Biology Crazy
This (evidently) is a condition someone has when he/she has yellow skin.
What is jaundice?
He wrote Tale of Two Cities.
Who was Charles Dickins?
He wrote Confessions.
Who was Augustine?
He wrote, The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
In this year Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
What is 1517?
This simple sugar is represented with the molecular formula C6H12O6.
What is glucose?
This 19th century classic opens with the words, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
He is regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as the first pope.
Who is Peter?
Alongside Karl Marx, he coauthored The Communist Manifesto.
Who was Friedrich Engels?
When Calvin fled his native Noyon, France, he landed here in 1536, where he would live and pastor his church till his death in 1564.
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
This is the name given for low oxygen in the blood.
What is hypoxemia?
After defeating Grendel and his mother, Beowulf faces his last battle, ultimately being killed by this creature.
What is a dragon?
This council, convened in 325 by Constantine, housed a fierce debate over how to understand the person of Christ with relation to his divinity. Those won out who asserted that Christ was "homoousias," or "of the same substance," with the Father.
What was the Council of Nicaea?
This University of Chicago Economist won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on consumption analysis.
Who was Friedman?
At the Marburg Colloquy, he and Luther could not reconcile over the issue of how to understand the words of Christ, "This is my body."
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
This is the breakdown of glucose by enzymes, releasing energy and pyruvic acid.
What is Glycolysis?
She wrote, "Tell the Truth, but tell it slant / Success in circuit lies... / The Truth must dazzle gradually / or every man be blind."
Who was Emily Dickinson?
His heart was "strangely warmed" as he listened to Luther's preface to the book of Romans being read.
Who was John Wesley?
In the equation MV = PY, V stands for this.
What is Velocity of circulation?
Who was Philip Melanchthon?
The adrenal gland consists of these two main parts.
What are the medulla and the cortex?
In this whiny poem, Coleridge laments his injured foot, and the fact that it keeps him from accompanying his friends.
This Lime Tree Bower my Prison
This system of philosophy was the most influential upon Augustine. From it, he developed such ideas as the privation theory of sin and psychological trinitarianism.
What is Neo-Platonism?
This was the colloquial (and unflattering) name given to stated income/stated asset (SISA) loans, a key impetus behind the 2008 housing crash.
What are Liar Loans?
This council, held from 1414-1418, solved the problem of the "Great Western Schism" (at one point during which there were three separate popes) and formally declared the Bohemian reformer Jan Hus a heretic.
What was the Council of Constance?