Ancient History
Around 304 B.C. Agathocles, "The Tyrant of Syracuse" and king of this island, gained control of southern Italy.
a) Sicily
b) Malta
c) Cyprus
a) Sicily
South America's largest
a) Argentina
b) Brazil
c) Peru
b) Brazil
When this Bronte character says, "Reader, I married him", she means Mr. Rochester.
a) Catherine Earnshaw
b) Emma Woodhouse
c) Jane Eyre
c) Jane Eyre
Warily circling as hunters freeze and swear, the pintail type of this water bird is one of the most difficult to lure with a decoy.
a) duck
b) loon
c) heron
a) duck
When exposed to electricity, this mineral vibrates at regular intervals, so it's used in wristwatches to keep accurate time.
a) quartz
b) magnesium
c) calcite
a) quartz
In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians and Hittites produced this document, said to be the first of these in history.
a) subpoena
b) battle plans
c) peace treaty
c) peace treaty
Capital at Kingston
a) Jamaica
b) The Bahamas
c) Barbados
a) Jamaica
In a 1960 novel Jem Finch says this character "dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch."
a) Scout Finch
b) Boo Radley
c) Robert Ewell
b) Boo Radley
If you're birding west of the Rockies, you're likely to catch sight of the California scrub type of this bird.
a) warbler
b) jay
c) bunting
b) jay
The largest one of these ever recorded was 1,720 feet high and slammed into the Alaskan panhandle in 1958 following an earthquake.
a) after shock
b) tsunami
c) gale
b) tsunami
After destroying this African city in 146 B.C., Scipio Aemilianus looked at the burning city and said, "It is glorious."
a) Alexandria
b) Carthage
c) Cairo
b) Carthage
Also called Burma
a) Thailand
b) Sri Lanka
c) Myanmar
c) Myanmar
After Leopold Bloom walks the streets of Dublin in this book, he returns home to his unfaithful wife Molly.
a) Angela's Ashes
b) Dubliners
c) Ulysses
c) Ulysses
The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names.
a) hawk
b) falcon
c) eagle
a) hawk
These objects that collide with the earth are divided into three major types: stone, iron and stony-iron.
a) meteorites
b) asteroids
c) comets
a) meteorites
The city of Tikal became an important ceremonial center for this civilization prior to 100 A.D.
a) the Maya
b) the Inca
c) the Aztec
a) the Maya
Western Tunisia adjacent
a) Libya
b) Algeria
c) Morocco
b) Algeria
Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie are three of the junkies at the heart of this debut novel by Irvine Welsh.
a) Requiem for a Dream
b) Trainspotting
c) A Clockwork Orange
b) Trainspotting
The long-billed curlew is nicknamed this, and its Bay Area habitat is said to have lent that name to a point and a ballpark.
a) scythe bird
b) candlestick bird
c) pencil bird
b) candlestick bird
2.54 million light-years away, the nearest major galaxy to ours is this one.
a) Bode's
b) Black Eye
c) Andromeda
c) Andromeda
After the defeat at Leuctra in 371 B.C., Spartan power declined and this league went out of existence.
a) the Delian League
b) the Peloponnesian League
c) the Aetolian League
b) the Peloponnesian League
Formerly Gilbert Islands
a) Kiribati
b) Palau
c) Samoa
a) Kiribati
This Arthurian knight says the Lady of Shalott has "a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace."
a) Lancelot
b) Gawain
c) Galahad
a) Lancelot
John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city and named a vireo after it.
a) Dover
b) Baltimore
c) Philadelphia
c) Philadelphia
This structure in the respiratory tract forms the Adam's apple in males and is used in making sounds.
a) trachea
b) larynx
c) epiglottis
b) larynx