history
The century in which Christopher Columbus reached the Americas.
15th century (1492)
The part of the atom that has no electric charge.
Neutron
The number of players in a basketball team on the court.
5
The global system that connects millions of computers worldwide.
Internet
A word in English that has the same meaning as another word.
Synonyms
The empire ruled by Genghis Khan.
The Mongol Empire
The scientist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The country where the Olympic Games originated.
Greece
The programming term for a mistake in code.
Bug
In French, the phrase “Comment ça va ?” means what?
How are you?
The event that started World War I in 1914.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The chemical bond formed when atoms share electrons.
Covalent bond
The only Grand Slam played on clay courts.
Roland Garros (French Open)
The type of intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
AI
¡In German, the verb gehen means this in English.
Go
The political system in which a dictator controls every aspect of life.
Totalitarianism
The organ system responsible for producing hormones.
Endocrine system
The term for an illegal move in football/soccer when attacking players move ahead of the last defender.
Offside
The device that interprets and carries out computer instructions.
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
The term for a word borrowed from another language (e.g., croissant, fiesta).
Loan word
The 20th-century conflict symbolized by the division of Berlin.
The Cold War
The physics law stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
The Law of Conservation of Energy
The sport that combines swimming, cycling, and running.
Triathlon
The technology that uses distributed ledgers to record transactions (used in cryptocurrencies).
Block chain
In English grammar, the -ing form used as a noun is called what?
Gerund