Colleges
The Civil War
Geometry
Hail to the Chief
Right Here in River City
100
A type of shoe or cloth, or where a Rhodes scholarship will get you.
What is Oxford?
100
Lincoln's four brothers-in-law all served in this army.
What is the Confederate Army?
100
Of a schizoid, rhizoid or trapezoid, the one you'll normally run across in geometry class.
What is a trapezoid?
100
In 1786, 10 years after writing the Declaration of Independence, his writing hand became crippled after an accident.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis & this city about 700 miles away.
What is New Orleans?
200
Home of over 52,000 Buckeyes.
What is Ohio State University?
200
Though shots fired at this garrison in South Carolina started the war, no casualties resulted.
What is Ft. Sumter?
200
Analytic geometry uses a coordinate system in which the abscissa & the ordinate are represented by these 2 letters.
What are x and y?
200
In the 1984 campaign, he said he was not going to exploit Walter Mondale's "youth and inexperience".
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on this Asian city on the Ota River in western Honshu.
What is Hiroshima?
300
Latin for field, or college grounds.
What is a campus?
300
He was Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union army, especially because he was the Superintendent of West Point Military Academy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Angles 1 & 2 are angles of this type, as they add up to 180 degrees.
What are supplementary angles?
300
He died on January 22, 1973; after services in Washington, D.C., he was buried on his Texas ranch.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Make a resolution to tell us the name of this Vietnamese capital that lies on the Red River in the Tonkin Delta.
What is Hanoi?
400
Women's college that shares Harvard's classes, housing & facilities but still is separate.
What is Radcliffe?
400
State that seceded from state that seceded. It became a state in 1863 and remained in the Union.
What is West Virginia?
400
Whether a convex polygon has 4, 9 or even 22 sides, the exterior angle sum will always total this.
What is 360 degrees?
400
In 1885, this 22nd & 24th president said, "Office seeking is a disease...it is ever catching".
Who is Grover Cleveland?
400
Cities on this 626-mile-long river include Toledo, Spain & Santarem, Portugal.
What is the Tagus River?
500
This university was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 and opened in 1825. In fact, he planned the curriculum, recruited the first faculty, and designed the Academical Village, a terraced green space surrounded by residential and academic buildings, gardens, and the majestic center-point—the Rotunda.
What is the University of Virginia?
500
General Nicknamed "Uncle Billy" who believed in total war. He is most famous for his March to the Sea and the Burning of Atlanta.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
If the 3 sides of one triangle are equal to the same parts in another, the two triangles are called this.
What is congruent?
500
In 1823, he warned European powers to stay out of the hemisphere in what became known as his doctrine.
Who is James Monroe?
500
38 years before she lost her head, Marie Antoinette was born in this capital on the Danube River.
What is the Danube River?
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