Social Studies
Name one or more of the cities the United States nuked in WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
One correct, point value
Both correct, triple the points!
This is the atomic abbreviation for copper.
What is Cu?
This is the game that one can be skewered, forked, or pinned by the opponent.
What is Chess?
This comes after a trillion.
What is a quadrillion?
This is the place souls go to be purified.
Where is purgatory?
This is the Polish pronunciation of Poland.
What is Polska?
This is the largest rodent in the world.
What is a capybara?
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This is the US poet who used tintinnabulation to describe the sound of "the jingling and the tinkling of the bells."
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
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This is the term for the perimeter of a circle.
What is circumference?
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This is the name of the second pope.
Who was Pope Linus?
Of the following, this is the city NOT on the shores of the Mississippi River:
St. Paul, Omaha, New Orleans
What is Omaha?
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This is the amount of elements on the periodic table.
What is 118?
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This is the adverb in the following sentence:
Use words effectively to produce interesting writing.
What is effectively?
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This angle is greater than 90 degrees, but less than 180 degrees.
What is an obtuse angle?
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This is the name of the vessel that holds the consecrated host.
What is the Monstrance?
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She wrote a famous diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Who was Anne Frank?
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The rubber tree is native to this continent.
What is South America?
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This is the appositive in the following sentence:
Gordon was excited to attend Harvard University, his father's alma mater.
What is 'his father's alma mater?'
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This is the only number to have all of the letters in alphabetical order. It is less than one hundred.
What is forty?
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This is the prisoner released instead of Jesus.
Who was Barabbus?
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This was the first US president to be impeached.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
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This is the name of a cat with 2 faces.
What is a janus cat?
This is the legendary sunken island first mentioned in the works of Plato.
What is Atlantis?
Simplify the following:
(X2)4
What is X8?
This is the day that marks the beginning of Lent.
What is Ash Wednesday?
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