ARTS
What eight-letter word beginning with the letter C is given to small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are scattered around during the course of a festive occasion?
CONFETTI
Identify the president who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
(GEORGE) WASHINGTON
This subatomic particle is inside the nucleus and has no charge.
Neutron
Literature with rhythm, rhyme, and lines making up stanzas is known as this.
Poem or Poetry
This female physicist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the ONLY person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
(MARIE) CURIE
What term is given to a work of art created of cut and pasted pieces of material or pictures, often with images added by the artist?
COLLAGE
What was the popular two word name for the system used before and during the Civil War to aid the escape of fugitive slaves from the South?
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
What form of matter has no definite shape or volume?
GAS
What figure of speech is used in the following? Paul Bunyan stood as tall as the redwoods with arms as big as sequoias.
SIMILE
Invented the polio vaccine
(JONAS) SALK
Andrew Lloyd Webber is famous for hit musicals including CATS and JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR. What word fills in the blank for the title of his longest-running musical on Broadway THE BLANK OF THE OPERA?
PHANTOM
The Egyptians believed this ruler to be the personification of the gods Horus, and later Amon. What is the title given to the ancient kings of Egypt?
PHARAOH
What is the two word mechanism, presumed to exist within plants and animals, that underlies many of the circadian, tidal and regular rhythms found in organisms?
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
What is the plural of the word "sheep".
SHEEP
This famous physicist discovered the elements radium and polonium. She invented the mobile x-ray unit.
This famous playwright and poet who wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet was known for writing these types of plays.
HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES, COMEDIES
In 2024 Donald Trump won the presidential election against Kamala Harris. In 2016, which female presidential candidate did Donald Trump win against?
Hilary Clinton
This subatomic particle is inside the nucleus and has a positive charge.
Proton
What 3-syllable term refers to the person who gives an account or tells the story of events in a novel?
NARRATOR
This theoretical physicist developed the theory of relativity and won the Nobel Prize in 1921. His most famous equation was E=MC2
(ALBERT) EINSTEIN
What is the name of the award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim centered around a baker and his wife with characters from famous fairy tales?
INTO THE WOODS
What was the name of the first permanent English colony in North America?
JAMESTOWN
What is the freezing point of water in degrees Fahrenheit?
32
Which word in the following sentence is a conjunction: The test was fairly short but difficult.
BUT
This scientist discovered gravity and invented the refracting telescope.
(ISSAC) NEWTON