Math
A triangle with a 90-degree angle and sides of 3, 4, and 5 is this type of triangle.
What is a Right Triangle?
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In the NFL, this scoring play is worth 2 points and happens when an offensive player is tackled in their own end zone.
What is a Safety?
He is the King of the Greek gods and ruler of Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
In the equation $y = mx + b$, the letter $m$ represents this.
What is Slope?
He was the 16th President of the U.S. and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In basketball, taking more than two steps without dribbling the ball is called this violation.
What is Traveling?
This city-state was known for its military strength and warriors.
What is Sparta?
The main character in a story is often called this.
Who is the Protagonist?
This mathematical term describes the distance around a circle.
What is Circumference?
The conflict between the Northern and Southern states from 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
In baseball, if a batter hits the ball out of play between the foul lines, it is called this.
What is a Home Run?
This blind poet is credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The punctuation mark used to separate two independent clauses is called this.
What is a Semicolon?
If 2x + 4 = 14, then x equals this.
What is 5?
This purchase in 1867 gave the United States a strategic position in the Arctic?
What is Alaska?
In soccer, using your hands (unless you are the goalie) results in this type of free kick.
What is a Handball (or Direct Free Kick)?
The Ancient Greeks believed the gods lived on this mountain.
What is Mount Olympus?
The time and place where a story occurs.
What is the Setting?
3^2 + 4^2 equals this number.
What is 25?
The third amendment in the Bill of Rights?
What is no quartering of soldiers in peacetime?
In tennis, a score of zero is referred to by this word.
What is Love?
This type of government, meaning "rule by the people," was invented in Athens.
What is Democracy?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb (often ends in -ly).
What is an Adverb?