Literature
This novel, set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, focuses on Atticus Finch as he fights for the justice of the innocent Tom Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird
This property states that changing the order of addition or multiplication does not change the result.
Commutative Property
This war between the North and South ended slavery in the United States through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
Civil War
This scientist wrote the Principia Mathematica and is credited with his work in optics and his three laws of motion.
Isaac Newton
The Moonlight Sonata and his 5th Symphony, featuring the iconic dun dun dun duuunnnn, are some of this composer's most famous pieces
Ludwig van Beethoven
This 1954 William Golding novel concerns a group of British schoolboys who get stranded on an island, where Piggy’s glasses are famously used to start fires.
Lord of the Flies
3x + 7 = 25
x=6
This rival city-state of Sparta during the 5th century BC is also widely credited as the birthplace of the first democracy and serves as the modern Greek capital.
Athens
These objects cause phenomena such as spaghettification, Hawking radiation, and time dilation because of their immense gravity.
Black holes
This famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci features a woman with a mysterious smile.
Mona Lisa
This Missouri born author famously used a pen name. Two of his most famous books take inspiration from his hometown and childhood life, set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, MO. Name this 19th Century author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain
A bag contains 5 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 2 marbles. What is the probability that a random marble pulled out is blue?
3/10
Along with salt, this material was the most valuable in medieval Africa. Mansa Musa had so much of it that he disrupted Cairo’s economy when he visited.
Gold
This monk’s work with breeding pea plants and discovering the laws of heredity gave him the title “the father of genetics”.
Gregor Mendel
This painter is most famous for an anti-war mural depicting the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica.
Pablo Picasso
In this coming-of-age novel by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is expelled from Pencey Prep and goes on a trip to New York City, frequently calling things “phony.”
This field of math is the study of right triangle relationships, using the functions sine, cosine, and tangent.
Trigonometry
This leader warned of an “Iron Curtain” falling across Europe and rallied his nation with his famous “we shall fight on the beaches” speech. Name this Prime Minister who led Great Britain during World War II.
Winston Churchill
This type of precipitation is primarily caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and damages limestone and marble statues due to its unusually low pH.
Acid rain
This painting depicts a somber woman and a man holding a pitchfork standing in front of a white farmhouse. Name this painting by Grant Wood.
American Gothic
In this Shakespeare Tragedy, the titular Scottish General is driven by prophecy and ambition to take over the throne of King Duncan, which ends up leading to his downfall.
Macbeth
Find the slope of a line that passes through (-3, -5) and (1,3).
2
This leader suffered a disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia, though he had great initial success at Austerlitz. Name this military commander who crowned himself Emperor of France but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When the price of an item goes up, the quantity of this concept drops because fewer people are buying. Name this economic principle often paired with “supply”.
Demand
This piece begins with a jazzy clarinet glissando and was created in part to represent the vibrant melting pot of NYC. Its composer, George Gershwin, took inspiration from the rhythmic clacking of a train car he took in 1924.
Rhapsody in Blue