HOLY
This archangel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus.
Who is Gabriel?
This Nintendo franchise features the regions of Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn.
What is Pokémon?
This is the only bone in the human body that does not directly articulate with another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
This French queen, executed during the French Revolution, is famously associated with the phrase "Let them eat cake," although historians dispute that she said it.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This sea creature has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This apostle denied knowing Jesus three times before the rooster crowed.
Who is Peter?
In the Assassin's Creed franchise, this device allows users to experience their ancestors' genetic memories.
What is the Animus?
This chemical element, represented by the symbol Hg, is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature.
What is mercury?
This 1912 maritime disaster resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people during a ship's maiden voyage.
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
This fruit is botanically classified as a berry, while strawberries are not.
What is a banana?
This Old Testament prophet was swallowed by a great fish after attempting to flee God's command.
Who is Jonah?
This 1993 first-person shooter developed by id Software helped popularize the FPS genre and featured space marine combat against demons.
What is DOOM?
This part of the inner ear contains three fluid-filled semicircular canals that help detect rotational movement.
What is the vestibular system? (Accept: semicircular canals.)
This English king had six wives, two of whom were executed.
Who is Henry VIII?
This country has a town named Dull, which formed a playful international partnership with Boring, Oregon.
What is Scotland? (Accept: United Kingdom.)
These two books of the Catholic Old Testament recount the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire and are not included in the Protestant canon.
What are 1 and 2 Maccabees?
This computer scientist is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This scientist discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This ancient Egyptian queen was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and formed political alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
This university, founded in 1088, is generally recognized as the oldest continuously operating university in the Western world.
What is the University of Bologna?
This woman, a judge and prophetess, led Israel alongside Barak in the Book of Judges.
Who is Deborah?
This 1972 Atari arcade game, inspired by table tennis, became one of the first commercially successful video games.
What is Pong
This rare blood type, sometimes called "golden blood," lacks all Rh antigens on red blood cells.
What is Rh-null blood?
This 1618 incident, in which Protestant nobles threw Catholic officials from a castle window, helped ignite the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
This animal produces cube-shaped droppings, an unusual adaptation that helps prevent them from rolling away.
What is a wombat?