Scientific Discoveries
This scientist discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This Greek letter is used to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi (π)?
This literary device is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as".
This document, signed in 1776, declared the 13 American colonies independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This river forms the southwest border of Montgomery County.
What is the Potomac River?
This element, with atomic number 6, is the basis of organic chemistry.
What is carbon?
This branch of mathematics deals with the properties and relationships of points, lines, surfaces, and solids.
What is geometry?
This is another name for the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
This ancient wonder of the world, located in Egypt, is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This African American scientist and inventor, born in Montgomery County in 1821, is known for his work on crop rotation and agricultural chemistry.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This 20th-century physicist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This mathematician is considered the father of algebra and gave us the concept of algorithms.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
This literary device is when the author gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This Chinese dynasty, lasting from 1368 to 1644, was known for its vases and global maritime expeditions.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This annual literary festival in Gaithersburg celebrates books and authors.
What is the Gaithersburg Book Festival?
This process in plant cells converts light energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This mathematical concept is defined as the rate of change of a function concerning a variable.
What is a derivative?
This POV uses "he" "she" and "they"
What is 3rd person?
This 1969 event marked the first time humans set foot on a celestial body other than Earth.
What is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing?
This Cuban-American author and Bethesda resident wrote the young adult novel "The Poet X," which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2018.
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
This woman's work was crucial in understanding the structure of DNA, though she was often overlooked.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This famous unsolved problem in mathematics deals with the distribution of prime numbers.
What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
This literary device is a play on words using words that sound similar but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
This 13th-century Malian emperor was known for his wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca that boosted the region's economy.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This Montgomery County native was a pioneering journalist and the first American woman to become a foreign news correspondent.
Who is Nellie Bly?