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100
This is the title for the hero in a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
This cause of smog involves warm air trapped below cold air.
What is inversion?
100
This refers to a religion whose practicers worship only one god.
What is monotheism?
100
Statues, pictures, and funerary masks usually portrayed Pharaohs as looking this way.
What is beautiful?
100
This was likely the most unusual Pharaoh in Egyptian history.
Who is Akhenaton?
200
This is the title for the villain of a story.
What is the antagonist?
200
This form of government makes decisions by having its citizens vote.
What is democracy?
200
This is a name for a multi-dimensional shape that could theoretically form a wrinkle in time.
What is a tesseract?
200
Akhenaton's life was changed when he saw a vision of a sun disk representing this Egyptian god.
What is Aten?
200
This Egyptian was considered the most beautiful woman in the world.
Who is Nefertiti?
300
The point in the story when the hero seems least likely to achieve his or her goal.
What is the black moment?
300
In this form of government, wealth and benefits are distributed among the people by the government.
What is socialism?
300
This is the name for a being who is half-god, half-human.
What is a demigod?
300
During this period in Egyptian history, the artistic style changed to be more realistic.
What is the Amarna Period?
300
This Sumerian leader wrote a set of famous laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
At this point in the story, the hero does or does not get what he or she wants.
What is the resolution?
400
This happened on the same day in California and New York this week.
What is a school threat?
400
Medusa is the best known of this type of creature from Greek mythology.
What is a gorgon?
400
This was done to statues and records of Akhenaton after his death.
What is destroyed?
400
This Greek hero saved Andromeda and then married her.
Who is Perseus?
500
This event causes the story to really begin
What is the inciting incident?
500
This political party generally believes we should spend more money on the military.
What is Republican?
500
This word refers to a person who turns against their religion.
What is an apostate?
500
These are the ages at which Pharaoh Tutankhamen started and ended his reign.
What are 8 and 18?
500
This legendary Greek king was granted his wish--and regretted it.
Who is King Midas?
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