VC7: Main Character Energy
This is the main person, animal or figure in a story.
What is a protagonist?
This is the bottom number in a fraction.
What is the denominator?
This ancient civilisation is famous for gladiators, emperors and the Colosseum.
What is Ancient Rome?
This is the date on which Australia was formed.
When was January 01, 1901?
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
This is a picture of a person, usually showing their face.
What is a portrait?
This is a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This is the name for an angle smaller than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
This is the name for a ruler in Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
This is something people are allowed to do or have, such as voting or free speech.
What are rights?
This is the state of matter that keeps its own shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This is the area around or between objects in an artwork.
What is space?
This persuasive technique uses words like “we”, “us” and “our” to make the audience feel included.
What is inclusive language?
I am the number you get if you divide 30 by ½ and then add 10?
What is 70?
This is the name for the Roman system used to carry water into cities.
What is an aqueduct?
This is the document that sets out the rules for how Australia is governed.
What is the Constitution?
This is the name for a diagram that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem, beginning with producers and moving to consumers.
What is the food chain?
This is the technique used to show depth by making objects appear smaller as they get further away.
What is perspective?
This is the beginning section of a story where characters, setting and situation are introduced.
What is exposition?
I am the fraction which represents the odds of flipping a coin four times in a row and each time it landing on heads?
What is 1/16?
This is a 200-year anniversary.
What is a bicentenary?
This is the upper house of Australia’s Federal Parliament.
What is the Senate?
This is the name for a substance that dissolves in a liquid.
What is a solute?
This is the use of light and dark tones to make an artwork look more three-dimensional.
What is tone?
This literary device gives human qualities to something non-human, such as “the wind whispered through the trees.”
What is personification?
This is the name for the longest side of a right-angled triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
This is a source created after the time being studied, such as a modern textbook
What is a secondary source?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
This is a direct, nationwide vote where the public is asked to express their opinion on a specific government policy or question.
This is a factor in an experiment that is measured or observed.
What is a variable?
The death of Pablo Picaso was closest in time to which of the following events?
A. Shakespeare’s Hamlet being written
B. Queen Victoria becoming Queen
C. Elvis Presley becoming famous
D. The release of Star Wars
What is D. The release of Star Wars
This is a character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, in order to highlight particular qualities or flaws.
What is a foil?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
-30ᵒ Celsius is equal to -30ᵒ Fahrenheit.
CE replaced AD in many classrooms to remain a more neutral term, as AD (Anno Domini) translates to the year of the what?
What is the Lord?
This person is the youth representative of Victorians aged 16-25 in Parliament House. Hint: often handsome, intelligent and quite strong.
What is the Youth Governor of Victoria?
This is the system used to group living things based on shared characteristics.
What is taxonomy?
Salvador Dali dabbled in this ‘school’ of art. (School = type)
What is surrealism?