History
On this Civil War battle's third and final day, the defeat of Pickett's Charge in Pennsylvania secured victory for Union forces.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
In "The Owl and the Pussycat," quince is eaten with a "runcible" one of these objects, often used for eating soup.
What is a spoon?
Circumference equals pi times the length of this segment, whose length is twice a circle's radius.
What is diameter?
These phenomena drive aeolian processes like the moving of sand to form dunes. The Beaufort scale ranks speeds of these currents of air.
What are winds?
This river in Africa, whose Blue and White tributaries converge at Khartoum, flows through Egypt.
The State Duma approved this Russian president's controversial 2020 constitutional amendments.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This author, whose wife's name was Zelda, wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The number 2 is the only even example of this type of number whose only positive divisors are themselves and 1.
What is prime numbers?
James Dewar invented this device designed to keep cold liquids cold and hot liquids hot.
What is a thermos?
Easter Island is a part of this South American country whose capital is Santiago.
What is Chile?
This militaristic Greek city-state, whose male residents underwent a strenuous training regimen, was a rival of Athens.
What is Sparta?
Professor Otto Lidenbrock and his fellow adventurers watch an ichthyosaur battle a plesiosaurus in this Jules Verne novel of subterranean discovery.
What is Journey to the Center of the Earth?
The volume of this three-dimensional analogue of a circle is equal to 4/3 pi r cubed.
What is a sphere?
This second planet from the sun, whose atmosphere is comprised mainly of carbon dioxide, is a "sister planet" of Earth.
What is Venus?
The planned city of Coral Gables is southwest of this city, whose neighborhood of Little Havana is home to many exiles from Cuba.
What is Miami?
The Protestant Reformation was sparked by this man's denunciation of indulgences in his 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
"The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" are by this Danish author of fairy tales.
This number is the mean average score on a test taken by 10 students, 9 of whom each scored 80 with the 10th student scoring 90.
What is 81?
This tissue, whose "red" type is involved in producing blood cells, is found in the center of long bones.
The Topkapi Palace and the Hagia Sophia are found in this most populous city in Turkey.
What is Istanbul?
This "Bloody" queen married Philip II of Spain and was succeeded by Elizabeth I.
Who is Mary I?
This friend of Huck Finn tricks other boys into whitewashing his Aunt Polly's fence in a novel by Mark Twain.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
This value of x satisfies the following equation: 2x+10=5x+1.
What is 3?
This baryon, identified by Ernest Rutherford, is a positively charged particle found in every atomic nucleus.
What is a proton?
The Tivoli Gardens of Copenhagen can be found in this country, whose capital lies on Zealand and whose mainland is on the northern end of the Jutland Peninsula.
What is Denmark?