World History
In 1429 she led her troops at Orleans driving the English back across the Loire River Jeopardy
Who is Jeanne d'Arc?
This famous Gothic work was the winner of a spooky story competition between its author this woman, her husband, and Lord Byron.
What is Frankenstein?
The most common term for the direct addition of water to an alkene to make an alcohol.
What is Hydration?
Take a boat tour down this river that runs through the heart of Paris!
What is the Seine?
The man(s) who invented calculus.
Take either of them or both of them
These 3 letters can be said as an acronym for a savings account but are always spelled out for an Irish militia.
What is an IRA?
The beginning of this beloved Sci-Fi dystopian classic reads: "It was a pleasure to burn."
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This organ produces the majority of immune complement proteins.
What is the liver?
Visit Chicago, Illinois, on the shore of this Great Lake!
What is Lake Michigan?
The Cotangent of a 90 degree angle.
What is 0?
The sack of this city in 1258 by the Mongols led to, among other things, a sharp reduction in paper production in the Muslim world.
What is Baghdad?
A character in this Shakespeare Play states: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
What is Hamlet?
May as well accept "Who is Hamlet?" as well.
The common name for the units in DNA to which phosphates are covalently linked
What are Ribose Sugars?
I will literally take SUGARS but also deoxyribose sugars and pentose sugars
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This city, legendarily initially called Bakkah, on account of a narrow stretch between two hills, is the founding site of a major world religion.
What is Mecca?
The type of conic section represented by the equation, x^2 – 16y^2 = 64.
What is a hyperbola?
This man, present for both the French and American Revolutions, would reappear in 1830 at the climax of the July Revolution to declare Louis-Philippe 1er as "King of the French" at the Hotel de Ville in Paris.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
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This author of Demons and Notes From Underground served a notable sentence in Siberia for political agitation.
Who is Dostoevsky?
A Geologic term for the sudden lowering of a section of the Earth's crust.
What is subsidence?
80% of Macau's Population speaks this Southern Chinese dialect.
What is Cantonese?
The point (3, 2) is reflected across the graph of y = 6 and the resulting point is then reflected across the graph of y = x. These are its final coordinates.
What is (10,3)?
The first emperor of this Chinese dynasty, Shi Huangdi, is notable for his harsh persecution of Confucianism, and for building the splendid Terracotta Army at his tomb.
What is the Qin dynasty?
This author's book, an analogic retelling of The Odyssey was banned in the United States for obscenity upon publication.
Who is James Joyce?
During Beta Minus decay, this nucleon is reduced by one.
What is a neutron?
Don't forget to visit the excellent Alhambra Castle, located in this Spanish city.
What is Grenada?
The graph of the polar equation, r = 5 – 5 cosine θ, is a cardioid. Most of its area is in which two quadrants?
What is II and III?