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• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what single thing remains inside Pandora’s jar after all the evils escape?

Answer

Hope

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Works and Days, which craftsman god shapes Pandora from earth?

Answer

Hephaestus

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what name is commonly translated as “all-gifted” for the woman who opens the jar?

Answer

Pandora

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, whom does Pandora marry after Prometheus warns him not to accept Zeus’s gifts?

Answer

Epimetheus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what is Pandora’s vessel originally described as?

Answer

A jar

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, who wrote the earliest surviving literary account of Pandora’s jar?

Answer

Hesiod

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

In which city did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774, during the founding era commemorated by America250?

Answer

Philadelphia

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

What term names the United States’ 250th anniversary, America250, held in 2026?

Answer

United States Semiquincentennial

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which 1775 battle saw British forces capture Breed’s Hill after two colonial attacks were repulsed?

Answer

Battle of Bunker Hill

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

What was the name of George Washington’s Continental Army winter encampment from December 1777 to June 1778?

Answer

Valley Forge

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which 1781 siege forced the British army under Cornwallis to surrender during the American Revolution?

Answer

Siege of Yorktown

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

How many stars appeared on the first official Stars and Stripes flag adopted by the Continental Congress?

Answer

13

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