Science
Harold Urey discovered a "heavy" version of this element, earning him a 1934 Nobel Prize and allowing him to create heavy water. Name this lightest chemical element.
What is hydrogen?
If an integer is not a perfect square, then taking its square root must give you this type of number. Name this type of number that includes pi, the square root of two, and any number that cannot be written as a fraction.
What are irrational numbers?
This F. Scott Fitzgerald novel follows Nick Carraway as he becomes acquainted with the mysterious millionaire who throws extravagant parties in hopes of reconnecting with Daisy Buchanan.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The Iceni were a major problem for Rome in 60 C⋅E, but just a century earlier, they were not even mentioned by this Roman general in his Commentaries on the Gallic War. This man was later stabbed on the Ides of March.
Who is Julius Caesar?
In recognition of the recent movie directed by Christopher Nolan, who is the one eyed beast that killed six of Odysseus' men?
Who is Polyphemus?
As discovered by Cavendish in 1777, humans and other mammals breathe oxygen but exhale this triatomic gas, then called "fixed air."
What is carbon dioxide?
Consider a single, familiar six-sided die. This two-word phrase indicates two events that cannot both occur, like "rolling a six on the die" and "rolling a prime number on the die."
What is mutually exclusive?
Before entering the title location, this poem's protagonist meets his guide, Virgil, in Limbo. Name this first section of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante Alighieri travels through the Renaissance Catholic Hell.
What is Inferno?
This most famous proclamation in U.S. history, officially issued on January 1, 1863, pledged freedom to slaves in most Confederate-held territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man stars with Sean McLoughlin and Caroline Rose Kaplan in the David Szymanski film adaptation he directed, 2026's Iron Lung. For ten points, name this director, actor, and YouTuber dubbed "The King of Five Nights at Freddy's."
Who is Markiplier?
Water’s value for this point is often used to calibrate thermometers and occurs at 0.01 degrees Celsius and six-hundred-twelve Pascals. Sublimation, melting, and vaporization can all occur at equilibrium at this point.
What is the triple point?
For an integer N, Wilson's theorem involves taking this operation on the input "N minus one." For two examples, if N equals five, this operation on four gives you twenty-four; if N equals seven, then this operation on six gives you seven hundred twenty.
What is factorial?
This author of The Trial also wrote about dramatic deaths in the story "In the Penal Colony" and the short novel The Metamorphosis.
Who is Franz Kafka?
This man tried to de-legitimize the daughters he had with Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, who became Queens Mary and Elizabeth the First. Name this king of England who had two of his six wives beheaded
Who is Henry the VIII?
Name this psychological concept whose "Big Five" traits include openness, agreeableness, and neuroticism. This term describes the behavior and emotional patterns of a person.
What is personality?
These organelles, which do not have a membrane, are assembled from RNA in the nucleolus and are recruited to the mitochondria or rough ER. For ten points, translation occurs at what cellular protein factories?
What are ribosomes?
If two dice are rolled thirty times, how many times would you expect to roll doubles?
What is 5?
This novel's protagonist famously lied under a pear tree, is part of an arranged marriage with Logan Killicks, runs off with Jody Starks, and finally marries for love. Name this novel in which Janie Crawford tells the story of her life to her friend, Phoeby Watson.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
A band legendarily played the tune "The World Turned Upside Down." Lord Cornwallis surrendered at, for ten points, what climactic battle in Virginia that effectively ended the American Revolution?
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The Five Pillars of Islam include Sawm, or fasting during Ramadan, and Zakat, or the giving of alms to the poor. Name this action that makes up the pillar of Salah. This action should be performed five times daily, and includes recitations from the Quran and speaking to Allah.
What is praying?
This unit is preferred to Joules when describing reactions involving electron transfer. Name this S⋅I unit that is generally used to describe the amount of energy provided to a circuit by a battery.
What is a volt?
Rotations and translations are classified as a type of motion named for this ancient Greek thinker, whose textbook Elements usually earns him the title "Father of Geometry."
Who is Euclid?
The words “thoughtcrime” and “doublethink” are words from this novel’s language Newspeak. Name this novel in which the Thought Police watch residents of Oceania through telescreens and is written by George Orwell.
What is 1984?
This battle ended after A.P. Hill's reinforcements sent Ambrose Burnside back to a gravely-captured stone arch bridge. George McClellan was relieved of duty after failing to pursue Robert E. Lee after what September 1862 clash in Maryland, the deadliest single-day battle in American history?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The 1897 premiere of this composer's first symphony was disastrous because of a drunk conductor. The failure led this man to a breakdown that required hypnotherapy from Nikolai Dahl, to whom this man dedicated his successful second piano concerto.
Who is Rachmaninoff?