Math
A movie theater sells adult tickets for $12 and child tickets for $8. A group buys 15 tickets for a total of $152. How many adult tickets did they buy?
8 adult tickets
What is the grammatical term for a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb?
Adverb
What is the largest landlocked country in the world by area?
Kazakhstan
What is the only nonmetal element that is liquid at room temperature?
Bromine
What ancient civilization built the city of Petra, famous for its rock-cut architecture, in present-day Jordan?
the Nabataeans
A train travels 180 miles in 2 hours and 15 minutes. If it continues at the same speed, how far will it travel in 4 hours?
320 miles
What word describes a person who deliberately uses very few words when speaking or writing?
Laconic
What is the only major river that crosses the Equator twice?
Congo River
What is the name of the physical principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed?
the law of conservation of energy
What is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight?
Bat
A rectangular garden has a perimeter of 54 feet. Its length is 3 feet more than twice its width. What is the area of the garden?
152 ft.²
What literary device occurs when a speaker says the opposite of what they actually mean, often for humorous or sarcastic effect?
Verbal irony
What mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain?
Pyrenees
What organelle is responsible for modifying, sorting, and packaging proteins for transport within or outside a cell?
the Golgi apparatus
Which ancient Greek mathematician and inventor is credited with discovering the principle of buoyancy while studying water displacement?
Archimedes
A water tank is 3/5full. After adding 48 gallons, it becomes 9/10 full. What is the tank's total capacity?
160 gallons
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, what literary technique is used when Macbeth sees a dagger floating before him before murdering King Duncan?
Hallucination or a vision
What strait separates the island of Tasmania from mainland Australia?
Bass straight
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape?
the event horizon
What is the name of the largest moon of Saturn, which has lakes and rivers of liquid methane and ethane on its surface?
Titan
A store increases the price of a jacket by 20%, then offers a 25% discount on the new price. The final price is $180. What was the original price of the jacket?
$200
In the sentence "Had I known about the storm, I would have stayed home," what grammatical construction replaces "If I had known"?
subject-auxiliary inversion in a conditional sentence
Three countries share the shores of Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa by surface area. Name all three.
Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya
What is the name of the principle stating that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers?
the Pauli exclusion principle
What is the name of the rare phenomenon in which lightning appears as a luminous sphere and is sometimes reported during thunderstorms?
ball lightning