Math
The proper name for an expression written as x2 + 6x - 5
What is a polynomial?
These three numbers listed on chemical fertilizer represent the following three nutrients used by plants
What are nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium?
The branch of government involved in interpreting and enforcing laws
What is the Judicial branch?
When an author repeats the same letter sounds to start words multiple times in close proximity
What is an alliteration?
Mr. Waite's Dog's name
What is Derek Silver?
The amount of numbers with whole number square routes between 64 and 100
What is 3?
A farmer only planting seeds from the best crops of the previous year
What is artificial selection
The law that governs how much is made and what things cost a market economy
What is supply and demand?
A comparison using like or as
The real reason Mr. Waite shaved his head
What is the Ride of the Mustang? (would also accept what is Mr. McLean)
The law when you multiply the 2 exponents with the same base
What is the "power of a power" exponent law
The event when the sun reaches it's highest or lowest point in the sky, resulting in the shortest or longest day of the year
What is the solstice
Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, offenders above this age can be sentenced as adults if the crime is serious enough.
What is 14?
The respective names of the rival families from Romeo and Juliet
Who are the Montagues and the Capulets
Mr. Waite's home town
What is Calgary?
The proper formula to solve for A using the pythagorean theorem
√c2 - b2 = a
A chemical reaction that results in something cold
What is an endothermic reaction?
This branch of government acts as the upper house of the legislature and serves as a "sober second thought" to passing legislation
What is the senate?
When a text makes an implicit reference to another text.
What is an allusion?
Mr. Waite is considered a weekend warrior at this, his favourite sport
What is squash? (would also accept What is dodgeball?)
A number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers
What is an irrational number?
Aristotle believed in this model to explain the universe and movement of stars
What is the geocentric model
A section within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allows federal parliament or provincial legislatures to temporarily override many aspects of the charter.
What is the notwithstanding clause (section 33)?
If people used this literary device a million times, it still wouldn't be enough
What is a hyperbole
The official record of Mr. Waite in the GMHS dodgeball league
What is 1 win, and 2 losses.