History
King Henry VIII's first four successors.
What are Edward, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth?
What moves the tectonic plates.
What is convection?
The five romance languages.
What are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian?
The five main epics.
What are Gilgamesh, Illiad, Odessey, Aeneid, and Beowulf?
The powerhouse of a cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The year the Roman Empire fell. (half credit if you answer somewhere in the range of decline)
What is 476 A.D.? (375-476)
The equation that describes a line.
What is y = a + bx?
The type of language English is.
What is Germanic?
The book whose first sentence is, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
What is the fourth amendment of The Bill of Rights?
The man who said, "I have not yet begun to fight."
What is Captain John Paul Jones?
The system of biological categorization.
What is taxonomy?
The type of language Lithuanian is.
What is Baltic?
The number of publishers who rejected J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
What is twelve?
The man Pocahontas married.
What is John Rolfe?
The year Jamestown was briefly abandoned.
What is 1610?
The formula for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. (half points if you get part of it)
What is (C * 1.8) + 32=F?
The country where Flemish is spoken.
What is Belgium?
Mark Twain's first novel.
What is The Innocents Abroad?
The year Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
What is 49 B.C.?
How long the Berlin Wall was standing. (you get double the points if you can give the year it was built and the year it was torn down)
What is 30 years? (1961-1991)
The "ingredient" that determines the viscosity of the lava.
What is silica?
The president who could write in Latin and Greek simultaneously.
What is James Garfield?
The year George Orwell's 1984 was written.
What is 1948?
The capital of Idaho.
What is Boise?