Classic Literature
This novel's subtitle is 'The Modern Prometheus'.
What is Frankenstein?
This race covers 26 miles - and 385 yards.
What is a marathon?
This ancient civilization was the primary developer of Western theater traditions.
Who were the Greeks?
This kind of bond involves shared electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
The suffix '-phile' means this.
What is 'lover of'?
This dystopian novel features the World State and the drug soma.
What is 'Brave New World'?
The role in cheerleading responsible for lifting and supporting is called this.
What is a base?
He wrote the 1953 play 'Waiting for Godot'.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
This is the number of protons in a carbon atom.
What is 6?
This Latin root means 'to write'.
What is 'scrib'?
This medieval work by Dante is divided into Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
What is 'The Divine Comedy?'
This term describes the hardest part of a rock climb.
What is a crux?
A solo speech revealing a character's thoughts is called this.
What is a soliloquy?
This scale measures acidity logarithmically.
What is the pH scale?
This word means to insultingly point out small errors, similar to nitpicking.
What is being pedantic?
Herman Melville wrote this short story about a copyist who would 'prefer not to'.
What is 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'?
This kind of throw happens after every point in ultimate frisbee.
What is a pull?
This movement emphasized realism and everyday life in theater.
What is Naturalism?
This process keeps food safe by using heat to deactivate or destroy enzymes and bacteria.
What is pasteurization?
This word means excessively obedient, in a servile manner.
What is obsequious?
In this play, Shakespeare wrote 'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.
What is 'Julius Caesar'?
This Yankee's pitcher famously wore number 42.
Who is Mariano Rivera?
This playwright-composer duo created 'Into the Woods'.
Who are James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim?
A solution that resists pH change by neutralizing added acids or bases is called this.
What is a buffer?
This word comes from the Greek 'many-colored'.
What is variegated?