Mathematics
This 6th-century BC philosopher is credited with a famous theorem relating the lengths of the sides of right triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
This brachial bone shares a name with a characteristic feature in geometry and trigonometry.
What is Radius?
This word is used to describe the entire family tree (or trees) of gods in Roman and Greek polytheistic religions.
What is Pantheon?
This is the name given to a sentence without a subject or a verb.
What is a Sentence Fragment?
This is an essential step in clay joinery, using a sharp object to cut grooves into each surface you intend to put together.
What is Scoring?
This foreign language letter represents either a sum of a sequence if capitalized or the standard deviation of a set of data if lower case.
What is Sigma?
This is the name given to a bond between two atoms that is formed using outer layer electrons.
What is a Covalent Bond?
This mountain range geographically separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This is a creative writing method where an inanimate object or animal is given human characteristics, motivations, or emotions.
What is Personification?
The HTML at the end of most internet links and URLs actually stands for this coding reference.
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
This type of function is characterized by an input variable raised to the second power.
What is a Quadratic?
This is considered to be the weakest of the three fundamental forces. It is also the only one of the fundamental forces without positive or negative signs attached to it.
What is Gravity?
Originally the name of a hotel, this compound word has now become shorthand for scandals of all kinds.
What is Watergate?
Stories like The Lottery by Shirley Jackson are filled with this literary device, wherein an author gives subtle clues that point to plot developments later.
What is Foreshadowing?
These kinds of verbs experience changes to their root structure when conjugated in specific tenses and contexts.
What are Stem-Changing Verbs?
This foreign language letter represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is Pi?
What is Adenosine Triphosphate?
It was in July of this year that the National Aeronautic and Space Administration - or NASA - successfully landed men on the moon for the first time.
What is 1969?
In Hamlet, the titular hero has a soliloquy in which he ponders "To be or not to be," both of which are examples of a verb in this un-conjugated form.
What is an Infinitive?
This part of a car converts its mechanical energy into electrical energy, maintaining the charge of the car's battery while it runs.
What is the Alternator?
This familiar mathematics topic finds its roots in the Arabic language for "to fix what is broken."
What is Algebra?
This phenomenon is often given the misnomer "centrifugal force" for an object on a circular path. In reality, this is not a force at all, and "centrifugal force" does not exist.
What is Inertia?
The lands surrounding this French river marked a "point of no return" for the European nations' appeasement of Adolf Hitler's expansionist conquest.
What is the Rhine?
This is a literary device by which an author compares a real-world phenomenon to the characters, plot, or themes of their work.
What is Allegory?
This notation in music suggests that the performer play the music in an especially quiet or soft manner.
What is Pianissimo?