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This punctuation mark belongs at the end of a direct question.
What is a question mark?
On the Fahrenheit scale, fresh water freezes at this temperature.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit?
A made free throw in basketball is worth this many points.
What is 1 point?
Before streaming, movies often came on this shiny disc format.
What is a DVD?
This sea animal has eight arms and three hearts.
What is an octopus?
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In “The wind whispered through the trees,” the wind is given a human action. Name this figurative language.
What is personification?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In volleyball, a team may normally touch the ball no more than this many times before sending it over the net.
What is 3 times?
This phone connects through a fixed telephone line rather than a cellular network.
What is a landline?
These are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight.
What are bats?
A word like “buzz,” “hiss,” or “clang” imitates the sound it names. This is the literary term.
What is onomatopoeia?
A hoodie costs $80. A 15% discount saves this many dollars.
What is $12?
In soccer, this player may use their hands inside their own penalty area.
Who is the goalkeeper (or goalie)?
A literal old-school “mixtape” was recorded on this plastic music format.
What is a cassette tape?
A group of flamingos is known by this especially showy word.
What is a flamboyance?
In “Although the storm ended,” this group of words cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent (or subordinate) clause?
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Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition are protected by this amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In tennis, the point won immediately after deuce gives a player this one-word lead.
What is advantage?
Video rental stores often reminded customers, “Be kind, do this,” before returning a VHS tape.
What is “rewind”?
This planet takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once but only about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
What is Venus?
“Less is more” seems to contradict itself but may reveal a truth. This kind of statement has this literary name.
What is a paradox?
A population of insects doubles each day. If it completely fills a jar on day 20, the jar was half full on this day.
What is day 19?
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In hockey, shooting the puck from behind the center red line across the opponent’s goal line untouched usually results in this call.
This older way of connecting to the internet used a telephone line and announced itself with beeps, squeals, and static.
What is dial-up internet (or a dial-up modem)?
This is the only whole number whose English name has its letters in alphabetical order.
What is forty?
Mercury is a planet, a chemical element, and the name of a Roman messenger god. This single word connects all three.
What is Mercury?