THIS PARTY IS LIT
WORLD CAPITALS
FEMALE AUTHORS
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVS.
MATH
400

At a "mad" party in "Alice in Wonderland", this beverage is all that's served

What is tea?

400

This South American capital was originally named for "Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" or "Good Air"

What is Buenos Aires?

400

Beatrix Potter, known for 1902's "The Tale of" this long-eared fellow, was also a noted conservationist

Who is Peter Rabbit?

400

B.C. stands for "before Christ", B.C.E. stands for "before" this

What is Common Era?

400

In our number system it's 10; in a triangle it's the lowest side

What is the base?

800

This Dickens character excitedly watches his younger, better self make merry at Mr. Fezziwig's ball

Who is Scrooge?

800

The Tigris River cuts through the center of this capital

What is Baghdad?

800

Joining Thalia & Urania, the ancient Greek poet Sappho was dubbed "the tenth" one of these goddesses

Who are the muses?

800

The slang term PDA is short for this, like smooching at the movies

What is public display of affection?

800

The continuous summing of a change in a function over an interval, it's the inverse process of differentiation

What is integration?

1200

In the medieval Icelandic "Prose Edda", slain warriors party every night in this hall

What is Valhalla?

1200

Get your Gangnam style on in the upscale Gangnam district of this city

What is Seoul?

1200

This Zora was a Zeta--one of the first sorors of Zeta Phi Beta--when she attended Howard in the 1920s

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?

1200

Take a deep dive & tell us what SCUBA is an acronym for

What is self-contained underwater breathing apparatus? 

1200

It's any system of geometry not based on the system in Elements, a book from around 300 B.C.

What is non-Euclidean?

1600

At his wake, this title character is laid out with a barrel of Guinness at his head & a bottle of whiskey at his feet

Who is Tim Finnegan?

1600

This capital of Malta was named for a Grand Master of the Knights of St. John

What is Valletta?

1600

In this long-awaited 2019 sequel, Margaret Atwood brings more news from Gilead

What is "The Testaments"?

1600

Seen on pay stubs, FICA is short for these 2 words "Contributions Act"

What is federal insurance?

1600

Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the projective form of this branch of mathematics

What is geometry?

2000

A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in "Conversations with Friends" by this much-lauded young writer

Who is Sally Rooney?

2000

The Vardar River divides this capital of North Macedonia into old & new sections

What is Skopje?

2000

"Laura's Memories", an annual pageant in Mansfield, Missouri, celebrates this woman who wrote her books there

Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder? 

2000

The "C" in ASCII, used in computing, stands for this

What is code?

2000

When 2 of these intersect, their intersection is a straight line

What are planes?