This person co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
100
The fault line in Western North America is responsible for most of the tectonic earthquakes in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
100
This novel is set in Cuba and features an old Cuban fisherman who spends three days fighting a giant marlin before he catches it.
What is The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway)?
100
A period of growth and development when boys and girls mature physically, emotionally, and socially.
What is puberty?
200
These types of clouds look like fluffy white cotton and are known as "fair weather" clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
In his inaugural address, this President proclaimed, "the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."
Who is John F. Kennedy (January 20, 1961)?
200
This rat is named after a marsupial from down under and, despite their small size, can leap up to 6 feet in a single bound.
What is a Kangaroo Rat?
200
The musical was written in the 1950s and depicts the tension between rival street gangs and recent immigrants in a marginal neighborhood.
What is West Side Story?
200
This gland in the brain causes the body to produce growth hormones.
What is the pituitary gland?
300
This process involves water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
300
This activist, a minister in the Nation of Islam, told his life's story to Alex Haley in which he journeys from poverty and prison to become one of the most controversial speakers on race relations.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
People who study dinosaurs are called this.
What are paleontologists?
300
This American playwright was born in Columbus, Mississippi and his nickname, that of a state, is the one he is most known by.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
300
This part of the brain controls hearing and the ability to understand speech.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This is the name for a boundary that separates two air masses.
What is a front?
400
This woman was the first person to publish a broad expose about pesticide use in the United States before succumbing to cancer.
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
Death Valley, California has the highest recorded one of these.
What is temperature?
400
This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist, Newland Archer, falls in love with his fiancee's cousin.
Who is Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)?
400
You might go out to dinner more, but by age sixty, people have lost half of these.
What are taste buds?
500
When the Marine Band starts playing the President of the United States' official song, he's not hoping for this type of weather, which occurs when precipitation is formed by up and down air currents.
What is hail?
500
This aristocrat was the last viceroy of India.
Who was Lord Louis Mountbatten?
500
If the temperature is 30 degrees Fahrenheit, this many inches of snow will fall with one inch of precipitation bound for the ground.
What is 12 inches of snow?
500
In this novel of the holocaust, a young Jewish boy survives deportation to Auschwitz and Buchenwald while he watches his family die.
What is Night (by Elie Wiesel)?
500
Not only does it bring relief, but when the human body does this, it does it at over 100 mph.