Science
In genetics, these molecules carry the instructions for inheritance and are shaped like a double helix.
What is DNA?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Italian artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
He said, "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
In a math classroom, this is the term for a triangle with two equal sides.
What is an isosceles triangle?
He wrote 1984, a dystopian novel about surveillance and totalitarianism.
Who is George Orwell?
This Pixar movie features emotions like Joy, Anger, and Sadness as characters.
What is Inside Out?
Mount Kilimanjaro is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
He said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Newton’s Second Law states that force equals this, times acceleration.
What is mass?
The Treaty of Versailles officially ended this war.
What is World War I?
This Spanish surrealist painter is famous for his melting clocks in the painting The Persistence of Memory.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
This U.S. state has the most active volcanoes.
What is Alaska?
she said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This female scientist, known for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
She was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving from 1979 to 1990.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This film composer created iconic scores for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park.
Who is John Williams?
This country, the smallest in the world by land area, is located entirely within the city of Rome.
What is Vatican City?
He wrote, “To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
* For this question 200 points will be given for the correct author and 200 points will be given for the correct piece of literature.
Who is William Shakespeare?
What is Hamlet?
If a parabola has the equation y = x² – 4x + 3, these are its x-intercepts.
What are 3 and 1?
This author, known for Les Misérables, also had a major role in 19th-century French politics.
Who is Victor Hugo?
This 1927 film is considered the first full-length movie with synchronized dialogue.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This landlocked country is completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
She wrote, “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Who is Jane Austen?