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WHAT’S THAT WORD?
TECH & INNOVATION
100

The capital of France.

What is Paris?

100

This gas is essential for human respiration.

What is oxygen?

100

The U.S. declared independence in this year.

What is 1776?

100

A synonym for “happy” that starts with J.

What is joyful?

100

This term describes junk email that clutters your inbox.

What is spam?

200

The capital of Japan.

What is Tokyo?

200

Water boils at this temperature in Celsius.

What is 100°C?

200

This document begins with “We the People.”

What is the U.S. Constitution?

200

A word that means “occurring once every two years.”

What is biennial?

200

This app, known for disappearing messages, uses ghost imagery in its branding.

What is Snapchat?

300

This city is the capital of Canada.

What is Ottawa?

300

These are the building blocks of proteins.

What are amino acids?

300

The 16th president of the United States.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

The term for a word that’s spelled the same forward and backward.

What is a palindrome?

300

This everyday office file type uses the extension .PDF.

What is Portable Document Format?

400

The capital of Australia.

What is Canberra?

400

This planet has the shortest day in the solar system.

What is Jupiter?

400

This war was fought from 1861 to 1865.

What is the Civil War?

400

This word means “the opposite of what is expected, often for humorous effect.”

What is irony?

400

his device, introduced in the 1980s, revolutionized how we store data before USB drives.

What is a floppy disk?

500

This city is the capital of South Africa’s executive branch.

What is Pretoria?

500

This law explains how force equals mass times acceleration.

What is Newton’s Second Law?

500

She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.

Who is Rosa Parks?

500

The study of word origins.

What is etymology?

500

This type of online attack tricks people into giving up personal info by pretending to be legitimate.

What is phishing?