This is the grammatical term for when two independent clauses are erroneously combined with a comma.
What is a comma splice? OR What is a run-on?
100
He is the current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Francis?
100
This is the variable c in e=mc2.
What is the speed of light?
100
This philosopher is credited with the creation of the Cartesian coordinate system?
Who was René Descartes?
100
This is the town motto.
What is "The latchstring is always out"?
200
The first line of this famous novel begins “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
200
This famous Carthaginian general marched War Elephants over the Alps.
Who was Hannibal?
200
This is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
200
This is the largest two-digit prime number.
What is 97?
200
These two rivers converge at the end of Bayview Street.
What are Royal River and Cousins River?
300
This spouse of a famous Elizabethan playwright also has the same name as a modern day actress who has played a princess, Catwoman, and a high-powered start-up CEO.
Who was Anne Hathaway?
300
This Greek philosopher questioned authority and was put to death for "corrupting the youth, and impiety".
Who was Socrates?
300
This is the name of Darwin's ship.
What is the Beagle?
300
This is the percentage of data that falls within one standard deviation of the mean in a normal distribution.
What is 68%?
300
This type of ship was never built in Yarmouth shipyards.
What is a clipper chip?
400
Go Set A Watchman is the first draft of this famous American novel.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
In the Jewish/Christian tradition this man took his son to the top of the mountain and almost sacrificed him to God.
Who was Abraham?
400
This mineral has the Mohs scale rating of 1.
What is talc?
400
A function gets infinitely close to this line as x approaches infinity.
What is an asymptote? OR What is a horizontal asymptote?
400
This was the first year of the annual Yarmouth Clam Festival.
What was 1965?
500
This controversial “word” was named Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2015.
What is the emoji 'face with tears of joy'?
500
This American city is dealing with massive lead contamination in its water supply.
What is Flint, Michigan?
500
This virus is suspected of causing a high rate of babies born with microcephaly in South and Central America.
What is the zika virus?
500
This is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line 5x-2y=7.
What is -2/5?
500
In 1849 this event changed the boundaries of Yarmouth.
What was the secession of Yarmouth from North Yarmouth?