Mental Math
What is the area of a triangle that has a base of 2 inches and height of 3 feet?
What is 36in or 3ft
Which player holds the record for the most points scored in a single NBA game?
Wilt Chamberlain, with 100 points.
What does the atomic symbol O stand for?
What is Oxygen?
Which quarterback holds the record for the most Super Bowl victories?
Tom Brady with 7.
In the sentence, "The cat's fur was as white as snow," what poetic device is used?
Simile.
What is the surface area of a rectangular prism if the length is 2ft, the width is 3in, and the height is 4in
What is 52in
Which player holds the record for the most rebounds in a single NBA game?
Wilt Chamberlain, with 55 rebounds.
What does the atomic symbol Ti stand for?
What is Titanium?
Which player holds the record for the most career rushing yards in NFL history?
Emmitt Smith with 18,355 career rushing yards.
Identify the poetic device in the phrase, "The wind howled a lonely song."
What is personification?
What is Side A of a right triangle if Side b is 2ft and Side C is 10.2ft
Only two players have recorded 15 or more triple-doubles in the NBA Playoffs. Besides LeBron James, who is the other player?
Magic Johnson, who holds the record with 30 playoff triple-doubles.
What is the atomic symbol for Thallium?
What is Tl?
Only two players in NFL history have recorded multiple seasons with 2,000 or more rushing yards. Besides Adrian Peterson, who is the other player?
Eric Dickerson.
What poetic device is used in the line, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?"
Alliteration.
What is the Volume of a Cylinder if the Radius is 2 feet and the height is 3 inches? (For Pie, use 3.14 and round your answer to the nearest tenth and give me the measurement in feet)
What is 5428.67?
Wilt Chamberlain holds the record for most total points in a single NBA season. In which season did he achieve this record, and how many points did he score?
Wilt Chamberlain scored 4,029 points in the 1961-1962 NBA season.
What is the atomic symbol for Rhodium?
What is Rh?
Which wide receiver set the NFL record for most receiving yards in a single game?
Flipper Anderson with 336 receiving yards for the Los Angeles Rams in 1989
In the excerpt, "But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, / So far from cheer and from your former state, / That I distrust you," from Shakespeare's Hamlet, what poetic device is the consistent rhythm and lack of rhyme?
Blank Verse.
Find the height of a cone if the volume is about 183.26in and the Radius is 5ft, what is the height of the cone?
What is 7ft?
Excluding Bill Russell, who has won the second most NBA championships as a player?
Sam Jones, with 10 NBA championships.
What is the atomic symbol of Antimony?
What is Sb?
How many players in NFL history have won at least three MVP awards?
Six players have won at least three MVP awards: Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers.
The line, "O death, be not proud," from John Donne's Holy Sonnet X, addresses an abstract concept directly. What is this literary device?
Apostrophe. This is a poetic device where a speaker directly addresses a person (dead or absent), an abstract idea (like death or love), or an inanimate object.