Science and Math
Name this element, a metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury
A large signature by John Hancock is distinguishable in this document, signed at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, which states that “all men are created equal”. Name this work by Thomas Jefferson, adopted on July 4, 1776, that announced the freedom of the colonies.
Declaration of Independence
In this novel, Henry Clerval’s death is blamed on the main character. That main character, Victor, learns how to bring dead matter back to life. Name this novel about a doctor who creates a monster, by Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein
The gravitational influence of this body is the primary cause of tides. Name this body which contains various locations like the Sea of Tranquility, which was the site of the Apollo 11 landings.
The Moon
Name this organelle where the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain occur.
Mitochondria
These objects are classified by the presence of a bar on the right side of Hubble’s tuning fork. Name these objects, classes of which include elliptical and spiral.
Galaxies
At the Battle of Pharsalus, this man defeated his rival Pompey. Name this dictator of Rome who was assassinated on the Ides of March.
Julius Caesar
Name this Russian author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Tolstoy
This man wrote about a girl with psychic powers who reads every book in the library and then loses her powers in Miss Honey's class in his book Matilda. Name this author of James and the Giant Peach.
Roald Dahl
A war which was ended by the Peace of Westphalia started after officials in this city were thrown out of windows in one of this city’s three “defenestrations.”
Prague
These materials expel magnetic field lines in the Meissner effect, which can cause diamagnetic levitation. Name these materials in which current flows with zero resistance.
Superconductors
He served as Governor of California from 1967 until 1975. Prior to entering politics, this man was a famous Hollywood actor. Name this Republican president from 1981 to 1989.
Ronald Reagan
In this novel, Winston Smith is eventually arrested for thoughtcrime against Big Brother. Name this dystopian novel, set in the title year, written by George Orwell.
1984
Unlike every other positive integer, the number 1 is neither prime nor one of these numbers. 4 is the smallest example of what numbers which have more than two factors, which are contrasted with prime numbers?
After this king passed the Papists Act, protestors dubbed him “King Mob” during the Gordon Riots. Due to his porphyria, this king’s son presided over the Regency. This king issued the Proclamation of 1763, forbidding all western expansion past the Appalachians, and refused to read the Olive Branch Petition.
George III
This quantity, which is equal to zero for sterile animals, increases when natural selection occurs. Name this measure of an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment.
Fitness
Along with Cuba and Puerto Rico, this country was occupied by the United States after the Spanish-American War.
The Philippines
A character in this work is imprisoned under Mount Wǔháng for 500 years after he is unable to escape the Buddha’s palm. That character accompanies a monk named Xuánzàng on a quest to obtain Buddhist holy texts. Name this classic Chinese novel in which the Monkey King Sun Wukong travels to India.
Journey to the West
An extended harpsichord cadenza features in the fifth of six instrumental concertos this composer wrote for Margrave Christian Ludwig. Name this baroque composer of the Brandenburg Concertos.
Johann Sebastian Bach
In a novel by this author, the phrase, “yes I said yes I will yes” concludes a long, stream-of-consciousness soliloquy by Molly Bloom. Name this author who collected “Araby” and “The Dead” in Dubliners.
James Joyce
The name of these shapes was coined by a mathematician who had earlier studied them in his paper “How Long is the Coast of Britain?” Name these self-similar shapes exemplified by the Koch snowflake and the Mandelbrot set.
Fractals
This president signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act to create the interstate system. For 10 points, name this president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Eisenhower
Twelve-tone serialism was an art style pioneered by a “second school” named for this country’s capital that emphasized atonality. Name this country where Anton Webern, Alban Berg, and Arnold Schoenberg formed the Second Viennese School.
Austria
While hiding on this island, Daedalus reveals his location by using an ant to string a thread through a seashell.
Sicily
This phenomenon leads to an outward shift of the production possibility curve. In the long run, this phenomenon only occurs with an increase in labor productivity. Name this phenomenon in which real GDP per capita increases.
Real Economic Growth