April Showers
This phenomenon occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide combine with water vapors and fall onto the earth as a cocktail of sulfuric and nitric acids
What is acid rain?
Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet, and the only way they can discharge heat is by doing this.
What is panting?
During the Roman Civil War in 48 BCE Julius Caesar burnt down this famous library in North Africa.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
This is the numeric value of the Roman numeral L.
What is 50?
Daily Double:
Name a Shakespeare play (up to five).
What are:
All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Winter’s Tale.
True or false: Not all rain drops that fall from the sky reach the ground.
What is true?
Under specific conditions, sometimes rain can fall but never touch Earth. This occurs when rain falling from a cloud evaporates as it draws closer to Earth’s surface. When this happens, it forms what is known as ‘Virga Clouds’; a tail or wisp extending from a cloud in a downwards position.
This is the average life span of a tropical fish kept in an aquarium.
a. two to three months
b. two to three years
c. two to three decades
What is b (two to three years)?
This historical figure created the first public library in the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is what the M stands for in the computer abbreviation RAM.
What is memory?
(Random Access Memory)
True or False: Shakespeare made up over 400 words.
What is True?
(Examples: Anchovy, Bedazzled, Bedroom, Eyeball, Swagger, and Zany)
This is the water cycle process where water vapor turns into liquid water droplets.
What is condensation?
Socks the Cat lived in the White House with this president.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The New York Public Library is one of the filming locations for this 1984 supernatual comedy film.
What is Ghostbusters?
These are the last four words of the U.S. national anthem.
What are "Home of the brave"?
This is Shakespeare's longest play, a famous tragedy about a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father's murder by his uncle, Claudius, who has usurped the throne and married the prince's mother, Gertrude.
What is Hamlet?
BJ Thomas performed this famous spring song on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which won the Academy Award for best original song that year. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.
What is "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"?
This famous TV dog was a loyal Collie known for her bravery.
Who was Lassie?
The first card catalog was developed during this period of political upheaval, when revolutionaries used playing cards to take inventory of libraries confiscated from exiled or executed aristocrats.
What is the French Revolution?
This is the world's largest hot desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
When Shakespeare was born in 1564, she was the ruler of England.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
This continent is the driest on earth.
What is Antarctica?
(Despite being covered in ice, it is classified as a polar desert, receiving very low annual precipitation (mostly snow), averaging only about 166 mm (6.5 inches) a year.)
In 2025, this breed was the most popular dog breed in the United States
A. English Foxhound
B. Pitbull
C. French Bulldog
What is C - the French Bulldog?
This president sold his private collection of books to the Library of Congress following the war of 1812 and invented its original classifcation system.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"All children, except one, grow up" is the opening line in this classic 1911 novel.
What is Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie?
(Peter Pan)
Broadly speaking, Shakespeare's tragedies are plays that end in death (often of the main character and multiple others), and his comedies end in this.
What is marriage?
(also will accept celebration or a happy resolution)