Literature
The author of Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen
The ship the Pilgrims sailed to North America in 1620.
Mayflower
The largest country by land area.
Russia
This planet has the Great Red Spot, a massive storm.
Jupiter
The scientific name for the study of weather.
Meterology
The epic poem containing the tale of Achilles and the Trojan War.
The Iliad
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
The world’s longest river (by continuous flow).
The Nile
This U.S. state has the highest number of active volcanoes.
Alaska
The organ that produces insulin.
Pancreas
The allegory of a traveler journeying from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The purchase that doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase
The mountain range separating Europe from Asia.
The Ural Mountains
This animal can’t move its jaw side-to-side, only up and down.
Crocodile
The speed of light is approximately this kilometers per second.
300,000 km/s
The dystopian novel where “Big Brother is watching you.”
1984 (George Orwell)
The only U.S. President to serve more than two terms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The city known historically as Byzantium and Constantinople.
Istanbul
These uniquely patterned animals each have a pattern as distinct as human fingerprints.
Zebras
The scale used to measure acidity and alkalinity.
The pH scale
The Medieval poem that begins, “Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark wood…”
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
The 1787 compromise that determined how enslaved persons were counted for representation.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
The African lake that is the primary source of the Nile.
Lake Victoria
This metal is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury
The process where a solid goes directly to a gas without becoming liquid.
Sublimation