Math Problems
The area of a rectangle is calculated by multiplying what 2 dimensions?
Length and width
What document was signed in 1776 and declared independence from Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
What is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis
What is a conjunction that connects dependent clauses to independent clauses called?
Subordinating conjunction
What is the term for a painting technique where pigments are applied to freshly laid wet lime plaster?
Fresco
What is the formula to calculate the perimeter of a circle?
2 pi r
What war between the North and the South in the United States lasted from 1861 to 1865?
The Civil War
H2O is the chemical formula for which substance?
Water
What is a sentence with one independent clause and no subordinate clauses called?
Simple sentence
What is the term for a scale that includes all 12 pitches within an octave?
Chromatic scale
What is the square root of 144?
12
Which explorer is credited with "discovering" America in 1492?
Columbus
Which gas makes up the majority of the Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What is sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause called?
Complex sentence
In the Renaissance, artists used what mathematical system to create the illusion of depth in their paintings?
Linear perspective
What term refers to the longest side of a right triangle?
Hypotenuse
Which ancient civilization built pyramids and worshiped gods like Ra and Anubis?
Ancient Egypt
What is the center of the atom which contains protons and neutrons?
Nucleus
What is the term for a sentence that starts with the main clause followed by additional details?
A cumulative sentence
Which Dutch painter created The Night Watch, one of the most famous works of the Baroque era?
Rembrandt
The value of pi is approximately equal to what number?
3.14
Which Italian city-state was the heart of the Renaissance?
Florence
What phenomenon causes the apparent bending of light when it passes through water?
Refraction
What is the term for a construction in which two or more grammatical elements have the same structure?
Parallelism
Which German composer wrote the opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung?
Richard Wagner