History
Roland, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Sir Gawain, and Sir Lancelot are examples of what kind of medieval soldiers?
Knights
You must cross what country to get from Poland to the Netherlands
Germany
What theatrical term refers to the collection of backgrounds, scenery props, and lighting used in a play?
Sets
What is the popular name for microorganisms or microbes?
Germs
A textbook with these words in its index is about what form of art?
Crackle
Earthenware
Enamel
Firing
Glazing
Throwing
Ceramics (pottery)
About two thousand years ago, the same volcanic disaster that killed a large percentage of the inhabitants of what small city in southern Italy also preserved its streets and buildings?
Pompeii (or Herculaneum)
These historic sites are in what country?
Ironbridge Gorge
Hadrian's Wall
City of Bath
Giant's Causeway
Westminster Abbey
Great Britain (U.K.. England)
What was the nationality of the composer of "The Nutcracker Suite"?
Russian
Name two of the three planets with the highest densities.
Earth, Mercury, Venus
What time is it if it is 2100 hours?
9 P.M.
Just on the basis of their names, the following are folk dances from what country?
Ikariotikos
Horos
Syrtos
Lerikos
Greece
In what U.S. state is the most earthquake insurance purchased?
California
What kind of colors are midway between the primaries that can be mixed to produce them?
Secondary Colors
Countless science fair projects have produced something vaguely resembling a volcanic eruption by mixing bicarbonate of soda with vinegar. The resulting chemical reaction forms bubbles of what gas?
Carbon Dioxide
What term indicates old furniture esteemed for it artistry, beauty, or origin?
Antique
What nation occupied the West Bank and the Golan Heights during the 1980's
Isreal
Name both countries having the greatest number of square miles of tundra.
Canada, Russia
In sheet music, the abbreviation "pp" stands for what Italian word meaning "very soft"?
Pianissimo
Carolus Linnaeus came up with a system of bionomial nonmenclature for identifying plants. For example, the scientific name for the sunflower is "Helianthus Annuus." The first part identifies the plants genus. The second part identifies the plants...
Species
If you slice an invertebrate in half in any place and the two halves look exactly alike, it has what kind of symmetry?
Radial Symmetry
Henry the Navigator sponsored early voyages of discovery along the west coast of what continent?
Africa
The great planes extend northward from Texas to the three Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and...
Manitoba
Among the oldest drawing materials are natural chalks and what porous, carbonaceous material?
Charcoal
Aggregations of similar cells are called...
Tissues
Name the first spacecraft in history to be launched into space a second time
Columbia