St Stephen's
World History
Geography
US Political History
Science
100

This St. Stephen's professor is infamous for his classes in which students don't take tests, but instead turn in a "notebook" at the end of each term.

Mr. Mikan

100

Beer is cheaper than water in this city in which there have been multiple namesake "definistrations" (events of politicians being thrown out of windows). 

Prague

100

This country with three different capitals is a former Dutch and British colony and is now the country with the largest wealth gap in the world.

South Africa

100

The "date which will live in infamy" that sparked the U.S.'s entrance into World War 2 was the seventh day of this month in this year. (month and year required in answer)

December 1941

100

This form of energy involves neutrons colliding into Uranium-235 to sustain a chain reaction that provides heat.

Nuclear energy

200

This is the only department at St. Stephen's in which a P is not a passing grade. A G- is the lowest passing grade in this department. 

Foreign language

200

This country that no longer exists still holds second place for most olympic gold medals of all time.

Soviet Union

200

One gospel of Jesus claims that Mary and Joseph took him to this country immediately after his birth, but this is contradicted by historical evidence. Napoleon was famously sent to this country after the revolutionary government in France was afraid that he was gaining too much power.

Egypt

200

The name of the radical white man with a famous beard who attempted to spark violence across America with the goal of killing slave owners to end the practice. 

John Brown

200

This famous Russian scientist is known as one of the most influential figures in Chemistry for uncovering many of the patterns that were present in the incomplete version of the periodic table that he had access to.

Dmitri Mendeleev

300

This smallest department at St. Stephen's has only two classes in the upper school, with the second being added in the 2025-2026 school year as a half credit. 

Theology

300

This historical figure led the "Long March" while fleeing the Kuomintang during the Chinese Civil War.

Mao Zedong

300

Two answers required: These two countries share the longest land border in the world.

United States and Canada

300

This term refers to both A) countries in which the United Fruit Company had or has large land holdings and B) a modern apparel store

Banana Republic
300

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, left money in his will to start the Nobel prize in an attempt to avoid being remembered as the inventor of this substance.

Dynamite

400

This discontinued tradition cancelled homework for a week as each class stayed after school to work on a musical performance that they would present at the end of the week. (Karie Oddo may not answer)

Sing Song

400

This hardline Stalinist was president of East Germany as the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed.

Eric Hoenekker

400

Muslims across the world pray facing the direction of Mecca, specifically this holy site to which Millions pilgrim each year.

The Kaaba

400

Donald Trump just attacked birthright citizenship. It is, however, constitutionally protected by the 14th amendment as interpreted in this 1898 Supreme Court ruling that said even the child of an undocumented Chinese immigrant is a citizen.

United States vs. Wong Kim Ark

400

The name of the woman whose discovery of DNA was stolen by two men who were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Rosalind Franklin

500

This is the unfortunate name of the courtyard outside the middle school.

Epstein family courtyard

500

Thích Quảng Đức and Mohammed Bouazizi used this form of protest to fight against, respectively, the South Vietnamese government and the Tunisian government.

Self-immolation (Description acceptable)

500

This country currently hosts the most refugees in the world. Second place is Germany.

Colombia

500

The name of the man who assassinated Robert (Bobby) Kennedy ahead of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Sirhan Sirhan


500

"form" is a common prefix used to describe organic molecules with exactly this many carbon atoms in it. (ex: formaldehyde)

One