Potpourri
What are the names of the only planets that cannot be seen without the aid of a telescope?
Neptune and Pluto
Our country's first framework of national government.
Articles of Confederation
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck
Belgium - 1434
Shakespeare was said to have fled to London to escape prosecution for what crime?
Deer Poaching
Name 3 of the 4 conic sections.
Circle
Ellipse
Parabola
Hyperbola
Identify the arthropods that transmit the following diseases: Malaria and Yellow Fever; Bubonic Plague; Typhus
Mosquito
Flea
Louse
The year our present Constitution was written.
1787
St. George and the Dragon
Raphael Sanzio
Italy - 1505
Shakespeare had how many siblings?
0 - 4 - 7 - 10
Seven
Name 3 of the 4 sections of a symphony orchestra.
Strings
Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Name 3 of the 6 countries that fell to Germany in the first 3 months of 1940.
Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, and The Netherlands.
The city where the Constitution was written.
Philadelphia
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
Italy - 1505-1514
What animal is depicted on the Shakespeare coat of arms?
A falcon
Name 3 of the 4 US Presidents who were assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
William McKinley
John F. Kennedy
Name the British pirate probably born in Scotland whose legendary buried treasure was prominently featured in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug" and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Captain William Kidd
The building where the Constitution was written.
Independence Hall
Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italy - 1508-1512
Name one of Shakespeare's three children?
Susanna, Hamnet, Judith
Name 3 of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse from
Revelation 6:1-8.
War / Conquest / Christ on a White Horse
Slaughter on a Red Horse
Famine on a Black Horse
Death on a Pale Horse
Name the professional baseball player who played in the National and American leagues and who was born in Mobile, Alabama.
(Henry Louis) Hank Aaron
The exact date when the Constitution was signed.
September 17, 1787
The Maids of Honor
Diego Velazquez
Spain - 1656
What happened to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1613?
It burnt down
Name 3 of the 4 properties of a musical tone.
Pitch / Duration / Intensity / Timbre (Color)
(only a flute has a nearly pure tone)