Ancient Am. History
Following Jon Erlandson's coastal migration theory, America's earliest settlers likely followed this least-cost route, named after the marine resource that likely sustained further travel.
The Kelp Highway [accept Kelp]
Vitus Bering was an explorer who sailed for this empire in the mid-1700s. He holds an eponymous strait in the northern hemisphere.
Russian Empire (Romanov Dynasty)
He was Danish by birth, but worked for the Romanovs
What is the most common sum when rolling two six-sided dice?
Seven
Identify the organelle in which the protein ATP synthase is typically found
Mitochondria
(Remove 100 points from any player that says something about it being the "powerhouse of the cell")
A Jane Austen crossover where Elizabeth Bennett becomes the subject of overtures from Colonel Brandon and John Willoughby
Pride & Sensibility or Sense & Prejudice
(Pride & Prejudice/Sense & Sensibility)
Collinsville, Illinois is near this state park and UNESCO World Heritage Site, a type-site for Mississippian art, architecture, agriculture, and warfare.
Cahokia
Before its revolution, Haiti processed 40% of the Europe's supply of which commodity?
Sugar
This measurement is impervious to influence from the margins since it relies on using the median to rank values, unlike its mean-dependent partner: standard deviation.
Interquartile Range (IQR)
Identify the general name of the light-independent reaction used to synthesize glucose in plants.
Calvin Cycle
A Rachel Renée Russell/Jeff Kinney crossover where the Whirley Street Kids give the narrator a "not-so-fabulous life," published as an untraditional epistolary novel.
Dork Diary of a Wimpy Kid
(Dork Diaries / Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
According to Gavin Menzies' most popular work (2003), this state *actually* discovered America seventy years before Columbus stepped foot on Hispaniola. He subsequently became the laughingstock of the Journal of World History.
The Ming Dynasty, also accept China
In the 1960s, Nigeria fought a civil war with this northern separatist group. The British and French imposed a blockade that resulted in the deaths of 3-4 million separatist civilians.
Biafra (will accept Biafran War)
To see if Michael Phelps is a better swimmer than Usain Bolt is as a runner, you would use this value, which is expressed as the (score - mean) / (standard deviation)
Z-Score or Standard Score
Identify the first phase of cellular respiration. This is the first step in breaking down sugar molecules and does not require oxygen. You can practice it by quickly snapping your fingers for five minutes.
Glycolysis
An Ambrose Bierce/Katherine Patterson crossover where a rope over a river transports one character to a fantasy kingdom and another to their execution
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge to Terabithia
(An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bridge to Terabithia)
The appearance of large-scale agriculture, mound-building, and pottery-making are hallmarks of this culture period (roughly 1000 BCE -- 1200 CE)
The Woodland Period
Between 1845-6, the British Army fought the Flagstaff War against this country's Indigenous population, after the promises of the Treaty of Waitangi were abrogated
New Zealand or Aotearoa
Identifying a statistical anomaly (p<0.05) when the event is actually insignificant is considered this type of error.
Type I Error (false positive)
(Type II is when you do not find something anomalous but there actually is. Both are products of setting the alpha level too high or low)
Give the chemical formula for the processing of carbon dioxide and water into glucose in a light-dependent reaction.
6 CO2 + 6 H2O (+light energy) => C6H12O6(glucose) + 6O2
An Edgar Poe/Joseph Conrad crossover where Marlow steams down an African river following the loudening sound of a dead man's organ.
The Tell-Tale Heart of Darkness
(The Tell-Tale Heart/Heart of Darkness)
The refining of this resource was a Late Archaic (ca 3000-1000 BCE) technological development around the Great Lakes. It was useful for masks, awls, axes, and earrings.
Copper or the Old Copper Complex
Identify the Chilean dictator who seized power in a 1973 CIA-backed coup following the rule of socialist democrat Salvador Allende.
Augusto Pinochet
"I will roll a die until I get a six" is an example of what type of statistical distribution?
Geometrical Distribution
Cyanide is so potent because it disrupts the cytochrome-c protein, which halts the processing of oxygen in this phase of aerobic respiration.
ETC, or Electron Transport Chain
A Ralph Ellison/Herbert Wells crossover where a Black scientist creates a lifechanging potion, but their colleagues cannot see its significance (or him).
The Invisible Man
(Invisible Man/The Invisible Man)