Science
This is the most common element in the universe
Hydrogen
This is the "Scottish Play" that actors believe is cursed, so they never say its name in a theater.
What is Macbeth?
This was the codename for the secret U.S. project to develop the atomic bomb
The Manhattan Project
This is the distance between two musical notes that have the same letter name but different pitches
Octave
This creature guards the entrance to the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving
Cerberus
This force keeps planets in orbit and causes objects to fall toward the ground
Gravity
This Arthur Conan Doyle character lives at 221B Baker Street
Sherlock Holmes
This Greek conqueror had an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India by age 30
Who is Alexander the Great
This five-note scale is common in many folk traditions and is the basis for much of the music played on just the black keys of a piano
Pentatonic Scale
This Roman god of the sea and the father of the winged horse, Pegasus
Neptune
Alfred Wegener proposed this theory/idea
Continental Drift
The novel is primarily a critique of the American Dream, that anyone can achieve success through hard work
The Great Gatsby
This Russian Empress was the country's longest-ruling female leader and expanded the empire significantly
Catherine the Great
This property of sound determines how high or low a note sounds, and is measured in Hertz
Frequency or Pitch
In Egyptian myth, the heart of the deceased was weighed against this object to determine their worthiness
A Feather
Name the four Spheres
Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere/Geosphere
This French novel by Victor Hugo follows the fugitive Jean Valjean and his pursuit by Inspector Javert
Les Misérables
The Lost City of the Incas sits high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
Machu Picchu
This 18th-century Austrian child prodigy composed his first piece at age five and wrote over 600 works before dying at age 35.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This word comes from the name of the Greek god of "Panic," it’s the word for a sudden, uncontrollable fear.
Pan/Panic
The Voyager Missions took advantage of this rare occurrence when launching the ships
The alignment of the outer planets that happens once every 175 years
This Dan Brown thriller follows Robert Langdon as he deciphers symbols in the Louvre
The Da Vinci Code
He was excommunicated by the Church for supporting the "heretical" idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun
Galileo Galilei
Though the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were original, the music was not. Where did the music come from?
A British drinking song
In Mayan mythology, this "Place of Fear" is the name of the dangerous underworld
Xibalba