Road Work Ahead, Yeah I Sure Hope it Does
This is Why Mom Doesn't Fecking Love You
I'm sorry I think your sister might be having my second son
Bish do I look Like a Science Major
Happy Birthday Raven! I can't Swim
100
What is this Roman water movement structure?
An aqueduct
100
What was the name of Constantine’s mother who allegedly converted him to Christianity?
A) Eudochia
B) Sophia
C) Helena
D)Anna
C) Helena
100
Half-sisters through their father Henry VII, these English royals shared little in common save their political rivalry. One was a staunch Catholic and wife of the Spanish king, the other an Anglican who would ultimately prove the victor in their struggle over the English throne. Name both sisters
Mary I and Elizabeth I of England
100
Which famous scientist’s brain was stolen in 1955 by the pathologist Thomas Harvey?
A) Marie Curie
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Albert Einstein
D) Charles Darwin
C) Albert Einstein
100
What British passenger ship was sunk in 1915, angering many Americans and bringing them closer to the entente side in WWI?
The Lusitania
200
This major infrastructure project was started in 1956 as a National ___ and Defense ___ Act
Interstate, highway
200
Which early feminist was the mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus?
A) Elizabeth Blackwell
B) Catherine Macaulay
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Mary Wollstonecraft
D) Mary Wollstonecraft
200
Responsible for masterpieces such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall, this family, including three sisters, were likewise fierce literary rivals, taking opportunities in their novels to defame each other's writings.
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
200
What chemical did the Ancient Romans use to flavor their wine?
A) cadmium
B) gold
C) mercury
D) lead
D) Lead
200
The Yuan Dynasty plotted two invasions of Japan but both were destroyed by a “divine wind” called what?
Kamikaze
300
What are the three oldest subway systems in the world?
A) London, Budapest, Glasgow
B) Boston, London, New York
C) Boston, Chicago, Paris
D) New York, Berlin, Chicago
A) London, Budapest, Glasgow
300
Which famous singer worked as a spy in WWII and adopted 12 kids from around the world after the war’s end?
A) Billie Holiday
B) Josephine Baker
C) Doris Day
D) Ella Fitzgerald
B) Josephine Baker
300
Raised together in Ottoman captivity, the brothers Draculesti took radically different stances on their status as hostages. The younger of the two brothers, Radu the Handsome, became a staunch ally of the Sultan, fluent in Turkish, and converted to Islam. His brother Vlad meanwhile would inspire the likes of Bram Stoker through his often brutal opposition to his brother’s efforts to coup the throne with the support of the Sultan. These brothers were the princes of what proto-Romanian principality?
Wallachia
300
Which game inspired the arrangement of the periodic table? Bonus point: Name the chemist who created the framework for the periodic table.
A) connect four
B) chess
C) checkers
D) solitaire
D) Solitaire (Dmitri Mendeleev)
300
This freighter ship was the largest on the Great Lakes sunk in 1975, inspiring the song Wreck of the ___
A) Edmund Fitzgerald
B) Maine
C) Olympic
D) Queen Mary
A) Edmund Fitzgerald
400
Which of these is NOT a New Deal Project?
A) Bonneville Dam
B) Laguardia airport
C) Blue Ridge Parkway
D) Golden Gate Bridge
D) The Golden Gate Bridge
400
What was the name of Alexander the Great’s mother - notorious for her love of snakes which reflected her alleged deceptive politics?
A) Statira
B) Olympias
C) Cleopatra
D) Callixena
B) Olympias
400
These sisters and joint monarchs of the Byzantine Empire had a rocky relationship throughout their co-rulership, jockeying for status and administrative authority. An alleged attempt on the life of the empresses by the senior’s fourth husband led to a popular uprising by the Byzantine populace, attesting to the popular support they each enjoyed.
Zoë and Theodora Porphyrogentia
400
Name the thing which manufacturers put in some products, such as toothpaste and laxatives, until it was banned from consumer products in 1938? Hint: it produces a large amount of energy.
Radioactive elements (or anything to do with radioactivity)
400
The largest non nuclear explosion in history occurred in December 1917 when two ships collided in the waters of which Canadian city?
Halifax
500
What west coast statehood movement was a publicity stunt to get better roads?
State of Jefferson
500
Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was Queen of first France and then England and is sometimes known as the “grandmother of Europe” through marriage allegedly had a favorite son - which was it?
A) Richard
B) John
C) Henry
D) Geoffrey
A) Richard
500
Igniting a civil war that threatened to tear the Kingdom of Serbia apart, the two eldest brothers of the Nemanjić family fought each other for the throne after the abdication of their father to a life of monasticism. Their conflict would only end with the mediation of this third Nemanjić brother and future Orthodox saint who managed to peacefully reconcile the two. Hint: A Serbian Orthodox church even bears his name in the Somerville area!
Saint Sava
500
Name the famous tongue twister which is supposed to be based on Mary Anning, a female scientist who spent 35 years gathering fossils in England in the 1800s?
She sells seashells by the seashore
500
In 1120, the White Ship was carrying the heirs of which English king when it sank, leading to a succession crisis called the anarchy?
Henry I