Week 4 trivia: Back to School!

In Roman numerals, what is represented by the letter C?

Which era immediately followed the American Civil War?

Bayes’s theorem, or Bayesian estimation, is a method employed in which branch of applied mathematics?

Shmeckledorp makes $16.50/hour. If he gets a 5% raise, how much more would he be making?

What is the average force of gravity on earth?

I’m having some problems, please ___ with me

Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?

Which Indian president was involved in the struggle for Irish independence?

What is another name used for this hydrocarbon?

What theory focuses on the study of limits, continuity, and infinitesimal calculus?

Atrioc ___ my interest when he said wassup Beijing

Who was the first person to sail around the world?

The scientific study of fishes is known as:

A solid with six faces and eight corners is called a tetrahedron

Who wrote the short story famously known as the ‘world’s shortest story’: “for sale, baby shoes, never worn”?

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

The following is the opening line of which book?: “All children, except one, grow up.”

Which treaty ended the War of 1812?

Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?

What was the name of Franz Ferdinand’s assassin?

What is the only even prime number?

What is the common name for the scapula?

What is the name of the common electric generator used to show static electricity by making your hair stand on end?

When did the Great Irish Famine begin?

What is a measurement for radioactivity?

What is the term for any positive integer greater than 1 that is divisible only by itself and 1?

What is the smallest bone in the human body?

What theory states that any sufficiently large even number can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers?

What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman?

Who developed the theory of relativity?

Which of John Milton’s works is a plea for the free expression of opinion?

Pip is the main character of which book by Charles Dickens?

The longest species name in the world is:

In which century did science fiction become a major type of writing?

85/17 =

The coldest ever temperature on earth was in antarctica. how cold was it?

42-26 =

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the first modern detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in 1841

How many republics made up the former Soviet Union?

What is the common method used to determine the concentration of an analyte (thing to be analyzed)?

What is the largest living organism in the world?

Metaphysical and Petrarchan are types of what figure of speech?

Where were the Aegean Bronze Age civilizations located?

In arithmetic, what kind of numbers are used in counting a set of objects?

Putting a comma before the “and” in the final item in a list is called a Cambridge comma

What color is the sunset on mars?

Which type of aircraft was used to bomb Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II?

What famous William Shakespeare play is the following quote from: “what, you egg?”

many zeroes are in a googol?

After the Titanic broke in two, how long did it take for the bow to reach the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?

What is the literary technique where the audience knows something that the characters don’t?

I can fit 32 pots of spice on my rack. How many racks do I need for 224 pots?

The sea anemone is a member of what order?

Which historical event does Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities concern?

Define Area

Charles Dickens famously said: my rizz got her skibiding on my toilet (this question was written by Matt)

In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born?

What is the quadratic formula?

Which Siberian peasant and mystic had a curious ability to heal the son of Emperor Nicholas II?

What type of circuit is this?

Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos?

Who wrote the epic poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?

Which of these is a form of energy which is due to an object or a particle’’s motion?

The “+” (plus) and “−” (minus) signs were first used in 1486

A pizza has 8 slices containing 2.5g of salt per slice. What is the total amount of salt in the pizza?

Which of these is not a title of a work of russian author and playright, anton chekov?

What is the use of a buffer solution in chemistry?

In poker, what are the odds of drawing a royal flush?

You have to ingest one of these materials. Which one probably won’t kill you?

When did Switzerland officially gain its independence?

Canada has been fully independent since 1982

This happens to light as it travels through space

Which of these authors have won the Booker prize twice?

Which Shakespearean play features the characters Bianca, Cassio and Iago?

Which work by Ovid is a collection of mythological stories?

Which famous monument did Shah Jahān build to immortalize his favorite wife Mumtaz?

Which of the following conducts heat the best?

What quantity is calculated by the formula hb/2?

Noble gases are all __

Which of these battles did not involve Roman soldiers?