The History of Math
You can thank this ancient Greek philosopher for the a^2 + b^2 = c^2 theorem used to find the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
Your graduation year plus the number of original US colonies?
What is 2040?
When reading a physical book or a digital screen, these two organs must move back and forth along the page to translate light into words.
What are eyes?
Scientists use this prefix from the Greek for "life" in words like sphere, diversity, and chemistry.
What is bio?
If you are running on a track, completing four standard laps equals this common scientific unit of distance, roughly equivalent to 1,600 meters.
What is a mile?
This apple-inspired English scientist co-invented calculus in the 1660s, though he called his version the "method of fluxions."
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The amount of theses Martin Luther nailed to a door divided by (the length of a US presidential term plus one).
What is 19?
While it takes a lot of brainpower to read text, your brain can read these tiny, colorful digital pictographs—like a smiling face or a thumbs-up—almost instantly.
What are emojis?
From the Latin for "to drop," this word refers to rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
Often found in school gyms, these massive, accordion-style seating sections can be folded flat against the wall to clear the floor for gym class.
What are bleachers?
Margot Lee Shetterly's book Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine Johnson and other Black female "human computers" who calculated trajectories for this US space agency.
What is NASA?
The amount of people depicted in Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper" times the day number of July when the USA celebrates its independence.
What is 52?
This common 8-letter learning condition doesn't affect intelligence, but it changes how the brain processes written language, often causing letters to appear jumbled.
What is dyslexia?
This 11-word letter means "unchanging," and in physics, it refers to the law that energy can neither be created nor destroyed—only transformed.
What is conservation?
To test core strength, gym students perform this exercise where they hold their body in a straight, push-up position while resting entirely on their forearms.
What is a plank?
René Descartes famously said "I think, therefore I am," and also invented this "plane" system that uses X and Y coordinates to map out points.
What is the Cartesian Plane?
The number Lebron James wore when he won his first NBA title to the power of the amount of times Michael Jordan has lost in the NBA Finals.
What is 1?
When you speak English, your vocal cords vibrate inside this anatomical structure, often called the voice box.
What is your larynx?
In geology, a crystal that easily lets light pass through without scattering is called "diaphanous"; a more common, everyday synonym is this 11-letter word.
What is transparent?
Named for their heavy iron composition, these short-handled weights are used in pairs for one-handed lifting exercises like bicep curls.
What are dumbbells?
Legend says mathmatician Archimedes discovered a law of buoyancy while stepping into one of these, causing him to run through the streets shouting "Eureka!"
What is a bathtub?
The year that Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean minus the namesake of a war between England and France in the Late Middle Ages.
What is 1392?
Thanks to the physics of sound, the letters B, M, and P are called "bilabial" because you must use two of these to produce them.
What are lips?
While it means "to sum up" in plain English, in a laboratory this word means to slowly add one solution to another to determine a concentration.
What is titration?
From the Greek for "beautiful strength," this 11-letter word refers to bodyweight-only exercises like pull-ups, dips, and push-ups.
What are calisthenics?