Literacy Terms
Math Terms
Astronomy
Philly Neighborhoods
Potpourri (Tech)
100
"No pain, no gain" is an example of...
What is a cliche?
100
The distance around a circle.
What is the circumference?
100
Astronomy is the study of...
What is the study of the universe?
100
South Street, the Art Museum, Penn's Landing and Chinatown are in this part of the city.
What is Center City?
100
Facebook and Myspace are examples of this type of site.
What are social networking sites?
200
Big exaggeration, usually with humor
What is hyperbole?
200
The four regions of a coordinate plane that are separated by the axes.
What are quadrants?
200
The time it takes for the earth to orbit around the sun.
What is a year?
200
If I want to go to a sports venue in Philadelphia, I go to this area of the city.
What is South Philadelphia?
200
This refers to etiquette on the Internet.
What is netiquette?
300
"The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him close" is an example of....
What is personification?
300
The difference between the greatest and least numbers in a set of data.
What is the range?
300
The person that theorized a sun-centered universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
If I want to fly out of the Philadelphia airport I go to this area of the city. Hint: There is an airline with the same name.
What is Southwest Philadelphia?
300
Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox are examples of these.
What are browsers?
400
"living dead" and "sweet tart" are examples of...
What is an oxymoron?
400
The least common multiple of the denominators in two or more fractions.
What is the least common denominator (LCD)?
400
The time it takes for the moon to orbit around the earth.
What is a month?
400
The Philadelphia Zoo is located in this area?
What is West Philadelphia?
400
The address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet. Not all of them start with "http://"
What is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)?
500
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is forshadowing?
500
The smallest number, other than zero, that is a common multiple of two or more numbers.
What is the least common multiple (LCM)?
500
This person showed that all objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
Ziegler School is located in this area of the city.
What is the Near Northeast?
500
Google, Yahoo and Ask.com are examples of these.
What are search engines?
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