English for Swifties
What two authors' books are referenced in the following line: "You were Romeo. I was a scarlet letter, and my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."
William Shakespeare & Nathaniel Hawthorne
How many elements are on the periodic table?
118
What is the formula to find the area of a triangle?
Area = 1/2 X b X h
In what year did the Civil War begin?
1861
A creature that eats its food by extending its stomach out of its mouth.
A starfish
What figure of speech is used in the following sentence: "You've got a smile that could light up this whole town."
Hyperbole
An autotroph
If an angle is smaller than 90 degrees it is considered:
Acute
Martin Luther King Jr. penned this letter which became the most important written document of the civil rights era.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
What is the capital of Iowa?
Des Moines
What grammatical error is present in the following sentence: "It's a love story, baby, just say yes!"
Comma Splice
A nonrenewable resource
Lilah's band had practiced 24 songs. At a performance, they played 7 songs in their first set and 8 songs in their second set. How many songs did they have left for their third set if they had to save one song for an encore?
8
Define apartheid.
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
A neurological phenomenon that causes an individual to see colors or shapes in response to hearing music.
Synesthesia
to join two related independent clauses.
The amount of land and water needed to supply a person or community with renewable resources and to absorb or recycle the wastes and pollution.
Ecological Footprint
Gregory's 9 chickens laid an average of 6 eggs per week. Gregory sold those eggs for $3 per dozen. How much money did he collect in two weeks if he sold all of his eggs?
$3
These indigenous American men used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield during World War II.
The Navajo Code Talkers
The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge has been lamented for ages. This archive was called...
The Great Library of Alexandria
What animated film sings a song about the appropriate use of conjunctions?
Schoolhouse Rock!
A small, horseshoe shaped solitary bone situated in the midline of the neck at the base of the mandible.
The Hyoid Bone
Factor by grouping: 3x2+6x+4x+8
(X+2)(3x+4)
This formidable naval weapon devastated trans-Atlantic shipping while sinking 8,000 merchant vessels and warships during World War I.
German U-Boats
Translate this sentence: "Aquellos eres zapatos nuevos chido"
"Those are cool new shoes."