Literature
In this short novel, Belle rejects the protagonist because he has replaced her with “a golden idol,” and a shape-shifting creature visits a dance at Mr Fezziwig’s shop.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Rough infrastructure in what became this state included Stephen Meek’s cutoff and Sam Barlow’s toll road. Corvallis was briefly the capital of this territory, whose Willamette Valley was the destination for thousands of people in covered wagons that left from Independence, Missouri. An overland trail was named for, what Pacific Northwest state where migrants built cities like Salem and Portland?
Where is Oregon?
This person’s political rise began after protesting the 1919 Rowlett Act with a hartal, a form of striking. After this person’s letter to Lord Irwin was ignored, he led a march to Dandi
Who was Gandhi?
With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
What is a stapler?
Feng shui [fong shweh] attempts to balance these two forces. One is a cold, passive, feminine force, and the other is a warm, active, masculine force. They are represented as swirling black and white in a common symbol.
What is Yin and Yang
Literature in this genre can be cataloged in the Perry Index and was collected by Jean de La Fontaine. One of these works contrasts the simplicity of the country with the dangers of the city in the lives of two mice, and is often collected with two of these works commonly called “The Ant and the Grasshopper” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”
What are Fables?
In a not so common saying anymore it is said that all roads lead to this city
Where is Rome?
A nineteenth-century poem about this ancient author describes the emotions felt “On first looking into” this man’s works, as translated by George Chapman. For Name this Greek poet, whose attributed works include an epic poem about the Trojan War, the Iliad.
Who was Homer?
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son." Who is in the painting?
Who is the man's son?
If a complex number is multiplied by i four times, it will rotate this many degrees in the Argand plane. In degrees, this is twice the period of the co-tangent function; it’s also the period of the sine and cosine functions. Two straight angles add up to this many degrees. This is the number of degrees in two radians, as well as the sum of the interior angles of any quadrilateral. One full rotation is, what degree measurement, equivalent to a whole circle?
What is 360 degrees?
In this Charlotte Perkins Gilman work, the narrator is locked in her room at a guest-house to help her recover from post-partum depression, only for her to become manically obsessed with the title wall covering
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?
What is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
Where is Africa?
The “curse of the ninth” is said to have started with this German composer, who was totally deaf when he conducted the premier of his Choral ninth symphony.
Who was Beethoven?
What's lighter than a feather but impossible to hold for much more than a minute?
What is your breath?
The hierarchy problem asks why this force is so much weaker than the weak force. General relativity explains this force through the curvature of spacetime. On Earth’s surface, the acceleration due to this force is about 9.8 meters per second squared. Tides are caused by this force, which acts between any two objects with mass. “Big G” is a constant named for, what force that attracts objects on Earth toward the ground?
What is gravity?
The cursed title object of this 1902 W.W. Jacobs short story “twisted [...] like a snake” after Mr White uses it to wish for two hundred pounds. In modern retellings, its fingers often curl to indicate that a wish has been made.
What is The Monkeys Paw?
This iconic, pyramid-shaped Alpine peak lies on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Hundreds of climbers have died on this peak, including four members of the first team to summit it in 1911.
Where is the Matterhorn?
The A and B coefficients of stimulated emission are named for this scientist, who first figured out the operating principle of a laser. This scientist’s objection to quantum mechanics is often misinterpreted by the quote, “God does not play dice.” In 1905, a year called this man’s Annus mirabilis, this scientist published papers on the photoelectric effect and special relativity. Name this German physicist who derived the formula “E equals M C squared.”
Who was Albert Einstein?
Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
What is corn?
These particles tunnel through a gap and create a current that is analyzed to create images in scanning tunneling microscopy. These fermions are described fully by four quantum numbers, including the spin number, and the Pauli exclusion principle dictates that those four numbers must be different for each of these in one atom. Name these subatomic particles that are much lighter than protons and neutrons and are found orbiting the nucleus.
What is an electron?
A character in this play offers columbine, rue, and daisies to a group gathered at Elsinore, but says that violets “withered all when [her] father died.” This play’s title character says “frailty, thy name is woman” when his mother Gertrude marries his uncle Claudius, and duels Laertes, the brother of Ophelia, over the death of Polonius. Name this play by Shakespeare in which the title prince of Denmark tries to avenge his father’s death.
What is Hamlet?
In some stories, Manco Capac was the son of Inti, the Incan sun god, who was worshipped in this Incan city high in ´ the Andes Mountains in modern Peru
Where is Machu Pichu?
This artist captured the attention of Georges Braque with a painting of five angular figures inspired by women in a brothel and by African masks, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon [[lay day-mwah-zels da-VEE-nyawn]. This artist created a black-and-white painting of the bombing of a Basque city during the Spanish Civil War, and during his Blue Period, he painted The Old Guitarist. Name this Spanish painter who painted Guernica and co-founded Cubism.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
What is the letter "R"?
The flatness problem challenged this theory. Although the Belgian priest George Lemaitre [le-MET] first proposed this theory, it was not a mainstream idea until Fred Hoyle’s steady-state model was disproven. The cosmic microwave background is strong evidence in favor of this theory, which predicts that cosmic inflation must have occurred 13.8 billion years ago. Name this theory which proposes the universe rapidly expanded from a small hot center.
What is the Big Bang Theory?