Rhyme Time
The gathering before the funeral for an adder, for example.
What is a snake wake?
Aquae Sulis was the name of this settlement when it was a town in the Roman province of Britannia.
What is Bath?
Colombia takes its name from this Italian explorer.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Members of this Hogwarts' House include: Cho Chang, Padma Patil, and Luna Lovegood.
What is Ravenclaw?
An elementary operation: if applied to 3 and 4, the result is 12.
What is multiplication?
A timid secret agent.
What is a shy spy?
In 1912, stainless steel was discovered by Harry Brearly in the Brown-Firth Laboratory of this city.
What is Sheffield?
The World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King sees players journey to the continent of Northrend, the home of this malevolent lord.
Who is the Lich King?
The best-selling author of books such as Break with a Banshee and Wanderings with Werewolves, as well as his autobiography Magical Me.
Who is Gilderoy Lockhart?
A rectangular table of numbers (or symbols) arranged in rows and columns.
What is a matrix?
Alarm and hysteria regarding, say, Mount Vesuvius or Mount St.Helens.
What is volcanic panic?
It (re)gained city status in 2012 to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, despite lending its name to a settlement in Australia which gained city status in 1856.
What is Perth?
A film starring Saoirse Ronan and Bill Murray, set in the underground city known as Ember. It is based on the Book of Ember novels by Jeanne DuPrau.
What is the City of Ember?
An only-slightly-alcoholic beverage enjoyed by many Hogwarts students, for example on visits to the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmead.
What is Butterbeer?
For a sample, it is the element (or elements) which appears the most. For example, for [1,2,3,3], this quantity is 3.
What is the mode?
What you hope to get on when you go to the airport.
What is the right flight?
The birthplace of the singer, Duffy, this city is the oldest in Wales, dating back to the 6th century AD.
What is Bangor?
He was the first Earl of Wessex and the father of the last Anglo Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
Who is Godwin, Earl of Wessex?
The magical object which shows not your face, but what your heart wants the most. Dumbledore uses it to hide the Philosopher's Stone so that no follower of Voldemort could retrieve it.
What is the Mirror of Erised?
The representation of an improper fraction as the combination of a non-zero integer and a proper fraction: for example 1 1/2 as opposed to 3/2.
What is a mixed number?
In this sentence, it is the term 'sentence'.
What is the third word?
This city, in a county of the same name, is the ecclesiasticle capital of Ireland where, according to tradition, Saint Patrick founded his main church in 445 AD.
What is Armagh?
In this Agatha Christie novel, Poirot investigates when Lord Edgware dies one night: the housekeeper claims his wife was the last to see him, despite her being one of thirteen at a dinner across town.
What is Lord Edgware Dies (or What is Thirteen at Dinner)
At the bottom of a torn out page from an old library book, which gave details about the deadly creature known as the Basilisk, Hermione had written this five-letter word when she realised how the giant snake had remained unseen.
What is 'pipes'?
A system of arithmetic for integers where numbers "wrap around" upon reaching a certain value. This is the type of arithmetic used, for example, with 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
What is modular (arithmetic)?