Science
The basic unit of life; all living organisms are made of one or more of these.
What is a cell?
The practice of keeping a secret phrase or code used to access an account.
What is a password?
The simplest machine with a wheel and a rope used to lift loads.
What is a pulley?
The musical term for gradually getting louder.
What is crescendo?
An unknown value, sometimes represented by "x" in a mathematical equation.
What is a variable?
The scale used to measure acidity or alkalinity; 7 is neutral.
What is pH?
The process of finding and fixing errors in code.
What is debugging?
The unit of electrical current.
What is an ampere (amp)?
He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and is celebrated as a High Renaissance master.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The average found by adding values and dividing by their count.
What is the mean?
The type of star that represents the end stage of a massive star's life when core collapse leads to a violent explosion.
What is a supernova?
The physical components of a computer (CPU, RAM, storage, motherboard).
What is hardware?
A triangular structural shape used in bridges and roofs because it distributes forces efficiently.
What is a truss?
The compositional guideline that divides an image into nine equal parts to place focal points off-center.
What is the rule of thirds?
The number that divides another number without leaving a remainder (e.g., 3 is one of 6's)
What is a factor?
The engineering field applying biological principles to design materials, devices, and systems for healthcare.
What is biomedical engineering?
The technology that lets websites store small pieces of data in the user's browser for persistence.
What are cookies (or localStorage/sessionStorage)?
The physics quantity that measures how fast an object changes its position.
What is velocity?
The 19th-century movement that emphasized light, everyday scenes, and visible brushwork (Monet, Renoir).
What is Impressionism?
The point where the three medians of a triangle intersect (center of mass).
What is the centroid?
The rock cycle process where sediments are compacted and cemented into solid rock.
What is lithification?
The technique where attackers trick users into revealing credentials by posing as a trusted entity via email or messages.
What is phishing?
The phase transformation where a metal hardens due to rapid cooling from high temperature.
What is quenching?
This pigment, made historically from ground lapis lazuli, was prized for its intense blue and very expensive.
What is ultramarine?
The straight line connecting two points on a circle.
What is a chord?