Famous People
This president stood at the Berlin Wall and said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which was supposed to mean “I’m a Berliner too” but some people say it means “I’m a jelly donut.”
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This salt, formally known as iron oxide, is a common component of red clay soil and forms when unprotected metal parts are exposed to water.
What is rust?
In a famous speech, Ronald Reagan demanded “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down” this barrier that split a European capital in half.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This author wrote short stories like “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiments” but is better known for The Scarlet Letter.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
In soccer, they are shorter, angled in, and absent from the toe. In football, they are conical and present under the toe. In baseball, they are long and narrow and also present under the toe.
What are cleats?
He presided over the “era of good feelings” and his namesake doctrine told Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere.
Who is James Monroe?
Though the number of protons remains the same in all atoms of the same type, the number of neutrons in the nucleus can vary. For instance, carbon 12 has 6 neutrons, carbon 13 has 7 neutrons, and carbon 14 has 8 different forms of the same atom, such as these.
What are isotopes?
Led to the U.S. supplying and feeding Germans, and other Western Europeans, through the supply of $12 billion in food. It was named for Truman’s Secretary of State.
What is the Marshall Plan?
In a poem by this person, when they see the title trees sway to the left or right, they like to think “some boy’s been swinging in them, but swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.” This poet claims that “good fences make good neighbors” in their poem “Mending Wall.” This poet wrote “My little horse must think it queer/To stop without a farmhouse near” in a poem that claimed there were “miles to go before I sleep.” For ten points, name this New England poet who penned “Birches,” “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
Who is Robert Frost?
In basketball, players that play this position were traditionally smaller, quicker, and primarily responsible for handling the ball, getting the team into its offensive set, and passing the ball. In the modern game, some players in this spot may be as tall as frontcourt players and volume scorers from behind the 3-point line. What position is numbered as the 1?
“Bach, Beethoven,” and this composer are often called the “three Bs.” He created the German Requiem and a very popular lullaby.
Who is Johannes Brahms?
This major type of tissue can be subdivided into striated skeletal, smooth, and cardiac sub-categories.
What are muscles?
The HMS Guerriere was destroyed in this event that saw the capture of the Boxer. This event was ended by the Treaty of Ghent and the pirate Jean Lafitte was offered a pardon for help during this event. Andrew Jackson became a hero in this war for the Battle of New Orleans, and the White House was burned down during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
This poet famously avoided using capital letters. Though when his editor spelled his name without the capitals, he asked everyone to stop, and start capitalizing his name again. They still don’t. He wrote “anyone lived in a pretty how town.”
Who is E.E. Cummings?
In soccer, one fundamental rule states that, with the exception of a throw-in, an offensive player cannot stand behind the defensive players and receive a pass. What loss-of-possession penalty is assessed by the referees if this occurs?
What is offsides?
This Byzantine ruler sent monks to China to smuggle back silkworms. This husband of Theodora refused to leave in the Nika riots.
Who is Justinian I?
This measurement is defined as the resistance of a fluid to flow.
What is viscosity?
Lake Vostok is one of 400 underground lakes known in this place. This place’s tallest mountain, Vinson Massif, is in the Ellsworth Mountains. This continent is home to the Ross Ice Shelf and Roald Amundsen was the first person to visit the southernmost point on this continent.
What is Antarctica?
this book’s dogs die, he’s told that only an angel can plant the colorful title flower.
What is Where the Red Fern Grows?
While not seen in the WWE or any leagues where folding chairs are employed as weapons, true Greco-Roman wrestling organizations, especially those in middle and high school require all wrestlers to wear this piece of equipment that helps prevent dental injuries, concussions, eardrum injuries, and cauliflower ear.
What are wrestling helmets?
This statistician’s namesake rose graph is similar to a modern histogram, and they used their statistical background to argue for the reformation of sanitariums. This person’s involvement with the Crimean War led them to create a fund for the victims of the Charge of the Light Brigade. This nurse’s birthday is the day we celebrate “International Nurses Day” as she tended to soldiers and founded the first secular nursing school. For ten points, name this “lady with the lamp” who pioneered what we think of as modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The 238 isotope of this element is bombarded with neutrons and beta particles to produce plutonium. The 235 isotope of this element was used in the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. What heavy radioactive element’s isotopes eventually decay into lead isotopes?
What is uranium?
After Hirohito’s death, this man served as emperor until 2019. He left the office, in good health, being the first to do that in centuries.
Who is Akihito?
In this Fred Gipson young adult book, Travis Coates makes a really tough choice when his dog is bitten defending him from a rabid wolf.
What is Old Yeller?
This professional sports league became the first in the United States to shut down its season, following an incident where Rudy Gobert mockingly coughed on reporters’ microphones at a press conference, only to fall ill with COVID-19 a few days later, infect teammate Donovan Mitchell, and force an arena evacuation before a Jazz-Thunder game?
What is the National Basketball Association NBA)?