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What is the difference between a noun, a verb, and an adjective?
Noun: person/place/thing/idea; Verb: Action word; Adjective: Describing word
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
What is the process by which plants imbibe energy?
Photosynthesis
What does BIDMAS stand for?
Brackets/Indices/ Division/Multiplication/Addition/Subtraction
Mary Shelley, widely known as the first horror writer, authored which classic novel?
Frankenstein.
Name a similarity and a difference between samurai and ninjas.
While both were warriors in feudal Japan, samurai served a lord and ninjas were for-hire assassins.
What cell part is known as the "powerhouse of the cell"?
Mitochondria
2 and 3/4.
Name and define three literary devices.
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, etc.
In which country did fascism originate and under which dictator?
Italy under Benito Mussolini.
What does Galileo's "heliocentric" model of the solar system suggest?
The earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around.
What is 14 percent of 400?
56
Define the word "genre" and describe common features of any one literary genre.
Genre: category of literature; e.g. romance, dystopian, horror, etc.
Which event is widely considered to have started World War I?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is the difference between oceanic and continental crust?
What does the word "percent" literally mean?
For every hundred units.
Name one of the only two African countries that have never been colonized by Europeans.
Ethiopia and Liberia.
How many bones are in an adult human body?
206.
What is 9 x 1 x 9 x 1 x 9 + 45 + 46 - 3 x 1 x 0?
0