HIGH SCHOOL MATH
This theorem relates the squares of the two legs of a right triangle to the square of its hypotenuse.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This classic board game has players buy, sell, and trade real estate around a board, with the goal of bankrupting all opponents.
What is Monopoly?
Originally referring to a West African spiritual figure, this phrase now describes confusing, meaningless, or overly complicated language.
What is "mumbo jumbo"?
This narrative technique reveals a story's events out of chronological order, jumping backwards in time to provide context or backstory.
What is a flashback?
This compound, found naturally in coffee beans, is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance.
What is caffeine?
This irrational number, with an infinite and non-repeating sequence of decimal places, represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
This deduction game challenges players to solve a murder by identifying the culprit, weapon, and room using a mansion-themed board.
What is Clue?
This magic phrase is believed to have originated in the 1600s as mock Latin used by traveling entertainers, possibly parodying "hoc est corpus" ("this is the body") from the Catholic Mass.
What is "hocus pocus"?
This literary device involves giving human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human things, such as "the wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
This Italian word for coffee brewed by forcing pressurized hot water through finely-ground beans roughly translates to "pressed out"
What is espresso?
This branch of mathematics studies rates of change and the slopes of curves.
What is calculus?
This German-designed game, first published in 1995, revolutionized modern board gaming by having players build settlements and trade resources like wood, brick, and wheat on a hexagonal island.
What is Settlers of Catan?
This term describes the dense, jargon-heavy language used by lawyers, often criticized as needlessly hard for ordinary people to understand.
What is legalese?
This term refers to the underlying message or central idea an author explores throughout a work, such as love, betrayal, ect.
What is a theme?
This country is the world's largest producer of coffee, responsible for roughly a third of global supply.
What is Brazil?
A quadratic function when graphed, produces a U-shaped curve called this, and is typically written in the form y = ax² + bx + c
What is a parabola?
The Sicilian Defense, the Italian Game, and the Queen's gambit are all opening moves in this boardgame.
What is chess?
This term for deliberately unclear, wordy bureaucratic language was coined by a U.S. congressman in 1944, allegedly inspired by the sound of a turkey.
What is gobbledygook?
This literary device hints at events that haven't happened yet, building tension or anticipation for what's to come, like a storm brewing before a tragic scene.
What is foreshadowing?
This espresso-based drink is made by combining espresso with steamed milk and a layer of milk foam on top.
What is a cappuccino?
This trigonometric function represents the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse in a right triangle.
What is cosine (cos)?
This board, was originally denied a patent until the chief patent officer in D.C. asked the board to spell out his name, which it allegedly did.
What is a Ouija board?
This term describes speech or writing that sounds academic or technical but is actually meaningless or unintelligible, often used in Sci-fi or other fictional stories.
What is technobabble?
This term describes a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as," such as "brave as a lion."
What is a simile?
This brewing method involves steeping coarse coffee grounds in room-temperature or cold water for 12+ hours, resulting in a smoother, less acidic concentrate.
What is cold brew?