Capitals
This Canadian city is the country’s capital
What is Ottawa?
This Queen ruled over the United Kingdom from 1952-2022, the longest reign of any British monarch.
Who was Queen Elizabeth II?
Hamlet’s closest friend and the only major character left alive at the play’s end
Who is Horatio?
This is the full scientific name of the Northern Diamondback Terrapin
What is Malaclemys terrapin terrapin?
This organization works to predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts
What is NOAA?
Known as the “Eternal City,” it’s the capital of Italy
What is Rome?
He was the first Emperor of France, crowned in 1804
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
This was Shakespeare’s most common nickname
What is “The Bard?”
These orange devices are used to prevent terrapins and other species from getting stuck in crab traps
What are BRDs (bycatch reduction devices)?
This organization studies Earth, the Sun, and our solar system and beyond
What is NASA?
Canberra is the capital of this country
What is Australia?
Known as the “Father of India,” he led the country to independence through nonviolent protest
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
“Beware the Ides of March” is a line from this Shakespeare play set in ancient Rome
What is Julius Caesar?
Named for the plates on a terrapin’s shell, this is the name of the MATES mascot
What is Scutes?
The acronym “SCUBA” stands for self-contained underwater ____ apparatus.
What is breathing?
This city, once named Edo, is the capital of Japan
What is Tokyo?
This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
The film 10 Things I Hate About You is loosely based on this Shakespeare play
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
Diamondback terrapins inhabit this type of water
What is brackish?
This technique uses sound propagation to navigate, measure distances, and detect objects underwater
What is SONAR?
Bolivia is one of the few countries with two capitals. Sucre is the legal capital. The other capital is the seat of government.
What is La Paz?
She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
Two of Uranus’s moons are named Oberon and Titania, after fairy characters from this comedy play by Shakespeare
What is A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The name of the education and conservation initiative, Project Terrapin, was inspired by this fashion reality TV show
What is Project Runway?
This program/system is intended to distinguish human input from machine input as a way of preventing spam or automated data extraction
What is CAPTCHA?