State it Plainly
Plain Speakun,
Are you Literate?
A one anda two
Let' Get Physical!
100
This was the last state to join the union.
What is Hawaii?
100
This is what you call the plastic thing on the bottom of your shoelace to keep it from fraying.
What is an aglet?
100
This word refers to a person in a story.
What is character?
100
This is the total number of degrees for any triangle.
What is 180 degrees?
100
This is the smallest part of an element that can be identifies as that element.
What is an atom?
200
This state holds the honor of being the state where the Great Mississippi starts.
What is Minnesota?
200
This term might refer to a "food fight" in the dining area of a high school.
What is a kerfuffle?
200
This is the name for the time and place in a story.
What is setting?
200
The name for the vertical axis of the Cartesian coordinate system.
What is the Y-axis?
200
This is a shortened way of writing the name of an element.
What is a chemical symbol?
300
This state is where the famous Alamo took place.
What is Texas?
300
If you are troubled or confused about something, this word would certainly apply. (Hint: It is one of my favorites.)
What is bumfuzzled?
300
This refers to a type of literature that deals with people, places, and events that could not happen in our reality.
What is science fiction?
300
This is what you call the interest calculated only on the original principal or amount borrowed.
What is simple interest?
300
This term refers to something that is able to be hammered into different shapes.
What is malleable?
400
Which state is the one in which the majority of our U. S. Presidents were born.
What is Virginia?
400
This word refers to being concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty or relating to the beauty or study of art such as landscaper.
What is aesthetic?
400
The position from which the author or storyteller tells the story.
What is point of view?
400
This is what you call a plane figure formed by three or more consecutive segments.
What is a polygon?
400
This is the tendency of an object to float in a fluid.
What is buoyancy?
500
The now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through this spot which became –a notch in the Appalachian Mountains for people to travel West.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
500
This is the real name which means to include a tip besides what you pay for your food>
What is a gratuity?
500
The humorous use of words or phrases like in our cryptoquips.
What is a pun?
500
This is what you call a triangle with two congruent sides.
What is an isosceles triangle?
500
These words refer to the factual statement that energy cannot be made or destroyed, but only changed in form. (Hint: The number of atoms you start with before a chemical reaction takes place, will be the same as the number of atoms you have after a chemical reaction has taken place.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
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