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In 1980, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez sank off the coast of this state.
What is Alaska?
It is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America.
What is Mount Logan?
The city of Kathmandu serves as the capital of this Asian nation.
What is Nepal?
It is the most populous city in the state of New South Wales.
What is Sydney, Austrailia?
This English architect rebuilt many of London's churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire.
Who was Wren (Sir Christopher)?
Along with Horace, he is one of the henchmen of Cruella DeV'l.
Who is Jasper?
Traditionally, Saint Peter is considered the first holder of this religious position.
What is the Pope?
The German word for #Expressway", it is the name of the German superhighway.
What is the Autobahn?
FDR appointed the first woman, Francis Perkins to a presidential cabinet post when she became Secretary of this department.
What is the Labor Department?
In 1969, the Woodstock music festival took place in this state.
What is New York?
In Arabian Nights, he brings gifts from the King of Serendib to Harum al-Rashid and settles Bagdad after seven voyages.
Who is a Sinbad (the sailor)?
Scientifically this animal is classified as Canis lupus.
What is a Wolf?
He is an unschooled but honorable runaway slave in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?
Who is Jim?
An atom's atomic number is the umber of these positively charged particles found in the nucleus.
What are protons?
This ancient Greek mathematician from Syracuse explained the mathematics of the lever. .
Who is Archimedes?
This American poet told the story of "Paul Revere's Ride", Evangeline and the Song of Hiawatha.
Who was Longfellow?
On April 6, 1909, Robert Perry claimed to be the first person in recorded history to reach this remote destination.
What is the North Pole?
He is the author of A Child's Garden of Verse, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
A hybrid species know by the term "weeping" is among its most iconic varieties.
What is a Willow (willow trees?
Derived ST unit of energy, it is equal to the kinetic energy of a kilogram mass moving at the speed of one meter per second.
What is a joule?
Because this Greek Titan stole fire and gave it to humanity, he is chained to a rock where, each day, an eagle eats his liver.
Who is Prometheus?
This king is supposedly slumbering in a cave on Avalon until Great Britian needs him again.
Who is King Authur?
He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his death at the Battle of Theropylae.
Who is Leonidas?
It is the uncharged elementary particle in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a neutron?
This Civil War battle in Tennessee, also know as Pittsburg Landing, had fierce fighting at the Hornet's Nest and was a Union victory.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Prince Harry married a commoner in St. George's chapel in this castle.
What is Windsor Castle?
As Wolverine/Logan in the X Men film series, he holds the Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero.
Who is Jackman (Hugh)?
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was written and illustrated by this Englishwoman.
Who is Potter (Beatrix)?
The capital city of Jordan.
What is Ammon?
She was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia in 1912.
Who is Juliette Low?
Magical land entered by a passageway behind a wardrobe in the C.S. Lewis stories.
What is Narnia?
A French artist who painted of Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Who is Seurat (Georgies)?
This architect designed a house for Edgar Kaufman that sits atop a cascade on the Bear Run in Pennsylvania known as Falling Water.
Who is Wright (Frank Lloyd)?
She is the leader of the emotions inside the head of Riley Anderson.
Who is Joy?
This pamphleteer who advocated American Independence in Common Sense.
Who is Paine (Thomas)?
Nashville is listed in Biden's infrastructure plan for expansion of this passenger railroad service that provides inner-city travel in the U.S.
What is Amtrak?
This Baltic country borders Estonia and Lithuania and has a capital city of Riga.
What is Latvia?
In Orwell's Animal Farm, this pig led the animals of Manor Farm.
Who was Napoleon?
She was the wife of a recognized English Romantic poet and created one of the most recognized monsters, Frankenstein's Monster.
Who is Shelly (Mary)?
This inventor of the steam engine coined the term horsepower and has the SI unit for power named for him.
Who is Watt (James)?
His locker is a metaphor for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors and shipwrecks.
Who is Jones (Davey)?
This bear lives with the Brown family in a series of children's books by Michael Bond.
Who is Paddington?
As Richard Nixon's first Vice-President, he resigned amidst allegations of the Watergate scandal.
Who was Agnew (Spiro)?
British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in 1915 during World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar.
What is the Lusitania?
It is the SI unit of force, and is the force which will accelerate one kilogram one metre per second squared.
What is a Newton?
The Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln negotiated the purchase of Alaska.
Who is Seward (William)?
Eau Claire, Sheboygen, Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Appleton are all cities in this state.
What is Wisconsin?
Located on the island of Java, it is the capital city of Indonesia.
What is Jakarta?
A silkscreen work by Warhol with images of Marilyn Monroe and a piece called Campbell's Soup Cans, are from his art movement.
What is Pop Art?
The Romans called her Minerva, and she was the Greek goddess of wisdom and war.
Who is Athena?
He is the stern , cruel slave dealer in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Legree (Simon)?
This was the name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression.
What is the New Deal?
This city serves as the capital of The Golden State.
What is Sacramento?
This man is famous for a painting of his mother known as Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1.
Who is Whistler?
In 1607 it became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
This architect created the glass tetrahedron as the entryway to the Louvre and also designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Pei, (I.M)?
The main character of a common folktale, this runaway slave removes a thorn from the lions paw.
Who is Androcles?
Newberry award winner for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994.
Who was Lowery (Lois)?
This region in northwestern France on the English channel was the site of the Allies invasion during WWII.
What is Normandy?
Khartoum is the capital of the African country that experiences genocide in its Darfur region.
What is Sudan?
This President proposed the "Fourteen Points" and urged the U.S. to join the League of Nations after WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Nicknamed "the Maid of Orleans", this French peasant girl rallied the French troops during the Hundred Years' War,
Who is Joan of Arc?
Nylon and rubber are examples of these synthetic compounds of large molecules of many repeating subunits called monomers.
What are Polymers?
It is the driest desert in the world; it is found in western Chile.
What is the Atacama desert?
This California author wrote such tales as The Sea Wolf, White Fang, and Call of the Wild.
Who is London (Jack)?
As the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, this Queen led a religious revolution in ancient Egypt to worship only one god (Aten).
Who was Nefertiti?
The author of The Wealth of Nations, this Scot created the "invisible hand.
Who is Smith (Adam)?
This artist appears on Iowa's state quarter and painted the iconic American Gothic.
Who is Wood (Grant)?
Jesus was baptized in the waters of this river, one that connects the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee.
What is the Jordon?
Michelangelo carved his own name on a marble sash to sign this 1499 sculpture, which depicts Mary cradling a dead Christ.
What is Pieta?