What is the most basic unit of life?
Cell
What force makes objects fall?
Force of gravity
Who was the first US president?
George Washington
Which war in Europe lasted approximately thirty years?
Thirty Years' War
Which country was the location of the Vietnam War?
Vietnam
What type of chemical donates a proton?
Acid
What is the only prime even number?
2
How many amendments were included in the Bill of Rights?
Ten
In what nation did Charles de Gaulle lead an underground resistance movement against the Nazis?
France
Brazil
What is the name of the system of all phospholipid bilayers in the cell?
Endomembrane system
What force causes acceleration towards the center of a circle and is actually only caused by other forces?
Centripetal force
What tragedy in Chicago involved a bomb killing police officers and may have been linked to the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Square
Which European war saw many Western nations ally with the Ottoman Empire against Russia, and saw both the Charge of the Light Brigade and changes in wartime nursing under Florence Nightingale?
Crimean War
Great Britain fought and lost to which country for control of lucrative fishing rights during the Cod War?
Iceland
Which enzyme releases tension in a strand of DNA while helicase unwinds it?
Topoisomerase
What type of coordinate system describes location with radians and radii and allows for the creation of cardioids, lemniscates, limacons, Archimedes spirals, and rose curves?
Polar coordinates
Which US Secretary of State first advocated for the warming of relations with China during the Cold War?
Henry Kissinger
What Polish union was instrumental in Polish secession from the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War?
Solidarity
What battle in Egypt was seen as the turning point of the North African campaign in favor of Great Britain?
Battle of El-Alamein
Which forces, caused by momentary asymmetries in electron distribution, allow for light nonpolar compounds like helium to condense and freeze at very low temperatures?
Van der Waals forces
What are the only two factors that affect how fast a spring oscillates?
The combined mass of the spring and any weights attached to it, and the spring constant/stiffness.
Which US army officer led the American expedition into the Black Hills of North Dakota in violation of a treaty with the Sioux Native Americans?
George Armstrong Custer
Which peaceful revolution saw the replacement of James II with William of Orange and Mary?
Glorious Revolution or Bloodless Revolution
What important Byzantine general was tasked with land conquest in Southern Europe and Northern Africa by Justinian I?
Belisarius