After Mary Tudor became queen, she was known as Bloody Mary because of her relentless persecution of what group of Englishmen?

In what war that began in 1853 did Russia fight Turkey and other nations including Britain and France?

In 1992, news of the acquittal of all four defendants in the Rodney King beating sparked riots that killed more than fifty people in what city?

In the process of neutralization, what reacts with a base to form a salt and water?

What law of thermodynamics states it is impossible to cool a body to absolute zero, because to do so would require the presence of a still colder body?

Equilibrioreception is commonly called the sense of ...

The first law passed in the New World that explicitly provided for freedom of worship was passed in Maryland. It was a measure known either as the Act Concerning Religion or as the ...

What is the constant of proportionality if y varies directly as x, and y = 10 when x = 7?

Name the three modal auxiliaries that begin with the letter "m."

Art History: William Blake was so annoyed by the elegant portraits produced by many English painters in the 18th century that he referred to what famous artist as Sir Sloshua?

What sea is between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan?

Nearly 90% of the cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere consist of what subatomic particles?

In the Mystic massacre of 1637, perhaps as many as 700 people of what Connecticut tribe were slaughtered by the English and other Native American allies?

Canadian Parks: Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest park, is mainly located in which western province?

This is a translation of the last words by what European emperor?

What novel begins with a gifted young athlete being seriously wounded by a deranged woman obsessed with the thought of shooting the country's best baseball player?

What is the only Platonic solid with no parallel faces?

Psychological Disorders: An involuntary, habitual, repetitive, nonrhythmic convulsive motion of certain muscles such as eye twitching, muscle tensing, blinking, or grimacing is called a ...

House Members: As of 2008, in addition to the 435 members of the House of Representatives from the states, there were also the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico and four other nonvoting delegates representing the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam and what islands?

What type of stream erosion occurs when a stream channel narrows, the water pressure decreases as its velocity increases, and bubbles form and collapse to cause shock waves that help disintegrate the channel walls?

To whom do the pronouns refer in this? Hamilton had thwarted his intense ambitions twice, first in 1800 when Hamilton influenced the House of Representatives to choose Thomas Jefferson as president, and again in 1804 when his run for the New York governorship was hindered by Hamilton's statements about his character.

What ancient people were named for the region they settled on the Italian Peninsula called Etruria?

Among many others, John Jacob Astor supported Edgar Allan Poe and what famous ornithologist known for his paintings?

What was the last name of two Roman brothers whose plans to redistribute Roman lands to farmers and the middle class so upset the Senate that they were killed?

In an attempt to further weaken Russia in World War I, Germany allowed what influential revolutionary to return to Russia from his exile in Switzerland?

A Tehuantepecer is a violent wind from north in the Gulf of Tehuantepec that originates in what adjacent larger gulf?

What is the usual translation of the title of this novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez?

What type of lighting uses materials that absorb the energy from ultraviolet light and emit the energy as visible light?

Minerals that collect in what kind of alluvial deposits must be dense, chemically inert, and resistant to weathering?

What organs cease to function in acute renal failure?

When rocks exhibit the same magnetism as the present magnetic field, they have normal polarity, but when they exhibit the opposite magnetism, they are said to have what kind of polarity?

What is the average of all the integers from 19 to 41?

What ship is celebrated in the Oliver Wendell Holmes poem from which this was taken?

What fallacy is illustrated in this statement? Begging the question is a fallacious form of argument. Therefore, to beg the question is to argue fallaciously.

Name the region of highly excitable muscle tissue that lies just past the tip of a motor nerve.

What two 19th-century wars pitted the British against the Orange Free State and the South African Republic?

What kind of junction that split Africa from South America is also splitting Africa from Arabia?

In most states, medical malpractice suits must be filed within four years of the alleged offense. Such a rule establishing a time frame within which legal recourse may be pursued is called a ...

This is from the invocation of the Muse at the beginning of what work?

Winston Smith works in which ministry that rewrites history to fit current party doctrine in '1984'?

The setting for these stories is in which country?

Lapilli are walnut-sized pyroclasts while pea-sized pyroclasts are called ...

Just a week after Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact, the Nazis invaded which Eastern European country?

If a petroleum product has a density of .90 grams per cc, the mass of 2 liters of this product is how many kilograms?

Archaeopteryx is a fossil that links reptiles to which other class of vertebrates?

The 'stomach stones' found in the body cavities of many fossilized reptiles such as plesiosaurs are known as what kind of 'liths'?

Thomas Hobbes wrote that without a central government, that the lives of people in the natural state would be 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and ...'

English borrowed these words from which language?

The adjective that indicates a real-time computer simulation involving the user is:

Complete this line by Edwin Stanton as he stood by Abraham Lincoln's deathbed. Now he belongs to the ...

Objects stick together in what kind of perfect collisions?

What is the most famous poem written by the 12th-century Persian who is also credited with laying the foundations for the binomial theorem in mathematics?

What Mariana island was the base for the aircraft that carried atomic bombs to Japan in World War II?

Spell the term for 'one who will inherit' that is a homonym for a verb meaning 'to make a mistake'.

When muscles have names such as abductors, pronators, flexors, and extensors, they are named according to their ...

In 1943, American and British forces pushed what German field marshal out of North Africa?

What agency of the U.S. government manages national lakeshores, national scenic trails, national memorials, national preserves, national seashores, and national monuments?

The shape of the human nose is largely determined by the nasal septum and what bone?

In the Aroostook War, what became the first and only U.S. state ever to declare war on a foreign power?

What bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur whose name means something like "speedy seizer" had a sharp, three-inch, retractable sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot?

Two hominids that once existed at the same time were the Neanderthals and the ...

The Spanish Civil War was largely a conflict between the forces of fascism and those supporting what other political philosophy?

Europe formed from which of the two main parts of Pangaea when it split during the late Mesozoic?

In caves, the hollow, elongated, generally translucent tubes of calcite representing the earliest growth of stalactites are called ...

In a single-elimination chess tournament involving 43 players, how many matches must be held to determine a winner?

This is from a poem by Walt Whitman about what frigate of the American Revolution?

This is about what 20th-century president? Ninety minutes after he was proclaimed president without a word of dissent, he appeared on a balcony at the old Cape Town City Hall and gazed across a delirious throng toward the bay where he spent more than a third of his adult life on an island prison.

Vandalia was a proposed colony south of the Ohio River in what is now mainly West Virginia and the eastern part of what state?

What word is missing in this quote by Justice William Brennan in 1957 in the Roth v. United States case? We hold that ---- is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.

What is the phase shift of this function? f(x) = 4 sine(x-pi)

The peninsula which is mostly occupied by a Scandinavian country and is also partly occupied by Germany is known as:

This 2008 newspaper excerpt describes an ongoing campaign of authoritarian brutality in what country? The Mugabe government has extinguished any chance for a fair and free runoff vote with its crackdown on the opposition.

The British North American Act was signed in 1867 by which queen?

Around the year 1000, Leif Ericson's expedition landed at Helluland, which is probably Baffin Island, and at Markland, now believed to be the eastern coast of which large Canadian peninsula?

The atomic mass of sodium is 22.99 and the atomic mass of sulfur is 32.07. What is the formula mass of sodium sulfide?

77. Hinky Pinkies
What is a hinky pinky for someone who herds big spotted cats?

The type of flight used by many birds of prey and migrating insects depends on columns of warm rising air called thermals. What is this flight called?

The poet in this passage is what kind of being?

What ore forms residual deposits in tropical regions through the weathering of rocks high in alumina?

What low-visibility condition occurs during blizzards, when heavy ground fog exists in a snow-covered region, or even when diffuse light over a snowpacked area makes it impossible to tell where surface features end and the sky begins?

Name either of the principal gases emitted from fumaroles.

The pancreas is a mixed gland because it has both endocrine and ---- functions.

What noun that means an advantage in golf may also indicate a physical or mental disability?

What kind of major architectural structures are found at these sites? Lamanai in Belize, Tazumal in El Salvador, Aguateca in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, Teotihuacan in Mexico?

During the "starving time" in the winter of 1609 and 1610, desperation drove survivors in what Virginia colony to resort to cannibalism?

What area of the Earth's interior above the core forms 83 percent of the planet's volume and 67 percent of its mass?

What World War II slogan regarding seagoing vessels had the same general sense as this slogan also used at the time?

What effect proves the particle behavior of light?

The most recent ancestral form or species from which two different species evolved is known as what kind of ancestor?

This is about what phylum?

Between 1895 and 1901, the British colonial government built a railway from Mombasa, on the coast of Kenya, to the shores of which lake?

The World War II Battle of Arnhem took place in which country?

Many modal verbs often cannot be used in which two simple tenses?

The part of the skull that protects the brain is called the ...

What word completes this statement by Franklin Roosevelt? The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the ...

What expression including the word "heart" means "to regret deeply and painfully"?

What can be said about the comparative ages of ocean basin crustal material as it is sampled farther and farther away from mid-ocean ridges?

What symbiotic relationship exists between arboreal orchids and the trees upon which they grow?

When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him in his cell, what was Thoreau's response when Emerson asked him, "Why are you in jail?"

Which revolutionary leader was transported by train through Germany to Russia in 1917, significantly impacting the Russian Revolution?

Which logical fallacy is committed when an argument's conclusion is assumed in its premises?

Who is the renowned naturalist and painter famous for his detailed illustrations of North American birds, supported by John Jacob Astor?