Biology
Religions
-isms
Misspellings
Vocabulary
200

Taxonomy classifies groups of biological organisms. From highest to lowest they are: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order... (last three)

family, genus, species

200

This language used to be common even in public school curricula but in the '60s even the Catholic church dropped it

Latin
200

Part of many religions it's the opposition to war & violence as means of settling disputes

Pacifism

200

What proper name is spelled, unusually, with a single n both on the Liberty Bell and in the U.S. Constitution?

Pennsylvania

200

From the Greek for words it's a dictionary or the vocabulary of a particular field

A lexicon

400

The three main branches of Biology are Botany, microbiology, and...

zoology

400

The Catholic revival that began in the mid-1500s is also called the Counter-this

THE COUNTER-REFORMATION

400

Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement

Impressionism

400

What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word "potato" when he misspelled it in 1992?

e (potatoe)

400

This 11-letter political word entered our vocabulary after Massachusetts' governor signed a redistricting bill

Gerrymander

600

What is divided into the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum?

The small intestine

600

The Protestant society called this color Order is named for the king who defeated Catholic James II in Ireland in 1690

Orange

600

Repeated or habitual relapse into crime

Recidivism

600

You must be cognizant of misspellings in a catagory like this otherwise you might be embarrassed

Category

600

It's the 8-letter term for the specialized vocabulary used by attorneys

Legalese

800

What process is divided into 4 parts: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?

Cell mitosis

800

Is the birthplace of most of the world's major religions (which continent)

Asia

800

You're likely to hear You are getting very sleepy from someone practicing this

Hypnotism

800

What Margate City, New Jersey, housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?

Marven Gardens

800

It entered our vocabulary in 1953 when the oil & gas journal called it a new exploratory tool

Fracking

1000

For his tenacity, nineteenth-century biologist Thomas Huxley was nicknamed whose "bull-dog"

Darwin's

1000

Who is worshipped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?

Ganesh

1000

To keep an industry safe from foreign competition the government might impose quotas or tariffs examples of this -ism

Protectionism

1000

In the Bible, whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?

Naomi

1000

Often found before "enthusiasm", it literally refers to a horse without control reins & bit

Unbridled

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