ANCIENT HISTORY!
What ancient civilization developed cuneiform, one of the earliest known writing systems?
Sumerians
Which Nathaniel Hawthorne novel explores the moral struggle of a minister hiding a secret sin in a Puritan community?
The Scarlet Letter
What cellular organelle is responsible for producing ATP through cellular respiration?
Mitochondria
What branch of mathematics studies the properties of whole numbers, including primes and divisibility?
Number Theory
STEM: What engineering design process step involves testing a prototype and using the results to improve the design?
Iteration
Which Persian ruler is known for conquering Babylon and allowing conquered peoples to keep their religions and customs?
Cyrus the Great
Which modernist novel tells the story of a single day in Dublin and draws heavily on The Odyssey & who wrote it?
What process allows water to move across a semipermeable membrane from an area of high concentration to low concentration?
Osmosis
What mathematical concept describes a statement that can be proven true using logic and previously established results?
Theorem
What musical term describes a piece written for a single main melody with chordal accompaniment?
Homophonic texture
What Greek city-state was known for its strict military training system called the agoge?
Sparta
Which novel by Zadie Smith examines identity, race, and family life in London through the stories of two intertwined families?
White Teeth
What type of RNA carries genetic instructions from DNA to the ribosome?
Messenger RNA (mRNA)
What type of number cannot be written as a ratio of two integers?
Irrational number
What art principle refers to the use of light and dark contrast to create the illusion of depth and volume?
Chiaroscuro
What empire built a vast road system and used relay runners to send messages across its territory in the Andes?
Inca Empire
Which novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of a young Nigerian woman who moves to the United States and confronts issues of race and belonging?
Americanah
What enzyme is responsible for synthesizing new DNA strands during DNA replication?
DNA polymerase
What logical method of proof assumes the opposite of what you want to prove in order to show a contradiction?
Proof by contradiction
What early 20th-century art movement also influenced music by rejecting traditional structure and emphasizing fragmentation and abstraction?
Modernism
What Roman law code, issued during the reign of Emperor Justinian, became the foundation of later European legal systems?
Justinian Code (Corpus Juris Civilis)
Which novel uses multiple narrators and non-linear storytelling to examine the decline of a Southern family & who wrote it?
What biological process produces gametes with half the normal number of chromosomes?
Meiosis
What famous theorem states that there are no three positive integers aaa, bbb, and ccc that satisfy an+bn=cna^n + b^n = c^nan+bn=cn for any integer n>2n > 2n>2?
Fermat’s Last Theorem
What fitness principle states that training must be specific to the activity or muscle group being improved?
Specificity