Missed Lamarck
Lamarck's theory of evolution is discarded as obsolete, unlike this English biologist who sailed on the HMS beagle.
Who is Darwin?
Lines such as "shall I compare thee to a summer's day" and "When that April with his shores soot" were written in this type of meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
This Roman Emperor began his rule in 27 BCE, which marked the beginning of the Pax Romana.
Who is Augustus?
This state was the first to sign the United States Constitution, on December 7, 1787.
What is Delaware?
What are penalty and foul?
This mathematician was able to estimate the circumference of the Earth with reasonable precision by placing two sticks in Syene and Alexandria and measuring the difference between them.
Who is Eratosthenes?
The English Renaissance, under which poetry and drama flourished, emerged under this dynasty.
What is the Tudor dynasty?
Who is Trajan?
With its delegates voting unanimously on this measure, South Carolina did this on December 20, 1860.
What is secede?
The period when one team keeps control of the ball, starting at when they got it, and ending at when they lost it.
What are drive and possession?
Many European scientists studied this part of the body to determine human faculties.
What is the skull?
"Arma virumque cano" opens this poem that is a sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
What is the Aeneid?
Vespasian preceded this Roman Emperor who finished the Colosseum in AD 80.
Who is Titus?
The first vice president of the United States was from this state.
What is Massachusetts?
The field upon which a game is played, in one football, it is 100 yards long, in the other, the standard field length is 110 meters long.
Fleischmann and Pons theorized that this type of nuclear fusion was possible, only to be proven wrong by failed experiments by a number of nuclear physicists.
What is cold?
"Et tu, brute" is an iconic line from Julius Caesar, but an equally iconic line is this line said by Brutus when he kills himself at the end of the play.
What is I killed not thee with half so good a will?
He was a very learned man, and the last of the Five Good Emperors in the stoicist period.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This state, then a colony, was the first to abolish slavery completely and grant African American men full voting rights.
What is Vermont?
Much more common in soccer, this is when one team holds another team scoreless.
What are shutout and clean sheet?
Albert Einstein once rejected this principle of mechanics, saying that "god doesn't play dice."
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
"Man should be seduc'd, and flattered out of all, believing lies against his maker" is a quote from a poem from this 17th century English poet who also wrote Ode to Cromwell.
Who is John Milton?
When Rome was sacked in 476 CE, this Roman emperor was forced to abdicate power, being only eleven years old at the time.
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
The first state, technically, to grant women rights to suffrage.
What is New Jersey?
In football, it's what a 3-point or 1-point attempt could hit and deflect off of, in football, it's when a shot hits a similar part of the goal.
What are upright and woodwork?