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This Renaissance master painted the Mona Lisa and sketched early conceptual designs for flying machines.
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
In this dystopian book series by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen volunteers as a tribute to save her sister, Prim.
What is The Hunger Games?
This line of longitude, running directly through Greenwich, England, marks 0 degrees and divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the primary pigment in plants that absorbs light energy and gives leaves their green color.
What is chlorophyll?
This is the term for a polygon with exactly eight sides, like a standard stop sign.
What is an octagon?
This family of musical instruments includes the trumpet, trombone, tuba, and French horn.
What is the brass family?
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, and often ends in "-ly."
What is an adverb?
Belonging to the legislative branch of the U.S. government, this house of Congress has the exclusive constitutional power to introduce revenue bills and initiate impeachment proceedings.
What is the House of Representatives?
This type of rock is formed when existing rocks are changed by intense heat and pressure deep underground.
What is metamorphic rock?
If a bag contains 3 red marbles and 7 blue marbles, this is the probability, written as a percentage, of randomly picking a red one.
What is 30%?
In Greek mythology, this hero was dipped in the River Styx by his mother, making his entire body invulnerable except for his heel.
What is Achilles?
Percy Jackson discovers he is a demigod and the son of this Greek god of the sea in The Lightning Thief.
What is Poseidon?
Triggered by the 1929 stock market crash, this severe, decade-long worldwide economic downturn led to mass unemployment and the creation of FDR's New Deal.
What is the Great Depression?
Named after a British scientist, this law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
In a right triangle, this is the specific name given to the longest side, which sits directly opposite the right angle.
What is the hypotenuse?
In Egyptian mythology, this jackal-headed god is the deity of mummification and the afterlife.
What is Anubis?
In Louis Sachar's novel Holes, juvenile delinquents are sent to this ironically named, completely dry camp to dig holes.
What is Camp Green Lake?
This system of checkpoints, paths, and safe houses helped enslaved African Americans escape from Southern plantations to free states and Canada during the 19th century.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it generates most of its chemical energy.
What is the mitochondrion (or mitochondria)?
This is the statistical term for the middle number in a sorted, ascending list of numbers.
What is the median?
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Featuring legendary songs like "Defying Gravity," this massively popular Broadway musical serves as a spin-off/prequel to The Wizard of Oz and explores the complex backstory of Elphaba.
What is Wicked?
This grammar rule dictates that a verb must match its subject in number—meaning a singular subject needs a singular verb.
What is subject-verb agreement?
Signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215, this historic charter established the principle that everyone, including the monarch, is subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This prefix, used in terms like "absolute zero," represents the temperature scale where all molecular motion stops.
What is Kelvin?
This mathematical property states that changing the grouping of numbers in addition or multiplication does not change their sum or product.
What is the associative property?