Maths
This value is the smallest positive prime number.
What is 2?
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Often referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle generates most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions.
What is the mitochondria?
This river flows through the heart of South America, making it the largest river in the world by discharge volume of water.
What is the Amazon River?
In basketball, this is the action of bouncing the ball continuously with one hand while walking or running.
What is dribbling?
The total sum of all the angles inside a triangle.
What is 180 degrees?
When a writer gives human qualities, emotions, or actions to non-human objects or animals.
What is personification?
This jelly-like substance fills the cell and holds the organelles in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
At 29,031 feet, this Himalayan peak is recognized as the highest point above sea level on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
A standard game of regulation soccer lasts for this many total minutes, excluding extra time.
What is 90 minutes?
The acronym used to remember the correct order of operations.
What is PEMDAS?
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point, such as "I have a million things to do today!"
What is hyperbole?
Unlike animal cells, plant cells have this rigid outer layer that provides both structural support and protection.
What is the cell wall?
Running for over 4,100 miles, this river flows north through Africa and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
In baseball, if the batter hits the ball and runs around all the bases in a single play to score, it is called this.
What is a home run?
It is defined as the longest chord in a circle.
What is the diameter?
The time and place in which a story's events unfold.
What is the setting?
This double-helix molecule serves as the primary carrier of genetic information in living organisms.
What is DNA?
This South American waterfall is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall.
What is Angel Falls?
This sport features players using a stick with a netted pocket to catch, carry, and pass a hard rubber ball.
What is lacrosse?
The sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting with 0 and 1.
The central message, moral, or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is the theme?
This major human organ filters blood, produces bile, and detoxifies chemicals.
What is the liver?
This country is unique because it is the only nation that is also an entire continent.
What is Australia?
In volleyball, this is the term used when a team spikes the ball and it immediately results in a point.
What is a kill?