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100

This is the setting of Macbeth.

What is Scotland?

100

This is the number of years the Articles of Confederation last as the law of the land.

What is 8?

March 1, 1781, until 1789

100

Shakespeare's Henry V (we start reading this during January) is placed into which category of Shakespeare's plays?

What is histories?

100

This is known as: 

What is the Circle of 5ths?

100

This is the forumla to calculate the number of moles.

What is:

200

This is the name of Brutus's wife.

What is Portia?

200

President Lincoln was assassinated in which Washington, D.C. theater?

What is the Ford theater?

200

We will be reading these orations in Latin this semester. 

What are Cicero’s First and Third Orations Against Catiline?

200

Eb minor is the relative of this Major key.

What is G Major? 

200

Which element has the atomic number 33?

What is 33?

300

Casear was assassinated after being stabbed on March 15. What's another phrase this date is known as. 

What is the Ides of March?

300

Ulysses S. Grant was born in this state.

What is Ohio?

300

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and this man are credited for (independently) discovering calculus.


300

Transpose this down a Major 5th into bass clef. 

A#

300

The is the most radioactive element.

What is Polonium?

400

Actors avoid uttering the word "Macbeth"in the theater because it is said to be bad luck. Instead, the refer to it as this.

What is "The Scottish Play"?

400

The First Battle of Bull Run, also called the First Battle of Manassas, occurred in this county and state.
Hint: It's the same one where Mrs. Sharpe grew up.

What is Prince William County, Virginia?

400

These are the first 14 digits of the Fibonacci sequence.

What is:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377

400

You'll find seven flats in this minor key. 


What is a flat minor? (Relative Cb Major.)

400

When was the element Ts discovered?

What is 2004? (Tennessine)

500

This is one idiom Shakespeare wrote in "Much Ado About Nothing" that is still used today.

What is “curiosity killed the cat?” and “What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat?” 

500

This president's Secretary of War called for 2,600 volunteers to help fight in the Mexican-American War and 30,000 responded, ready to fight.

Who is President James K. Polk?

REMEMBER: There would be no Texas if it wasn't for the Tennessee Volunteers.

500

This is the day you need to survive through to complete Challenge III.

What is April 28th?

500

Which famous composer would have celebrated his 254th birthday last month?

500

This is the definition of a complex ion.

What is a metal ion at its center with a number of other molecules or ions surrounding it?