History & Government
This document, ratified in 1791, protects freedoms such as speech, religion, and the press.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and spelling is called this.
What is a homophone?
This is the minimum number of credits typically required to graduate high school in the U.S.
What is about 20–24 credits?
He was the U.S. president during most of the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This European capital city is divided by the River Thames.
What is London?
Water is considered a universal solvent because it can do this to many substances.
What is dissolve them?
This novel by George Orwell depicts a dystopian future under constant surveillance.
What is 1984?
The square root of 144 is this number.
What is 12?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in this African country.
What is Tanzania?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
The term for giving human characteristics to non-human things is this literary device.
What is personification?
This branch of math deals with angles, triangles, and circles.
What is geometry?
The Cold War conflict that nearly led to nuclear war in 1962 involved the U.S. and this country.
What is Cuba?
This country has the most natural lakes in the world.
What is Canada?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set during the Jazz Age.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This subatomic particle has a negative charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
This literary term refers to a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony?
This unit is used to measure electrical resistance.
What is an ohm?