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This Texas state bird is known not only for mimicry but also for aggressively defining its territory.
What is the Northern Mockingbird?
This person is known as the “Mother of Science Fiction.”
Who is Mary Shelley?
According to the band Fountains of Wayne, this person's mom has "got it goin' on".
Who is Stacy?
This turtle has been a staple in the honors program for around 17 years.
Who is Moose?
This country is famously known for its federally controlled-access highway system, where approximately 70% of the stretch does not have a speed limit.
What is Germany?
This flightless bird from New Zealand is known for laying the largest egg compared to its body size.
What is a kiwi?
Western literary history begins with this group of people.
Who are the Greeks?
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
What is 42?
Completion of this optional component is the only way for students to graduate with highest university honors.
What is an Honors Thesis?
These inventors are responsible for the first successful airplane on December 17, 1903, in North Carolina.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright (the Wright Brothers)?
This bird holds the record for the largest eyes of any land animal, each about the size of a billiard ball.
What is an ostrich?
King Henry VIII was the sitting monarch during the beginning of this period of English literary history.
What is the English Renaissance?
This commonly used encryption method is achieved by replacing a letter with a different letter that is a fixed distance away (ex. D -> A, E -> B, F ->C).
What is the Caesar cipher?
These two courses are required by the honors program for each first-year student.
What are the Seminar in the Humanities and Great Work in the Arts courses?
Founded in 1919, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, and serves as the flag carrier for this country.
What is the Netherlands?
Unlike most birds, the seabirds have solid (not hollow) bones, an adaptation that helps them dive efficiently underwater.
What is a penguin?
This work by John Milton is considered to be the last epic poem in the Western literary canon.
What is Paradise Lost?
This is the only continent with zero active volcanoes.
Where is Australia?
There are two honors conferences that our honors program participates in. Name the national conference, not just the acronym.
What is the National Collegiate Honors Council?
This Japanese high-speed train system pioneered commercial high-speed rail in 1964 with the Tōkaidō line between Tokyo and Osaka.
What is the Shinkansen?
These large scavenging birds conserve energy by riding columns of warm air, allowing them to soar for hours without flapping their wings.
What are vultures?
This group of 20th-century British writers, poets, artists, and intellectuals included household names such as Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes.
What is the Bloomsbury Group?
This TV show has the most viewed finale of all time.
What is M*A*S*H?
For many years, students have participated in NCHC Programs like Partners in the Parks. Name at least one present or past (4 yrs) honors student who participated in any NCHC program.
Who is Trenton, Tressa, Colton, Isabel, Clay, or Samuel?
During this year’s New York Auto Show, the Amphicar Model 770 premiered as the first amphibious mass-produced car, able to be converted to travel both by land and water.
What is 1961?