Ancient History
This ancient Egyptian ruler is famous for the nearly intact tomb discovered in 1922.
Tutankhamun
If you have 4 dozen eggs and use 12, how many are left?
36
This is the largest continent in the world.
Asia
This organelle is often called the powerhouse of the cell because it produces most of the cells usable energy.
Mitochondria
This is the medical term for high blood pressure.
Hypertension
This ancient Greek city was famous for its warriors and military training.
Sparta
What is 20% of 150?
30
If you travel south from Detroit across the Great Lakes region, which country would you enter?
The United States
Plants take in this gas from the atmosphere to help make food.
Carbon dioxide
This type of doctor specializes in treating conditions involving the heart and blood vessels.
Cardiologist
This Macedonian ruler created one of the largest empires of the ancient world before his death at a young age.
Alexander the Great
If two angles add up to make a straight line, what are they called?
Supplementary angles
This country is home to the cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia
If you remove Earth’s atmosphere, which familiar phenomenon would become impossible because there would be no air to carry the waves?
Sound
This vitamin is important for blood clotting and is also involved in maintaining healthy bones.
Vitamin K
This Greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
What is the name for the distance around a circle?
Circumference
This river is generally considered the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga River?
What phenomenon occurs when the Moon blocks some or all of the Suns light from reaching Earth?
Solar eclipse
This medical imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed pictures of organs and tissues.
MRI
This ancient people built a powerful empire in the area that is now much of Mexico and Central America, and their capital was Tenochtitlan.
The Aztecs
If you divide a whole into equal parts and take one of those parts, what type of number might represent it?
A fraction
This country is shaped somewhat like a boot.
Italy
An object appears to weigh less in water because of an upward force exerted by the water. What is this force called?
Buoyancy
This term describes a condition in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells or tissues.
Autoimmune disease