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100
Italian for "room" or "stopping place" gives us this word for a part of a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans.
Who is Attila?
100
Homophone: to earn money; a fortune-teller
What is profit/prophet?
100
Daisy Buchanan's cousin, he narrates The Great Gatsby.
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
_______ is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
200
A character with no apparent flaws or weaknesses would fall under this alias.
What is a Mary Sue?
200
Akhenaten's son, he became pharaoh at age nine and demoted Aten to return to the worship of Amun.
Who is King Tut?
200
This is the most popular letter in the English language.
What is E?
200
This boy is beaten to death on the shores of Lord of the Flies.
Who is Simon?
200
<--This.
What is the printing press?
300
A line of poetry continuing into the next line; the opposite of "end-stopped."
What is enjambment?
300
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and British armies during the American Revolution.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
300
This disease was thought to be contracted by "bad air."
What is malaria?
300
The protagonists of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series are named after this French poet.
Who is Charles Baudelaire?
300
A marvel of fin de siècle engineering, no one needs to sail past Cape Horn again!
What is the Panama Canal?
400
A poetry collection by Robert Browning; a list of actors in a given stage play.
What is dramatis personae?
400
A bakery fire led to this city-spanning conflagration in 1666.
What is the Great Fire of London?
400
This Pacific island is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, with around 840 spoken languages.
What is Papua New Guinea?
400
Samuel Langhorne Clemens coined this pseudonym from his time as a mariner on the Mississippi River.
Who is Mark Twain?
400
What does the equation A=((a+b)/2)h solve for?
What is the area of a trapezoid?
500
In Aristotle's Poetics, this Greek word defines the point in any tragedy where a character's fortune turns from good to bad.
What is peripeteia?
500
Enacted during twentieth century wartimes to conserve energy resources, the UTA cemented this as a permanent part of American life in 1974.
What is daylight saving time?
500
This children's story is the book translated into the most languages (besides the Bible).
What is The Little Prince?
500
Surnamed Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway), Fray (The Mortal Instruments), and Saunders (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington).
Who is Clarissa?
500
The walls of cells found in plant stems (and all plants) are made of this.
What is cellulose?