Silent Films
This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel of the same name starred Lon Chaney as Erik, who haunts Paris's Opera House.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
The first Jesuit pope and first pope from the Americas, this former Archbishop of Buenos Aires famously responded, "Who am I to judge?" to a 2013 question regarding gay members of the clergy.
Who was Pope Francis?
These subatomic particles found in the nucleus contribute to the mass number but carry no electric charge.
What is a Neutron?
This noted supreme court case ruled that both free and enslaved African Americans did not count as citizens and that slavery could be banned in western states.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
The 14th prime number.
What is 43?
This D.W. Griffith film is heralded as both a filmmaking landmark and lauded for its horrifying racism. It sees character Ben Cameron founding the KKK in order to rescue White Southerners from newly freed and empowered African Americans and is commonly cited as being responsible for the real-life KKK's rebirth ast the same time.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
The first pope, this saint was given the keys to heaven and crucified upside down by the Roman emperor Nero.
This tissue of plants is responsible for the transportation of water up the stem.
What is the xylem?
This landmark case saw the supreme court uphold that state courts are required to provide legal defense for those who cannot afford it.
What is Gideon vs. Wainwright?
The odds that a certain event will occur are 4 to 5. What are the odds that the event does not occur.
What is five ninths?
Directed by D.W. Griffith, this film of over 200 minutes weaves together four tales, cutting between them with the image of a woman rocking a cradle. The film had a large budget and a large set.
What is Intolerance?
History's longest reigning pope, he remained pope after Rome's capture caused the annexation of the Papal States. He also wrote the Syllabus of Errors, an oft-contested list of eighty heresies.
Who was Pope Pius IX?
This effect is caused by a moving source of soundwaves, observed by a noise lowering or rising in volume as a source moves away or near.
What is the Doppler Effect?
This case established that students do not lose free speech rights in schools (Vietnam war black armbands).
What is Tinker vs. Des Moines?
The diagonals of a rhombus have lengths of 4 units and 6 units. In square units, calculate the area of the rhombus.
What is 12 square units?
Loosely based on The Arabian Nights, this adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks sees Ahmed, a thief, fall in love with a princess and disguises himself as a noble for her hand in marriage.
What is the Thief of Baghdad?
Nicknamed the "warrior pope," he instituted the Swiss Guard and commissioned Michaelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Pope Julius II?
This term regards the temperature and pressure at which solid, liquid and gaseos phases of a pure substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
What is triple point?
This case saw justice Oliver Wendell Holmes assert that shouting "fire" in a theater was not protected under the first amendment.
What is Schenck vs. United States?
Solve for x in the following logarithmic equation: (log6 (x) + log6 (x + 5) = 1).
What is 1?
Written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, depicts Chaplin's character of the little tramp falling in love with a blind flower girl. The film came out after The Jazz Singer, the first film with spoken dialogue, however it does have a soundtrack.
What is City Lights?
Who was Pope Urban II?
This scientist solved Einstein equations of general relativity for a spherical, non-rotating mass.
Who was Karl Schwatzchild?
This case established that evidence collected by illegal search is invalid in court.
What is Mapp vs. Ohio?
Find the degree of the quotient when a quintic polynomial function is divided by a cubic polynomial function.
What is the second degree?