Math
What is the smallest prime number greater than 100?
101
What is the name of the process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid?
Sublimation
What literary term describes a deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as “I've told you a million times”?
Hyperbole
Who painted The Starry Night?
Vincent Van Gogh
Which ancient civilization built the city of Machu Picchu?
A shirt originally costs $80 and is marked down by 25%. What is the sale price?
$60
Which part of the human cell contains most of its genetic material?
Nucleus
What is the term for a word that imitates the sound it describes, such as “buzz,” “hiss,” or “clang”?
onomatopoeia
Which artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Micheangelo
Which Egyptian queen formed a famous political and romantic alliance with Julius Caesar?
Cleopatra
What is the next number in this sequence: 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, ___?
96
What blood type is known as the universal donor for red blood cells?
O Negative
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, which three supernatural figures make predictions concerning Macbeth's future?
The Three Witches or Weird Sisters
Which artistic movement is most closely associated with Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas?
Impressionism
Which Chinese dynasty was responsible for many of the major expansions and renovations of the Great Wall?
The Ming Dynasty
If a dozen eggs costs $3.60, how much does each egg cost?
30 cents
An object traveling through space continues moving at constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force. This statement describes which of Newton's laws?
First Law of Motion
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper was painted on a wall in the dining hall of what Italian convent?
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Which ancient people are credited with creating the Olympic Games in honor of the god Zeus?
The Ancient Greeks
A rectangular garden is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many square feet of space does it contain?
96 square feet
What is the only planet in our solar system known to rotate in the opposite direction from most of the others?
Venus
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus is famously tempted by the song of these mythical creatures, whose voices lure sailors toward destruction.
The Sirens
This Dutch painter created The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, a famous 17th-century group portrait of a public dissection.
Rembrandt
What was the name of the French prison-fortress stormed on July 14, 1789, becoming an iconic event of the French Revolution?
The Bastille