World Languages
This is a literal English rendering of the Spanish "adios" or the French "adieu."
What is "to/with God?"
Examples of this part of speech include below, in, and without.
What is a preposition?
Found in the surface and at depth, these movements of water also move heat and organisms through the ocean.
What are current?
The location of the Yarmouth after which Yarmouth, Maine, was most directly named.
What is Massachusetts (or Cape Cod)?
This Swedish teen climate activist made headlines in 2019 by organizing and inspiring global youth action and recently took government leaders to task at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
People who claim to speak Chinese are most likely to be actually referring to this specific dialect of that language.
What is Mandarin?
A sentence including exactly one independent clause and at least one dependent clause is referred to as this.
A 29-year-old MIT computer scientist revealed the image of this, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope for the first time in 2019, capping off the work of hundreds of scientists for the past decade.
What is a black hole?
The two early European settlers after whom Yarmouth’s rivers are named (first and last names required).
Who are William Royall and John Cousins?
He became UK Prime Minister in July, and his Conservative Party then won big in elections in December giving him strong leverage to move forward on Brexit.
Who is Boris Johnson?
After English, Spanish, and French, the most widely taught language in US schools is this?
What is American Sign Language or ASL.
The two cities of A Tale of Two Cities fame are these.
What are Paris and London?
This biotechnology tool allows scientists to visualize DNA based on fragment size.
What is gel electrophoresis?
The award given out annually to a citizen of Yarmouth who exemplifies the welcoming spirit of the town.
What is the Latchstring Award?
According to the World Health Organization, this virus that has symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath is known OFFICIALLY as this.
What is COVID-19?
Of the official languages of the nations of Europe, these are the only six that do NOT belong to the Indo-European language family (name two).
What are Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Basque, Maltese, or Turkish?
Oprah visited this author during her trip to Maine in January.
Who is Elizabeth Strout?
This thickening agent added to THC vaping products was identified as the cause of the lung injuries that killed 52 people in 2019.
What is vitamin E acetate?
The French general who fought in the Revolutionary War and later visited Yarmouth, staying in a house on a street that now bears his name.
Who is Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette?
This person, who also defended Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and OJ Simpson, also played a key role in the recent impeachment trial as Donald Trump’s lawyer.
Who is Alan Dershowitz?
This is the first person present singular subjunctive conjugation of the verb "to be" in French, Spanish, or Latin (say and spell it correctly).
What is sois, sea/esté (either one), or sim/fuam (either one)?
The literary device used in this line of poetry, is referred to as this. “‘Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul”
What is a metaphor?
This is a form of communication between bacterial cells that cause the formation of biofilms, like the plaque on your teeth!
What is quorum sensing?
The last year in which a male student won the Hector Hebert Award (bonus 100 points for naming the student!).
What is 2016 (Nico Whitlock)?
On January 3rd, the US launched a drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, an Iraqi military official who commanded this Force, a division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
What is the Quds Force?