Greek Mythology
Who is the Greek god of the sea, known for carrying a trident and causing earthquakes?
Poseidon
What part of the plant is primarily responsible for photosynthesis?
The leaf
What is the value of π (pi) rounded to two decimal places?
3.14
Which element has the chemical symbol O and is essential for respiration?
Oxygen
Which Shakespearean play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
Romeo and Juliet
Which hero completed twelve labors as a punishment, including slaying the Nemean lion and capturing the Erymanthian boar?
Heracles (or Hercules in Roman mythology)
What is the name of the vascular tissue in plants responsible for transporting water from the roots to the leaves?
Xylem
A triangle has angles in the ratio 2:3:4. What is the measure of the largest angle?
80 degrees
What is the name of the process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without passing through the liquid state?
Sublimation
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which type of government is most clearly being criticized through the allegory?
Totalitarianism (specifically Stalinist communism)
According to Greek mythology, who was punished by being condemned to hold up the sky for eternity?
Atlas
What is the term for a plant movement in response to the direction of light?
Phototropism
What is the sum of the interior angles of a hexagon?
720 degrees
Which law states that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure at constant temperature?
Boyle’s Law
In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, what does the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, transform into?
A giant insect
Which Greek hero killed the Gorgon Medusa and later rescued Andromeda from a sea monster?
Perseus
What is the term for the small pores found on the underside of leaves that regulate gas exchange?
Stomata
A right triangle has legs of lengths 5 cm and 12 cm. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
13 cm
What type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
Covalent bond
Which literary movement is characterized by a focus on emotion, nature, and individualism, and includes authors like William Wordsworth and Lord Byron?
Romanticism
Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts, born fully grown from Zeus’s head?
Athena
Which pigment, other than chlorophyll, helps capture light energy and gives autumn leaves their red and orange colors?
Carotenoids
What is the next number in the sequence: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ...?
42
Which subatomic particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?
Protons and neutrons
Which dystopian novel features a society where books are banned and "firemen" burn them?
Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury)