What do the stripes on the U.S. flag represent?
The original 13 colonies
How many letters are in the English alphabet?
26
Which tendon, named after a mythic hero’s famous vulnerability, connects your calf muscles to your heel?
Achilles tendon
What do you call this symbol? ( ! )
Factorial
What does www stand for?
World Wide Web
How many wives did King Henry VIII have?
6
The genre of Romeo and Juliet is...
a) Romance
b) Tragedy
c) Comedy
d) History
b) Tragedy
What is this called
a) Erlenmeyer Flask
b) Dropper
c) Pipette
d) Graduated Cylinder
a) Erlenmeyer Flask
What is Earth's gravitational constant?
a) 9.81 m/s^2
b) 6.67 x 10^(-11) N*m^2/kg^2
c) 3.14
d) 9.11 x 10^-31 kg
a) 9.81 m/s^2
Which Disney/Pixar character is named after Buzz Aldrin?
Buzz Lightyear
One of these men wasn't a U.S. president. Who is it?
a) John Tyler
b) Franklin Pierce
c) Alexander Hamilton
d) William Taft
Alexander Hamilton
Who is the protagonist of "The Odyssey"?
How many bones are in the human body?
206
When you see the symbol Σ (sigma) in math, what mathematical operation are you doing?
What temperature is freezing point in Farenheit?
32 degrees
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment
Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
a) Jane Austen
b) Charles Dickens
c) George Orwell
d) Mark Twain
a) Jane Austen
Which column contains the noble gases?
Column 18 / Rightmost column
Who is credited as being the first computer programmer?
a) Grace Hopper
b) Alan Turing
c) Ada Lovelace
d) John von Neumann
c) Ada Lovelace
Zues' Roman counterpart is
a) Venus
b) Neptune
c) Jupiter
d) Mars
c) Jupiter
What European city was divided into its east and west sides by a famous wall that was eventually torn down?
Berlin
What does verbatim mean?
in exactly the same words as were used originally.
What’s the name of the longest bone in the human body?
Femur
Capacitors, inductors, and resistors are all general components of what?
Circuits
One of the planets in the Solar System was discovered through mathematical calculations rather than by direction observation. Which planet was it?
(Scientists could calculate the motion of planets, but the motion of one of the planets (let's call it planet x) didn't make sense, so they hypothesized there was another planet that was unknown at the time that caused planet x to move the way it did.)
Neptune