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This game series features the infamous “Raccoon City”.
What is Resident Evil?
When a substance loses electrons during a reaction, it undergoes this process.
What is oxidation?
This leader of India advocated nonviolent resistance against British rule.
Who is Gandhi?
This person wrote the novel 1984, one of the most influential dystopian novels in literature.
Who is George Orwell?
This is the fear of open or crowded spaces/leaving home.
What is agoraphobia?
This long-running animated sitcom is set in the fictional town of Springfield.
What is The Simpsons?
This is potential energy stored in an object due to its vertical position (height) within a gravitational field.
What is gravitational energy?
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
This art movement associated with Pablo Picasso broke objects into geometric shapes.
What is Cubism?
This was the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god.
This artist famously danced with a python on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Who is Britney Spears?
This hormone is often called the “stress hormone.”
What is cortisol?
This Chinese dynasty built much of the Great Wall as it exists today.
What is the Ming dynasty?
This musical symbol raises a note by a half step.
What is a sharp?
This fish is the world's heaviest bony fish.
What is the (oceanic) sunfish?
This director made the sci-fi films Inception and Interstellar.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This process is a type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half.
What is meiosis?
These nations were a part of the Axis Powers during WWl.
What is Germany, Italy and Japan?
What is the name for art that depicts objects like fruit, flowers, or household items?
What is still life?
This person was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This gorilla, in 2016, featured at the Cincinnati Zoo sparked widespread online debate and became an internet meme.
Who is Harambe?
These structures inside cells produce most of the cell’s ATP energy.
What are mitochondria?
This Mesoamerican civilization built large step pyramids such as El Castillo at Chichén Itzá.
Who were the Maya civilization?
This Shakespeare play begins with three witches predicting a nobleman’s rise to power.
What is Macbeth?
This country features a shipwreck on its national flag.
What is Bermuda?