Algebra
This property states that when you multiply a number by a sum, you multiply it by each term inside the parentheses.
What is the distributive property?
This type of angle measures less than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
This seaside fortress in Veracruz was built by the Spanish in the 1500s and once protected the city from pirates.
What is San Juan de Ulúa?
This language spoken in northern Spain, including cities like Bilbao, is unusual because it’s not related to any other known language.
What is Basque?
In 1976, this company released a scent called “Eau de Burger” for April Fools’ Day, claiming you could smell like their signature sandwich. In 1976, this company released a scent called “Eau de Burger” for April Fools’ Day, claiming you could smell like their signature sandwich.
What is Burger King?
The point where a graph crosses the y-axis, often written as (0, b).
What is the y-intercept?
A triangle with all three sides of equal length.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This ancient Roman aqueduct in the city of Segovia is famous for its long row of arches and was built without any mortar.
What is the Aqueduct of Segovia?
Many school mottos and scientific names still use this ancient language, including words like tempus, meaning “time.”
What is Latin?
This Renaissance artist wrote thousands of pages of notes backward, readable only in a mirror.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
A linear equation written in the form y=mx+b is said to be in this form.
What is slope-intercept form?
A=πr2 gives the area of this shape.
What is a circle?
This walled city on Colombia’s Caribbean coast is known for its bright houses, cobblestone streets, and fortress walls.
What is Cartagena (or the Walled City of Cartagena)?
In the Andes, many people speak this Indigenous language related to Quechua; its speakers include communities in Bolivia, Peru, and northern Argentina.
What is Aymara?
This widely used academic symbol was invented by a 19-year-old mathematics student in 1525.
What is the radical sign (√) or square root?
The solution to the system of equations
y=2x+1
y=−x+7
(try using Desmos Graphing)
( 2, 5)
A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides.
What is a trapezoid?
Amazon explorers often visit this large Brazilian city, famous for its opera house built during the rubber boom.
What is Manaus (and the Amazon Theatre/Teatro Amazonas)?
This Indigenous language family includes dozens of regional varieties and is widely spoken in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
What is Zapotec?
In 1965, this rock band accidentally started a riot because they played their instruments through a massive speaker system meant for airports.
Who were The Beatles?
A quadratic equation can be solved using the formula
the expression under the square root has this name.
What is the discriminant?
In a right triangle, this theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the legs.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
Located in Santo Domingo, this cathedral is the oldest in the Americas and a major symbol of early Spanish settlement.
What is the Catedral Primada de América?
In the Dominican Republic, people speak Spanish with this distinctive style, which often drops the “s” at the end of words.
What is a Caribbean Spanish dialect (or Dominican Spanish)?
This U.S. president kept a pet alligator in the White House bathtub.
Who is John Quincy Adams