Geography
Name this city containing the ruins of Heliopolis lying northeast of the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the successor city to Memphis, and the current capital of Egypt.
What is Cairo?
Lubricants minimize this force, which releases heat and causes electrostatic buildup when two objects rub against each other. Braking relies on what force that resists motion?
Friction
Name this genre of literature that typically consists of short stories, many of which are credited to Aesop, and tell a simple story to try to teach a moral.
What are fables?
Medieval “hunts” for these people were often just excuses to harass and kill unpopular women.
Who are Witches?
This symphony features Beethoven's short-short-short-long motif.
What is his Fifth?
Malagasy is the official language of this country, which is separated by the Mozambique Channel from the mainland. Name this southern African country with capital Antananarivo that controls the fourth largest island in the world.
What is Madagascar?
Name this subphylum whose animals, including fish, mammals, and birds, all have backbones
What are Vertebrates?
This short story’s narrator plots to kill his housemate to rid himself of the man’s vulture-like eye, only to give himself away by tearing up his floorboards to reveal his dismembered victim to the police.
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
This event officially took place without a formal declaration of war, against the wishes of Admiral Yamamoto. The “day of infamy” speech to Congress followed what sneak attack in 1941?
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Wikipedia article for this substance compares its viscosity to ketchup. It is also another term for molten rock.
What is Lava?
Name this pre-Columbian empire in South America, where Manco Capac was credited with founding the capital city of Cuzco.
These organisms and Archaea make up the two prokaryotic domains of life. Antibiotics target what single-celled organisms, examples of which include Salmonella and E. coli?
What is bacteria/bacterium?
Name this Greek poet, whose attributed works include an epic poem about the Trojan War, the Iliad.
Who is Homer?
Satyagraha was the political philosophy of, for ten points, what non-violent activist who advocated for independence from the United Kingdom?
Who is Mohandas Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi?
Name this destroyer diety in Hinduism often depicted with a blue throat he got from drinking the halahala poison.
Who is Shiva?
The name of glacier-carved coastal features known for being found in Norway
What are Fjords?
Give this term for solutions with a pH value of more than 7.
What are alkalines or bases?
In this short novel by Charles Dickens taking place during a Christmas holiday, the protagonist orders a turkey to be taken to Bob Cratchit and his son, Tiny Tim.
What is A Christmas Carol?
The British responded to the Boston Tea Party by closing the Port of Boston and revoking the charter of Massachusetts, each of which was part of this set of acts that sought to punish all Bostonians.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This god who is the first-born son of Cronus and Rhea created the Elysian Fields and after the Titanomachy, divided the world with his two brothers.
Who is Hades?
This iconic, pyramid-shaped Alpine peak lies on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Hundreds of climbers have died on this peak, including four members of the first team to summit it in 1911.
What is The Matterhorn?
This Italian physicist first described the phases of Venus and sunspots using the refracting telescope, which he invented. This man also discovered Callisto, Io, Ganymede, and Europa, four moons of Jupiter named for him.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Name the novel by H.G. Wells in which Martians invade England
What is The War of the Worlds?
Deep Throat helped Woodward and Bernstein untangle this scandal, which stemmed from a burglary at a Washington, D.C. office complex in the 1970s.
What is The Watergate Scandal?
This is the surface area of Gabriel’s horn. Hilbert’s (*) Grand Hotel thought experiment involves this many hotel rooms and this many customers. A lemniscate is the symbol for what mathematical concept?
What is infinity?