World Geography
This landlocked country is entirely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
He was the only U.S. president elected four times.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This element has atomic number 82.
What is lead?
This Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is Hamlet?
The square root of 169 is this number.
What is 13?
This capital city is the northernmost capital in the world.
What is Reykjavík?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This law states that pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional.
What is Boyle’s Law?
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This branch of math deals with limits and derivatives.
What is calculus?
This river briefly forms part of the border between North Korea and China.
What is the Yalu River?
This 1823 doctrine warned European nations against colonizing the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondrion?
This novel features the character Jay Gatsby.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This irrational number is approximately 3.14159.
What is pi?
This African country changed its name from Upper Volta in 1984.
What is Burkina Faso?
This Supreme Court case upheld Japanese American internment during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This physicist formulated the uncertainty principle.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
This epic poem begins with “Sing, O goddess, the anger…”
What is The Iliad?
This theorem states a² + b² = c² for right triangles.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This island nation’s capital is Nukuʻalofa.
What is Tonga?
This Speaker of the House became president in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died, setting a precedent.
Who is John Tyler?
This is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This Colombian author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
This famous unsolved problem asks whether every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
What is the Goldbach Conjecture?