"PRO"S
& "CON"S
GEOMETRIC GEOGRAPHY
A YEAR ENDING IN ZERO
NON-PLAY SHAKESPEARE TRIVIA
400

Wear this garment while cooking dinner to protect your clothes from getting dirty.

What is an apron?

400

Ice cream isn’t complete without this shaped vessel, usually made out of waffle.

What is an ice cream cone?

400

On December 5, 1945, 5 TBM torpedo bombers making up flight 19 vanished without a trace in the area called this.

What is the Bermuda Triangle?

400

Haiti experiences a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

What is 2010?

400

At the age of 18, Shakespeare married this woman, with whom he had 3 kids.

Who is Anne Hathaway?

800

Of a hand or foot, turned or held in a way that the palm is facing downward.

What is pronated?

800

Season 10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm shows Larry arguing with his enemy Mocha Joe about the definition of this type of pastry–Larry insists they should be hard, unlike muffins.

What is a scone?

800

Part of the Kremlin, St. Nicholas, or Nikolskaya, tower overlooks this area. 

What is the Red Square?

800

The Korean War begins.

What is 1950?

800

Shakespeare is said to have put one of these on his grave site. Beware!

What is a curse?

1200

To create or perform spontaneously without prior preparation.

What is improvise?

1200

Stand out on this part of your house–a platform that projects from the wall–for a nice view of the neighborhood.

What is a balcony?

1200

What’s called this US boundary was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by two imported Englishmen.

What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

1200

The reunification of Germany.

What is 1990?

1200

Shakespeare’s son Hamnet died at the age of 11 from this disease.

What is the Bubonic/Black Plague?

1600

To physically remove from its place.

What is uproot?

1600

Examples of this material that “somewhat” transmits electricity include silicon and germanium.

What is a semiconductor?

1600

This not-quite-round 17-acre park area is just south of the White House.

What is the Ellipse?

1600

Crispus Attucks, among others, is killed in the Boston Massacre.

What is 1770?

1600

The poet was given the nickname “Bard of this” river nearby to his birthplace.

What is Avon?

2000

With reference to; concerning.

What is apropos?

2000

This Spanish word for soldier, explorer, or adventurer can be translated to an English word that also starts with “con.”

What is a conquistador? (conqueror)

2000

This northernmost spot of Alaska was named for Sir John, a proponent of arctic exploration.

What is Point Barrow?

2000

The ratification of the 15th Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote.

What is 1870?

2000

This other Elizabethan playwright was born about 2 months prior to Shakespeare and is said to have influenced his work quite a bit. Some people even theorize that many of Shakespeare's works are actually his.

Who is Christopher Marlowe?