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The doctrine of papal infallibility holds that the pope cannot err when speaking “from the chair” of this person.
Who is Saint Peter?
A harmful type of radiation from the sun that sunscreen protects against.
What is Ultraviolet (UV)?
This American basketball player is a partial owner of Liverpool F.C. This small forward played in eight consecutive NBA Finals, split between the Heat and the Cavaliers, before moving to the Lakers in 2018.
Who is Lebron James?
Name this play in which the title character kills herself after Creon sentences her to death for burying the body of Polynices.
What is Antigone?
Name these erupting hot springs. Yellowstone National Park is home to many of these features, such as a “Steamboat” one and Old Faithful.
What is a geyser?
This dictator of Iraq was captured while hiding in a “spider hole” during Operation Red Dawn and overthrown in 2003.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium can cause food poisoning.
In 2021, this performer announced plans to re-record earlier material to regain publishing rights, starting with Fearless, in a series labeled her “version.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
Martin Luther wrote that the “little horn” in this book’s vision of four beasts represented the Pope, who he identified with the Antichrist. This book also describes a giant statue made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay.
What is the Book of Daniel?
The Alexander Mosaic was discovered on the floor of the House of the Faun in this city. Many mosaics have been preserved in this city because, like Herculaneum, it was buried in ash by the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
What is Pompeii?
The Hartford Convention of 1814-1815 which called for the removal of the three-fifths compromise also opposed the Embargo Act of 1807, which was signed by this third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This law states that the restoring force is equal to displacement, and its formula has a constant, k, which measures a spring's stiffness. This law defines the force necessary to extend a spring.
What is Hooke's Law?
In March 2021, this organization was accused of administering rapid antigen COVID tests to women, while men received more accurate PCR tests. Ed O'Bannon sued this organization in 2014 after his likeness was used in a video game without his permission.
What is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)?
This thinker introduced to Christianity the Neoplatonic idea that evil was simply the absence of good. This thinker contrasted the immoral “earthly city” with the virtuous “Heavenly City” in a book that coined the term “just war.”
Who is Saint Augustine?
This city’s monorail, which is less than a mile long with only two stops, was built for the 1962 World’s Fair. This city’s Pike Place Market includes the Original Starbucks. A rotating restaurant is in the flying saucer-like top to an iconic spindly tower in this city which overlooks Puget Sound.
What is Seattle?
In one work, this thinker compared himself to a midwife who helps other people give birth to ideas and compared his role of guiding his city by annoying it to a gadfly bothering a horse.
Who is Socrates?
One of these objects named Caroline is located north of New Guinea. These are large slabs of rock, whose movement explains continental drift.
What are tectonic plates?
Name this athlete nicknamed “Birdman.” This athlete was the first to land the 900, a two-and-a-half-revolution aerial spin performed on a ramp in 1999.
Who is Tony Hawk?
This Chinese general argued against the efficacy of the pincer movement in his treatise The Art of War, which also recommends to “appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
Who is Sun Tzu?
The volcano Cotopaxi is in this country, as is the point on Earth’s surface furthest from its center, Mount Chimborazo. This country’s capital, Quito, is positioned over nine-thousand feet above sea level. This country also contains the Galapagos Islands.
What is Ecuador?
After the wars of the Diadochi, this city became the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. A series of earthquakes destroyed a lighthouse near this city on the island of Pharos, one of the wonders of the ancient world.
What is Alexandria?
Name this bean-shaped organ that is responsible for the filtration of blood to produce urine.
What is the kidney?
In the 21st century, this company surpassed four banks and Tokyo Electric to become the largest firm in Japan. This auto manufacturer produces the Corolla, Prius, and Camry.
What is Toyota?
This poem’s repeated reference to a “valley of death” originates from a line in Psalm 23, which describes “the valley of the shadow of death.” This poem describes a journey “into the jaws of Death, / into the mouth of hell.”
What is the Charge of the Light Brigade?
Germania was often defined as being east of this river in present-day western Germany. A “land” named for this river included Cologne.
What is the Rhine River?