Forgotten School Stuff
A triangle with all sides the same length.
What is an equilateral triangle?
A synonym for “fast” that starts with "h".
What is “hasty” or “hurried”?
The shape with eight sides.
What is an octagon?
The ship that carried the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower?
The part of the plant that absorbs water.
What are roots?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
This word means the opposite of “chaos.”
What is “order”?
The instrument that measures earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
The U.S. president on the $50 bill.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The difference between “affect” and “effect.”
“Affect” is a verb, “effect” is a noun.
The formula for the area of a circle.
What is TTr²?
This is the fancy word for your handwriting style.
What is penmanship?
: The plastic end of a shoelace.
What is an aglet?
The war fought between the North and South in the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
This part of your phone lets it know which way is up.
What is the gyroscope?
A synonym for “photosynthesis” in plant biology.
What is making food from light energy?
The real name for the @ symbol.
What is the “commercial at”?
The stringy things in bananas are called this.
What are phloem bundles?
The year World War I started.
What is 1914?
The correct way to say the plural of “octopus.”
What is octopuses (or octopodes, not octopi)?
The name for a word that’s the same spelled forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
This long word means the fear of long words.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
The white part of your eye.
What is the sclera?
The island Napoleon was originally from.
What is Corsica (part of France)?
The color of the “E” in the Google logo.
What is red?