science and nature
This planet is the hottest in our solar system, even hotter than Mercury.
What is Venus?
He wrote The Old Man and the Sea and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This pop star released the albums 1989 and Red.
Who is Taylor Swift
This delicious thing made by bees never spoils.
What is honey?
This is the term for a word that imitates the sound it represents, like “buzz” or “clang.”
What is onomatopoeia?
The basic building blocks of proteins are called these.
What are amino acids?
This British author created a boy wizard who attends Hogwarts.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
The Beatles made this city famous with their 1967 song “Penny Lane.”
What is Liverpool?
The human body has this number of lungs.
What is two?
This prefix means “one” or “single,” as seen in words like “unicycle” or “unilateral.”
What is “uni-”?
This element, with atomic number 79, is highly valued for its conductivity and use in jewelry.
What is gold?
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This composer wrote The Four Seasons.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This animal can sleep standing up but only dream when lying down.
What is a horse?
In English, this is a word that has the same spelling but different meanings, like “bat” (animal) and “bat” (sports).
What is a homonym?
(Daily Double): This branch of biology studies the relationships between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
She wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, exploring a dystopian society ruled by a theocracy.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
(Daily Double): This 1977 film’s soundtrack, including “Stayin’ Alive,” was performed by the Bee Gees.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
The largest species of penguin is named after this region.
What is the Emperor Penguin?
This French term literally means “literary taste” and refers to cultivated, refined language.
What is savoir-faire?
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately this many meters per second.
What is 299,792,458 m/s?
This American poet is known for his unconventional punctuation and Leaves of Grass.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Released in 1927, This was the first movie ever to have sound.
What is the jazz singer?
This organ in the human body can regenerate tissue even after severe injury.
What is the liver?
In Greek mythology, the word “hermeneutics” comes from Hermes, who was this in addition to being a messenger.
What is a translator or interpreter?