Mathematics
The irrational number that represents the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
What is Pi/π?
The largest empire recorded in history, led by Genghis Khan.
What is the Mongolian Empire?
The basic unit of matter and the defining structure of elements.
What is an atom?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyberbole?
This movement in the mid-1900s promoted freedom and rights for all people.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The theorem that proves a2+b2=c2.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
The birthplace of Islam.
What is Mecca?
The approximate percent of Earth in water (within 5 is half credit, but full marks for the exact number).
What is 71%?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
The relocation of Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole and other nations as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This term describes any whole number (positive or negative).
What is an integer?
The historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system and in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent; this is where the beginnings of human civilization started.
What is Mesopotamia?
The act of a cell dividing into 2 identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is onomatopoeia?
The 18th U.S. President (1869-1877), who was also Commanding General for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A number system represented by the unit i.
What is an imaginary number?
The richest man recorded in history (net worth $400 billion in USD).
Who is Mansa Musa I of Mali?
The approximate number of stars in space (if it is close enough it is an acceptable answer).
What is 1021?
The type of conflict occurring within a character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
The original owners of New York.
A rectangular array of numbers, which can be added, subtracted and multiplied, and used to represent linear transformations and vectors, solve equations, etc.
What is a matrix?
The Aztec God of Wind and Wisdom, and his name means "Feathered Serpent."
Who is Quetzalcóatl?
Scientists believe that this was the first fish to walk on land.
What is Tiktaalik?
The type of sentence used to ask questions.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The Americas were named after this person.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?