Academic Quiz Bowl 5

Name this process involving platelets that is also called coagulation.

What star with a declination  of 89 degrees, making it the current North Star?

Those "triples" are named are mathematician whose eponymous is a²+b²=c².

Name this quantity measured in seconds.

Name this wintertime Jewish "Festival of Lights."

Name WIlliam Golding novel about a group of stranded boys.

This South African policy of racial "apartness" that ended in 1994.

Name the confederation that issues a common currency for 17 of its member states.

Name this Shawnee chief whose curse affects presidents elected every 20 years.

This empress know as "The Great" was Russia's enlightened despot between 1762 and 1796.

Name this desert that covers north Africa.

Name this girl who wrote a diary while hiding from Nazis.

Name this formula used to solve equations with an x squared term.

Name this change in the frquency of waves emitted by a moving source. 

This American known as the father of modern linguistics.

Name this abdominal organ that detoxifies blood and makes bile.

What native American empire of Mexico was conquered by Hernan Cortes?

Bravo airs this franchise, which has six different series depicting women.

Presidents WIlliam Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor belonged to this party.

Name this emperor who never actually fiddled while Rome burned.