SCIENCE
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100

Name the proteins that catalyze metabolic reactions.

What is an enzyme?

100

Name the Swede whose name is included in the prize awarded for significant cultural or scientific achievements.

Who is Alfred Nobel?

100

Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty . . . 

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

In both the Bible and mythology, people have survived a world-wide flood by building what? 

an ark

100

Name the city which was destroyed after the Third Punic War and supposedly sown with salt? 

What is Carthage?

200

Name this branch of science that deals with the body's behavior when at extremely low temperatures. 

What is cryogenics? 

200

Name the author of this old Testament book who refused to go to Nineveh and instead found a "great adventure" in the ocean.

Who is Jonah?

200

Cowards die many times before their death. 

Julius Caesar

200

This country is the setting for Pearl Buck's book, The Good Earth. 

What is China?

200

Name the city where Pope John Paul II was born. 

What is Warsaw?

300

Name the digestive organ into which the esophagus empties. 

What is the stomach?

300

Name the longest serving Russian empress. 

Who is Catherine the Great?

300

Who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

Who is President Ronald Reagan

300

Name this Portuguese-speaking country on the southern Atlantic coast of Africa which is the second-largest oil producing nation in Africa. 

What is Angola?

300

Name the city where the Bastille is located. 

What is Paris? 

400

Name the British physicist who showed that an atom's positive charge was centralized in the nucleus.

Who is Ernest Rutherford?

400

Name the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. 

Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?

400

"We will go to the moon . . . we choose this not because it is easy but because it is hard."

President John F. Kennedy

400
This independent trade union, founded by former electrician Lech Walesa, opposed the Communist government of Poland. 

What is Solidarity? 

400

Name this city that was the capital of both the Ottoman and Byzantine empires. 

What is Instanbul?

500

Name the man who theorized that all nature is formed from a single entity - a theory sometimes called the "Big Bang" theory. 

Who is Fred Hoyle

500

Name the second governor of Plymouth who served for over thirty years. 

Who was William Bradford?

500

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. 

Who is Albert Einstein?

500

Name the industry about which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "They are the enemy within." This industry, as a whole, went on strike in England in the 1980's to oppose pit closures. 

What is the coal mining industry?

500

Dili is the national capital of which country 

East Timor