Capitals
World Leaders
Shakespeare
Project Terrapin
Acronyms and Abbreviations
100

This Canadian city is the country’s capital

What is Ottawa?

100

This Queen ruled over the United Kingdom from 1952-2022, the longest reign of any British monarch.

Who was Queen Elizabeth II?

100

Hamlet’s closest friend and the only major character left alive at the play’s end

Who is Horatio?

100

This is the full scientific name of the Northern Diamondback Terrapin

What is Malaclemys terrapin terrapin?

100

This organization works to predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts

What is NOAA?

200

Known as the “Eternal City,” it’s the capital of Italy

What is Rome?

200

He was the first Emperor of France, crowned in 1804

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?

200

This was Shakespeare’s most common nickname

What is “The Bard?”

200

These orange devices are used to prevent terrapins and other species from getting stuck in crab traps

What are BRDs (bycatch reduction devices)?

200

This organization studies Earth, the Sun, and our solar system and beyond

What is NASA?

300

Canberra is the capital of this country

What is Australia?

300

Known as the “Father of India,” he led the country to independence through nonviolent protest

Who was Mahatma Gandhi?

300

“Beware the Ides of March” is a line from this Shakespeare play set in ancient Rome

What is Julius Caesar?

300

Named for the plates on a terrapin’s shell, this is the name of the MATES mascot

What is Scutes?

300

The acronym “SCUBA” stands for self-contained underwater ____ apparatus.

What is breathing?

400

This city, once named Edo, is the capital of Japan

What is Tokyo?

400

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?

400

The film 10 Things I Hate About You is loosely based on this Shakespeare play

What is The Taming of the Shrew?

400

Diamondback terrapins inhabit this type of water

What is brackish?

400

This technique uses sound propagation to navigate, measure distances, and detect objects underwater

What is SONAR?

500

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?

500

She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979

Who was Margaret Thatcher?

500

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

500

The name of the education and conservation initiative, Project Terrapin, was inspired by this fashion reality TV show

What is Project Runway?

500

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?

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