Chemistry
This element is a metalloid commonly used in semiconductors and solar cells; it has atomic number 1414 and forms a stable dioxide used in glass and ceramics.
What is Silicon?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision held that African Americans could not be citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
When quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded at a given price, this condition exists.
What is a surplus?
“So it goes…” is a recurring line in this antiwar novel by Kurt Vonnegut
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
This American poet wrote "O Captain! My Captain!"
Who is Walt Whitman?
This transition metal often produces a vivid green compound in its +2 oxidation state, is a good electrical conductor, and is used historically for coins and wiring.
What is copper?
This 1965 law aimed to eliminate many barriers to voting for racial minorities.
What is the voting rights act of 1965?
Identify the market structure with a single seller that can set price and restrict output
What is a monopoly?
"All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players" is a line from this Shakespearean play
What is As You Like It?
The Romantic poet who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
This term describes a substance that accepts an electron pair in a reaction
What is a Lewis acid?
Name the 1945 conference that helped shape the post–World War II order and led toward establishing the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Name the macroeconomic total found by summing consumption, investment, government spending, and exports, then subtracting imports
What is Gross Domestic Product? (GDP)
“This above all: To thine own self be true" is a line from this Shakespearean play
What is Hamlet?
This poet opens his famous modernist poem, "The Waste Land" with the line "April is the cruellest month..."
Who is T.S. Eliot?
This highly reactive alkaline earth metal burns with a bright white flame and is commonly used in fireworks and flares; it has atomic number 1212.
What is magnesium?
Identify the 19th-century abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859
Who is John Brown?
The term for the percentage change in quantity demanded resulting from a 1% change in price is called price ____
What is elasticity of demand?
This Tolstoy novel by begins: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
What is Anna Karenina?
Name the poet who wrote “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”
Who is Dylan Thomas?
Give the three sequential major stages of aerobic respiration that follow glycolysis.
What are: Formation of Acetyl-CoAAcetyl-CoA, the Krebs (Citric Acid) CycleKrebs (Citric Acid) Cycle, and the Electron Transport ChainElectron Transport Chain?
George Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown and Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House both occurred in which state?
What is Virginia?
This concept explains why two countries can gain from trade even if one is more efficient at producing every good
What is comparative advantage?
Identify the novel containing the line: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
What is Wuthering Heights?
Identify the poet of the lines: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
Who is Sylvia Plath?