Capital Cities
Germany
What is Berlin?
This protein in red blood cells carries oxygen
What is Hemoglobin?
The storming of this Parisian prison became a symbol in the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
This programming language was named after the British comedy group Monty Python.
What is Python?
This Greek god ruled the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
Unable to defeat or overcome.
What is Invincible?
Ireland
This liquid component makes up about 55% of total blood volume and is composed mostly of water, proteins, and electrolytes.
What is Plasma?
European powers met at this 1814-1815 conference to reshape Europe after Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
CPU stands for this
What is the Central Processing Unit?
The Roman counterpart of Hades, the god of the Underworld.
Who is Pluto?
Something impossible to read or understand clearly.
What is Illegible?
Latvia
What is Riga?
This highly vascularized, crescent-shaped organ attached to the uterine wall provides oxygen and nutrients to a growing fetus while removing waste.
What is the Placenta?
Rome fought these three major wars against Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing this information system in 1989
What is the World Wide Web?
This jackal-headed Egyptian deity was associated with embalming and the dead.
Who is Anubis?
A formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.
What is an Indictment?
Khazakhstan
What is Astana?
This is the largest of the 12 cranial nerves and is responsible for much of the sensation of the face.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
This major 19th-century conflict, fought primarily on a peninsula in the Black Sea, is famous for the Charge of the Light Brigade and the pioneering nursing work of Florence Nightingale.
What is the Crimean War?
In cybersecurity, this type of attack overwhelms a service with traffic from many compromised devices.
What is a distributed denial-of-server/ DDoS attack?
In Shinto tradition, this goddess represents the sun.
Who is Amaterasu?
Excessively proud of oneself.
What is Inordinate?
Bhutan
What is Thimphu?
These cells produce myelin around neurons in the central nervous system
What are oligodendrocytes?
This 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This algorithm, named for its three inventors, became one of the best known public key cryptosystems
What is RSA?
One of the oldest surviving works of literature follows this legendary king of Uruk.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Incapable of being expressed in words.
What is Ineffable?