Biology
What is the basic unit of life?
The cell
What is the largest continent on earth?
What movie features a young wizard who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Harry Potter
What do we call a comparison using the words like or as?
A simile
What math skill do you use to figure out how much change you should get back after paying for something?
Subtraction
What molecule carries genetic information in living organisms?
DNA
What desert is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Sahara Desert
What superhero movie features a billionaire who fights crime in Gotham City?
Batman
Who wrote the poem I, too and was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
What math skill helps you compare prices to find the best deal?
Unit rate
or
Comparing costs
What is the term for a trait that increases an organism's chance of survival?
Adaptation
What is the term for a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas?
An isthmus
What 1994 film follow follows the life of a man who says, "Life is like a box of chocolates"?
Forrest Gump
What Japanese poetic form traditionally has 17 syllables arranged in 5-7-5?
Haiku
What do we call the amount of money you plan to spend and save each month and save each month?
A budget
What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane called?
Osmosis
What African lake is the source of the White Nile River?
Lake Victoria
What film won Best Picture in 1998 and tells the story of a fictional romance involving William Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Love
What do we call poetry that does not rhyme and has no fixed meter?
Free verse
What do we call the extra amount added to the price of an item when you buy it in a store?
What organelle packages and ships proteins with the cell?
The Golgi apparatus
What is the name of the boundary where Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates collide, forming the Himalayas?
A convergent plate boundary
What 1954 Japanese film about samurai defending a village inspired many later Westerns?
Seven Samurai
What term describes the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?
Meter
What math concept helps you understand how interest grows on savings or loans over time?
Compound interest