Religion
This person is told by the wise woman of Tekoah to forgive his son, Absalom. What king succeeded Saul after
slaying Goliath with a slingshot?
David
The Khumbu icefall of this mountain was passed on one journey by a Kiwi and Sherpa named Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay. What Himalayan mountain is the tallest in the world?
Mount Everest
The sum of any row in Pascal’s triangle is one of these numbers. These numbers are moved around a grid in the
game 2048. 2, 4, 8, and 16 are the first examples of what numbers?
powers of 2 [or two to the n; prompt on even numbers]
Maltese is derived from this language’s Sicilian variety, and is the only official Semitic language in the European
Union. What language’s “Modern Standard” dialect is derived from the Qur’an?
Arabic [or al-arabiyyah]
In this musical, one character claims how “Mannox taught me all about dynamics.” This musical includes songs like
“Haus of Holbein.” “Divorced,” “beheaded,” and “died” describes the characters in what musical about the wives of
Henry the VIII (“the eighth”)?
SIX
God sends a gourd plant to give this man shade, then destroys the gourd with a worm. While trying to avoid going to
Nineveh, this person is thrown out of a ship. Name this prophet who is swallowed by a whale.
Jonah
The boy Elián González was seized in this city, which was the destination of the Mariel Boatlift. Little Havana was
created by Cuban immigrants in what city in Dade County, Florida?
Miami
This force is directly proportional to the applied load and independent of the contact area according to Amontons’
first and second laws. Name this force that opposes the motion of two objects sliding against each other.
frictional force
Research subjects fail to notice a basketball player dressed like this animal in a pioneering study of attention. One of
these animals was shot dead at the Cincinnati Zoo after grabbing a boy. Harambe was what kind of animal?
gorillas [or western lowland gorilla; prompt on apes or monkeys]
A “yellow” depiction of this man was created by Paul Gauguin. A Lithuanian synagogue burns in a “white”
depiction of this man’s death by Marc Chagall. Artists were inspired by the crucifixion of what religious figure?
Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth; accept The Yellow Christ]
During this meal, a child asks “Why is this night different from all other nights?” Three pieces of matzah are used
during what meal, a Jewish ritual that takes place on Passover?
Seder
This ruler founded the Hermitage Museum and took power by deposing her husband Peter III. Grigori Potemkin
advised what Empress of Russia
Catherine the Great [or Catherine II]
This pathogen’s gp120 protein allows it to bind to CD4 receptors, helping it penetrate the membranes of T cells.
ZDV fights this pathogen by inhibiting reverse transcriptase. What virus causes AIDS?
human immunodeficiency virus [or HIV]
An artist with this first name depicted her “shanty” on Lake George, as well as an abstract painting series simply
titled Blue. Tbilisi is the capital of a country in the Caucasus with what name, shared by the U. S. state which
contains Atlanta?
Georgia [accept Georgia O’Keeffe]
Robert P. McCulloch had one of these structures moved from London to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. One of these
structures in Brooklyn was designed by the engineer John A. Roebling. The city of Venice contains more than 400 of
what structures used to cross a body of water?
bridges [accept specific types, e.g. suspension bridges; accept London Bridge or Brooklyn Bridge]
In what this man mistakes as a dream, an angel leads him out of King Herod’s prison. This man is called the “rock”
on which the church will be built. A square in the Vatican is named for what first pope, an apostle who holds the
keys to heaven?
St. Peter [or Simon]
In the election of this year, the Federalist ticket of Jared Ingersoll and DeWitt Clinton was defeated by the
Democratic-Republicans Elbridge Gerry and James Madison. The Treaty of Ghent ended a war between the early
United States and Britain named for what year?
1812
Energy is extracted from these objects in the Penrose process, which makes use of their ergospheres. Hawking
radiation is emitted by the event horizons of what astronomical objects, from which light cannot escape?
black holes
According to a fictional biography, this man spilled some acid and exclaimed "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
Name this Scottish-born inventor who beat his rival Elisha Gray in becoming the first to be awarded a patent for the
telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
In “I’m Not That Girl,” the protagonist of this musical laments the impossibility of their love with Fiyero. This
musical’s protagonist escapes a building in the Emerald City while singing “Defying Gravity.” What Stephen
Schwartz musical is about Elphaba prior to the events of The Wizard of Oz?
Wicked
This figure was claimed to have appeared at Fátima and Guadalupe. This figure hears good news from the angel
Gabriel during the Annunciation. Name this wife of Joseph and mother of Jesus.
Mary [or Maryam or Mariam]
The National Day of Mourning is a demonstration held on the anniversary of this event, whose celebration was
moved up a week by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Name this event held in 1621 in which Squanto may not have taught
Pilgrims to prepare turkey.
the First Thanksgiving [or the meeting or feast between the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621]
Inheritance allows these programmatic entities to gain properties from each other. What type of entities are
templates used for creating objects?
classes
What brand uses a logo with two horizontal blue stripes on either side of a red and white horizontal stripe, and
announced its first collection using an advertisement centered around the initials TH?
Tommy Hilfiger
The So Kate is an example of what objects created by Christian Louboutin, whose designs feature an iconic red
sole?
high heels [or stilettos; prompt on shoes]