World Geography
This landlocked European country has four official languages and is home to the city of Geneva.
What is Switzerland?
This 1215 English charter limited the power of the king and is often cited as an early step toward constitutional government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” for producing ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This Russian author wrote “Crime and Punishment,” a novel exploring guilt and moral psychology.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This British band released the 1973 concept album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Who are Pink Floyd?
This African country, whose capital is Addis Ababa, was never fully colonized during the “Scramble for Africa”.
What is Ethiopia?
This revolution, beginning in 1789, led to the execution of Louis XVI.
What is the French Revolution?
This physicist’s 1905 paper on special relativity introduced the relationship between mass and energy written as E=mc2E=mc2.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This 20th-century Irish writer penned “Ulysses,” a novel set over a single day in Dublin.
Who is James Joyce?
This film director is known for “Inception,” “Interstellar,” and a 2023 biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This is the most populous island in the world, home to Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.
What is Java?
This doctrine, announced in 1823, warned European powers against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This branch of Earth science studies the origin, structure, and composition of rocks.
What is geology?
This philosophical method uses relentless questioning to expose contradictions in an opponent’s beliefs.
What is the Socratic method?
This annual event awards prizes in categories including Physics, Literature, and Peace, based on the will of a Swedish inventor.
What are the Nobel Prizes?
This Asian nation is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf via its territory and waters.
What is Iran?
This political theory advocates for a classless society and the abolition of private property, as outlined in an 1848 manifesto.
What is communism (or Marxism)?
This term describes fluids that do not follow Newton’s law of viscosity, such as cornstarch in water.
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
This German philosopher’s “Critique of Pure Reason” analyzed the limits and structure of human knowledge.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
This Italian artistic style of the 17th century is known for dramatic lighting, intense emotion, and ornate detail, as seen in works by Caravaggio and Bernini.
What is Baroque?
This European river flows through or along the borders of ten countries, including Germany, Austria, and Romania.
What is the Danube?
This 1648 series of treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War and is often credited with establishing the modern system of sovereign states in Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This phenomenon occurs when a wave changes direction as it passes from one medium to another due to a change in speed, and is described by Snell’s law.
What is refraction?
This literary term refers to a narrative beginning “in the middle of things,” as in Homer’s “Iliad.”
What is in medias res?
This term in game theory describes a situation where no player can benefit by changing strategies while the others keep theirs unchanged.
What is a Nash equilibrium?