Science and Logic
This force keeps planets in orbit and gives weight to objects on earth
What is gravity?
A word that sounds like what it means, such as “buzz” or “clang.”
What is onomatopoeia?
This mammal is the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This country has the largest population in the world as of the 2020s.
What is India?
Which is heavier: a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of steel?
What is neither (they weigh the same)?
Water expands when it freezes because its molecules form this unusual structure.
What is a crystal lattice (or open hexagonal structure)?
The novel 1984 was written by this author.
Who is George Orwell?
Birds evolved from this group of animals.
What are dinosaurs?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the spread of information.
What is the printing press?
If a plane crashes on the border of two countries, where are the survivors buried?
Where is nowhere (you do not bury survivors)?
This part of the atom determines its chemical identity.
What is the number of protons?
This literary device involves giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
This animal can regenerate entire limbs and even parts of its heart and brain.
What is a salamander?
This organ uses electrical impulses to control the human body.
What is the brain?
This word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary.
What is “incorrectly”?
If you double the speed of an object, its kinetic energy increases by this factor.
Hint: Ek = 1/2 mv^2
What is four?
The term for a speech delivered by one character alone on stage
What is a soliloquy?
This process allows some animals to blend into their surroundings to avoid predators.
What is camouflage?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who were the Inca?
You have two coins that add up to 30 cents, and one is not a nickel. What are they?
What are a quarter and a nickel?
This law states that increasing the pressure of a gas while keeping temperature constant decreases its volume.
What is Boyle’s Law?
This Shakespeare play features the line “fair is foul and foul is fair”
What is Macbeth?
Despite the name, this animal is more closely related to horses than to oxen.
What is a rhinoceros?
This mathematical constant represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
The more of this you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?