Language/Literature
The Shakespeare play in which the main character states the famous line "To be or not to be, that is the question".
What is Hamlet?
A country with an area of 3.677 million square miles (4th in the world) and a population of 341.8 million people (3rd in the world).
What is the United States of America?
This structure was a major landmark of the Cold War and its dismantling symbolized the war's end
What was the Berlin Wall?
The value of the square root of -9 if the square root of -1 is i.
What is 3i?
Two members of the band that wrote "Yellow Submarine", "Hey Jude", and "Here Comes the Sun".
a) Ringo Starr
b) John Lennon
c) Paul McCartney
d) George Harrison
The name for the "&" symbol
What is an ampersand?
The large artiodactyl with the scientific name Bos taurus
What is a cow?
The fourth president of the United States
Who was James Madison?
The chemical symbol for sodium in the periodic table
What is Na?
The artist who popularized the art style cubism
Who was Pablo Picasso?
The names of two characters that rule their respective nations in the exceptional and amazing novel known as Slothy
Who are King Slothy, King Dagzger, King Gorilla, and President Claw-Mole?
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way (about 2.5 million lightyears away). It was named after a figure in Greek mythology.
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
The last dynasty to rule China before the country adopted a people's republic in 1912
What was the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty?
The first (lowest atomic number) element in the periodic table that is not naturally found on Earth
What is neptunium?
A classical composer who was born in Bonn, Germany and wrote Ode to Joy
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
The bucket term for all symbols modifying a letter of the alphabet, such as an accent or tilde
What is a diacritic?
The nation in which the volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010, causing over 100,000 flight cancellations
What is Iceland?
The being to which all other creatures (divine or mortal) belong in Hinduism
Who/what is Brahman?
The French chemist who discovered pasteurization and is widely considered the founder of immunology and microbiology
The musical artist who was known by various names, including Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke
Who was David Bowie?
The French author who wrote many science fiction novels with characters including Captain Nemo and Otto Lindenbrock
Who was Jules Verne?
One example of an isopod
What are pillbugs (roly-polies) and lice?
A Portuguese explorer who was the first European to circumnavigate Africa in order to reach India, which brought extensive trade opportunities to Europe
Who was Vasco da Gama?
The name of the function in which:
-2 maps to -0.125
1 maps to 1
2 maps to 2
4 maps to 64
What is f(x)=xx-1?
The French-American naturalist who was famous for his beautiful drawings of many species of birds
Who was John James Audubon?