Science
Fermentation
It begins, "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank"
Alice in Wonderland
The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose other two sides are 6 inches and 8 inches
10 inches
The people were seeking guns and gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark on July 4, 1789
The Bastille
Lying of the East bank of the Nile, Tahrir Square is the center of this capital's downtown
Cairo
This innermost planet goes through apparent changes, or phases, just like our Moon
Mercury
Upton Sinclair refers to the chicago stockyards as "Packingtown" in this 1906 novel
The Jungle
After spending $200 at the store, Eric has 20% of his money left, meaning he started with this total
$250
On August 8, 1588, The English defeated this fleet of Philip ll at the Battle of Gravelines
The Spanish Armada
Of this country's hundreds of islands, Crete and Euboea are the 2 largest
Greece
Cosmic rays were first detected by V.F. Hess during a flight by one of these
Hot-air balloon
The Bermoothes, where Prospero's brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda
The Tempest
This office measures 10 feet by 18 feet; to carpet the whole thing will cost this much at $10 a square yard
$200
In 1907, Col. George Goethals was appointed chief engineer to build this Central American waterway
Panama Canal
The City that stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec people
Mexico City
The name of this gas comes from Amun, a temple in Libya near where its salts were obtained
Ammonia
Set in part in Philadelphia, "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" is a novel about this war
The Revolutionary War
If a right triangle has two angles of 45 degrees and the hypotenuse has a value of the square root of 72, what is the sum of the other two sides?
12
In 1191, this "Lion-Hearted" King of England captured Cyrus and Acre during the Crusades
Richard l
Since 1980, most of this Indonesian Island, known for its giant monitor lizards, has been a national park
Komodo
Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550- foot pounds of work per second
Horsepower
Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet
Homer
In Cartesian geometry, the Y coordinate of a point is called the ordinate-The x coordinate is called this, from the Latin word for "cut off"
The Abscissa
Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus ll was the last king of this European country
Poland
This mountain range that extends from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea forms a natural barrier between France and Spain
The Pyrenees