Math
The temperature was -3 degrees Celsius and dropped by 9 degrees Celsius. This is the new temperature.
What is 12 degrees Celsius?
The process by which plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food (glucose) and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This famous phrase was commonly used by American colonists to protest British taxation.
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the year Hancock Day School was founded.
What is 1953?
The value of the expression 4(x-3) if x=5.
What is 8?
A large rotating storm system that forms over warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane (or typhoon)?
This famous abolitionist won the U.S. Presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This word type describes or modifies a noun or pronoun, often telling which one, how many, or what kind.
What is an adjective?
This school goal is about instilling values, knowledge, and skills to create an independent, self-reliant, lifelong learner.
What is Hancock Day School's Mission?
If a recipe calls for 3 cups of sugar for every 1 cup of strawberries, the number of cups of sugar needed for 7 cups of strawberries.
What is 21?
The small, rocky, and metallic objects that orbit the Sun, mostly located between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids (or the Asteroid Belt)?
The amount of money the U.S. paid Mexico for territory at the end of the Mexican-American War.
What is $15 million for the land and $3 million for debts?
The underlying message, central idea, or main lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
The total number of virtues that Hancock Day School emphasizes.
What is 8?
The name for a triangle that has three sides of different lengths.
What is a scalene triangle?
This layer of Earth is found between the crust and the outer core.
What is the mantle?
The primary difference between a direct democracy and an indirect democracy.
What is that direct democracies vote on every issue, while indirect democracies vote on representatives?
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
The month and day of Mr. Cargile's birthday.
What is January 7th?
The chance of rolling an even number on a standard six-sided die, expressed as a fraction in simplest form.
What is 1/2?
The relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed, such as a barnacle on a whale.
What is commensalism?
This ancient scholar is considered the founder of the study of history.
Who is Herodotus?
Using words like sizzle, pop, or cuckoo that imitate the natural sounds of what they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
The number of different sports offered at Hancock.
What is 11?