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On the Road Again
Medieval Times
The Evolution of Transportation
World Music
Medieval Math
100
He wrote the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffery Chaucer?
100
King Arthur's legendary kingdom
What is Camelot?
100
These two built the first working airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
The name of an hour-glassed shaped drum, whose pitch can be manipulated to sound like the human voice.
What is the talking drum?
100
A knight traveling in a cart at 25 miles per hour made his trip to town in 3 hours. If the cart had traveled at 15 miles per hour, it would take this many more minutes to make his trip.
What is 120 more minutes?
200
The month in which the Canterbury Tales take place.
What is April (Aprille)?
200
The code of conduct that most knights lived by.
What is Chivalry?
200
This was the first submarine to sink a boat, right here in Charleston Harbor.
What is the Hunley?
200
Opera originated in this country.
What is Italy?
200
A knight traveling horseback at 10 miles per hour completed his journey in 3 hours. If he had completed his journey in 5 hours, this is how fast his horse would have been traveling in kilometers per hour. (Hint: 1 mile equals approximately 1.61 kilometers.)
What is 9.66 kilometers per hour?
300
A story in which there is an outside situation, especially a journey, during which stories are told by characters, is called a _________ narrative.
What is frame?
300
Those who lived at the bottom of feudal society were called _______.
What are peasants?
300
The introduction of this finally allowed for transportation up the Mississippi instead of just towards the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the steamship?
300
The city where jazz music originated.
What is New Orleans?
300
Two knights leave on their horses from the same place at the same time, but they travel in opposite directions. If one knight is traveling at 20 miles per hour and the other knight is traveling at 25 miles per hour, this is how many hours will have passed when they are 180 miles apart.
What is 4 hours?
400
Using this egalitarian method, the Host decided the order of the tales to be told.
What is drawing straws?
400
The two major world religions in conflict during the Crusades were ___________ and ___________.
What are Christianity and Islam?
400
The introduction of this mode of transportation helped make cotton king in the South.
What is the train, or the railroad?
400
This plucked string instrument is predominantly used to play the melody in Hindustani music.
What is the Sitar?
400
A knight traveled by cart to town at an average rate of 30 miles per hour. In the evening, he traveled back home at 20 miles per hour. If he spent a total of 5 hours traveling, he went this far.
What is 120 miles?
500
A perfect image of courtly romance, this first tale is a retelling of an older French romance to a Middle English audience.
What is the Knight's Tale?
500
The introduction of this on the medieval battlefield finally countered the devastating use of cavalry.
What are pikemen?
500
Hitler used this combination and integration of mechanized warfare and aerial support never before seen during World War II.
What is the blitzkreig ("lightening war")?
500
Compositions written with the influence of many national styles are said to have a worldly or ________ style.
What is Cosmopolitan?
500
A knight traveled horseback to town at an average rate of 20 miles per hour. In the evening, he traveled back home at 10 miles per hour. If he spent a total of 6 hours traveling, he traveled this far.
What is 80 miles?