Mad Science
The five senses that a human has.
What is sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing?
A discovery of this element that helped settle the territory of California in 1848.
What is gold?
This type of sentence identifies the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
One side of a square is 16 inches. The perimeter of the square would be ______________.
What is 64 inches?
When I was in 8th grade, it was cool to carry this portable radio around on your shoulder. It had a minimum of 2 speakers and the bigger, the better.
What is a boom box (or ghetto blaster)?
A triple beam scale measures this.
What is mass?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of our country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The three parts of an essay or paper.
What is introduction, body, and conclusion?
2x(6x8)=(2x6)x8 is an example of this property.
What is associative property of multiplication?
When I was in 8th grade, New Moon premiered. This hit movie featured these three main characters (first and last names, please).
Who is Bella Swan, Jacob Black, and Edward Cullen?
All elements that are known can be found on this table.
What is a periodic table?
The Shoshone guide that assisted Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
Over, under, and around are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
Matt has 10 red folders, 4 blue folders, 14 green folders, and 8 black folders on his shelf. The probability that he will randomly grab a black folder.
What is 2 in 9?
When I was in 8th grade, this Swiss watch was all the rage.
What is Swatch?
Sexual reproduction of cells is called this.
What is meiosis?
This famous document begins, "When in the course of human events...".
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in "I could sleep for a year."
What is a hyperbole?
The radius of a circle is 4mm so the circumference of the circle is this.
What is 25.12mm?
When I was in 8th grade, this team won their 27th World Series championship.
Who are the New York Yankees?
Three organelles that are found in every eukaryotic cell.
What is nucleus, mitochondria, lysosome, golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, and/or ribosome?
This compromise allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state and Missouri to enter as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is a book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
Bob is on a trip of 1,484 miles. He has already traveled 160 miles. He has 4 days left in his trip. The number of miles he needs to travel each day to complete his trip, traveling equal distance each of the remaining 4 days.
What is 331 miles per day?
When I was in 8th grade, in the late 70s, this "high tech" hand-held device began making math class much easier, if the teacher allowed such luxuries.
What is a calculator?