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This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight, thanks to wings formed from thin skin stretched over elongated finger bones
Bat
This king of the Olympian gods overthrew his father Cronus and ruled the sky and thunder from atop Mount Olympus
Zues
A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, this scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection after his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle
Charles darwin
This broad natural science encompasses the study of all living organisms
Biology
This punctuation mark, sometimes called the "Oxford" or "serial" version, is debated by editors over whether it should precede the final item in a list
comma
This collective noun describes a group of lions, which typically consists of related females, their cubs, and a small number of dominant males
Pride
This demigod hero completed twelve seemingly impossible labors as penance, including strangling the Nemean Lion and capturing the Cretan Bull
Heracles
At Trinity College, Cambridge, this mathematician and physicist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Isaac Newton
This field is the study of an object's composition and properties, and how they change
Chemistry
This Danish prince delivers a famous soliloquy questioning existence itself, beginning "To be, or not to be" in this iconic play
Hamlet
This penguin species breeds during the brutal Antarctic winter, with males incubating eggs on their feet for over two months without eating
emperor penguin
Known for his immaculate strength, this Titan was condemned by Zeus to eternally bear the weight of the celestial heavens on his shoulders as punishment for warring against the Olympians
Atlas
The author of The Lord of the Rings studied at Exeter College, Oxford, and later became a professor of Anglo-Saxon at the university.
J.R.R. Tolkien
DAILY DOUBLE
This field studies human beings, their origins, cultures, and social customs across time and space.
Anthropology
This punctuation mark is used to connect two closely related independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
Semicolon
DAILY DOUBLE
Reaching diving speeds of over 240 miles per hour, this bird is the fastest animal on Earth.
peregrine falcon
This somber ferryman transported the souls of the newly dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron into the Underworld, provided they carried a coin for his fee
Charon
This physicist earned his PhD at Cambridge and later developed the theory of black hole radiation that bears his name
Stephen Hawking
This branch of science seeks to understand the universe as a whole, including its origin, structure, and evolution.
Cosmology
Daily Double
Originally published in 1925, this novel gained renewed popularity when it was distributed to American soldiers during World War II and is now widely studied for its themes of wealth, ambition, love, and the illusion of the American Dream.
Great Gatsby
This predator has black skin beneath transparent fur, an adaptation that helps absorb heat from the Sun in an icy climate.
Polar bear
This hero's journey through the Underworld included attempting to rescue his wife Eurydice, but he lost her by looking back before reaching the surface.
Orpheus
This former U.S. president studied at University College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and later became the subject of an impeachment trial during his presidency.
Bill Clinton
In Christian theology, this branch of study examines the nature, person, and work of Jesus Christ.
This modernist novel, told through stream-of-consciousness narration across a single day in Dublin, follows Leopold Bloom on June 16, 1904
Ulysses