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100
This part of the brain is responsible for memory and hearing
What is the temporal lobe?
100
Proved many times over, this theorem helps find the third side on a right triangle
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
100
This famous poem is an allegory to the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln
What is O Captain, My Captain?
100
Often used in political cartoons, this art technique shows a subject’s face as large and exaggerated
What is a caricature?
100
Though not as popular as Santa, children line up their stockings every December 6th to receive gifts from this man
Who is Saint Nicholas?
200
An object is able to float in water if this property’s value is under 1
What is density?
200
This is a set of two lines which never touch, or intersect
What are parallel lines?
200
A short phrase not meant to be taken literally
What is an idiom?
200
Though once a famous war leader, this president’s reputation plummeted thanks to the Whiskey Ring scandal
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This is a shot replayed without penalty in golf after a blunder
What is a mulligan?
300
Used to perform research, this process starts with observation and ends with analysis
What is the scientific method?
300
This additive process can be used to factor a trinomial when it has no proper factors
What is completing the square?
300
“That solitude which suits abstruser musings” is an example of a sentence using this literary device
What is assonance?
300
This general’s “march to the sea” lead to the capture of Atlanta, Georgia in 1864
Who is William (Tecumseh) Sherman?
300
Invented by the Spanish in the 1500s, this string instrument is one of the most widely known and used
What is the guitar?
400
Though this can refer to a certain airplane component, its scientific use is as a box with everything but its behavior unknown
What is a black box?
400
This is a line where one x value has exactly one y value
What is a function?
400
A mass gathering of people, or correct grammar and spelling
What are conventions?
400
This 17th century explorer is known for his help with American colonists, and his relationship with Pocahontas
Who is John Smith?
400
Known as the god of wine, this Greek god was fathered by Zeus, but his mother is of some debate
Who is Dionysus?
500
This term refers to a gene with one dominant and one recessive allele
What is heterozygous?
500
This equation can be used to find the surface area of a sphere
What is 4(pi)r²?
500
This stanza type is a simple one, consisting of two rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
500
King George III refused to even look at this document, sent to Britain by America as a last effort to prevent a revolutionary war
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
The W-shaped eye and distinct body shape of this underwater creature are one of its many defining characteristics
What is a cuttlefish?
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