Science and Math
The velocity of a wave divided by this quantity gives the wave’s frequency. Name this quantity, the spatial distance between consecutive peaks of a wave.
Wavelength
Zimbabwe suffered extremely high rates of this phenomenon in the early 21st century. Name this phenomenon in which currency loses its value.
Inflation
A poem in this form describes the sound of water that is made when a frog jumps into a pond. That poem was written by a 17th century master of this form named Matsuo Bashō. Name this Japanese form of poetry whose syllables follow a 5-7-5 pattern.
Haiku
Pair production near the boundary of these objects leads to their evaporation in the form of Hawking radiation, and inn the simplest case, the Schwarzchild radius is the distance from one of these objects’ singularity to its event horizon. Name these objects.
Black Holes
What is President George W. Bush's middle name.
Walker
Plants can convert this compound into a structural polymer that humans cannot digest—cellulose. Name this compound stored as glycogen in the liver. Its reuptake from the blood is promoted by insulin.
Glucose
Name this Semitic civilization whose major cultural centers included Sidon and Tyre. This civilization’s alphabet indirectly formed the basis for almost every modern alphabet, including even Thai and Mongolian.
Phoenician
This composer used “La Marseillaise” to represent the invading French Army in a piece that includes celebratory cannon fire. Name this Russian composer of the 1812 Overture.
Tchaikovsky
Name this physicist who proposed that electrons orbit the nucleus like planets in the Solar System.
Niels Bohr
What are President George H.W. Bush's middle names?
Herbert Walker
In a procedure named for this mathematician, the area under a curve is approximated by smaller and smaller rectangles. Name this German mathematician whose eponymous sums are used to define integrals.
Riemann
Trade across this body of water was nicknamed the “Monsoon Marketplace." Name this ocean which Vasco Da Gama and Zhèng Hé explored.
Indian Ocean
A Room of One’s Own is an essay by this English Modernist and member of the Bloomsbury Group. She also wrote Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Virginia Woolf
Name this number of the Beethoven symphony that opens with a “short-short-short-long” motif.
5
The title character of this text journeys to the Cedar Forest where he slays the ogre Humbaba. Name this text about a king of Uruk who seeks immortality, an ancient Sumerian epic.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Name these regions of an atom in which it is probable to find an electron, which are labeled s, p, d or f.
Atomic Orbitals
This man nicknamed “Old Ironsides” commanded the New Model Army in the English Civil War. Name this Lord Protector of England who ruled after executing Charles I.
Oliver Cromwell
A priest and a barber burn the library of chivalric romances owned by this novel’s title character, who dedicates his adventures to his lady Dulcinea. Name this novel in which the title caballero andante attacks windmills alongside his squire Sancho Panza, by Miguel de Cervantes.
Don Quixote
name this director of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Kubrick
The Popol Vuh collects the myths of what Mesoamerican culture whose Long Count Calendar started a new cycle in 2012?
Maya
These object are more dense than white dwarfs. Name these extremely dense objects primarily composed of a namesake uncharged subatomic particle.
Neutron Star
The Volstead Act enacted this policy nationwide, which was enabled by the Eighteenth Amendment and repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.
Prohibition
This musician recorded a jazz rendition of “My Favorite Things,” and his style was dubbed “sheets of sound.” Name this jazz saxophonist of Giant Steps and A Love Supreme.
This dynasty was interrupted by China’s only female emperor, Wǔ Zétiān. Name this dynasty that succeeded the Suí Dynasty and experienced the rebellion of Ān Lùshān.
Tang Dynasty
Name this author of the Elemental Odes and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, a Chilean poet.
Pablo Neruda