Astronomy
Wright or Wrong
Animal, Vegetable,or Mineral
The Periodic Table
of the Elements
200
This ringed planet is named for the Roman equivalent of Cronus
What is Saturn?
200
The Wright Brothers had their first flight in this town
What is Kitty Hawk, NC?
200
US Congress did not actually declare this food a vegetable in 2011, but they made it easier to count tomato paste as a serving of vegetables
What is pizza?
200
This element with the chemical symbol Ag is the best conductor of electricity
What is silver?
200
Elementary school is often followed by this in the United States
What is middle school or junior high?
400
This infrared space telescope arrived at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point in January 2022
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
400
This architect's "organic architecture" that combines humanity and the environment is exemplified in his 1935 "Fallingwater"
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright
400
This rodent can cause severe injury or death to predators that are unable to avoid its 30,000 quills
What is a porcupine?
400
This group of nonmetals on the perodic table are known for forming salts and are used inside light bulbs to restore lost atoms to the filament
What are the halogens?
400
This "element" of music is the term for the frequency of a note
What is pitch?
600
Dark basaltic plains on Earth's moon are named this, the Latin word for "seas"
What are mare?
600
This verb meaning "to make a mistake" is used in a popular (and often misquoted) idiom
What is to err?
600
This crystalline inorganic solid is considered a mineral despite existing in liquid form on Earth as well
What is ice?
600
This is the heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth
What is Uranium?
600
This Nickelodeon cartoon features "benders" of each of the classical elements; earth, wind, fire, and water
What is Avatar: The Last Airbender?
800
This probe, launched in 1977, is the most distant human-made object from Earth at 14.8 billion miles
What is Voyager 1?
800
Hopefully, you will not be wrong in identifying this category of words with the same pronunciation but different meanings such as right and wright
What are homophones?
800
This root vegetable is likely to have originated in Scandinavia, Finland, or Russia, and is known as the swede in British English
What is rutabaga?
800
This metal, number 43 on the periodic table, is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive
800
This element of the periodic table is called deuterium when it has a neutron in its nucleus along with the proton
What is hydrogen?
1000
This dwarf planet located beyond the Kuiper Belt is the most massive in the Solar system
What is Eris?
1000
The word for this type of writer, also known as a dramatist, has no connection to the word "write"
What is playwright?
1000
Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's crust behind this
What is feldspar?
1000
This Russian, for which element number 101 was named, is credited with the creation of the first periodic table of the elements in 1869
Who is Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev?
1000
This fifth classical element, also called quintessence, was thought to occupy the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere and shares its name with an Infinity Stone from Marvel
What is the aether?