An "A" In Math
More Than One Meaning
Pier 5
Skip Class
The Movie's Cast
Stuff You Should Know
100
Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean
The Average
100
To cut, or a short segment of a movie or TV show
Clip
100
Seen here, South Africa's Umhlanga Pier has an archway named for this animal's bones
Whale
100
There's not just "one" strategy for this game, but a few, like discarding "wild draw 4" cards & using "reverse" & "skip" adeptly
Uno
100
2013, set in the 1840s & 1850s:
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender
12 Years A Slave
100
Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful
Parakeet
200
This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same
Associative
200
Happening at present, or something that's measured in amperes
Current
200
This ride on The Hague's pier in the resort district of Scheveningen is 50 meters tall with 36 air-conditioned gondolas
Ferris Wheel
200
Here's the skip lining up a shot in this icy sport
Curling
200
2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot
The Shape of Water
200
This pair surmised they had traveled 4,162 miles from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; pretty close, guys--only off by about 40 miles
Lewis & Clark
300
You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math
Algebra
300
The creator of a company, or to sink
founder
300
At over 1,000 feet in length, Myrtle Beach's Springmaid Pier is one of this state's longest
South Carolina
300
Skippy is a brand of this, available in Creamy & Super Chunk
Peanut Butter
300
1984:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver
Ghostbusters
300
High-tech trains like one in Shanghai eliminate most friction & get up to impressive speeds by using high-power these to levitate over the rails
Magnets
400
A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone
Apex
400
A substance applied to give a shine to a surface, or an explanation of a difficult passage in a text
A gloss
400
Brighton Palace Pier can be found on this body of water sometimes called "La Manche"
The English Channel
400
To survive outside of water, the fish called a mudskipper traps air in the chambers of these organs
Gills
400
2014:
Michael Keaton,
Edward Norton,
Emma Stone
Birdman
400
Making genetically identical offspring via a shared root system, a grove in Utah of the quaking species of this tree is considered one of the largest organisms in the world
Aspen
500
The wavy lines in the expression seen here stand for this
≈
Approximately
500
To complain, or a bird also known as the prairie chicken
grouse
500
A pier in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba is named for this American author who was known to fish in its waters
Hemingway
500
If it feels as if your heart has skipped a beat, you might have heart these, from the Latin for "throbbing"
Palpitations
500
1999:
Haley Joel Osment,
Bruce Willis
The Sixth Sense
500
n 2014, a so-called "hurricane" 600 miles wide arose in the ionosphere over the North Pole; the cyclone was composed of this substance dubbed "the 4th state of matter"
Plasma