History
This man published antisemitic articles in his publication The Dearborn Independent, named for the city where he pioneered the assembly line to manufacture a product available in any color "so long as it is black." Name this namesake of the car company that manufactured the Model T.
Henry Ford
A poem about this place, which inspired the title of Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, opens, “What happens to a dream deferred?” What NYC neighborhood, the home of Langston Hughes, had a 1920s renaissance?
Harlem
Empedocles developed a set of four of these things, to which Aristotle added a fifth item called aether. Euclid’s main work shares its name with what constructs, whose classical forms consist of earth, water, air, and fire?
elements
This quantity is defined as the derivative of internal energy with respect to entropy. Specific heat is the energy required to change this quantity per unit mass. What quantity can be measured in kelvins?
temperature
People using these objects use the word “starboard” to refer to the direction right of the bow. The “keel” refers to the bottom of what objects, directed at a helm, that often contain sails?
ships
This man stated “let us have faith that right makes might” in his Cooper Union speech and began another speech with “Four score and seven years ago.” A form of debate is named for Stephen Douglas and what president who gave the Gettysburg Address?
Abraham Lincoln
Large-scale outdoor sculptures using this material were created by Dale Chihuly. While molten, this material is shaped by blowing into a hollow rod. Colorful “stained” types of what material are used in cathedral windows?
glass
An argument supporting this concept states that because everything has a cause, there must be a first cause to avoid
an infinite regress. The cosmological argument supports the existence of what concept that is central to
monotheism?
God
In degrees, find the measure of angle A in parallelogram ABCD if angle A can be expressed as 7x+5 and angle C
can be expressed as 10x-19.
61 degrees
This hymn describes a concept which “taught my heart to fear.” What hymn by John Newton describes a concept that “saved a wretch like me?”
Amazing Grace
An empty safe belonging to this man was cut open by Geraldo Rivera, and this man's only federal criminal conviction was on five counts of tax evasion. What gangster ordered the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and was the leader of the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s?
Al Capone
Three characters notice this symbol in the sky while holding hands on top of a scaffold. The mother of Pearl wears this symbol because she committed adultery. Hester Prynne wears what title symbol in a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel?
the scarlet letter
Determine the size of an interior angle in a regular 30-gon.
168 degrees
Economists informally use this fast food item to estimate purchasing power parity. “Special sauce” accompanies two
beef patties and a three-part sesame seed bun in what large McDonalds burger?
Big Mac
In 2003, this action was carried out in Firdos Square by US Marines after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and monuments to Cecil Rhodes are a common target of this action in South Africa. What action was performed on numerous Confederate monuments in 2020?
Destruction of Statues
The frame story of this novel is about an explorer whose ship gets stuck in the Arctic, Robert Walton. In this novel,
the lover of Elizabeth Lavenza robs graves to get body parts. Name this Mary Shelley novel about a mad scientist.
Frankenstein
The “Egyptian” type of these mathematical objects can be written as a finite sum of their unit types. Their
“continued” type iterates them through addition and division. What mathematical objects have a numerator and a
denominator?
fractions
A resident of this city hung a red cord outside her window, saving her life. Rahab and her family survived after this
city was circumnavigated seven times. What city fell when Joshua ordered the Israelites to blow trumpets?
Jericho
This document provided no power to raise an army, which delayed the response to Shays’s Rebellion, and it
provided for no executive or judicial branch. What document acted as the U.S. Constitution during the Revolution?
Articles of Confederation
This composer made fun of his own dependence on the title drink in his Cof ee Cantata. Name this German
composer of the Goldberg Variations and Brandenburg Concertos.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The energy of a wave is directly proportional to the square of this quantity. Two times this quantity is equal to the
distance between the peak and a trough. What term refers to the height of a wave?
amplitude
American servicemen would paint images of pin-up girls on the sides of these vehicles, including on models such as
the P-51 Mustang, during World War II. Bombers and fighters are weaponized versions of what flying vehicles?
airplanes