LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
This term describes a phrase not meant to be taken literally, like "it's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
This term describes the set of all possible output values of a function.
What is the range?
This prehistoric era is defined by the widespread use of stone tools, before humans developed metalworking.
What is the Stone Age?
This body of water separates the United Kingdom from mainland Europe
What is the English Channel?
This Egyptian sun god was considered king of the gods and was often shown with the head of a falcon.
Who is Ra?
This William Golding novel follows boys stranded on an island who descend into savagery.
What is Lord of the Flies?
This term describes a number that cannot be written as a simple fraction, like pi or the square root of 2.
What is an irrational number?
This Chinese philosopher's teachings on morality and respect for authority shaped East Asian culture for centuries.
Who is Confucius?
This is the only South American country where Portuguese is the official language.
What is Brazil?
This Greek king of the gods ruled from Mount Olympus and is known for wielding lightning bolts
Who is Zeus?
his term describes the emotional or implied meaning of a word, beyond its literal dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
This geometric transformation flips a shape over a line to create a mirror image.
What is a reflection?
This 1955 act of defiance, refusing to give up a bus seat, helped spark the American civil rights movement.
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Rosa Parks?
This African country is the continent's most populous and home to the city of Lagos.
What is Nigeria?
This one-eyed giant from Greek mythology was outwitted and blinded by Odysseus.
What is a Cyclops/Polyphemus?
This author wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia," beginning with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
Who is C.S. Lewis?
This statistical measure describes how spread out a data set is from its mean.
What is standard deviation?
This ancient wonder was a massive statue of the sun god Helios that once stood at the harbor entrance of a Greek island.
What is the Colossus of Rhodes?
This Scandinavian country is known for its dramatic fjords and the "midnight sun" phenomenon during summer months.
What is Norway?
This Norse mythological event describes a prophesied apocalyptic battle that leads to the world's destruction and rebirth.
What is Ragnarok?
This 14-line poetic form, often written in iambic pentameter, was popularized by Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
This branch of math studies shape properties that survive stretching or twisting, without tearing or gluing.
What is topology?
This 1914 assassination in Sarajevo is widely considered the spark that ignited World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This East African geological trench stretches over 4,000 miles and is linked to volcanic activity and early human fossils.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This Hindu deity, often depicted with an elephant head, is worshipped as the remover of obstacles.
Who is Ganesha?