Math
A number that is evenly divisible only by itself and one.
What is a prime number?
This is the state of matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is liquid?
This ancient civilization, centered along the Nile River, is famous for building the Great Pyramids and practicing mummification, with both humans in power and cats.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This type of story, often featuring talking animals and a moral lesson, is exemplified by the work of Aesop.
What is a fable?
The imaginary line of latitude situated at \bm{0^\circ}, dividing the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This infinite, non-repeating decimal constant is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
The fundamental unit of heredity in a living organism.
What is a gene?
This Chinese invention, first used for fireworks and signaling, drastically changed warfare in the medieval and modern eras.
What is gunpowder?
The fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who resides at 221B Baker Street in London.
The world's highest mountain range, home to Mount Everest, that forms a natural border between India and China.
What are the Himalayas?
In coordinate geometry, the horizontal axis is called the x-axis, while the vertical axis is known by this name.
What is the y-axis?
A measure of how much resistance an object offers to changes in its state of motion.
What is mass (or inertia)?
The period of rebirth in arts, literature, and science that swept Europe following the Middle Ages, starting in the 14th century.
What is the Renaissance?
The American author of The Great Gatsby is known for capturing the decadence of the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The country that is both the smallest nation in the world by area and completely surrounded by the city of Rome.
What is the Vatican City?
This person is credited with writing The Sieve method for efficiently finding all prime numbers up to a given limit
Who is Eratosthenes?
This French chemist is famous for identifying the law of conservation of mass and naming oxygen and hydrogen.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
This Greek city-state is considered the birthplace of democracy and was home to philosophers like Socrates and Plato.
What is Athens?
This Greek epic poem chronicles the ten-year journey of the hero Odysseus as he tries to return home after the Trojan War.
What is The Odyssey?
The name of the Great Lake that is entirely within the United States, meaning it doesn't share a border with Canada.
What is Lake Michigan?
A two-dimensional shape whose area is calculated by taking half the product of its base and its height.
What is a triangle?
The name of the process by which a star, like the Sun, generates energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.
What is nuclear fusion?
The name given to the policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict, famously adopted toward Hitler in the 1930s.
What is appeasement?
In poetry, this is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse, defining its rhythm.
What is meter (or metre)?
This narrow, man-made waterway connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean and revolutionized global shipping.
What is the Panama Canal?