English/Lit
This playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
A $50 shirt is 20% off. This is the sale price before tax.
What is $40?
This is the only continent located in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
In literature, a comparison using the words “like” or “as” is called this.
What is a simile?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This document, adopted in 1776, announced that the thirteen American colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the next number in the sequence: 3, 6, 12, 24, ___.
What is 48?
This artist painted The Persistence of Memory, famous for its melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
This classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This organ in the human body produces insulin and helps regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
If 3x + 5 = 20, this is the value of x.
What is 5?
This country has more natural lakes than any other country in the world.
What is Canada?
This term describes a word that imitates a sound, such as “buzz,” “boom,” or “hiss.”
What is onomatopoeia?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after striking an iceberg.
What is the Titanic?
A restaurant bill is $80. A 20% tip brings the total to this amount.
What is $96?
In Greek mythology, this Titan was condemned to hold up the heavens for eternity.
Who is Atlas?
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animals overthrow this human owner of Manor Farm.
Who is Mr. Jones?
With the chemical symbol W, this element has the highest melting point of all pure metals.
What is tungsten?
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
What is Pompeii?
A rectangle has an area of 120 square feet and a length of 15 feet. This is its perimeter.
What is 46 feet?
This is the smallest country in the world by land area.
What is Vatican City?