American History
"We the people" is the beginning phase of this founding document
What is the US Constitution?
This microscopic "powerhouse" synthesizes ATP
What is the mitochondria?
What is L?
This city is the capital of Australia
What is Canberra?
The main ingredient in hummus
What are chickpeas?
This 20th century man was the youngest elected US President
Who is John F. Kennedy
This element is the only metal that is naturally a liquid at room temperature
What is mercury?
This midcentury author wrote The Hobbit
Who is J.R.R. Tolkein?
This Saharan country has the largest population on the African continent
What is Nigeria?
This country gave the world champagne
What is France?
This purchase from France in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The magnitude of earthquakes are measured on this scale
What is the Richter Scale?
This mathematical constant equals approximately 2.71828
What is e?
This is the world's deepest lake
What is Lake Baikal?
The process of converting sugar into alcohol
What is fermentation?
This early Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This subatomic particle has the same magnitude of charge as an electron but with the opposite sign
The only U.S. state whose name can be typed using letters from a single row of a QWERTY keyboard
What is Alaska?
This country is home to the city of Ushuaia, often called the southernmost city in the world
What is Argentina
This spice is derived from the stigma of a flower and is the world's most expensive spice by weight
What is saffron?
This is the only US President to have also served as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Who was William Howard Taft?
This is the name of the phenomenon in which a star appears to shift position due to Earth's orbit
What is stellar parallax?
This word means a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same forward and backward
What is a Palindrome?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia in the traditional geographic definition
What are the Ural Mountains?
The fifth basic taste, often associated with glutamates
What is umami?