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This fundamental unit of matter contains positively charged protons and neutral neutrons in its nucleus.

What is an atom

200

He was the primary author of the U.S. Constitution and later served as the fourth president.

Who was James Madison

200

This is the value of 7 to the zero power.

What is 1

200

Originally released in 2011, this Swedish open-world survival game is officially the best-selling video game of all time, surpassing 300 million copies sold.

What is Minecraft

200

This literary term refers to the perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person omniscient.

What is point of view

400

In physics, this is the rate of change of velocity per unit of time.

What is acceleration

400

This 4,000-mile ancient trade route connected China to the Mediterranean world.

What is the Silk Road?


400

This mathematical term describes a number that cannot be written as a simple fraction, such as pi or the square root of 2.

What is an irrational number

400

This singer-songwriter won Album of the Year at the 2024 Grammys for Midnights, breaking the record for most wins in that category.

Who is Taylor Swift

400

This figure of speech attributes human characteristics to non-human things, like "the wind howled."

What is personification

600

This rock type forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies, like basalt or obsidian.

What is igneous rock

600

This global conflict between 1914 and 1918 was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

What is World War I

600

This theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

What is the Pythagorean theorem

600

This specific AI technology, launched by OpenAI, popularized large language models globally in late 2022.

What is ChatGPT

600

"He is as brave as a lion" is an example of this comparison device that uses "like" or "as."

What is a simile

800

This layer of Earth's atmosphere absorbs most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.

What is the ozone layer

800

This 1215 English charter limited the power of the king and established the principle that everyone is subject to the law.

What is the Magna Carta

800

If a fair six-sided die is rolled twice, these are the odds of rolling a 6 both times.

What is 1 in 36? (or 1/36)

800

This streaming platform, famous for livestreaming video games, was acquired by Amazon in 2014.

What is Twitch

800

This is the main character or "hero" of a story, who usually faces off against an antagonist.

What is a protagonist

1000

This specific type of cell division results in four daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.

What is meiosis

1000

This civilization flourished in Peru's Andes Mountains before being conquered by Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s.

Who were the Incas

1000

This is the slope of the line represented by the linear equation y = -3x + 8.

What is -3

1000

This open-world game series released its highly anticipated trailer for its sixth main installment, set in the fictional state of Leonida.

What is Grand Theft Auto

1000

Words like "boom," "buzz," and "hiss" that mimic real sounds are examples of this literary device.

What is onomatopoeia?