Geography
A region of this body of water that is named for a type of brown seaweed is the Sargasso Sea. This large body of water contains the Benguela and Canary currents. The St. Lawrence and Amazon rivers empty into what second-largest ocean, which divides North America from Europe?
Atlantic Ocean [accept specific portions, such as South Atlantic Ocean]
The years before and after this year title two Charles C. Mann books, and Alfred Crosby coined the name of an “exchange” that happened because of an event in this year. In what year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?
1492
A pastoral movement in this piece imitates bagpipers and is called “Pifa.” The line “I know that my Redeemer liveth” is sung in what Handel oratorio that includes the “Hallelujah” chorus?
Messiah
In a poem, this author wrote the line “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.” A poem by this American is set in “a kingdom by the sea.” Name this author of “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven.”
Edgar Allan Poe
This kind of reaction occurs at the anode in a galvanic cell. Combined with reduction in a redox reaction, name this kind of reaction in which electrons are lost, which can cause iron to rust.
oxidation
This river forms an arch shape at Horseshoe Bend, which is located a short distance from the Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Mead is formed by the Hoover Dam on what river, which traverses the Grand Canyon and begins in its namesake state governed from Denver?
Colorado River
he Emirate of Granada was the last Muslim state to be absorbed into this country, whose Reconquista ended with Ferdinand and Isabella. A notorious inquisition was held in what country formed by the union of Castile and Aragon?
Spain [accept Reino de España or Kingdom of Spain]
An overture by this composer ends with the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" and is featured in The Lone Ranger. Name this Italian composer who wrote operas like The Barber of Seville and William Tell
Gioachino Rossini
This novel’s protagonist reads the poem “Dover Beach” to Mildred, a woman addicted to watching “parlor walls.” In this novel, the Book of Ecclesiastes is memorized by a character who is attacked by a Mechanical Hound. What Ray Bradbury novel about Guy Montag is titled for the temperature at which book-paper burns?
Fahrenheit 451
The “Egyptian” type of these mathematical objects can be written as a finite sum of their unit types. Their “continued” type iterates them through addition and division. What mathematical objects have a numerator and a denominator?
Fractions [accept Egyptian fractions or unit fractions]
Three-letter codes like ATL and LAX are used to denote what transportation hubs?
airports
Fred Noonan, who had this profession, accompanied a woman with this profession who disappeared in 1937. The Spirit of St. Louis was a possession of a man with what profession, which included Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh?
pilot [or aviator; or flying an airplane]
A clef named for this range features middle C on the third line of its staff and is played by violas. What lowest common female vocal range is lower than soprano and represented by the A in an SATB choir?
alto
This novel is followed in its trilogy by Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. A pair of Queen Anne’s diamonds are stolen by Milady de Winter in what Alexandre Dumas novel about Athos, Aramis, and Porthos?
The Three Musketeers [or Les Trois Mousquetaires]
"Feedback” named after albedo and this substance contributes to climate change when breakdown of this substance reveals darker, more heat-absorbing parts of Earth. Climate change is causing what substance’s “polar caps” to melt?
ice
Which mountain in the peaks of Moshi was first summited by geographer Hans Meyer, who subsequently named it Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze, and is the tallest volcano in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
This man served as Secretary of War for Franklin Pierce and Alexander Stephens served as his Vice President. What man was the only President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
The central figure of Girl With a Pearl Earring wears a headband of this color. Hokusai used the “Prussian” shade of this color in the print Great Wave off Kanagawa. What primary color is often used to depict the skies and seas?
blue [accept Prussian blue]
This poet coined the term "dark ages" and wrote about reading Augustine’s Confessions on top of Mont Ventoux. Name this Italian poet who wrote about a woman named Laura and names a type of sonnet.
Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca; accept Petrarchan sonnets]
What language used by Evan You’s Vue framework—as well as React and Node—is generally used alongside HTML and CSS to add interactivity to websites?
JavaScript [or JS
The Merrimack River flows past the city of Manchester in this state, which is located directly north of Nashua. Name this state home to Mount Washington, which is governed from Concord.
New Hampshire
Accounts of these periods open the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. The "Mandate of Heaven" governed the cycles of what unified periods in China that included the Shang and Qing?
Chinese dynasties
In one myth, this goddess invents the flute, but throws it away after realizing her face is distorted while playing it. The goddess Erichthonius (“eric-though-nius”) was the first king of this goddess’s namesake city. Which goddess won a contest by planting an olive tree and was the Greek goddess of wisdom?
Athena
In a story by this author, Ebenezer Dorset is paid by Bill and Sam to take back his kidnapped son. Della buys a chain for Jim, who buys her combs, in what author's story "The Gift of the Magi"?
O. Henry [or William Sidney Porter]
This disease is suppressed by the “guardian angel” p53 gene. The spread of this disease is known as metastasis, and its varieties include lymphoma. What disease treated by chemotherapy involves the uncontrolled division of cells?
Cancer