History
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Geography
100
The U.S. bought 530 million acres for just $15 million from this country in the Louisiana Purchase
What is France?
100
The species of ocean-dwellers predating the dinosaurs whose bright blue blood is used to test the safety of many vaccines
What are horseshoe crabs?
100
The number of times UNC has won the national championship in men's basketball
What is 7?
100
The number of times the unstressed-stressed pattern of syllables repeats in iambic pentameter
What is five?
100
The country signified by this flag:
What is Bangladesh?
200
The war during which the Christmas Truce was called
What is World War I?
200
What "DNA" stands for
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
The year UNC-CH was founded
What is 1789?
200
The classic novel written by this author (19 at the time) that was the winning entry to a horror story writing competition among a group of friends
(name the novel and author)
What is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
200
The only country whose flag is not rectangular
What is Nepal?
300
This early civilization, the name of which means “land between two rivers”
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The number of elements on the periodic table
What is 118?
300
The name of the famous tree on the upper quad
What is the Davie poplar?
300
“And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street” was the first book published by this children’s book author
Who is Dr. Seuss?
300
The world's second smallest country
What is Monaco?
400
The largest empire in history
What is the Mongol Empire?
400
Where the smallest bones in the human body are located
What is the ear?
400
The year the Order of the Bell Tower was chartered
What is 1980?
400
The Antigua-born author of the essay/novel A Small Place (1988), an indictment of the Antiguan government, the country's tourist industry, and Antigua's colonial legacy.
Who is Jamaica Kincaid?
400
The capital of Senegal
What is Dakar?
500
The sticky sweet substance that coated several Boston city blocks on January 15, 1919 after a tank containing it exploded as a new shipment was being pumped in.
What is molasses?
500
What a Geiger counter measures
What is ionizing radiation?
500
The two societies to whom UNC's white and light blue colors originally corresponded
What are the Philanthropic and Dialectic Literary Societies?
500
The captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”
Who is Captain Nemo?
500
The only three enclave nations in the world, that is, countries enclosed by a single other country.
(name 2/3)
What are Lesotho (enclosed by South Africa), San Marino, and Vatican City (both enclosed by Italy)?