Calculated Responses
Scientifically Speaking
The Art of English
Past Time
Potpourri
Mom I'm Playing Video Games!
200

The number of degrees in a circle.

360

200

The three states of matter.

Solid, liquid, and gas

200

This is a term for a word that describes the traits, qualities, or number of a noun.

An Adjective

200

This continent contains the country of India.

Asia

200

A key figure of the civil rights movement in the US, she refused to move her seat on a Montgomery bus.

Rosa Parks

200

A friend of Sonic and Tails who has very prominent metacarpophalangeal joints.

Knuckles

400

A math term that means the same as or equal to.

Equivalent

400

The planet with the most moons in our solar system.

Jupiter 

400

In the Harry Potter series, Harry's first wand is made from this type of wood.

Holly

400

This month celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January  

400

This US state is home to the infamous Area 51, a "secret" government testing facility.

Nevada

400

This is the year that Fortnite was released and the US witnessed a major solar eclipse.

2017

600

The top number of a fraction.

Numerator

600

The Earth layer made of molten metal.

The Outer Core 

600

Hints an author gives to help define an unknown word.

Context Clues 

600
Not only is this the capital of Egypt, but the Nile River also flows right through the center of this city.

Cairo

600

The number of bones that invertebrates have in their bodies.

None 

600

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This is the year that the first PlayStation was released.

1995

800

This letter represents light in the famous equation E=mc² that Albert Einstein created.

The letter C

800

The star nearest to the Earth.

Our Sun

800

A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to non-human entities.

Personification

800

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This ocean is the largest in the world.

Pacific Ocean

800

Arachnophobiai is a fear of this type of creature.

Spiders

800

This was the first console to have a 'Super Mario Kart' game.

The SNES

1000

A polygon that has six sides.

Hexagon

1000

Water in its solid form.

Ice

1000

The term for a person, place, thing or idea.

Noun

1000

This continent is home to Canada.

North America

1000

This is the amount of teeth that a typical adult has in their mouth.

32

1000
In this classic Windows PC game, players must clear the screen of all the mines.

Minesweeper

1200

A right angle contains this many degrees.

90 degrees

1200

DNA is formed into strands that arrange themselves in this type of shape.

A Double Helix

1200

In the series Percy Jackson, this is the name of Percy's mother.

Sally Jackson

1200

This is the name of the first successful English colony in America, founded in 1607.

Jamestown

1200

Birds will do this every year when the weather starts to get cold.

Migration

1200
This character is well known for her starring role in Metroid and as a playable character in Smash Bros.

Samus Aran

1500

A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a body or figure, especially a circle or sphere.

Diameter

1500

A series of organisms, each dependent on the next as a source of food.

Food Chain

1500

A figure of speech that compares to unalike things as in the phrase, "The Sun burns my eyes like hot sauce".

Simile

1500

This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (not to be confused with a pizza-loving turtle).

Michelangelo

1500

This occupation needs an extensive knowledge of atmospheric changes, air currents and what the word 'Cumulonimbus' means.

A meteorologist

1500

Link uses this musical instrument to access many different abilities in the 1998 Legend of Zelda game.

An Ocarina