7/8 You Gotta Know B Quiz

The woman who was forced to marry Toussaint Charbonneau and showed the Bozeman Pass to the Corps of Discovery as a guide for Lewis and Clark was:

• Sacagawea

• Pocahontas

• Meriwether Lewis

• Jean Baptiste

Which author described a boy pursued by a supernatural being in “The Erl-King” and wrote about demon Mephistopheles in the 1808 German play Faust?

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Friedrich Schiller

• Heinrich Heine

• E.T.A. Hoffmann

What state, which is home to Fossil Butte and Devil’s Tower national monuments, is the least populous state, and includes the city of Cheyenne?

• Wyoming

• Montana

• South Dakota

• North Dakota

What compound produced by archaea in the guts of termites and cows is a greenhouse gas about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide?

• Methane

• Nitrous oxide

• Ozone

• Sulfur hexafluoride

The man, whom Joseph Elch asked if he had “no sense of decency”, was a Wisconsin senator who ran 1950s investigations into Communist infiltration. Who was he?

• Joseph McCarthy

• Robert La Follette

• Herbert Kohl

• Russ Feingold

What man, who was married to fellow artist Lee Krasner, used “action” and “drip” painting techniques to make large-scale abstract expressionist art?

• Jackson Pollock

• Pablo Picasso

• Vincent van Gogh

• Claude Monet

The body of water that flows south of Punta Arenas separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America and is named after a Portuguese explorer is:

• Strait of Magellan

• Drake Passage

• Beagle Channel

• Cook Strait

The process, which an unreplicated 1989 report claimed could occur at low temperatures, involves light nuclei joining to form heavier nuclei, is known as:

• Fusion

• Fission

• Radioactive Decay

• Entropy

The voivode of Wallachia, who died in battle with Ottomans in 1477, was called "Tepes" in reference to his method of executing captives on stakes. Who was he?

• Vlad the Impaler

• Stephen the Great

• Michael the Brave

• Radu the Handsome

What country, whose president resides in Cetinje, saw its capital city renamed from Titograd to Podgorica and has a name that means "Black Mountain"?

• Montenegro

• Serbia

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Croatia