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100
These structures are the basic unit of life, matter, and ecology, in that order.
What are the cell, the atom, and the ecosystem?
100
This patriarch's name means 'laughter.'
Who is Isaac?
100
6th grade: Solve the equation 0.3x - 1.2 = 7.8
What is....x = 3
100
In his 1945 allegory which he described as an adult "fairy tale," George Orwell immortalized these two Soviet revolutionaries' struggle for power in the 1920s as feuding pigs.
Who were Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky?
100
This kind of extreme patriotism aims for a people group being ruled by themselves within their own borders.
What is Nationalism?
200
When something is alive, the species demonstrates these 6 characteristics.
What is that they are made of cells (or organized), grow, pass on genetic material, consume energy, respond to stimuli, and adapt to an environment.
200
This son of Jacob lost out on his father's blessing because he slept with Dad's concubine.
Who is Reuben?
200
Convert 2.35 to a percentage
What is 235%
200
This metaphorical joining to two words is a hallmark of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
What is a kenning?
200
This Chinese military leader and politician fought Imperial Japan with US and Soviet support during World War II before ousting his nationalistic allies and establishing a Communist regime.
Who was Mao-Zedong?
300
These molecules are the products of photosynthesis and the reactants of cellular respiration.
What are glucose and oxygen?
300
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says to the scribes and Pharisees, "You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!" In that time and culture, what was "straining out a gnat" a cultural reference to?
What is straining gnats in order to keep the gnats out of their wine?
300
Solve this expression: 16 + 22 + [5 (4-2)]
What is....10
300
A figure of speech in which a character addresses someone who is not there or something which is not alive.
What is apostrophe?
300
The style of architecture represented here.
What is Romanesque Architecture?
400
This vessel carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle in the heart to the lungs where the blood absorbs oxygen in the capillaries in the alveoli.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
400
The first disciple to follow Jesus, according to the Gospel of John.
Who is Andrew (Simon Peter's brother)?
400
Mr. Williams plowed 6 acres in 1 hour. At this rate, how long will it take him to plow 21 acres?
What is....3.5 hours
400
A 20th century French pilot, journalist, and writer whose books for adults and children include Le Petit Prince.
Who was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
400
This first lady of Argentina, whose husband was a fascistic military dictator, was known for her beauty, charity, and career as an actress.
Who was Eva Perón?
500
Despite it's name, this is not a delicious dip but rather a horizon of the soil that is filled with decayed organic matter. Yum?
What is Humus?
500
When Pharaoh wouldn't listen to Moses and allow the Israelites to go free, God punished the Egyptians with this sixth plague.
What are boils?
500
Find the solutions (roots) to this quadratic equation:
x2+2x-3=0
What are 1 and -3?
500
An Anglo-Saxon word that captures the idea of inevitable events that happen to characters regardless of whether they are good or bad, usually translated in modern English as "fate."
What is Wyrd?
500
This traveller and writer, ranging from Europe to the Middle East, to Eastern Asia, wrote the famous late-Medieval travel narrative that mixed observation and mythology and captured Europeans' imaginations of other cultures for centuries.
Who was Sir John Mandeville?