Word Nerds
Name that Date
The Scientific Method
Numbers, not Letters
Trivialities
100
Verbs that can be used as adjectives
What are participles?
100
Two of the Twelve Dynasties of Classical China
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Quin, Republic, Mao
100
An organism regulating its internal environment
What is Homeostasis?
100
This triangle has three sides of unequal length
What is a scalene triangle?
100
Notes (in music) that get four, two, and one beat respectively
What are whole, half, and quarter notes?
200
Three literary devices
What are Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Synecdoche, Alliteration, Oxymoron, Antithesis, Irony, Hyperbole, Litotes, Analogy, Symbolism, Imagery, etc.
200
The year that the US Constitution went into effect
When is 1789?
200
The highest level of taxonomic classification
What is Domain?
200
The first six digits of Pi
What is 3.14159
200
Far from being a Klingon proverb, this axiom is actually from "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
What is "revenge is a dish best served cold"?
300
Three appeals used by rhetoricians
What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
300
An important document signed in Britain in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
A composite organism consisting of a fungi and an algae
What is lichen?
300
The property that causes A*B=B*A
What is the commutative property?
300
The distress signal "Mayday" is derived from this language
What is French? (M'aidez, or "help me")
400
These are the only two words in the English language ending in "-gry"
What are "angry" and "hungry"?
400
In 1959, this rebel leader overthrew the Cuban dictator and created a communist state
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
If you were this many miles under the surface of the water, you would be 20,000 leagues under the sea
What is 70,000 miles?
400
The Mandelbrot set is composed of points on this plane
What is the complex plane?
400
I am the Wright brother that piloted our airplane
Who is Orville Wright?
500
These seven English capital letters look the same when viewed upside-down
What are H, I, N, O, S, X, and Z?
500
This Asian nation was never invaded from the 1270s to the 1940s
What is Japan?
500
In addition to being a field of mathematics, "Calculus" is also a term for this dental condition
What is tartar?
500
Knuth's up-arrow notation
What is a quick way to denote iterated exponentiation (to write exponents to exponents)?
500
Word meaning "of or like a mouse"
What is murine?
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