Geography
This is the tallest mountain on the continent of Africa, at over 19,000 feet.
Mount Kilimanjaro
This additive that is used as a rising agent in baking is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation (Na+) and a bicarbonate anion (HCO3−)
Baking Soda OR Sodium Bicarbonate
This tumultuous year in American history featured raging fires in Richmond, Virginia; the assassination of the president, and the end of the Civil War.
1865
This is the most common element found beneath the earth's crust, along with oxygen.
Silicon
This famous author, whose watercolors of fungi led to her being respected by mycologists of the time, is better known for her children's stories featuring animals.
Beatrix Potter.
This famous man-made feature was built to guard the wild north-west frontier of the Roman Empire, and stretches 73 miles.
Hadrian's Wall
Nori, or dried laver, is perhaps the most familiar seaweed to those outside of Japan, as it is the variety used to make most varieties of this popular dish.
Sushi
On October 14, 1066, King Harold II (c. 1022-66) of England was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at this event.
The Battle of Hastings
The planet Uranus has this many moons in orbit around it.
27
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. "
Name the author and the title.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
This state is the birthplace of the only President who was born to the west of the Mississippi.
California
This low-calorie cut of meat is the edible muscle lining from the stomach of farm animals, such as cows, pigs, and sheep- and is gaining in popularity as a "superfood."
Tripe
This monarchy lasted for several centuries, and included territories inside and outside of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Habsburg Empire OR the Habsburg Monarcy
These exciting phenomenon are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The resulting colorful lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres.
Aurora Borealis
This is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry (such as sonnets) and verse drama
Iambic pentameter
At 80 degrees and six feet north, this country is the second farthest in the northern hemisphere.
Canada
This cooking process involves covering and cooking meat in fats.
Barding
Considered one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution, the development of this "spiked" profound social, economic and political change to a country only 50 years old
The Railroad
This crustacean is famous for being able to pack a punch powerful enough to shatter thick aquarium glass, and for being able to see the broadest range of colors of any animal on planet Earth.
Mantis shrimp
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for dying on the streets of Baltimore - which NorthEastern city was his birthplace?
Boston, MA
This geographic feature was typically formed as a volcano, and involves a ring-shaped coral reef, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely
An atoll.
This is a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine made from a meat stock or consommé
Aspic
This art movement spanned from 1907 - 1914, and features works that are marked by flat, two-dimensional surfaces and geometric forms.
Cubism
This tiny creature reaches dizzying heights of about eight centimeters (three inches) in a millisecond, meaning that it can accelerate faster than a Space Shuttle.
A flea
This famous science fiction writer wrote or edited more than 500 books, was a professor of biochemistry at Boston University, and is famous for creating the "laws of robotics."
Isaac Asimov