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The study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed.
What is grammar?
100
A cultural movement that means "rebirth". It initially began in Florence, Italy, around 1350, but later spread throughout Europe, and ended around 1600. People experienced radical changes in art, literature, philosophy, etc.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The extent to which something is probable; the likelihood of something happening or being the case.
What is probability?
100
The cancer treatment that includes chemicals that are toxic to malignant cells
What is chemotherapy?
100
A half-length portrait of Lisa Gherardini by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. The subject's expression, particularly her smile, is frequently described as enigmatic.
What is the Mona Lisa?
200
The love interest of the titular tragic hero in William Shakespare's famous play "Hamlet".
Who is Ophelia?
200
On March 5, 1770 this event took place when a Boston mob harassed British soldiers, who in turn fired point-blank into the crowd.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:
What is quantity?
200
The time when dinosaurs first appeared on Earth
What is the Triassic Period?
200
Instruments that produce sound through breath as the vibration for the players' lips buzz against a metal, cup-shaped mouthpiece.
What are brass instruments?
300
In Latin this term means "god from the machine". In English it has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.
What is deus ex machina?
300
A World War II Japanese-American Relocation Center in California's Owens Valley that became a historic site in 1992.
What is Manzanar?
300
An angle formed by a horizontal line and a line of sight above it measuring less than 90 degrees?
What is an angle of inclination?
300
The periodic symbol for gold
What is Au?
300
The simplest technique for creating a feeling of spatial depth on a flat surface?
What is overlapping
400
The literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, in which change is extremely important. Also known as coming-of-age.
What is bildungsroman?
400
The first Civil War battle fought on Northern soil. Union General George McClellan beat back Confederate General Robert E. Lee's invasion on the bloodiest single day in the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
Equation for the associate property of addition
What is (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
400
The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
400
One of Frida Kahlo's most controversial works, painted in the style "ex-voto retablo" It depicts a young woman in a white dress falling through clouds from a skyscraper, and the same woman in a black dress near the bottom of the painting, dead.
What is "The Suicide of Dorothy Hale"?
500
This book, by James Joyce, is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns, and portmanteau words, which many critics believe were attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Many scholars believe it to be one of the most difficult works of the English language.
What is Finnegans Wake?
500
The first universal written codification of laws in recorded history (c. 1750 B.C.).
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
A straight line that a curve approaches more and more closely but never touches as the curve goes off to infinity in one direction.
What is an asymptote?
500
The light emission that appears in the upper atmosphere and comes in many shapes and colors
What is the Aurora Borealis? (Northern Lights)
500
The founder of French Impressionist painting
Who is Oscar Claude Monet?