Literature
Though Earnest Hemingway is more famous today for his fiction, he did write some non-fiction. His book death in the afternoon is set in Spain and discusses this popular Spanish sport.
Bullfighting
State the difference between "the fourth root of 625" and "the cube root of 64".
1 (5 – 4)
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is one of the National Parks of New York Harbor; another is the burial place of this 19th-century U.S. President , a general during the Civil War, and his wife Julia.
Grant's Tomb
It synthesizes proteins.
ribosomes
The area between the bottom half of a flight of stairs and the top half.
landing
Earnest Hemingway's book Green Hills of Africa tells of these types of trips he took to Africa with his wife Pauline. Specifically, what type of trip was it?
Safari
State the sum of "the square root of 36" and "the cube root of 27"
9 (6 + 3)
Another National Park of New York Harbor is the house where this "trust-busting" U.S. President of the early 20th century was born.
Theodore Roosevelt
Name the cell organelle that stores waste products and water.
vacuoles
The Tower Bridge goes across the Thames River in this city.
London
Three years after Hemingway took his own life in 1961, his widow published - what book of memoir's from his days in Paris with the "Lost Generation of the 1920's?
A Moveable Feast
What is the quotient of "the cube root of 10 to the 6th", divided by "the square root of 5 to the fourth"
4 (100/25)
Name these country through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes. It passes through this country, once called German Southwest Africa.
Namibia
Its inner membrane folds up to create "cristae." Identify this cell organelle that creates ATP and performs respiration.
mitochondria
African country that named its capital city Monrovia in honor of James Monroe
Liberia
Far more famous as a novel than its recent rebirth as an opera, it is described by saying, "Like Hester, you'll discover that sin, while a failing, is essential to the human experience." Name the opera and classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Scarlet Letter
It can refer to the bottom circular portion of a right circular cone. Give this 4-letter word that is also "a number that is raised to a power", such as the A in the expression "A squared."
base
Answer this about Supreme Court decisions in 2014. The Court stopped lawsuits against foreign companies in the U.S. for human-rights issues overseas by stopping victims of this South American country's "dirty war" from suing a German car company.
Argentina
This question is about limestone: It is a carbonate compound of which alkali earth metal.
calcium
Milan opera house, described by Mark Twain as "six great circles and a monster parquette" (2 words)
La Scala
His most famous works were written in England after the War of 1812. His house in upstate New York was called "Sunnyside". Name the author whose characters include Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.
Washington Irving
Simplify the following expression, where a is not equal to zero if b = 0 or if b = –1: (ab2)(ab)(ab2)(ab)
ab2+b
The Temple of Artemis was located in the city of Ephesus [EFF-a-suss] in what is now –what present-day country that straddles Europe and Asia ?
Turkey
Of the 3 major types of rock, limestone is this one.
sedimentary
Stuff from a volcanic activity, consisting much of water, that can flow downhill very fast.
lahar