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The Ancient Greek Euclid is considered to be the father of this particular branch of mathematics.
What is Geometry?
100
Hers was "the face that launched a thousand ships".
Who is Helen of Troy?
100
Louis XIV of France was given this nickname because of a ballet costume he wore.
What is "The Sun King"? What is "Le Roi-Soleil"?
100
The name given to describe stored energy
What is potential energy?
100
At a recent auction, the chair of this author sold for $400,000. She sat in it while writing Harry Potter.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
200
This Hellenistic mathematician accurately calculated the circumference of the earth roughly 2000 years without leaving Egypt.
Who is Eratosthenes?
200
This mythical figure has become the legendary symbol of the role of American women during WWII, as well as a symbol for the American feminist movement of the late 1960's.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
200
Julius Caesar was assassinated on this date.
What is the Ides of March, 44 BC?
200
The kingdom that includes yeast, molds, and mushrooms.
What is Fungi?
200
This wife of Odysseus was at least as crafty and faithful as her husband. During Odysseus' 20-year absence, she kept avaricious suitors at bay by weaving -- and then unweaving -- the death shroud of her father-in-law.
Who is Penelope?
300
This is the term for lines whose slopes are negative and reciprocal.
What are perpendicular lines?
300
President Lincoln, when introduced to this author, said, "Madam, you are the little woman who started this war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? (Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
300
This phrase was made famous first by Quintus Horatius Flaccus and then by Robin Williams.
What is "Carpe Diem"?
300
The unit of length, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year.
What is a Light Year?
300
She was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is best known for her novels Song of Solomon and Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
The interior sum of this polygon is 540 degrees.
What is a pentagon?
400
This ruler continued the Westernization of the Russian empire and was the longest-ruling female leader of Russia. She also famously stated in reference to the assassination of her husband Peter III, "I did not care about Peter, but I did care about the crown."
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
The Moorish armies of North Africa invaded the Iberian Peninsula in this year.
What is 711 A.D.?
400
A positively charged particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons, emitted in radioactive decay or nuclear fission.
What is an Alpha Particle?
400
This self-taught New Englander had a sharp wit, a mind for military operations, and a spelling style all her own. She is famous for telling her Founding-Father husband, as he was drafting the Declaration of Independence, to "Remember the Laidies." He ignored her (whoops!), but this lady is indeed remembered to this day as both the "first Second Lady" and the "second First Lady"!
Who is Abigail Adams?
500
In a 30-60-90 triangle, if the hypotenuse is 10, this is the length of the long leg.
What is 5√3?
500
To spite her brother Valentinian III, this infamous Roman princess asked Attila the Hun to marry her.
Who is (Justa Grata) Honoria?
500
Louis the XIV made the most famous pronouncement of 17th century absolutism when he said "L'etat c'est moi". Give the English translation of this phrase.
What is "I am the state"?
500
An organism characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes.
What is a Prokaryote or bacteria?
500
This 19th-century novelist was a devoted vegetarian. This might make it less surprising that her most famous character, Frankenstein's Monster -- was also a vegetarian.
Who is Mary Shelley?