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Ratified in 1791, this amendment guarantees the freedoms of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
The only cranial nerve that extends beyond the head and neck is this tenth cranial nerve.
What is the vagus nerve?
This European river flows through four national capitals: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade.
What is the Danube River?
In Back to the Future, Doc Brown's DeLorean must reach this speed before time travel occurs.
What is 88 miles per hour?
In The Chronicles of Narnia, this lion sacrifices himself on the Stone Table.
Who is Aslan?
During the Constitutional Convention, this compromise established a two-house Congress with one chamber based on population and the other granting equal representation to every state.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This organelle contains folded membranes called cristae, where most ATP is produced during cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
The world's largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, is located in this South American country. .
What is Bolivia?
This fictional hotel serves as the primary setting for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
What is the Overlook Hotel?
The fictional English village of Maycomb is located in this U.S. state.
What is Alabama?
This president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
What was Thomas Jefferson's most important accomplishment as President?
At standard atmospheric pressure, this element is the only nonmetal that exists as a liquid.
What is bromine?
This mountain range forms much of the natural boundary between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter famously pairs liver with these two accompaniments.
What are fava beans and a nice Chianti?
In The Great Gatsby, this billboard advertisement features the eyes of this fictional doctor.
Who is Dr. T. J. Eckleburg?
This 1944 legislation, formally called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, provided veterans with education and housing benefits.
What is the GI Bill?
The Roche limit defines the minimum distance at which this type of celestial body can orbit a planet without being torn apart by tidal forces.
What is a moon (natural satellite)?
This Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea is bordered by Poland and Lithuania.
What is Kaliningrad?
This actor portrayed both Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy and Lumière in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast.
Who is Ewan McGregor?
This Shakespeare play opens with three witches declaring, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
What is Macbeth?
Signed on April 9, 1865, this Virginia courthouse was the site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Discovered in 1932 by Carl Anderson, this positively charged antiparticle is the antimatter counterpart of the electron.
What is the positron?
This is the only national capital located below sea level.
What is Baku, Azerbaijan?
The sled named "Rosebud" symbolizes the lost childhood of this newspaper magnate.
Who is Charles Foster Kane?
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus escapes the Cyclops by giving this false name.
What is "Nobody"?