Mixed Grammatical Knowledge
This word means “a change for the better.”
What is improvement?
This country borders both Spain and Germany.
This movie features the line, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
What is Forrest Gump?
This planet has the most moons.
What is Saturn?
This word means “fear of confined spaces.”
What is claustrophobia?
This holiday marks the end of World War I.
What is Veterans Day?
This punctuation mark indicates possession or a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
This U.S. state has the longest coastline.
What is Alaska?
This actor played the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Who is Heath Ledger?
This element has the chemical symbol Fe.
What is iron?
This word describes a false but widely accepted belief.
What is a misconception?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who are the Incas?
This unit is used to measure electrical resistance.
What is an ohm?
his river forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is The Rio Grande?
This TV show is set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
What is Parks and Recreation?
This part of the brain controls balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This word comes from Greek meaning “love of wisdom.”
What is philosophy?
This document formally ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This term describes the study of human populations.
What is demography?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia.
What is Ethiopia?
This movie won Best Picture in 2001.
What is Gladiator?
This scale measures earthquake intensity.
What is the Richter scale?
This term means speaking two languages fluently.
What is bilingual?
This U.S. president resigned from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This word refers to an exact copy of something.
What is a replica?
This European capital sits on the River Danube.
What is Budapest?
This long-running TV show features the character Olivia Benson.
What is Law & Order: SVU?
This process turns liquid into gas.
What is evaporation?
This word describes something that happens every two years.
What is biennial?
This empire was ruled by Julius Caesar.
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
This director is known for Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
This blood type is known as the universal donor.
What is O negative?
This word means to officially cancel or abolish.
What is repeal?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This word means “brief and to the point.”
What is concise?
This Asian country was formerly called Siam.
What is Thailand?
This TV show popularized the phrase “Winter is coming.”
What is Game of Thrones?
This organ detoxifies chemicals in the human body.
What is the liver?
This word describes excessive pride in oneself.
What is arrogance?
This ancient code of laws was created by a Babylonian king.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This Latin phrase means “in its original place.”
What is in situ?
This sea separates Europe from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This actor played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings.
Who is Ian McKellen?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This term refers to a word that sounds like what it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
This war was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
This term describes something that undermines authority or order.
What is subversive?
This country has the most volcanoes in the world.
What is Indonesia?
This film holds the record for most Oscar wins (11).
What is Titanic? (also acceptable: Ben-Hur or Return of the King)
This term describes animals that regulate their own body temperature.
What are endotherms?
This Latin phrase means “for this purpose only.”
What is ad hoc?
This queen ruled England during the Spanish Armada.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?