Math
The sum of the interior angles of this basic geometric shape is always 180 degrees.
What is a triangle?
This North American country’s capital is Ottawa.
What is Canada?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Plants use this green pigment to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
Author of the *Harry Potter* fantasy series.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
This prime number is the only even number in the entire set of primes.
What is 2?
The largest country by land area in the world.
What is Russia?
Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated at this 1815 battle.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
The atomic number of this element, essential for organic life, is 6.
What is carbon?
The 2023 film *Oppenheimer* focuses on the creation of this weapon.
What is the atomic bomb?
In a right-angled triangle, the square of this side is equal to the sum of the other two squares.
What is the hypotenuse?
This mountain range stretches across seven South American countries, including Argentina and Chile.
What are the Andes?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu high in the Andes.
Who were the Incas?
The fourth planet from the Sun, nicknamed the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
In chess, this piece can only move diagonally.
What is the bishop?
The derivative of \( e^x \) with respect to \( x \) is equal to this.
What is \( e^x \)?
The longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian archduke in 1914 sparked World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Newton’s third law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite one of these.
What is a reaction?
Jeff Bezos founded this e-commerce giant in 1994.
What is Amazon?
This theorem, unsolved for 358 years, states that \( a^n + b^n = c^n \) has no solutions for \( n > 2 \).
What is Fermat’s Last Theorem?
This body of water, bordered by Jordan and Palestine, is the saltiest on Earth.
What is the Dead Sea?
This wall, demolished in 1989, physically divided East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This organelle, known as the "powerhouse of the cell," produces ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
This Shakespearean tragedy includes the soliloquy "To be, or not to be."
What is *Hamlet*?