Oversimplified History
This 1776 breakup letter started with “We’re done, Britain. It’s not us, it’s you.”
What was the Declaration of Independence?
This bridge in Michigan connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas.
What is the Mackinac Bridge?
The Twilight series focuses mainly on this type of blood-sucking monster.
What are vampires?
Loose or packed soil or sand.
What is dirt?
While Civil Engineering is rooted in physics, Environmental Engineering is rooted in biology and this scientific discipline studying elements.
What is chemistry?
This 2020 global event was basically “wash your hands, stay inside, panic-buy toilet paper.”
What was the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The Ambassador Bridge connects Windsor to this Michigan city.
What is Detroit?
What is Nickelodeon?
A period of ten years.
What is a decade?
An area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water.
What is a watershed?
In 1989, Ronald Reagan was like “Tear down this wall!” and people actually did.
What was the Berlin Wall?
A bridge-tunnel combination connects Norfolk Virginia with Virginia's Eastern Shore across the mouth of this bay.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The original twilight series includes 4 books: Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn, and this celestial event where the sun is hidden by the moon.
What is Eclipse?
The main business district or central part of a city or town.
What is downtown?
Tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, such as dust, soot, and smoke are referred to collectively as this.
What are particulates?
This 1999 panic was basically “Computers might explode at midnight, maybe?”
What was Y2K?
More than 400 bridges connect this Italian city across its canals.
What is Venice?
In the Twilight Series, Bella has two love interests: Edward and this werewolf, played by Taylor Lautner.
Who is Jacob?
The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated. Also, a mathematical operation.
What is division?
This type of site is a location identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as heavily contaminated with hazardous waste, which poses a risk to human health and the environment.
What is a Superfund site?
This 14th-century global event was “cough, cough… everyone’s gone.”
What was the Black Death?
London Bridge and Tower Bridge both connect London across this river.
What is the Thames River?
This Chi Epsilon E-Board member requested a Twilight category for tonight's Jeopardy quiz as a joke, not thinking I'd actually follow through. E-Board, you are not allowed to answer.
Who is Porter?
The process of making food absorbable by breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds.
What is digestion?
The process of removing suspended solids from wastewater using gravity settling is called this.
What is sedimentation?