FAMOUS AUTHORS & BOOKS
This author created the wizarding world of Harry Potter, beginning with The Sorcerer's Stone.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
The main wooden stem of a tree, or the large storage compartment in the rear of a sedan.
What is a trunk?
First president of the United States, his face appears on both the $1 bill and the quarter.
Who is George Washington?
The answer to a multiplication problem is known by this term.
What is a product?
Played with two sticks, this percussion instrument features a stretched membrane over a hollow frame.
What is a drum?
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy travels down this pathway to reach the Emerald City.
What is the Yellow Brick Road?
The hard, colorful skeletal material built by colonies of tiny marine organisms in shallow ocean waters.
What is coral?
The United States purchased the massive Louisiana Territory from this European nation in 1803.
What is France?
An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees is called this type of angle.
What is a right angle?
This large keyboard instrument contains 88 keys and produces sound when hammers strike steel strings.
What is a piano?
This classic novel by Mary Shelley features a scientist who creates a monster out of old body parts.
What is Frankenstein?
A small body of standing water, smaller than a lake.
What is a pond?
This 16th president delivered the Gettysburg Address and issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Represented by a Greek letter, this mathematical constant equals approximately 3.14159.
What is Pi?
In musical notation, this symbol at the beginning of a staff indicates high-pitched notes, also called the G-clef.
What is a treble clef?
Set during the Great Depression, this Harper Lee novel follows young Scout Finch and her lawyer father, Atticus.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The high-pitched voice range of adult female singers, or the second-highest voice part in a choir.
What is alto?
This 1787 document serves as the supreme law of the United States and begins with the phrase "We the People."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
In a fraction, this term refers to the bottom number that indicates how many equal parts the whole is divided into.
What is the denominator?
This woodwind instrument made of brass is a staple in jazz music and comes in alto, tenor, and baritone models.
What is a saxophone?
This English playwright wrote famous tragedies like Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This element, symbol Ne and atomic number 10, is a noble gas known for glowing brightly in reddish-orange signs.
What is neon?
The stock market crash on October 29, 1929—known by this color-and-day nickname—marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
In algebra, this theorem states that a2+b2=c2 for any right-angled triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A group of three or more musical notes played simultaneously to create harmony is called this.
What is a chord?