World History
What ancient trade route connected China to the Mediterranean and helped spread goods, religions, diseases, and ideas across Eurasia?
The Silk Road
What does the internet acronym HTTP stand for?
HyperText Transfer Protocol
What organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for secretion or delivery to other organelles?
Golgi apparatus
What literary device uses a part of something to represent the whole, such as “wheels” meaning a car?
Synecdoche
Humans share about 80% of their DNA with bananas.
CAP!
Geneticists estimate that humans and bananas share roughly 50% to 60% of their genes.
Who was the Byzantine emperor responsible for codifying Roman law into the Corpus Juris Civilis?
Justinian I
What term refers to a false or misleading website made to steal login credentials or sensitive information?
Phishing site
What enzyme is responsible for adding nucleotides to the 3’ end of a growing DNA strand?
DNA polymerase
In Pride and Prejudice, what is the name of Mr. Darcy’s estate?
Pemberley
The Great Wall of China is clearly visible from the Moon.
CAP!
Unless if it's as huge as the Amazon River.
What 1919 treaty formally ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers and imposed major reparations on Germany?
Treaty of Versailles
What search engine was originally called BackRub before being renamed?
What embryonic germ layer gives rise to the nervous system and epidermis?
Ectoderm
What is the literary term for the emotional release or purification experienced by the audience after a tragedy?
Catharsis
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not true botanical berries.
FACT!
What Japanese era, beginning in 1868, marked the restoration of imperial rule and rapid modernization of Japan?
Meiji Era / Meiji Restoration
What does HTTPS add to HTTP?
Encryption
In the lac operon, what molecule binds to the repressor and prevents it from attaching to the operator sequence?
Allolactose
In The Count of Monte Cristo, what name does Edmond Dantès assume after escaping prison and acquiring wealth?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Humans have more bacterial cells than human cells by a ratio of about 10:1.
CAP!
Older estimates said 10:1, but newer estimates suggest the numbers are much closer, roughly around 1:1.
What Mongol invasion fleet against Japan was destroyed by typhoons in 1274 and 1281, later called the “divine wind”?
Kamikaze / Divine Wind
What is the name of the decentralized technology underlying Bitcoin and many cryptocurrencies?
Blockchain
What principle states that allele and genotype frequencies remain constant across generations in a population with no mutation, migration, selection, genetic drift, or nonrandom mating?
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Which Jane Austen novel was published posthumously in 1817 together with Northanger Abbey?
Persuasion
Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short compared with men of his time.
CAP!
He was around average height for a Frenchman of his era (168 to 170 cm).