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This ancient Greek is known for his work in numbers and ratios, and his “theorem” about right triangles.
Pythagoras
What US state is known as the sunshine state?
Florida
I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old What am I
A candle
This process allows plants to turn sunlight into energy.
Photosynthesis
This writing system used by ancient Egyptians included picture like symbols.
Hieroglyphics
This ancient civilization used abacuses for calculations and had one of the earliest written numeral systems.
China
What is the worlds’ largest ocean?
The pacific
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away, how many does he have left?
9
There are many different colored lasers but this one is the strongest.
Blue laser
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu high in the mountains of South America
The Incas
This Greek mathematician wrote about prime numbers and made contributions to number theory.
Euclid
This capital city sits on the River Thames.
London
A rooster lays an egg on the top of a barn roof, which way does the egg roll off?
roosters don’t lay eggs
What material was used to keep the wall of china together for many years?
Sticky rice
This early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is often called the “cradle of civilization.”
Mesopotamia
This civilization used a base-60 number system, which is why we have 60 minutes in an hour.
Babylon
This country has the most natural lakes in the world.
Canada
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
In physics, this is the measure of an object’s resistance to changes in motion.
Inertia
This ancient society is known for inventing democracy in the city of Athens
Ancient Greece
He studied planetary motion and also made advances in mathematical tables for astronomy
Johannes Kepler
This African lake is the largest by surface area on the continent.
Lake Victoria
There are three switches outside a room and one light bulb inside. You can only enter the room once and only one light switch controls the bulb. How can you determine which switch controls the bulb?
Flip the first switch, wait ten minutes then turn it off and flip the second switch. Then go into the room and feel the bulb, if it is on then it was the second switch. If it is off then feel the bulb and if the bulb is hot you know it was the first switch, but if it is cold it is the third switch.
The SI unit of electric current is named after this Italian physicist.
the ampere
This famous Roman leader was assassinated in 44 BCE
Julius caeser