King Solomon
Who is David?
In 1565, this city, founded by Spanish explorers in Florida, became the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the continental U.S.
What is St. Augustine?
Kahlil Gibran wrote that this person "sees the rose and not its thorns"
What is the optimist?
A measure of distance, not brightness, one is equal to about 6 trillion miles
What is a light year?
The Sears Tower in this city began its 23-year reign as the world's tallest building
What is Chicago?
Leif Eriksson
Who is Erik the Red?
The 1st theatrical performance in America was a Spanish comedy produced in 1598 beside this river near El Paso
What is the Rio Grande?
A case in grammar, or a goal of any sort
What is an objective?
In chemistry, this law states that at constant temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.
What is Boyle’s Law?
On Sept. 26, 1973 this supersonic aircraft made its first transatlantic crossing
What is the Concorde?
Princess Anne, now the Princess Royal
Who is Prince Philip?
In 1513 he led an expedition from Puerto Rico & found what he thought was an island, which he named "La Florida"
Who is Ponce de Léon?
This term means “city” in Greek and is the root of many city names.
What is “opolis”?
Humans have 2 of these long bones, the longest in the body
What is a femur?
In 1979 the first $1 coins bearing the face of this woman were struck at U.S. mints
Who is (Susan) Anthony?
9th century emperor Louis the Pious
Who is Charlemagne?
This early English attempt to settle America in 1585 failed and is known as the “Lost Colony.”
What is Roanoke?
The Siwa one southwest of Cairo has about 200 natural springs.
What is an oasis ?
Kids on a seesaw instinctively calculate this, the tendency of a force to produce rotation around an axis
What is torque?
This organization, founded in 1971 by German activists, focused on environmental issues and later became a global movement.
What is Greenpeace?
Hannibal
Who is Hamilcar Barca?
Daily Double. How much would you like to wager?
While in California in 1579, this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the New World
When you're walking & texting, you're this, totally unaware of your surroundings
What is oblivious?
This term describes the quantum number related to the intrinsic spin angular momentum of an electron.
What is the spin quantum number?
Daily Double. How much would you like to wager?
In 1975, this Vietnam War event marked the fall of the capital of South Vietnam.