Balkan History
Aristotle
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Non-American Athletes
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The DREADED Science Category!!!
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This country’s 1991 independence referendum from Yugoslavia passed with 95% approval, flying its red-and-black flag over its capital in Tirana.
What is Albania?
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His surviving works are mostly not polished texts but these kinds of internal teaching materials, likely compiled by later editors.
What are lecture notes?
200
This 1915 novel by Franz Kafka about a man named Josef K. and the tribulations of his arrest has exploded online.
What is The Trial?
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This Dominican-born outfielder for the New York Mets received the largest contract ever given out in professional sports.
Who is Juan Soto?
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This comedian is usually depicted as including the phrase "What's the deal with [blank]" in his stand-up routines, including the ones he would often open his 90's sitcom with.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
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This particle has a positive charge and is found in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a proton?
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Often called the “Eastern Question,” 19th-century European diplomacy revolved around managing the decline of this empire that had controlled most of the Balkans for centuries.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
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In Aristotle’s ethics, this Greek term refers to happiness or flourishing, the highest human good.
What is eudaimonia?
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TikTok trends helped revive interest in this 1990s dark academia novel about Greek students and a murder at a Vermont college.
What is The Secret History?
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This French football (soccer) star with Cameroonian heritage is the captain of the French national team and is considered one of the best football (soccer) players of his generation.
Who is Kylian Mbappé?
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This comedian’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” routine was so controversial it led to a Supreme Court case on broadcast decency.
Who is George Carlin?
400
Temperature can be measured with three scales-- Fahrenheit, Celsius, and this one preferred by scientists.
What is Kelvin?
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This man ruled Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980, maintaining nonalignment during the Cold War.
Who is Josip Broz Tito?
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This Athenian school Aristotle founded was named after a nearby sanctuary of a hero associated with athletics.
What is the Lyceum?
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This 2012 novel about Achilles and Patroclus saw a huge resurgence on BookTok years after publication.
What is The Song of Achilles?
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Though he is debatably an athlete, this Norwegian chess prodigy became World Champion in 2013 and is widely regarded as one of the strongest players in history.
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
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This comedian famously referred to disgraced TV Star Jussie Smollett as "Juicy Smoulié" in his 2019 Netflix coemdy special "Sticks & Stones."
Who is Dave Chappelle?
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This process refers to the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another and is known for creating optical illusions such as this one.
What is "refraction?"
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This 1995 peace agreement, initialed in Ohio and signed in Paris, ended the Bosnian War.
What are the Dayton Accords?
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This is the ancient Greek word Aristotle uses for practical wisdom, an intellectual virtue used for situational decision-making.
What is phronesis (φρόνησις) ?
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This term is a portmanteau of two other genres and has been recently popularized by authors such as Sarah J Maas.
What is romantasy?
800
This Swiss tennis star won the 2015 French Open and is known for his powerful one-handed backhand.
Who is Stan Wawrinka?
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This classic comedian is known for his one-liners, and frequently laments that he "don't get no respect."
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This is the process by which water moves through a plant from roots to leaves.
What is transpiration?
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This capital of North Macedonia is the birthplace of Mother Teresa.
What is Skopje?
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This work, part of Aristotle's Organon, is considered the first philosophical investigation of logic and introduces syllogistic reasoning.
What is the Prior Analytics?
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BookTok has even spread to the shelf of Aidan Oos-MacFadden, who recently read this 2018 book by Ottessa Moshifegh involving prescription drug abuse.
What is My Year of Rest and Relaxation?
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Known as "The Golden Boy," this Argentinian soccer star scored the infamous “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup.
Who is Diego Maradona?
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This family-friendly stand-up comedian did a famous bit on "Hot Pockets," where he would frequently repeat the "Hot Pockets" jingle.
Who is Jim Gaffigan?
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"DNA" is an acronym for this term. (Get close)
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?