ACT Vocabulary
English
Video Games
Music
World History
100

What word means to be in conflict with?

Contradict

100

What is a adjective?

A word that describes a noun.

100

Did the Nintendo 64 come out before or after the Nintendo GameCube?

Before

100

What band is the member Slash in?

Guns N' Roses

100

What was the exact date that the United States declared independence?

July 2, 1776

200

What word means logical and consistent?

Coherent

200

Is this a complete sentence or a fragment?

Jonathan saw.

Complete sentence

200

What year did the first Super Mario Bros come out?

1985

200

Which band made the song "Fortunate Son"?

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)

200

What year did Alaska become part of the United States?

1959

300

What word means mysterious or secret?

Arcane

300

When do you use a semicolon?

To join two related independent clauses in place of a comma and a coordinating conjunction.

300

What year did the first Call of Duty come out?

2003

300

About how many keys are on a standard traditional piano?

88 keys

300

What year did the French Revolution begin?

1789

400

What word means to be extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world?

Ethereal

400

What are homophones?

Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings

400

What year did Minecraft come out on the Xbox 360?

2012

400

Which composer made the song "The Lark Ascending"?

Ralph Vaughan Williams

400

What was the name of the duke who got assassinated that lead to the chain of events that started WW1?

Franz Ferdinand

500

What word means increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions?

Incremental

500

What is an indirect object in a sentence?

A noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb, but is not the primary object

500

How long did it take Bethesda to make Elder Scrolls: Skyrim after Elder Scrolls: Oblivion?

6 years

500

What era did the Russian composer Tchaikovsky live in?

The Romantic era

500

What year did the dissolution of the Soviet Union happen?

1991