(1642-1727) Developed laws of gravity and motion; invented calculus in the late 1600's
who is Isaac Newton
100
The original price of a computer desk is $248.00. If the desk is marked one-fourth off, what is the selling price?
What is $186.00
100
Which continent has the most countries
What is Africa, 54
100
word choice to create a specific effect
What is diction
100
most common element in the unviverse
What is Hydrogen
200
English scientist credited with co-discovering the structure of DNA
Who is Francis Crick
200
In the equation, Y equals the quantity X minus 2 close quantity squared minus 3, what value makes X makes Y a minimum
What is 2
200
Which is the highest building in the world?
What is The highest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It is 830m/2,722ft tall and has 163 floors/storeys.
200
language that represents one thing in terms of something dissimilar {non-literal language}. Includes simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbol}
What is figurative language
200
Life stage of a butterfly, Greek for gold
What is Chrysalis
300
1564-1616) English dramatist and poet; he is considered one of the greatest for his written works Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is William Shakespear
300
State your answer as a mixed fraction. One pepperoni, one sausage, and one cheese pizza were ordered for an academic team, and each pizza was cut into 8 slices. If two slices of pepperoni, five slices of sausage, and three slices of cheese pizza were left over, what fraction of pizza was not eaten?
What is 11/4
300
wasteland that has been carved into unusual shapes by wind and water
What is the badlands
300
This two-letter suffix comes from an Old English word that means "like." What two letter suffix is often used in English to turn an adjective into adverb.
What is Ly
300
Receptors of light in the retina
What is rods and cones
400
This famous artist invented the sissors
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
400
We use PEMDAS to remember the orders of operations, it stands for what?
What is Parathesis, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract
400
What was the name of the Mediterranean people who left their alphabet to the western world
Who are the Phoenicians
400
An example of this sentence structure is, "They wanted chocolate chip cookies, but they had to settle for Oreos instead." Its clauses can be joined by a semicolon, or by a coordinating conjunction. What kind of sentence contains two or more independent, but no dependent clauses?
What is a compound sentence
400
Newtons first Law
What is the law of inertia
500
Famous detective first appeared in Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Who is sherlock holmes
500
a property indicating a special way in which multiplication is applied to addition of two or more numbers in which each term inside a set of parentheses can be multiplied by a factor outside the parentheses, such as a(b + c) = ab + ac
What is the distributive property
500
This continent is considered the wealthiest and the richest
What is Europe
500
This is the noun or pronoun that performs the verb. Example: The boy kicks the ball. {The boy}
What is the subject
500
Name the type of bonding that occurs when electrons are shared rather transferred.