Math
This is the result of multiplying a number by itself.
What is a square?
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The main character in a story, often the hero.
What is the protagonist?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
This branch of mathematics deals with shapes, angles, and dimensions.
What is geometry?
This is the process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
The war between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. from 1861-1865.
What is the American Civil War?
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is the continent where the Amazon Rainforest is located.
What is South America?
This is the value of π (pi) to two decimal places.
What is 3.14?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The author of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This is the term for a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction.
What is an irrational number?
The chemical element with the symbol 'O'.
What is oxygen?
This major conflict took place between 1939 and 1945, involving most of the world’s nations.
What is World War II?
This term refers to the time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
This country is the largest by land area.
What is Russia?
The formula for the area of a circle.
What is A = πr²?
This branch of science studies living organisms and life processes.
What is biology?
The political and social movement in the U.S. that sought equal rights for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
A figure of speech where human qualities are given to non-human things.
What is personification?
The mountain range that includes Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?