SCIENCE & NATURE
This is the basic unit of heredity, made of DNA, that determines traits passed from parent to offspring
What is a gene?
This ancient Mesopotamian civilization is credited with inventing cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems
Who are the Sumerians?
This landlocked European country, home to the Alps, is known for neutrality, banking, and chocolate.
What is Switzerland?
This term describes a traditional story passed down through generations, often explaining natural phenomena or cultural beliefs
What is a myth?
This Norse god of mischief is known for shape-shifting and his complicated relationship with Thor.
Who is Loki?
This process describes how the body breaks down food into energy the body can use.
What is digestion?
This civil rights leader delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the largest U.S. state by area
What is Alaska?
This S.E. Hinton novel follows a group of teenage "greasers" navigating class conflict and loyalty.
What is The Outsiders?
This Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare is the namesake of Greece's capital city
Who is Athena?
This layer of Earth, sitting between the crust and the core, is made of hot, slowly flowing rock
What is the mantle?
This 1920 amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Central American country is famous for its rainforests and is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth per square mile.
What is Costa Rica?
This ancient Greek epic, also by Homer, tells the story of the Trojan War and the wrath of Achilles. ar and the wrath of Achilles.
What is The Iliad?
This mythical creature has the body of a lion and the head of a human, and famously guards the Great Sphinx of Giza.
What is a sphinx?
This viral disease was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980, the only human disease to ever achieve that status.
What is smallpox?
This 1962 Cold War standoff brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war over missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This active volcano is Japan's tallest peak and considered sacred in Japanese culture.
What is Mount Fuji?
This author wrote "Frankenstein" at just 18 years old.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This Greek hero was said to be invincible except for his heel, the one spot his mother didn't cover when dipping him in the River Styx.
Who is Achilles?
This chemical reaction occurs when an acid and a base combine to form water and a salt.
What is neutralization?
This Mongol leader united the tribes of Mongolia and built one of the largest land empires in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
: This desert spans northern China and southern Mongolia and is known for its extreme temperature swings between day and night
What is the Gobi Desert?
This term describes the tension created when the audience knows something a character in the story does not
What is dramatic irony?
This Egyptian god of the underworld, often shown with a jackal's head, is associated with mummification.
Who is Anubis?