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The punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
What is a colon (:)?
The square root of 144
What is 12?
The study of life and living organism
What is biology?
The longest reigning monarch in British history?
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Name the top 3 countries in terms of population
Double points if you can name the top 5.
What is China, India, and the United States?
China, India, United States, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
Describe an oxymoron
What is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?
What Parenthesis, Exponent, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction?
Atoms are made of these subatomic particles
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The only country with a noticeable amount of purple in its flag
What is Dominica?
The acronym STEM stand for
Double points if you can name what STEAM stands for
What is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics?
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
The English play-writer, poet, and actor that is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and wrote works such as Romeo and Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
A whole number; a number that is not a fraction.
What is integer?
The Danish physicist and atomic scientist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922
Who is Niels Bohr?
This Soviet leader was credited with wide social reforms that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and introduced American products such as Pizza Hut to the Russian public
Double points if you can name which award he won for his actions
Who is Nikhail Gorbachev?
Nobel Peace Prize (1990)
What is Wales, England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
The American writer, poet, editor, and literacy critic best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and macabre such as Annabel Lee.
Bonus points if you can name two other works made by this writer.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, Lenore
The amount of seconds in an hour
Double points if you can say how many seconds are in a day.
What is 3600 seconds?
86400 seconds
This was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He was famously known for having amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Unternehmen Walküre or Operation Valkyrie was a failed attempt in 1944 to assassinate which political leader?
Double points if you can name who failed to assassinate this political leader.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Claus von Stauffenberg
The U.S. president that was known for serving the shortest term of 32 days in U.S. presidential history
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This was considered the first prominent American ideology created in New England around the late 1820 and 1830s
Double points if you can define this ideology.
What is transcendentalism?
An example of transcendentalism is the belief that man is at this best when he is independent, and not a part of organized religion or politics.
The first 3 numbers of Pi after the decimal
Double points if you can name the first 5.
What is 141?
14159
The surface of a black hole is called
What is Event Horizon?
The architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror
Double points if you can name the two French monarchs that died during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximillien Robespierre?
King Louis the XVI (16th) and Queen Marie Antoinette