Math
What is the value of ∏ rounded to two decimal places?
What is 3.14?
What organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell?
What is the mitochondria?
In what year did the American Declaration of Independence get adopted?
1776
Who wrote the classic American novel The Great Gatsby?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
"That's rough, buddy"
Who is Zuko?
If a triangle has angles of 90 degrees and 45 degrees, what is the measure of the third angle?
What is 45 Degrees?
What planet in our solar system is known as the Red Planet?
What is Mars?
Fired upon by Confederate forces in Charleston Harbor in April 1861, this federal fort marked the military opening of the American Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
What epic ancient Greek poem by Homer details Odysseus's long journey home after the Trojan War?
What is the Odyssey?
Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountains, secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel!"
Who are the Nomadic Bards?
What mathematical term describes a line that touches a curve at a single point without crossing it?
What is tangent?
What is the chemical formula for table salt?
What is NaCl?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, granting the high court the authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
In George Orwell's 1984, what is the name of the all-seeing dictator figure?
Who is Big Brother?
"My cabbages!"
Who is the Cabbage Merchant?
This fundamental theorem of vector calculus relates a surface integral of the curl of a vector field over an oriented surface to a line integral of the vector field over the surface's boundary curve.
What is the Stokes' Theorem?
This law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system approaches a constant minimum value as the temperature approaches absolute zero.
What is the Third Law of Thermodynamics?
Issued by President Lincoln following the Union victory at Antietam, this executive order declared slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free, fundamentally shifting the war's objective from preserving the Union to abolishing slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Published in 1922 and written by James Joyce, this monumental modernist novel chronicles a single day (June 16, 1904) in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, using an extensive stream-of-consciousness technique.
What is Ulysses?
"That's a sharp outfit, Chan. Careful, you could puncture the hull of an imperial class Fire Nation battleship, leaving thousands to drown at sea."
Who is Azula?
This rigorous test for convergence of an infinite series compares the ratio of the (n+1)-th term to the n-th term as n approaches infinity, though it is inconclusive if the limit equals 1
What is the the Ratio Test?
This specific type of visual agnosia, typically resulting from bilateral damage to the ventral stream (specifically the fusiform gyrus), leaves a patient unable to recognize familiar faces, despite intact low-level visual processing and intact recognition of other objects.
What is prosopagnosia (face blindness)?
Prompted by the Compromise of 1850, this federal legislation required the return of runaway slaves even if they reached free states, heavily penalizing officials who failed to enforce it and outraging northern abolitionists.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky follows the impoverished former student Rodion Raskolnikov, who commits a murder to test a theory about "extraordinary men" before being consumed by guilt.
What is Crime and Punishment?
"We all have the same roots and we're all branches of the same tree"
Who is Huu?