History
Conflict fought between 1914 and 1918 was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War 1?
Accept: (First World War or Great War)
The smallest country in the world by land area.
What is the Vatican (City)?
Accept: (Holy See)
Organelle known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
An 8-sided polygon
What is an octogon?
King of the Greek gods who wields a lightning bolt.
Who is Zeus?
Ancient Egyptian queen who was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Who is Cleopatra?
Major mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What is the Ural Mountains?
Gas produced by plants during photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
The probability of rolling an even number on a fair 6-sided die.
What is 50%?
Accept: (1/2 or a half)
Renaissance artist who painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Alternative name for the 'Battle of Little Bighorn' after the defeated US General?
Custer's Last Stand
Capital city of Australia
What is Canberra?
Chemical symbol for Gold on the periodic table.
What is Au?
Solve for x in 3x+7=22.
What is 5?
The tragedy by Shakespeare featuring the line, "To be, or not to be..."
What is Hamlet?
Document was signed in 1215 limiting the power of the English King.
What is the Magna Carta?
The world's largest landlocked country by area.
What is Kazakhstan?
Scientific law stating that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
A triangle with sides of 3 different lengths
What is scalene?
Musical term for singing or playing without instrumental accompaniment.
What is a cappella?
The 1648 series of peace treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War and established modern nation-state sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
The African country entirely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
The process by which unstable atomic nuclei lose energy by radiation.
What is radioactive decay?
In calculus, the term for the limit of the ratio of the change in a function to the change in its variable as the change approaches zero.
What is the derivative?
Art movement defined by bold brushstrokes and artists like Monet and Renoir.
What is impressionism?