Math Mysteries
This is the value of pi rounded to the nearest hundredth.
3.14
The planet in our solar system with the most known moons.
Saturn
The literary term for a comparison using 'like' or 'as,' as in 'Her smile was like sunshine.'
What is a simile?
This 1215 English document, forced upon King John by rebellious barons, established for the first time that the king was subject to the rule of law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
This property states that for any real numbers a and b, a + b = b + a
What is the Commutative Property of Addition
This gas, produced during photosynthesis, is released into the atmosphere as a byproduct.
In grammar, this type of clause cannot stand alone as a complete sentence, even though it has a subject and a verb.
What is dependent clause?
The economic system in which European nations accumulated wealthy by maximizing exports and minimizing imports, often thorough colonialism.
What is mercantilism?
In music theory, this term describes the distance between two notes where one has exactly twice the frequency of the other.
The slope of a line passing through the points (2, 5) and (6, 13)
What is 2?
The SI unit of electric resistance, named after a German physicist.
What is the Ohm?
This narrative technique places the reader directly inside a single character's thoughts and perceptions.
What is stream of consciousness?
The U.S. Supreme Court case of 1954 unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board?
This computer science concept describes a function that calls itself a part of its own definition.
What is a recursion?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
This scientist's 1953 X-ray image, known as Photo 51, was critical evidence in discovering the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The rhetorical device in the first sound of a word is repeated across multiple words.
What is alliteration?
This ancient trade network, spanning from China to the Mediteranean, carried not just silk but also religion, disease and ideas across Eurasia for over a millennium.
What is the Silk Road?
The number of ways to arrange 5 distinct books on a shelf - expressed as a factorial.
5! = 120
In chemistry, this term describes a solution with a pH of exactly 7, where the concentration of OH- ions.
What is a neutral solution?
In Homer's Odyssey, this term describes the epic convention of beginning the narrative in the middle of the action, rather than at the start.
What is 'in medias res'?
The philosophical and political concept, articulated by John Locke, that government derives its authority from the consent of the governed.
What is the Social Contract (or Natural Rights theory)