offspring showing the dominant phenotype, it is likely both parents have this genotype containing both a dominant and recessive allele. | heterozygous |
| Name this 1800's politician who fought in the Texas War for Independence and died at the Alamo. This figure became known later as the “King of the Wild Frontier.” | Davy Crockett |
| Name these insects that perform a waggle dance to communicate to each other where food sources are located relative to their honeycombs. | honeybees |
| What is the primary oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells | HEMOGLOBIN |
| What is the general name for the rising and falling of sea levels in response to the forces exerted by the Moon and Sun? | TIDES |
| What is the name of the rock that makes up most of the ocean floor and volcanic ocean islands? | BASALT |
| What are the 2 main factors causing the metamorphism of rocks? | HEAT AND PRESSURE |
| What is the name for any segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle and the other endpoint on the circle? | RADIUS |
| In what organelle of a plant cell does photosynthesis occur? | CHLOROPLAST |
| What is the name for the biochemical process that converts grape juice into wine or soy beans into soy sauce? | FERMENTATION |
| What is the common name for the antiseptic, found in many homes, that decomposes into water and oxygen? | HYDROGEN PEROXIDE |
| What is the scientific name for the white of a cooked egg? | ALBUMEN |
| What term is generally used for biological catalysts? | ENZYMES |
| Every triangle has how many vertices? | 3 |
| Wayne Morse was one senator to oppose a law, named after this body of water that granted LBJ the power to deploy American troops in Southeast Asia. The Turner Joy & the Maddox were attacked by torpedo boats in what gulf off the coast of North Vietnam? | Gulf of Tonkin |
| The top platform of these structures were believed to bridge heaven and earth and were the site of priestly rituals. For the point, identify these terraced Mesopotamian temples, often cited as precursors to Egyptian pyramids. | ziggurats |
| William Lloyd Garrison gave a religious nickname to this woman, who never ran her “train off the track” or “lost a passenger.” Name this woman, nicknamed Moses, who assisted dozens of slaves as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. | Harriet Tubman |
| This man became paralyzed after he was shot by Arthur Bremer, when he tried to run for president. In 1963, this man declared his support for segregation “now,” “tomorrow,” and “forever.” Name this former Alabama governor. | George C Wallace |
| Fictional examples of these people named BJ Hunnicut and Hawkeye Pierce worked in the 4077th during the Korean War in the T.V. show M*A*S*H. Name these professionals who work “without Borders” in warzones to heal the wounded. | doctors |
| Name the actress who starred as Julia Child in Julie and Julia, as well as The Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady, Kramer vs Kramer, The Post, and is a three time Oscar Winner for Best Actress. | Meryl Streep |
| The Greensboro sit-in began at a one of these businesses sponsors New York City’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. Frank Woolworth and Marshall Field founded, for the point, what type of business such as Sears and Macy’s? | Department Stores |
| Violators of their policy are blocked from holding government jobs. This policy has increased sex-selective abortion & a massive gender imbalance, due to a cultural bias in favor of having sons. Name this policy meant to control the population of China. | One Child Policy |
| Along with Teddy Wilson she produced hits like “Easy Living” “If You Were Mine,” & "What Little Moonlight Can Do" Name this American jazz musician, nicknamed “Lady Day,” who popularized the anti-lynching protest song “Strange Fruit.” | Billie Holiday |
| The Gregg and Furman cases determined the standards of this amendment for Georgia laws concerning people on Death Row. Name this amendment that prohibits excessive bail, as well as “cruel and unusual punishment.” | 8th amendment |
| 3 princesses of this city committed suicide after seeing an infant in a box being guarded by serpents. Poseidon offered a horse to this city, who instead voted to accept an olive tree from a goddess of wisdom. Name this Greek city home of the Acropolis | Athens |
| This city’s police chief, Bull Connor, turned firehoses & dogs against child protesters in May 1963. It's 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by white supremacists. Name this Alabama city from whose jail MLK wrote a letter advocating nonviolence. | Birmingham |
| After winning a design contest with his “giant saucer” plan, John Graham designed this building for the 1962 World’s Fair. Mt. Rainier & the Cascade Mts. are visible from the 520 ft high observation deck of what tower, the tallest building in Seattle? | Space Needle |
| The Bozeman Trail connected Wyoming to this state, where the 7th Cavalry was destroyed in 1876 by a Native American coalition that included Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse. Name this state where the Battle of Little Bighorn was fought near Billings | Montana |
| Name the author of Rights of Man who proposed an American Magna Carta in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense. | Thomas Paine |
| Displays at this event included“human village” of African peoples. Buffalo Bill convinced Annie Oakley to join his Wild West Show here.. The Eiffel Tower was built to serve as an entrance for what 19th-century international exhibition held in Paris. | Worlds Fair 1889 |
| A minute of silence was observed before this piece was played four days after 9/11, and this B-flat minor piece was played on-air during the announcements of FDR and JFK’s deaths. Name this slow, somber composition by Samuel Barber. | Adagio for Strings |
| Both he and the headless horseman were in love with Katrina, in the story THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving. Name this character | Ichabod Crane |
| What sport has a trophy called the Stanley Cup? | Hockey |
| What sport has a trophy called The America's Cup? | Yacht Racing |
| Money paid for support of spouse after a divorce is called? | Alimony |
| The oldest living thing in the U.S. is named for a Civil War general. It is located in Sequoia National Park. What is its name? | General Sherman Big Tree |
| A group of similar cells is called a tissue. What do scientists call a group of similar tissues? | organ |
| October 4, 1957, was the day the Space Age started with the launching of a Russian spacecraft. What was it called? | Sputnik |
| Medical term that describes massive bleeding. | Hemorrhaging |
| Lord Kelvin was the British physicist who devised the absolute temperature scale. What scientist developed the Centigrade scale? | Celsius |
| If you were offered your choice of a Bartlett, Bosque, or Anjou, what is it you would be choosing? | Pears |
| The noun "altar" means the raised platform where religious sacrifices were made. What does the verb "alter" mean? | to change |
| Its chemical formula is FeS(2). Technically, it's called iron sulfide, or iron pyrites. It is shiny yellow; it occurs abundantly as a native ore. In popular terms, what is it called? | Fool Gold |
| She was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster, but was rescued by Perseus. Daughter of Cassiopeia, she was placed among the stars after her death. What is her name? | Andromeda |
| Many kings named Edward have ruled England. Which one abdicated his throne in favor of marriage to the American woman Mrs. Allis Warfield Simpson? | Edward VIII |
| Botany is the branch of science dealing with the study of plants. What branch of science involves the study of fossils? | Paleontology |
| Only one of our fifty states was an independent country, recognized by the United States, before it became a state. Name it. | Texas |
| This word describes the code of honor of the knights during the Middle Ages. Blameless behavior, courtesy, and respect for women are among the elements of the code. What word am I looking for? | Chivalry |
| Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this part, containing the verb. Name it. | predicate |
| Proliferate means to spread rapidly. What does prognosticate mean? | To predict or foretell |
| This word has two meanings. As a verb, it means to shudder or tremble. As a noun, it names the container in which an archer carries his arrows. What is the word? | quiver |
| What musical instrument did the famous Benny Goodman play? | clarinet |
| A federal judge ruled that which NFL team could keep its trademark name and logos because a group of activists didn’t provide enough evidence that the team’s moniker insulted a substantial number of Native Americans? | Washington Redskins |
| The setting for J.R. Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS. | Middle Earth |
| In what month is the earth closest to the sun? | January |
| Cartoon character famous for “Here I come to save the day.” | MIghty Mouse |
| What does valour (valor)mean? | Courage or bravery |
| The atomic number of hydrogen is one; helium is 2. What chemical element possesses the atomic number 3? | Lithium |
| If a passage of music is marked "pp," what does it mean? | Pianissimo, or "play very softly" |
| Petrology is the study of what? | rocks |
| Into which river was Achilles dipped by his mother Venus? | Styx |
| What crop is a special target of the boll weevil? | Cotton |
| In poetry, what do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds? | Alliteration |
| He captured 132 Germans by himself and also an important machine gun post. He was honored as the greatest American hero of the First World War. Later, he became a minister. Who was he? | Alvin C. York |
| The first declaration of war leading to the First World War was made on July 28, 1914. Who declared war on whom? | Austria-Hungary on Serbia |
| During what battle was our National Anthem composed? | Battle of Fort McHenry |
| In a standard basketball court, the rim of the basket is elevated how many feet above the court? | 10 |
| What does M stand for in Roman numerals? | 1,000 |
| What famous landmark was re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona? | London Bridge |
| Geology Term: An open place for the extraction of stone. | quarry |
| What great American said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all"? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What gas makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere? | Nitrogen |
| If you have ever been to the national capital building in Washington, D.C., you have probably stood in the circular hall under the massive central dome. What is this interior space called? | Rotunda |
| The male partner of a doe is a buck. What is the male partner of a duck? | drake |
| "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free." This was issued on September 22, 1862, by Abe Lincoln. | Emancipation Proclamation |
| What is the main vegetable ingredient of a coleslaw salad? | Cabbage |
| "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," are the opening words of what familiar song? | BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC |
| The reign of Augustus began a 200-year period of peace in Rome. During the two centuries, commerce flourished and the standard of living got better. Historians use a Latin phrase to describe this period. What is it? | Pax Romana |
| As a singing cowboy, he appeared in nearly 100 motion pictures, and his recording of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER has sold more than 12 million copies. He owned six radio stations, two television stations, and the California Angels. Name him | Gene Autrey |
| The quest of this object is the subject of such masterpieces as Wagner's opera PARSIFAL, Tennyson's poem IDYLLS OF THE KING, and Malory's book about the death of King Arthur. In medieval legend, it was the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. | Holy Grail |
| Where do relief pitchers warm up? | Bull Pen |
| In football, a punter may aim to kick the ball out of bounds within the 10 yard line, an area known as what? | Coffin Corner |
| How many tablespoons are in a cup? | 16 |
| How many yards is a team penalized for being offside in football? | 5 yards |
| What is a piece of turf knocked into the air in golf called? | a divot |
| The U.S. had no women soldiers in its Army until what war? | WW 2 |
| Which month was named after the man who said, "The die is cast. I have crossed the Rubicon"? | July (Julius Caesar) |
| . What NBA star withdrew his debut rap CD after league commissioner David Stern called it “coarse, offensive, and anti-social”? | Allen Iverson |
| Right after the Civil War, many northern politicians went South to take advantage of the confusion left after the war. What were these scoundrels called? | Carpetbaggers |
| How many colors are there in a monochrome painting? | 1 |
| This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. | Little League |
| A statue by Edvard Ericksen at the water's edge in Copenhagen harbor depicts the heroine of one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories | Little Mermaid |
| The friends Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, are better known by what collective name? | Three Musketeers |
| Dill pickles are made from what vegetable? | Cucumbers |
| A sports arena built by the Emperor Titus year A.D. 80 still stands despite centuries of pillage and earthquakes. Name this tourist attraction and the European city where it's located. | Colosseum in Rome |
| An odometer measures car mileage. What does an anemometer do? | wind speed |
| Castor and Pollux are the names of two stars in what constellation? | Gemini |
| What did Benjamin Franklin invent because he got tired of having to carry two pairs of glasses with him--one for close-up and the other for distance? | Bifocals |
| As stated in the popular proverb, what does haste make? | waste |
| Biologists have a word for the offspring of two animals or plants of different species which are crossbred. What is the word? | hybrid |
| Booker T. Washington was the first black to receive an honorary degree from what Ivy League school? | Harvard |
| This branch of engineering deals primarily with the design, construction, and maintenance of public works such as highways, bridges, and waterways. What is this discipline called? | Civil Engineering |
| Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. Roentgen is chiefly remembered for the discovery of what? | X Rays |
| A race of monsters in Greek mythology had the chest, arms, and head of a man, and the belly and legs of a horse. Members of this race were called what? | Centaurs |
| What does the verb rejuvenate mean? | To make new |
| What war did Billy Yank and Johnny Reb fight? | Civil War |
| The first and last letters of our alphabet are A and Z. What are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet? | Alpha and omega |
| A triangle with all three sides congruent is called an equilateral triangle. What do we call a triangle with no sides congruent? | Scalene |
| To rid their nation of the monarchy during the Reign of Terror, French revolutionaries used what popular mode of execution? | Guillotine |
| In 1922, an English archeologist named Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon discovered one of the richest finds in history. What did these two men find? | The Tomb of King Tutankhamen |
| When a person gives false testimony under oath in a court of law, it's called what? | Perjury |
| This animal is found at the beginning of an encyclopedia | Aardvark |
| This bird sings its name at dusk | Whippoorwill |
| Taco Bell had to pay an additional $11.8 million in interest to two Michigan men who successfully sued the fast-food chain for stealing their idea of an ad campaign featuring a talking what? | Chihuahua |
| A state of lawlessness or political disorder within a country--in short, the lack of any governmental authority--is called what? | anarchy |
| In arithmetic, what do we call the quantity from which another quantity is subtracted? | Minuend |
| Name the song sung by Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO | WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR |
| According to the Bible, what was man made from? | dust |
| The study of man is called | Anthropology |
| What rodent has no tail? | Guinea Pig |
| "Oui" in French means? | yes |
| What do we call it when the President chooses to not sign a bill into law? | veto |
| Which of our founding father's has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence? | John Hancock |
| What term refers to a person who wanted to see slavery ended? | abolitionist |
| These units were discovered by Robert Hooke in a slice of cork in 1665. They have many parts, including membranes, mitochondria, and nuclei. Identify these basic building blocks of life. | cell |
| What is the name of Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis Tennessee? | Graceland |
| Which boxer lost part of his ear to the teeth of Mike Tyson in 1997 in a televised fight? | Evander HOlyfield |
| What's the name of the bird that cartoon cat Sylvester chases in vain? | Tweety Pie |
| The Ten Commandments are found in which two books of the Bible? | Exodus and Deuteronomy |
| In the Bible Cain built a city named after his son. What is the name? | Enoch |
| In the Bible John the Baptist lived on wild honey and what? | locusts |
| In the Old Testament whose name means Gods with us? | Emmanuel |
| What is the last book of the Bible? | Revelations |
| What is the largest moon of Jupiter called? | Ganymede |
| An onomastician studies what? | Names |
| What is the Latin word for the North Star? | Polaris |
| Who said "necessity is the mother of invention" ? | Ovid (Ancient Greece) |
| What did J Edgar Hoover bar people from walking on? | His Shadow |
| Every fifteen minutes cockroaches do what? | Fart |
| At the age of 15, Jack Andraka won an Intel Award for a noninvasive method of early detection for the pancreatic form of this disease | Cancer |
| Zero players were elected into this sport's Cooperstown Hall of Fame in 2013 | baseball |
| This king's "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt" | King Solomon |
| Hey! Ouch! Ugh! Are all what parts of speech? | Interjections |
| This brand is known for its 501 Original Fit jeans | Levi |
| It's the most widely spoken first language in Israel | Hebrew |
| Chapter 1 of this classic is entitled "Down the Rabbit-hole" | Alice in Wonderland |
| In Literature, After "Madeline" went to the hospital, "all the little girls cried, 'boohoo', we want to have our" this "out, too!" | Appendixes |
| From the back cover of this book: "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem" | The Hunger Games |
| If you have to wear a school uniform, it might include this short-sleeve collared shirt named for an equine sport | polo |
| This sport uses a ball that was once made from pig stomach; bathing caps are needed too | water polo |
| In 2013 Queen Beatrix of this country abdicated in favor of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander | The Netherlands |
| Sweet! In books by Judy Blume, Farley Drexel Hatcher is better known by this nickname | Fudge |
| Following a plane crash in the wilderness, Brian Robeson doesn't "bury" this title tool but uses it to survive | hatchet |
| Brothers is the brother store of this clothing store for tween girls whose name means "equitableness" | Justice |
| He wove the Book of Revelation into his final Narnia book, "The Last Battle" | C.S. Lewis |
| Extracting a pencil to cure "Writer's Cramp" in the patient in this game might require the nerves of a surgeon | "Operation" |
| We hope the Gingerbread People avoid the Molasses Swamp & make it to the Lollipop Woods in this board game | "Candy Land" |
| "Here comes" this pint-sized beauty pageant sensation aka Alana Thompson in this TV Show. | Toddlers and Tiaras |
| SpongeBob & Squidward work at this restaurant | The Krusty Krab |
| No roads lead into this state capital of Alaska | Juneau |
| On "Phineas and Ferb," a lone platypus stands up against the evil plans of this doctor | Dr. Doofenshcmitz |
| Vocabulary: To punish a sports player for an infraction | penalize |
| In the classic Milton Bradley game, a battleship is 4 squares & this is the biggest vessel, taking up 5 | Naval Carrier |
| The weapons in this game have included a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a revolver & a candlestick | "Clue" |
| This game in which little men are lined up on rods in rows is also called table soccer | "Foosball" |
| Literally or figuratively, it's what you wave when you surrender | White Flag |
| Under FIFA rules a soccer player receives this for a first serious foul; a second means ejection | Yellow card |
| Ryan Seacrest interviews celebs arriving at the Oscars "live from" this colorful place | Red Carpet |
| The second to last book in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events": "The ____ Peril" | Penultimate |
| The largest peninsula on earth is mostly made up of this Middle Eastern country | Saudi Arabia |
| 277 miles long & often 1 mile deep, it's the largest gorge in the U.S. of A. | Grand Canypn |
| Chris Van Allsburg's "The ____ Express" | Polar |
| The Nile is longer, but in terms of volume, this is the world's largest river | Amazon |
| The 3 little kittens cried when they lost these | Their Mittens |
| Peter Piper picked a peck of these | Pickleed Peppers |
| Get your kicks (& punches) learning Shotokan, a Japanese system of this martial art | Karate |
| This art of decorative handwriting is from the Greek for "beautiful writing" | Calligraphy |
| Daniel Rutherford discovered this gas that makes up most of the atmosphere & called it "noxious air" | Nitrogen |
| It was stolen by Tom, Tom, the piper's son | pig |
| It's a helpful list of terms & definitions at the back of some textbooks | glossary |
| This cat from the "Shrek" movies got his own film | Puss in Boots |
| Hydrogen has an atomic number of 1; this light gas, 2 | Helium |
| Appropriately, the name of this first book of the Bible means "origin" or "beginning" | Genesis |
| A more original pole dance? This West Indies dance uses a progressively lowered bar | Limbo |
| "Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do" this lively South American dance in triple time? | Fandango |
| Also a haircut style, it's the R&B-based state dance of South Carolina | Shag |
| This term for ancient arenas like the Colosseum comes from Greek words meaning "viewing on both sides" | Ampitheater |
| A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands | Shetland |
| Vocab: "Fruitless", or "showing excessive pride in one's appearance" | Vain |
| In 2013 Charles Krauthammer wrote "In Defense of" the use of these controversial aircraft | Drones |
| $600 27 After eating the cake that had "Eat me" spelled out in currants, she said, "Curiouser and curiouser!" | Alice |
| Vocab: "Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring | sterile |
| Distance from the equator measured in degrees | latitude |
| A phrase meaning a 180 in your situation, or a film with Jeremy Irons & Glenn Close as Claus & Sunny von Bulow | Reversal of Fortune |
| Applesauce & sour cream are 2 traditional accompaniments to these potato pancakes | Latkes |
| A "kid" who lets himself in after school because his parents are working is known by this compound word. | latchkey |
| A body such as Venus that moves in the opposite direction of other members of the solar system has this kind of motion | retrograde |
| Traditionally, the shirt named for this British sport has broad stripes in 2 colors, a white collar & rubber buttons | rugby |
| The Youngers get a $10,000 insurance check & leave their apartment to move into the all-white Clybourne Park neighborhood is the plot of what play by Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Alec Baldwin asks, "What's in your wallet?" in ads for this company | Capital One |
| The negotiator (William Shatner) has a secret daughter (Kaley Cuoco) in ads for this discount travel site | Priceline |
| Flo, of the dark hair & red lipstick, wants drivers to try Snapshot from this insurance company | Progressive |
| Though its name harks back to medieval times, this genre of mystery & terror thrived from 1790 to 1820 | Gothic Novel |
| Rephrase this cliche: "Color a metropolis crimson" | Paint the town red |
| Rephrase this cliche: "Maintain one's digits folded" (for luck) | Keep your fingers crossed |
| Created in 1953, a 487-square-mile demilitarized zone separates this Asian country from its southern neighbor | North Korea |
| The English Channel & the Strait of Dover connect this body of water with the Atlantic Ocean | The North Sea |
| George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series includes "A Storm of Swords" & "A Dance with" these creatures | dragons |
| Navy SEAL & expert marksman Chris Kyle called his autobiography "American" this type of shooter | sniper |
| Number of feet in a statute mile | 5,280 |
| For co-founding Farm Aid, this Country Music Hall of Fame member is in the Agricultural Hall of Fame too | Willie Nelson |
| The contributions of J. Sterling Morton include this tree-planting holiday first observed on April 10, 1872 | Arbor Day |
| Vocab: To send out military troops in readiness for combat | deploy |
| Mix ginger ale & grenadine & garnish with fruit & you get the alcohol-free cocktail named for this child star | Shirley Temple |
| The band Nirvana is part of this Pacific Northwest school of rock | grunge |
| With both a hard & a soft G, this word means to eat gluttonously | gorge |
| In 'Finding Nemo', what is Nemo's dad's name? | Marlin |
| Vocab: The word clandestine is synonymous with the word.... | secrete |
| Ascorbic Acid is another name for which Vitamin? | Vitamin C |
| The kart-racing game in the movie 'Wreck-It Ralph' is called | Sugar Rush |
| The word 'coconut' comes from a 16th century Portuguese word 'cocos' meaning .....? (a) angry face (b) weeping face (c) grinnning face | grinning face |
| A dried plum is properly known as a .....? | prune |
| With reference to 1960s slang words, if a teenager called you a 'hawk' in the 1960s what would they be accusing you of? | war supporter |
| In October 2014, at the age of 17, she became the first teenager to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her work to allow girls to get education in Palestine. | Malala Yousafzai |
| Your 'rotator cuff' is a group of muscles and tendons found in your .....? | shoulder |
| A coloured handkerchief worn around the head or neck is also called a | bandana |
| Background performers in a movie are called ... | extras |
| Word that stars with F meaning extremely hungry | famished |
| A reference book containing lists of synonyms is called a | thesaurus |
| A nickname for a female fox (Starts with v) | vixen |
| What is the term for a person running for public office? | candidate |
| A group of bees is a swarm and a group of gnats is a horde. What Is a group of ants? | colony |
| Consider the line, "Which is the witch who wished the wicked wish?" What is the phrase for any such a group of words difficult to articulate rapidly? | tongue twister |
| Name this hit games from Pop-cap. The objective of this Pop-cap game is to swap one of the titular objects with an adjacent one to form a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more, possibly causing a cascade. | Bejeweled |
| After his brother is killed in a mugging, Jake Sully is brought into the titular program to convince the natives to leave their home. The highest grossing film ever, this is what 2009 James Cameron film? | Avatar |
| He sends his father back in time to save his mother. This is what leader of the human resistance in the Terminator series? | John Connner |
| This mountain range is home to Pike’s Peak and Banff National Park. Name this mountain range that runs from British Columbia to New Mexico. | Rocky Mountains |
| Ohm’s law states that the voltage between two points in a circuit is proportional to this quantity. Give this quantity that measures the flow of electric charge which is often symbolized “I.” | current |
| Name this process of inducing an altered mental state, in which the subjects demonstrate increased conscious attachment, heightened memory, and increased susceptibility to suggestion | hypnosis |
| One of this project’s longtime benefactors was Leland Stanford. Name this major network that was completed at Promontory Point, Utah. Its construction was aided in part by a mass influx of Cantonese immigrant workers | First Transcontinental Railroad |
| These uncountable nouns imitate the sound that they denote. Examples include words like “bang,” “tick,” and “buzz.” | onomatopoeia |
| The Massacre of Martin’s Hundred in Virginia occurred near this first permanent English settlement in America that suffered during the Starving Time. | Jamestown |
| Lake Okeechobee borders the northern part of this area. Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons have been captured here. Name this area in South Florida which contains millions of acres of protected marshes and wetlands. | Florida Everglades |
| This candy bar consists of multilayered wafers covered in milk chocolate. It is believed by some that the onset of the Second World War brought about its easily shareable shape. | Kit Kat |
| This Nestle candy is made of chocolate nougat, peanuts, and caramel. Despite popular belief, its name comes from Grover Cleveland’s daughter rather than the name of a famous Yankee slugger | Babe Ruth |
| Composed of chocolate, caramel, and rolled in crisped rice, this candy bar was named after a series of game shows. Its slogan is “That’s Rich!” | 100,000 Bar |
| This Greek deity, was sometimes called “Khthonios” because of his possible origin as a god of the underworld. In some stories he conducts dead souls to Erebus when he’s not busy delivering messages | Hermes |
| This epic poem is one of the oldest works written in Old English; it follows the titular Geatish hero who comes to the aid of Hrothgar, King of the Danes | Beowulf |
| This god’s carriage is pulled by two goats that are eaten and resurrected each time. He will kill Jörmungandr and take nine steps before dying from its venom. | Thor |
| In a wire loop in a magnetic field, this quantity =the strength of the field X the dipole moment X the sine of the angle between them. Symbolized tau, this is the vector acting on an extended object; it is a force exerted on an axis of rotation | torque |
| This figure once cheated in a sledding race by causing her opponent, Poli’ahu, to almost fall into a stream of lava. Believed to reside in the Kilauea volcano. Name this goddess of fire and creator of the Hawaiian islands. | Pele |
| This woman got started in her field thanks to her correspondence with Louis Leakey. Most of her work was done at Gombe River National Park. Name this English primatologist, most notable for studying chimpanzees. | Jane Goodall |
| Sometimes the lead actress also play the character Odile, the daughter of the enchanter Baron von Rothbart. Featuring a love affair with Prince Siegfried. Name this Tchaikovsky ballet that depicts Odette being cursed into becoming the title animal. | Swan Lake |
| Unlike hail, this is a water droplet that freezes after hitting a cold layer of air. Despite an older definition, it is not simply a mix of rain and snow. | sleet |
| This precipitation comes in the form of icy pellets, which are kept in a cloud until it becomes too heavy to hold. The largest precipitate of this type was 8 inches in diameter. | hail |
| William D. Mitchell ordered the eviction of this group. Name this group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington for the immediate payment of money promised to them in 1924 by the Federal Government. | Bonus Army |
| This figure is a common trickster in Native American folklore and was believed to control the rain in Navajo mythology. In one story, this figure forces humanity to move into the “fifth world” when he angers Water Buffalo | coyote |
| This African trickster spirit was said to have acquired all the world’s stories from the Sky God by capturing several animals. This figure was also said to have hidden away the world’s knowledge in a clay pot. | Anansi |
| A solo for this instrument plays at the very start of The Godfather, & this instrument introduces the theme in the Superman score. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, this instrument plays a rising motif. Name this brass instrument related to the cornet | trumpet |
| This rapper declares “all my friends are dead, push me to the edge,” on Luv is Rage 2. This rapper exclaims “Yeah!” to begin his guest verse on the song “Bad and Boujee” by Migos. Name this rapper of smash hits like “Money Longer” and “XO Tour Llif3.” | Lil Uzi Vert [or Symere Woods] |
| This concept is opposed by the prospect of determinism. Arthur Schopenhauer notably wrote on work entitled The World as this concept and Representation. Name this philosophical concept, the ability for an individual to make decisions of their own volition | free will |
| This play features the line “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em,” as well as the marriage of Duke Orsino. Set in Illyria. Name this Shakespeare play featuring the twins Sebastian and Viola. | Twelfth Night |
| This mountain’s Kibo crest is a volcanic peak which is said to have destroyed a Maasai village. This mountain’s namesake National Park is near the city of Mochi and the border with Kenya. Name this tallest mountain in Africa. | Mount Kilimanjaro |
| An aerial campaign over this city led to the destruction of Kaiser Wilhelm Church. This city was the site of a blockade and subsequent airlift known as Operation Vittles. Name this city that was divided by a namesake wall during the Cold War | Berlin |
| In this novel, the narrator repeats the saying: “I yam what I am,” Tod Clifton is later shot by the police & Dr. Bledsoe expels the narrator from the school. The narrator ends up living underground with 1,369 light bulbs. Name this book by Ralph Ellison. | The Invisible Man |
| Cicero’s head & hands were sent to this leader after Cicero attacked him in writing & this man was defeated at the Battle of Actium. . Name this member of the Second Triumvirate who committed suicide to avoid capture by Octavian. | Marc Antony |
| Pharaohs were thought to be physical avatars of this deity, who also fathered the gods responsible for guarding canopic jars. The wedjat symbolizes this husband of Hathor. Name this falcon headed deity who defeated Set to avenge his father, Osiris. | Horus |
| This city is home to the Ace Chemicals building. Roman Sionis leads a crime syndicate in this city dominated by the Maroni and Falcone crime families.This is what fictional New Jersey town famously patrolled by Batman? | Gotham |
| Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf opens with a duck arguing with an animal represented by this instrument. Ravel’s Bolero opens with this solo instrument. Prince Tamino receives the power to turn sorrow into joy with a magical one of these woodwinds. | flute |
| The Analects are the collected teachings of what Chinese scholar who notably founded a namesake school of thought centering on logic, education, and Chinese cultural traditions. | Confucius |
| This creature was confused when Ortygia was covered with waves to fulfill a prophecy that a woman could only give birth where the sun did not shine. Name this dragon oracle who was killed by a four-day-old Apollo | Python |
| Python attempted to prevent Apollo’s birth by stalking this mother of Apollo and Artemis. | Leto |
| After a “fire hose” spouted lava into the ocean in 2017 from this volcano, it began in 2018 to erupt on a large scale, with rifts opening up all across its island. | Mt. Kilauea (Hawaii) |
| In 2018, archaeologists found the remains of a man who escaped the destruction in this city only to be crushed by a boulder. Name this Roman city whose remains were preserved after it was covered by ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius & Herculaneum/ | Pompeii |
| One of the prominent primary sources for the destruction of Pompeii is a letter by this man, who described watching the eruption from a distance and told of the death of his uncle, a general who tried to rescue citizens. | Pliny the Younger |
| Arianism stands in contrast to this orthodox doctrine of God, which states that the Godhead is composed of three equal, eternal, and distinct hypostases or “persons,” sharing one unified “ousia” or “essence.” | The Trinity |
| The Works Progress Administration was part of this much broader FDR program fighting the Great Depression. | New Deal |
| This object was believed by the pre-Islamic Arabs to be the “right hand” of the god al-Rahman. It is currently kissed in the Istilam ritual as part of the hajj. | The Black Stone (Kaaba) |
| This man is warned by David of Doncaster not to go to an archery contest. Name this folk hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor | Robin Hood |
| How many electrons does a hydrogen atom have? | One |
| In the X-Men film franchise, Halle Berry played the role of which character? | Storm |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by which Dutch Golden Age painter? | Johannes Vermeer |
| What is Mickey Mouse's dogs name? | Pluto |
| Which famous American musician was fatally shot by his father on April 1, 1984 and had hits with "Let's Get it On" , "Whats Going On, and "Heard it Through the Grapevine". | Marvin Gaye |
| Who is the only athlete ever to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series? | Deion Sanders |
| The "Lone Star" state is which states slogan? | Texas |
| Released in 1992, what is the best selling soundtrack album of all time from singer Whitney Houston? | The Bodyguard |
| What did the crocodile swallow in Peter Pan? | (alarm clock) |
| Where is the smallest bone in the body? | ear |
| What does the roman numeral C represent? | 100 |
| What nationality was Frederic Chopin? | Polish |
| What’s the best known artificial international language? | esperanto |
| Who lived at 221B, Baker Street, London? | Sherlock Holmes |
| How many dots are there on a pair of dice? | 42 |
| How many squares are there on a chess board? | 64 |
| What language has the most words? | English |
| Who sang, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”? | Bing Crosby |
| What was the name of the pandemic which killed over 1% of the world’s population in 1918? | Spanish Flu |
| What was the name of Charles Lindbergh’s plane in which he completed the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight? | Spirit of St Louis (achieved in 1927) |
| The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were fought between which two houses of England? | York and Lancaster |
| Which German city endured the worst bombing of World War Two in February 1945 | Dresden |
| What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916? | Rasputin |
| The energy of the Universe is constant; it can neither be created or destroyed but only transferred and transformed. What scientific law is this? | Law of Conservation of Energy |
| What does the Scoville Heat Unit Scale measure? | Heat of Chiles |
| The hollow woody tissue in plants that carries water and minerals from the roots to throughout the entire plant is called the... | xylem |
| In the Lion King, where does Mufasa and his family live? | Pride Rock |
| What was the name of the whale in Pinocchio? | Monstro |
| What actor was the first to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for providing a voice in a Disney Full Length Feature Animation? | Robin Williams for the voice of the genie in Aladdin |
| Which Disney movie was the first to be nominated for an Oscar? | Beauty and the Beast |
| Which two Disney princesses featured red hair? | Ariel and Meridia |
| Which was the first rollercoaster to be built at Disney World? | Space Mountain |
| What is a Geiger Counter used to detect? | radiation |
| Which type of dog has breeds called Scottish, Welsh and Irish? | terrier |
| In the film Babe, what type of animal was Babe? | pig |
| According to the old proverb, to which European capital city do all roads lead? | Rome |
| Which sign of the zodiac is represented by the ram? | Aries |
| What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan? | Tinkerbell |
| What is the name of the city where the cartoon family The Simpsons live? | Springfield |
| Which colorful and much sung-about Christmas character was invented by American ad writer Robert L. May in 1939? | Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer |
| Which Christmas word means "turning of the sun"? | Yuletide |
| In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which was the first ghost to visit Ebeneezer Scrooge? | Jacob Marley |
| Which American Football team won the first two Super Bowls (in 1967 and 1968)? | Green Bay Packers |
| Which Jamaican sprinter won gold medals at the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games from 2008 - 2016? | Usain Bolt |
| Which NFL team has won the most Super Bowls? | Pittsburgh Steelers (6) |
| Which of the apostles doubted Jesus' resurrection until he saw him for himself? | Thomas |
| How many plagues did God inflict upon Egypt? | 10 |
| The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for how many years? | 40 |
| According to the Book of Exodus, what is kept in the Ark of the Covenant? | 10 Commandments |
| In Greek mythology, this creature with 100 eyes was killed by Hermes on order of Zeus in order to free Io. | Argus |
| In what country would you find the ancient temple Angkor Wat? | Cambodia |
| What was the name of the Lone Ranger's horse that he saved from an enraged bufaflo? | Silver |
| Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer? | Charles Babbage |
| Who is the Canadian pop singer known for the song "Call Me Maybe"? | Carly Rae Jeppson |
| What does CD-ROM stand for? | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| Who played the title character in the TV series Hannah Montana | Miley Cyrus |
| Each of the Rubik's Cube's faces is covered with how many stickers? | 9 |
| The Roman numeral L stands for? | 50 |
| People who suffer from ithis disorder have their natural “fight or flight” response harmed. It results from a significant occurrence in their life. What is this mental condition, originally diagnosed among war veterans known by the acronym PTSD? | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| It has been one of the leading companies since 1997, 5 years after the death of its founder, the wealthiest man in the world in the 1980s. What is this company that has a museum in Bentonville, Arkansas & has more than 2.2 million employees worldwide? | Walmart |
| Less than 3 minutes long, this piece starts out quietly, then gradually increases in volume and tempo as a troll chases Peer Gynt. What is the title of this most-often-performed piece by Edvard Grieg. | In the Hall of the Mountain King |
| In Latin, words representing this part of speech must agree in number, case, and gender with the words they modify. They may have comparative and superlative forms. What is this part of speech that often expresses some characteristic of a noun? | Adjectives |
| Congressman . Ambassador to the United Nations. Chairman of the Republican National Committee . Director of the CIA. US President from 1989-1993. What oil millionaire fits this description? | George H.W . Bush |
| The body needs ions of this alkaline earth metal to transmit nerve impulses, to contract muscles, and to coagulate blood. What is this element, whose carbonate and phosphate are the major constituents of human bones? | Calcium |
| London in 1851; Paris in 1889; Chicago in 1893; Buffalo in 1901; St. Louis in 1904; Chicago again in 1933-34; New York in 1939-40; Seattle in 1962; etc These were the sites and dates of what international exposition? | World's Fair |
| Unwanted termination of a computer program caused by software or hardware failure is called what? | Crash |
| In 1917, what did President Wilson say "must be made safe for democracy"? | The World |
| Name the longest war ever fought by the U.S. | Vietnam War |
| ] An unfinished monument to this Lakota chief lies near Mount Rushmore. This man was imprisoned at Fort Robinson after having led the forces that defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn | Crazy Horse |
| This site contains a chamber called the Hall of Records that contains 16 porcelain enamel panels depicting the history of this site. Name this South Dakota monument that contains the heads of 4 US presidents carved into a mountain in the Black Hills | Mount Rushmore National Memorial |
| The “Infernal Galop” from Jacques Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers has become the standard music for this French dance that involves many high leg kicks. | can-can |
| Samuel Slater memorized designs of British textile mills and brought the designs to the US, causing him to be nicknamed “Slater the Traitor.” Name this period in British history, which saw the increased use of steam power for mechanical production. | Industrial Revolution |
| ] Palm Sunday, the last Sunday of Lent, commemorates Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, during which he was welcomed by people shouting out this Hebrew word, sometimes translated as “Save now!” | Hosanna |
| Lent lasts for this number of days, commemorating how Jesus fasted for this number of days in the wilderness while being tempted by Satan. | 40 Days |
| When this hurricane hit Rockport, it became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the US since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Name this major hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of Texas in late August 2017, leading to flooding in Houston. | Hurricane Harvey |
| This archeological site contains a temple called El Castillo, dedicated to the god Kukulcán, which has 365 steps ( number of days in the year.) Name this archeological site in the Yucatan peninsula, which was excavated by American Edward Thompson | Chichén Itzá |
| ] During the Civil War, this Union naval officer gave the order “Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!” at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay after having captured New Orleans from the Confederacy in 1862. | David Glasgow Farragut |
| These waterfalls, which collectively have the highest flow rate in the world, can be found on the Canada–United States border. These waterfalls can be viewed from boat tours on the Maid of the Mist. | Niagara Falls |
| What is it called when a soccer player scores two goals in a game of soccer? | a brace |
| Originating in Germany, the Danube River empties into what sea? | Black Sea |
| A wombat is a marsupial native to what country? | Austraila |
| What was the name of the coffee shop in the sitcom Friends? | Central Perk |
| The former Filipino first lady was known for her very large collection of what? | shoes |
| What Catholic prayer lends its name to a very long forward pass thrown with time running out in American football? | Hail Mary |
| On the popular social website Reddit, what does AMA stand for? | Ask Me Anything |
| A “sounder” is the term used to refer to a group of what type of animal? | pigs or swine |
| What do the letters CPU stand for when referring to the “brains” of a computer? | Central Processing Unit |
| MMA is the acronym for what full-contact combat sport? | Mixed Martial Arts |
| Officially opened in 1869, what artificial waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea? | Suez Canal |
| On which popular website do users send tweets? | |
| Established in the 1920s, what historic double-digit highway connected Chicago and Los Angeles? | Route 66 |
| The Punisher is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by which company? | Marvel |
| The song “Eye of the Tiger” by the band Survivor was the theme song for what movie released in 1982? | Rocky III |
| At the premiere of Handel’s Messiah, King George I is said to have done this action during the Hallelujah Chorus. This action is now done traditionally by the audience during any playing of the chorus. | standing |
| Ancient Carthaginians and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse fought for control over this island from 600-250 BC. Name this Mediterranean island whose major cities include Palermo and Messina that was granted autonomy in a 1946 referendum. | Sicily |
| This type of low-lying geological feature is built by long, fluid lava flows. Sheets of these flows dry and stack, creating these features known for the duration of their eruptions. | Shield volcano |
| This Israeli-American violinist was diagnosed with polio at age 4, forcing him to walk with crutches and sit while playing. He played at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration | Itzhak Perlman |
| In this comic strip, the main character works in Silicon Valley & features an engineer interacting with an incompetently run office. A principle named after this comic strip is that companies will promote the least-competent employees doing less damage. | Dilbert |
| This second most commonly spoken language in Kenya after Swahili and is an official language there, as well as in neighboring Tanzania and Uganda | English |
| This organization participated in alcohol distribution during the Prohibition era. This criminal organization, also known as La Cosa Nostra, was dramatized in “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas”. | The Mafia |
| This program’s official name was the Space Transportation System. Name thislow-Earth orbital devices that was reusable. The prototype used in atmospheric testing, which was not capable of spaceflight, was named the Enterprise, and a total of 6 were built | Space Shuttle |
| This Christian sect, notable for its role in founding Pennsylvania, teaches non-violence. Colleges founded by members of this sect have a tradition of conscientious objectors | Quakers or Society of Friends |
| This largest freshwater lake by volume can be found in Russia. It is also the world’s deepest, at over a mile deep. | Lake Baikal |
| This Russian jeweler, possibly inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Easter egg decorating, created ornately decorated eggs for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II | Peter Fabergé |
| This is a hypersensitivity to something in the environment, the results of which can include sneezing, hives, or anaphylaxis | allergy |
| This city-state’s militaristic society held a class of slaves called helots. It was a frequent adversary of Athens. | Sparta |
| Althought not Catholic tradition, JFK chose to undergo this process. The products of this practice are frequently scattered in at sea, or placed in an urn. Japan’s most popular alternative to burial is what practice of burning the body to ashes? | cremation |
| His most famous action was depicted in a painting by John Trumbull. Name this American smuggler and patriot, the President of the Second Continental Congress who penned the largest and first signature on the Declaration of Independence | John Hancock |
| It can be calculated as the product of its namesake coefficient and the normal force. Coming in static and kinetic varieties is what force that appears between two sliding surfaces? | friction |
| This artist’s Coloring Book was the first streaming-only album to be nominated for a Grammy Award. Name this Chicago native who broke out with his 10 Days and Acid Rap mixtapes. | Chance the Rapper |
| The Abrahamic religions believe in a God with this quality of being able to do anything. | Omnipotence |
| This author of Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success had scarves recalled because they did not meet federal flammability standards. She converted to Judaism before her wedding to Jared Kushner. Name this daughter of the President of the US | Ivanka Trump |
| One of this character’s prized possessions is a tape playing “Hello, Dolly!”He gets struck by lightning holding an umbrella & forces his companion Hal to stay behind as he is taken to the Axiom. Who is the trash-compacting robot, star of a Pixar film? | WALL E |
| The double type of this instrument enables the player to switch between the F division and the B-flat division. It is played with the right hand inside the bell, and pitch can be changed by altering its position. Name this instrument not from France. | French Horn |
| This Greek goddess is portrayed carrying grain in Classical Greek art. Hades burst from the ground and abducted this goddess whom had been gathering flowers at the time. | Persephone |
| Hermes came to try to take Persephone back from the underworld, but because she had eaten this food while she was there, Persephone would be required to spend a third of the year in the underworld with Hades. | Pomegranate |
| Frida Kahlo, as well as her husband Diego Rivera, was from this country. She painted “Four Inhabitants” of the country which include a skeleton symbolic of The Day of the Dead. | Mexico |
| This element, the most basic, is the starting point of all nuclear fusion in stars | hydrogen |
| This often green crystal comes from Superman’s home planet, and exposure to it can cause him to lose his powers. | kryptonite |
| This mineral, often called the “living crystal”, was found on the planet Ilum and was used to power lightsabers. They were also stolen from Jedha for use in the Death Star in Star Wars. | kyber |
| This oldest law enforcement agency in the U.S. operates the Witness Protection Program and serves federal arrest warrants. | U.S. Marshals Service |
| When in Mecca, salah involves praying facing this black granite structure which contains a meteorite which Muslims believe was placed there by Abraham and Ishmael | Kaaba Stone |
| This instrument is frequently doubled on by players of the lowest standard woodwind instrument. It is pitched exactly an octave lower than its standard counterpart, and one of its more famous uses is in Paul Dukas’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” | Contrabassoon |
| The trio section of “Stars and Stripes Forever” contains an obbligato solo for this instrument. This instrument’s Italian name is “ottavino,” a reference to its high range, and are often doubled on by flute players | piccolo |
| ] China recently ended this population control policy which was implemented in 1979 due to concern about the risk of overpopulation, despite declining birth rates at the time | One Child Policy |
| In order to consolidate power under Meiji rule, remnants of this class of people were unable to act as the policing force of Japan and were eventually abolished. | Samurai |
| This clef is seen on the upper staff of the grand staff used for keyboard instruments. The spiral of this clef centers on the second line of the staff, and is primarily used for higher pitched instruments. | Treble Clef or G Clef |
| They can be found holding a Light Ball in the Trophy Garden, and they are native to the Viridian Forest. The most famous member of this species rescues its partner from a flock of Spearow. Accompanying Ash Ketchum is what Electric Mouse Pokémon? | Pikachu |
| The Zero Mile Post can be found in this city, which in 1836 became the end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. John Pemberton established the Coca-Cola company in this city, which hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics. Name this capital of Georgia. | Atlanta |
| The name "United States of America" first officially used in what document? | Declaration of Independence |
| In 1938, the British prime minister returned from Germany with a paper signed by Hitler. Name this British leader who declared this document meant "peace for our time." | Neville Chamberlain |
| What movement began on the evening of October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg church? | Protestant Reformation |
| What river became the southern boundary of Texas according to the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? A. Gila B. Pecos C. Orinoco D. Colorado E. Rio Grande | Rio Grande |
| These are chapters from what European document? the guarantee of the independence of the English Church limiting the king's right to scutage the guarantee of habeas corpus the guarantee of due process of the law | Magna Carta |
| Which document was a foundation of the women's rights movement? A. Wilmot Proviso B. Atlantic Charter C. Ostend Manifesto D. Declaration of Rights E. Seneca Falls Declaration | Seneca Falls Declaration |
| What document was signed in 1787? A. the Bill of Rights B. the Monroe Doctrine C. the Treaty of Ghent D. the U.S. Constitution E. the Declaration of Independence | US Constitution |
| What five-letter slang term can have these meanings? -a spoon -a new and important news item -a single portion of ice cream | scoop |
| What is the last word in this motto of the New York Times? All the news that's fit to ... | |
| What type of article in a newspaper sets forth the position or opinion of the paper upon some subject? | editorial |
| In what part of a newspaper would these headings be found? Help Wanted Motorcycles for Sale Homes for Rent | Classifieds |
| What American newsman closed his broadcasts with this line? And that's the way it is. A. Mike Wallace B. David Brinkley C. Horace Greeley D. Walter Cronkite E. Howard K. Smith | Walter Cronkite |
| In the early twentieth century, a group of journalists emerged who were committed to exposing the social, economic, and political ills of industrial life. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt gave them what nickname? | muckrakers |
| What is the name for an article printed in a newspaper that withdraws or takes back statements that were previously published by that paper? | retractions |
| The freelance photographers who dogged Princess Diana right up until the moment of her tragic accident in Paris are the ... A. Anasazi B. Pavarotti C. paparazzi D. manicotti E. vermicelli | paparazzi |
| "Buckaroo" is a corruption of what Spanish term for cowboy? | vaquero |
| "Atom" was derived from a Greek word that means ... A. tiny B. change C. clinging D. flammable E. indivisible | indivisible |
| Given Roman technology, "plumbing" must come from the Latin for what metal? | Lead |
| Based on his early experiments with inoculating people for smallpox, Edward Jenner coined the word "vaccination" from vacca, the Latin word for what kind of mammal | cow |
| The name for what land form is derived from Latin words which mean "almost an island"? | peninsula |
| Both czar and Kaiser were derived from the name of what Roman leader? | Julius Caesar |
| Cerebral anoxia means that what substance is not being adequately supplied to the brain? | oxygen |
| Cerebral anoxia means that what substance is not being adequately supplied to the brain? | Peter Pan |
| A stray dog moves in with a family in the Texas hill country in the 1860s in what novel by Fred Gipson? | Old Yeller |
| Who wrote these books? The First Four Years These Happy Golden Years The Long Winter Little Town on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| The old queen put something on the bedstead. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top, and then twenty feather beds were placed on top of the mattresses, atop which the princess was to sleep. What was put on the bedstead? | pea |
| A fictional spider named Charlotte spun the word "TERRIFIC" into her web in an attempt to save her friend from the slaughterhouse. Her friend was ... A. Porky B. Wilbur C. Horace D. Eeyore E. Francis | Wilbur |
| What kind of triangle has three unequal sides? A. skew B. scalene C. isoceles D. congruent E. equilateral | scalene |
| Circumference is to circle as ---- is to polygon. | perimeter |
| What common toy could be described in these words? a quadrilateral with two pairs of equal adjacent sides, and consequently one pair of equal angles, with diagonals intersecting at right angles | kite |
| The most frequent score in a set of scores is the ... A. mode B. mean C. datum D. median E. average | mode |
| Euclid referred to what when he said this? In the same plane they will never intersect or meet, no matter how far they are extended. | parallel lines |
| All of the thousands of materials on Earth are made up of 92 building blocks of matter called ... | elements |
| The only known substance which naturally exists in all three states on Earth is ... | water |
| It is an electrically neutral and highly ionized gas composed of ions and electrons and neutral particles. It is called the fourth state of matter and is estimated to constitute 99% of the universe. Name it. | plasma |
| The density of an object refers to a relation between the mass of the object and its ... | volume |
| As instructed by her religious visions, this peasant girl went to Charles VII and obtained an army to free France from its English domination. She was ... A. Esmeralda B. Joan of Arc C. Madame Defarge D. Marie Antoinette E. Catherine de Medici | Joan of Arc |
| The murder of a public figure is called .. | assassination |
| The legal definition of the term "assault" is the threat to use force. What legal term refers to the actual use of force? | battery |
| Stephen found a checkbook on the sidewalk and decided to sign the owner's name to one of those checks in payment for a stereo. That signing made him guilty of what crime? | forgery |
| Which country is in both Asia Minor and Europe? A. Iran B. Egypt C. Latvia D. Turkey E. Thailand | Turkey |
| To what emotional state was Shakespeare referring when Iago says this in "Othello"? It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. | jealousy |
| During the Second World War, Americans were restricted in terms of the amount of gasoline, sugar, meat and other supplies they could buy. Such control of people's purchases during wartime is called ... | rationing |
| Trichinosis is most frequently linked with what insufficiently cooked meat? | pork |
| Mrs. Crocker prepared a lovely meal from the stomach lining of cows. This variety meat is ... A. veal B. tripe C. hominy D. chitterlings E. sweetbreads | tripe |
| Reminiscent of canned, chopped, pressed meat, unsolicited commercial E-mail messages are called ... | spam |
| What Tibetan animal furnishes milk, butter, meat, hides, wool, and dung for fuel? | yak |
| What command is issued to a team of sled dogs to begin pulling or move faster? | mush |
| The adult can weigh up to 200 pounds. Name this largest of all dog breeds. | St Bernard |
| A mature female horse is called a ... | mare |
| What sensual sow said this? My beauty is my curse! | Miss Piggy |
| The fundamental classification system for rocks is based on ... A. their colors B. their densities C. their geologic ages D. the way they were formed E. the way they were exposed | the way that they are formed |
| Brimstone is another name for ... A. sulfur B. copper C. uranium D. mercury E. platinum | sulphur |
| Which of the three categories of rock is most evident as you gaze at the Grand Canyon? | sedimentary |
| Which rock can be struck against steel to produce a spark? A. lava B. flint C. shale D. obsidian E. limestone | flint |
| Which rock forms in layers? A. lava B. shale C. granite D. obsidian E. conglomerate | shale |
| All the igneous rocks on the Earth's surface were once a molten material called ... | magma |
| In the geologic past, conditions were favorable for large-scale accumulation of plant remains, plus elements of the area & burial of the organic matter under thick layers of inorganic sediments. The heat & pressure converted this material into... | coal, oil, gas |
| Fossils are practically never found in which two categories of rock? | igneous and metamorphic |
| Pyroclastic debris is ... A. at the base of cliffs B. deposited by winds C. ejected by volcanoes D. formed along beaches E. a product of organic decay | ejected by volcanoes |
| Rock formed well beneath the Earth's surface can be exposed through uplift or ... A. erosion B. oxidation C. corrosion D. compaction E. crystallization | erosion |
| Limestone typically metamorphoses into ... A. slate B. basalt C. gneiss D. marble E. quartzite | marble |
| All rock samples from the Moon belong to which of the three categories of rock? | igneous |
| Clouds are composed of ... A. ozone B. nitrogen C. water vapor D. hydrogen vapor E. carbon dioxide | water vapor |
| What month is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb? | March |
| Two basic factors in a climate are ... A. altitude and latitude B. plant and animal life C. longitude and altitude D. wind speed and humidity E. precipitation and temperature | precipitation and temperature |
| About 78 percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen and 21 percent is oxygen. Most of the remaining one percent of the atmosphere is ... A. neon B. argon C. xenon D. helium E. hydrogen | argon |
| What type of precipitation is formed when sulfur dioxide from coal-burning power plants combines with water vapor in the atmosphere? | acid rain |
| If the Earth's axis were straight up and down instead of tilted, ... A. Earth would be uninhabitable B. the seasons would not change C. there would be no night or day D. Earth would be covered with ice E. all Earth's water would evaporate | the seasons would not change |
| What natural atmospheric phenomenon can heat surrounding air as much as four times hotter than the surface of the Sun? | lightening |
| What kind of precipitation is composed of regular hexagons? | snow |
| The three basic hydrologic components of the global water balance include evaporation, runoff, and ... | precipitation |
| What causes thunder? A. clouds cracking B. lightning impacting the ground C. air particles slamming together D. lightning exceeding the speed of light E. expanding gases along the path of the lightning | expanding gases along the path of the lightning |
| Which color of light in the visible spectrum is scattered to the greatest extent in the sky? | blue |
| At what latitude is precipitation most abundant? A. 0 degrees B. 30 degrees C. 50 degrees D. 70 degrees E. 90 degrees | 0 Degrees (Equator) |
| What colorless gas is a major constituent of photochemical smog at the Earth's surface but is beneficial in the stratosphere by absorbing most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation? | ozone |
| Which mammal is herbivorous? A. gnu B. seal C. bobcat D. polar bear E. sperm whale | gnu |
| Which mammals have prehensile tails? A. shrews B. beavers C. monkeys D. antelope E. porpoises | monkees |
| The name for this animal comes from Greek words meaning "river horse," but actually it is more closely related to pigs. It is the world's second-biggest land animal and spends a great deal of time in the water, eating vegetation. Name this creature. | hippo |
| Two fundamental characteristics of mammals are mammary glands and ... A. hair B. a cerebrum C. cranial nerves D. a bony skeleton E. endocrine glands | hair |
| Which is the largest whale? A. blue whale B. pilot whale C. killer whale D. beluga whale E. humpback whale | blue whale |
| In which location could you see a manatee? A. Central Plains B. Arizona deserts C. Florida estuaries D. Rocky Mountain taiga E. Pacific Northwest coastlands | Florida estuaries |
| Who was buried in the Valley of the Kings? A. Pericles B. Louis XIV C. Julius Caesar D. Tutankhamen E. Genghis Khan | King Tut |
| In the face of mutinies and strikes, he abdicated in March of 1917, thus ending the thousand-year-old Russian monarchy. Name this czar. | Nicholas II |
| There are six wrestlers in a tournament, each of whom must wrestle every other just one time. How many matches must be played? | 15 |
| What unit of measurement is used to compare the intensities of different sounds? | decibels |
| The higher the pitch of a sound, the ---- its wavelength. | shorter |
| The mistake is often made of saying that bats can fly in the dark because they have a built-in radar system. But radar depends on radio waves rather than sound waves. Bats actually have what kind of built-in system? | sonar |
| A jet flying at supersonic speeds over your house sets up a shock wave. This shock wave is popularly known as a ... | sonic boom |
| Immediately after leaving the Mississippi River, the Lewis and Clark expedition followed what river to the west? | Missouri River |
| The term "domestic violence" refers to violence that occurs ... A. at home B. in times of peace C. in the United States D. in a particular city E. without premeditation | at home |
| Name the body of citizens chosen to determine certain questions of fact in criminal or civil proceedings. | jury |
| A law that has been repealed has been ... A. vetoed B. annulled C. sent to committee D. passed by Congress E. voided by the Supreme Court | anulled |
| The final decision of the jury in a court of law is called the ... | verdict |
| Which outcome is most desirable from the perspective of a person charged with a crime in court? A. parole B. acquittal C. annulment D. conviction E. guilt by insanity | acquittal |
| A lawyer's protest to a judge regarding a statement or question by the opposing attorney is called an ... | objection |
| What infraction consists of a refusal to obey the rules, orders, and process of the courts of law? | contempt of court |
| What two-syllable term means "to take into custody" or "to apprehend?" | arrest |
| Who would be a likely defendant in a proceeding called a court martial? A. a juvenile B. a military officer C. a state legislator D. a savings and loan teller E. a person with foreign citizenship | military officer |
| What adjective reminiscent of a form of capital punishment describes a jury that is unable to reach a decision? | hung |
| Mort painted graffiti on the walls of several office complexes, turned over their garbage cans, and broke several windows. Such wanton and malicious damage to another's property is called .. | vandalism |
| A person who has taken an alias has ... A. assumed a new identity B. stolen negotiable bonds C. changed his citizenship D. kidnapped a young person E. received stolen merchandise | assumed a new identity |
| Don was ordered by the court to give his estranged spouse $2000 per month after their divorce. What is the 4-syllable name for such a payment? | alimony |
| A guilty verdict requires that the guilt of the defendant be established beyond ... A. suspicion B. any question C. reasonable doubt D. moderate disbelief E. sufficient reservation | reasonable doubt |
| The sheriff of Ottawa County, Ohio would have no legal authority to arrest a trespasser in Blaine County, Idaho because Idaho is outside of his ... A. realm B. suburb C. precinct D. jurisdiction E. accommodation | jurisdiction |
| She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who saved the founder of the Jamestown Colony from death. Name her. | Pocahontas |
| Members of what American Indian tribe were effectively used during World War II to transmit secret messages in their native language? | Navajo |
| Fearing the Ghost Dance ritual might inspire an uprising, the U.S. cavalry slaughtered nearly 200 members of what tribe in 1890 at Wounded Knee? A. Hopi B. Sioux C. Apache D. Mohawk E. Seminole | Sioux |
| What is the general name for the landform common to these countries? Korea Malaysia Italy Denmark | peninsulas |
| What is always present in the immediate vicinity of an estuary? A. fiord B. peninsula C. river mouth D. lateral moraine E. mountain range | river mouth |
| What compound word may refer to any of these areas? swamp, peatland, slough, marsh, muskeg, bog, fens, pothole, mire | wtland |
| Geologists believe that, during the last ice age, the Bering Strait was the site of a(n) ... A. delta B. land bridge C. barrier reef D. immense atoll E. continental shelf | land bridge |
| Which landform may consist almost entirely of calcium carbonate skeletons? A. reefs B. dikes C. deltas D. cirques E. calderas | reefs |
| The term was derived from a Choctaw word for "river," and means swampy backwaters of a river or lake. Name these areas common along the U.S. Gulf coast and lowland areas near the Mississippi River. | bayous |
| Fiords abound in the ... A. Great Plains B. Gulf of Mexico C. Rocky Mountains D. Alaska Panhandle E. Caribbean Islands | Alaska |
| In the year 1500, what product did Jacques Nicot introduce for the first time into France? | tobacco |
| In December, 1860, an event occurred which lead eventually to the Civil War: what was the first state to secede from the Union? | South Carolina |
| May 14 is a national holiday in France, celebrated in honor of which woman? | Joan of Arc |
| What is the name for the form of government controlled by a privileged, hereditary ruling class, generally resented by the middle and lower class. | aristocracy |
| What movie studio uses a roaring lion as its visual logo? | MGM |
| What is the name for the science or study of plants? | Botany |
| Finish the phrase with 3 words: "Hell hath no fury like ... " | a woman scorned |
| Identify the 1992 best-selling self-help book with a heavenly name, written by John Gray. | Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus |
| Which 19th century personality said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." | Abraham Lincoln |
| The mental and physical exercise known as yoga evolves from what religion? | Hinduism |
| What does DVD stand for? | Digital Virtual Disc |
| What is the name of the kingdom where the 2013 animated movie Frozen is set? | Arendelle |
| What was John F Kennedy's middle name? | Fitgerald |
| What is the most spoken language in the world? | Chinese |
| Which fruit is the most popular and most consumed in the world? | bananas |
| Which is the biggest spider in the world? | tarantula |
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