Geography
This longest river in the world flows northward through Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
This punctuation mark, a curved line going from top to bottom, is used to show possession or to indicate missing letters in a contraction.
What is an Apostrophe?
The result of multiplying a number by itself, such as 9 for the number 3.
What is a Square?
Named after an ancient Roman deity, this is the largest planet in our solar system.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting of a woman with a mysterious smile is permanently housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Located in South America, this mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This common figure of speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
The name for a mathematical statement that shows two expressions are equal, typically separated by an equals sign.
What is an Equation?
This is the smallest fundamental unit of structure and function in a living organism.
What is a Cell?
This English playwright and poet is often called as the "Bard of Avon".
Who is William Shakespear?
This country in Southeast Asia is the world's largest archipelago and has more than 17,000 islands.
What is Indonesia?
The term for a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and spelling, like to, too, and two.
What is a Homophone?
In a right-angled triangle, this is the side opposite the 90-degree angle, and it is the longest side.
What is the Hypotenuse?
What is an Acid?
This famous clock tower, often mistakenly called as Big Ben, stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London.
What is the Elizabeth Tower?
Name the capital city of Australia, which intentionally inland and not Sydney or Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
In poetry, the deliberate repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck..."
What is Alliteration?
This branch of mathematics deals with the relations between the sides and angles of triangles, particularly right-angled triangles.
What is Trigonometry?
The unit used to measure electrical potential difference, named after an Italian physicist.
What is a Volt?
This 19th-century conflict between the North and the South began in 1861 and ended in 1865.
What is the American Civil War?
This is the name for the frozen layer of soil that remains permanently below freezing point for two or more years, common in Arctic regions like Siberia and Alaska.
What is Permafrost?
This literary device is a figure of speech that combines two words with contradictory meanings, such as "jumbo shrimp" or "bitter sweet".
What is an Oxymoron.
The name for a function whose graph is a straight line, and whose highest exponent is 1.
What is a Linear Function?
Stated by Newton, this law dictates that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is the Third Law of Motion?
Developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, this operating system kernel is the basis for Android and numerous other systems.
What is Linux?