The British Empire
Literary terms
Famous people
Miscellaneous
Science and technology
100
The author of "Shooting an Elephant"
Who is George Orwell?
100
The time and place of the action in a literary work
What is the setting?
100
The current president of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
100
The capital city of England
What is London?
100
An organism whose genetic material has been changed
What is a genetically modified organism (GMO)?
200
The colony that Britain regarded as its most important
What is India?
200
The author's attitude toward the topic and how it is expressed
What is tone?
200
This American gave the "I have a Dream" speech in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King?
200
25 + 250
What is 275?
200
A complex molecule that contains all of the information necessary to build and maintain an organism.
What is DNA?
300
The saying that referred to the fact that Britain had colonies all around the world
What is "The sun never sets on the British Empire"?
300
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
What is mood?
300
American actor and singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead singer and youngest member of the boy band 'N Sync
Who is Justin Timberlake?
300
The number of states in America
What is 50?
300
The British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
Who is Charles Darwin?
400
The period between 1815 and 1914 when around 10,000,000 square miles of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire
What is Britain's imperial century?
400
The character who works against the main character and who is usually the source of the conflict
What is the antagonist?
400
Famous American basketball player who won 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls
Who is Michael Jordan?
400
Legendary English band formed in Liverpool in 1960
Who is the Beatles?
400
The engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale
What is nanotechnology?
500
A period of rapid European colonization of the African continent
What is "the scramble for Africa"?
500
Literary device that contains several layers of meaning, often concealed at first sight.
What is a symbol?
500
Nicknamed the "Iron Lady", this British politician was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
500
English poet who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
This person is known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for creating the first cell with a synthetic genome
Who is Craig Venter?
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