A populous human society that has agriculture, religion, architecture, family and political structures, art, educational systems, and a sophisticated written language.
What is an advanced civilization?
100
The answer to an addition problem.
What is the sum?
100
Concerned with the appreciation of beauty.
What is aesthetics?
100
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. Ex: It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
200
A proposition set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomenon.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Humans developed this annoying habit and important skill 50,000 years ago?
What is language?
200
Two lines that never intersect.
What are parallel lines?
200
Having mixed feelings.
What is ambivalent?
200
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is dialect?
300
A theory that deduces a cataclysmic birth of the universe from the observed expansion of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
300
The crime of betraying one's country.
What is treason?
300
The answer to a multiplication problem.
What is sum?
300
To prove false.
What is refute?
300
Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
What is jargon?
400
A unit of information equal to one billion bytes.
What is a gigabyte?
400
Out of many, one: the motto of the USA.
What is E Pluribus Unum?
400
Doubtful; disbelieving
What is skeptical?
400
Having great depth or insight.
What is profound?
400
A widely held but fixed and simplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is stereotype?
500
He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, as well as the practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or an event.
What is superstition?
500
They are measures of central tendency that describe where data are centered.
What is the mean, median, or mode?
500
A longing for the past.
What is nostalgia?
500
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.