Climate Science
Which greenhouse gas is given off by burning fossil fuels?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Who is largely credited with inventing calculus?
Issac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Name one book that was read this year.
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
The Stranger by Albert Camus
But What if We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
A Swiss 18th-century philosopher who wrote about society, politics and the Enlightenment.
What is Self-Efficacy?
Self-Efficacy is the ability to be successful by accessing one's open, resourceful and persistent skill sets.
The Sierra Nevada Snow Mountains
What is a limit?
The value of a function as x approaches a certain number.
Which language was The Stranger by Albert Camus originally written in?
French
Who wrote Allegory of the Cave?
Plato
What does ORP stand for?
Open, Resourceful, Persistent
What are the primary elements of runoff that cause dead zones in the ocean?
Nitrogen and Phosphorus
What is the derivative of ex?
ex
Where does The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison take place?
The story takes place in Lorain, Ohio in 1941.
Which psychiatrist/philosopher introduced the idea of the collective unconsciousness?
Carl Jung
What does OMD stand for?
One Meal a Day for the Planet.
Which ocean species has gone completely extinct before, but exists today?
Coral Reefs. A different group of corals went completely extinct 250 million years ago.
What is the derivative of 12x 3?
36x2
Guess this quote: "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."
It is from The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft and what is she famous for writing?
Mary Wollstonecraft was a writer and feminist who lived in the late 1700s who was famous for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
What are the 5 pillars of MUSE?
Passion-Based Learning
Self-Efficacy
Sustainability
Communication
Academics
Which country has the highest CO2 emissions per capita?
Qatar
Define Derivative.
The slope of a tangent line at a curve on a graph.
Who is the old and broke sweets seller in the book Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz?
Uncle Kamil
Which Pre-Socratic philosopher thought all of matter was made from water?
Thales (of Miletus)
What base and phase am I?
Base Harmonizer, Phase Thinker