This series of children's novels follow the adventures of a boy wizard who is destined to fight the evil of the magical world.
What is the Harry Potter series?
100
This is only divisible by 1 and itself.
What is a prime number?
100
The native Americans, the Vikings, and Christopher Columbus are all potential candidates for this distinction.
Who discovered America?
100
This is the chemical compound that makes up water.
What is H2O?
100
Keeping active in this course wasn't a top priority for Park City High School -- Amanda and Jayna were able to take performing arts classes instead.
What is PE?
200
This figure of speech compares two things by using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The square root of 64.
What is 8?
200
This US president attempted (unsuccessfully) to invade Cuba via the Bay of Pigs.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
A region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole?
200
Dr. Carter was Amanda's teacher for this subject, and used Amanda as both an alto and a soprano.
What is choir?
300
This play by Shakespeare features the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
300
A branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.
What is calculus?
300
This 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, revolutionized European painting and sculpture.
What is cubism?
300
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction."
What is Newton's Law?
300
Amanda and her scene partner won Best in State in a Shakespeare competition for this subject.
What is drama?
400
This component of the dramatic structure of a story comprises of events between the falling action and the actual ending scene, and serves as the conclusion of the story.
This German professor of theology's "Ninety-Five Theses" initiated the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
Who was Martin Luther?
400
A scientific theory which describes the large scale motions of the Earth's rocky outer shell.
What is plate tectonics?
400
Amanda and Jayna were nerds and went to school on Saturday mornings with Mr. Krenkel to take this advanced history course. But it did pay off when they went to museums in Europe!
What is Art History?
500
This novella by Joseph Conrad centers on an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa.
What is Heart of Darkness?
500
In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares whose sides are the two legs.
What is the pythagorean theorem?
500
Spread throughout modern-day Pakistan and India, this was the largest (and one of the earliest) ancient civilizations.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
500
This is the order (from most general to most specific) of biological classification/taxonomy.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
500
Amanda didn't get to take this elective, where Park City High School students walked across the street to build up credits for BYU.