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The number of Calories in a liter of water
What is 0?
This part of speech modifies an adverb.
What is an adverb?
This civilization is credited with the invention of wood-pulp paper.
What is China?
These are made of minerals.
What are rocks?
This is the longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This brand of corn-based chips derives its name from a contraction of the Spanish diminutive term meaning “fried and golden things.”
What are Doritos?
The metric prefix for “one millionth”
What is micro (μ)?
All singular reflexive pronouns contain this suffix.
What is “self”?
Modern calculations for time, rotation — and even tennis scores — originate from this ancient civilization‘s invention of the wheel.
Who were the Sumerians?
This is the area of science that studies the motion of Earth’s crust.
What is plate tectonics?
This part of the brain is associated with conscious thought.
What is the cerebrum?
This brand of cookies by the National Biscuit Company was originally sold as an imitation of the popular Hydrox brand.
What are Oreos?
The average number of astronomical units between Earth and the Sun
What is 1?
This is the subject of the sentence, “Go!”.
What is “you”?
The walls of a cave near this French city contain paintings from around 20,000 years ago.
What is Lascaux?
These are the 3 classes of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
These are the 5 known classes of taste for humans.
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory (umami)?
This golden snack cake was originally filled with banana cream until rationing of the fruit during World War II.
What is the Twinkie?
The number of cups in a gallon
What is 16?
This is the full declension for the present tense of “to be.”
What is am/are/is/are/are/are?
This ancient Egyptian container gets its name from the Greek compound word for “flesh-eating.”
What is a sarcophagus?
This is the general group name for D-block metals on the periodic table.
What are transition metals?
This part of the ear has thousands of vibrating hairs whose lengths correspond to frequencies of sound.
What is the cochlea?
This brand, named for its Bosnian immigrant founder, has used a stork as its mascot since the 1974 marketing campaign that claimed pregnant women crave their product.
What is Vlasic?
The number of centimeters in an inch
What is 2.54?
This verb tense is used in the sentence, “I have been eating.”
What is perfect progressive?
This League of five nations in North America created the sport lacrosse.
Who are the Iroquois?
Examples of these include quark-gluon plasmas, Einstein-Bose condensates, superfluids, and liquids.
What are states of matter?
These are the 3 sections of the human vertebrae.
What are the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar?
This beverage was originally invented by pharmacist John Pemberton to ease the addiction to morphine he developed during the American Civil War.
What is Coca-Cola?