George W. Bush
The election of 2000 came down to the popular vote in this one southern state.
What is Florida?
The number of elements on the periodic table.
What is 118?
Combining the root words for 'small' and 'sound', what common technology-related word do we have of Greek origin.
What is microphone?
a whole number; a number that is not a fraction
What is an Integer?
This event led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security:
What is 9/11?
These elements are at the bottom of the table.
What are actinides?
A Hindi/Persian word meaning the clothes we wear to bed.
What are Pajamas?
a numerical quantity that is not a whole number
What is a Fraction?
This is the name of the government in Afghanistan that sheltered al Qaeda after 9/11.
What is the Taliban?
The periodic table was originally created by this man.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
The Russian word that comes from the Latin 'Caesar' meaning emperor of Russia.
What is Czar?
a quantity representing the power to which a given number or expression is to be raised, usually expressed as a raised symbol beside the number or expression
What is an exponent?
Economic distress in this section of the economy was the primary cause of the Great Recession.
What is the housing market?
This was the first artificially produced element.
What is Technetium?
This word meaning 'remember' that is used in English to mean a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.
What is a Souvenir?
the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs
What is geometry?
This type of ballot used in Palm Beach County that was highly criticized due to its confusing nature.
What is the Butterfly Ballot?
This is the most expensive metal on the table.
What is Rhodium?
This word comes from the roots 'to join/together' and 'time.'
What is Contemporary?
the branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and properties of derivatives and integrals of functions, by methods originally based on the summation of infinitesimal differences
What is calculus?