US Presidents
This 16th president was the tallest in U.S. history at 6’4”, and was also the very first president to sport a beard.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Dutch Post-Impressionist painter famously cut off part of his own left ear during a severe mental health crisis in 1888.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This watercolor technique involves applying what paint directly onto a wet paper surface, causing the colors to beautifully bleed and blend together.
What is wet on wet?
This incredibly common figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
These tiny, single celled organisms, lack a nucleus can be found everywhere on earth while some cause illnesses like strep throat others can help us to digest food.
What is bacteria?
In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first president to perform this ceremonial act at a baseball game, starting a long-standing White House tradition.
What is throw the first pitch?
This Baroque era maestro wrote the beloved violin concerto s known collectively as the four seasons.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This basic drawing method uses parallel closely, spaced lines to create shaded areas and three dimensional depth.
What is hatching?
An author uses this technique when giving human traits emotions or actions to non-human things like saying the wind howled in the night.
What is personification?
This nonliving microscopic entity consists of genetic material wrapped in a protein coat and requires a host cell to replicate, causing illnesses like influenza or the common cold.
What is a virus?
He is the only president in United States history to resign from the office, doing so in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
though this renaissance Titan considered himself primarily a sculptor he spent four growing years, painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
From the French four to glue, this technique involves pasting bits of paper fabric and other mixed materials onto a flat backing surface.
What is a collage?
This literary device compares to unrelated things by stating that one thing is the other thing completely skipping the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Queen by Robert Hook in 1665 after looking at cork under microscope, this term describes the basic structural and functional unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
This peanut-farming president from Georgia was the first ever chief executive to be born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Before completely losing his hearing this German musical genius poured out his personal anguish over his condition in an 1802 letter called Heiligenstadt testament.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This specialized printing method requires a raised design carved into a block of wood, which is then inked and pressed onto paper or fabric.
What is wood block printing?
From the Greek for overshot this technique uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or create emphasis such as saying, I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
This microscopic single cell fungus is widely used in baking to make bread rise in the brewing to format sugars into alcohol.
What is yeast?
Meaning “son of John”, this specific 3-letter combination finishes the surname of eight different U.S. presidents, including Jefferson and Madison.
What is -son?
This 20th century Spanish pioneer of cubism had a massive full name containing over 20 words, including Diego and Francisco.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Used heavily by masters like Rembrandt this Italian term translate to light dark and describes using dramatic contrast between shadow and light to give figures a 3-D volume.
What is chiaroscuro?
This sound based device features words that physically mimic the sound they describe such as buzz his or sizzle.
What is onomatopoeia?
This type of advanced microscope uses a beam of accelerated particles rather than light to magnify specimens up to 1 million of times their original size.
What is Electron Microscope?