Toss Up 1
Ancient Rome
What was the language of the Roman Empire?
Latin
Conquistadors
In 1541, supporters of Diego de Almagro murdered what Spanish conquistador in Lima, a city that he ad founded six years earlier?
Francisco Pizarro
Proverbs
What word usually completes this proverb?
Misery loves bacon
company
Glaciers
What extensive plateau in the Southern Hemisphere is covered by some 9800 feet of ice?
Antarctic Plateau
Rocks
What general category of rock is formed when lava stops moving and cools?
igneous rock
Bonus -
The arenas were the centers of what ancient Roman structures in which spectacles of various kinds were held?
amphitheaters
Bonus -
What conquistador is credited with being the first European to reach the Pacific from the New World?
Vasco Balboa
According to the Italian proverb, those who sleep with dogs will rise with what?
fleas
Bonus -
A terminal moraine and outwash plains form what enormous cape in eastern Massachusetts?
Cape Cod
Bonus -
The mnemonic device is about what sedimentary geological formations?
Tights hang from the ceiling and mites crawl around on the group.
stalactites, stalagmites
Bonus -
In ancient Roman aqueducts, name the wedge-shaped stones that lock the sides of the arches together.
keystones
Bonus -
What conquistador claimed the region of modern-day Alabama for Spain?
Hernando de Soto
Bonus -
What word competes this unsupported proverb once used for weather prediction?
If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a ...
lamb
Bonus -
A GLOF occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails. This abbreviation stands for glacial lake outburst what?
flood
What common, glassy, extrusive igneous rock is produced when felsic lava from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth?
obsidian