English
What is the literary term for a reference to another famous work, historical event, or person within a text?
Allusion
What is the square root of 169?
13
What is the name of the process by which cells divide to produce two genetically identical daughter cells?
Mitosis
What 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal?
Treaty of Tordesillas
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, what 3 supernatural figures make predictions about Macbeth's future?
The 3 witches
Denotation is the literal definition; connotation is the associated feeling or meaning.
What is the slope of a horizontal line?
0
6
What was the name of the economic and political program introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression (Bonus points if you can tell me what the D. stands for)
Who is the narrator in The Catcher in the Rye?
Holden Caulfield
Dramatic irony
30
Which organelle is responsible for modifying, sorting, and packaging proteins?
Golgi Apparatus
Which ancient Greek city-state is considered the birthplace of democracy?
Athens
In Lord of the Flies, what does the conch shell symbolize?
Order, authority, and civilization
What is the term for a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of every character?
Third-person omniscient narrator
What is the name of a polygon with 8 sides?
Octagon
What type of blood cells are primarily responsible for fighting infections?
White Blood Cell
What assassination in 1914 helped trigger the beginning of World War 1?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?
Mary Shelly
Hyperbole
What is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?
180 degrees
What is the speed of light in a vacuum, approximately, in meters per second?
300 million meters per second
What 1215 document limited the power of the English monarchy and established certain legal rights?
What is the name of the fictional town where To Kill a Mockingbird takes place?
Maycomb, Alabama