Mr. DeMers
This is the term for a polygon with exactly five sides.
What is a polygan?
This part of speech replaces a noun; examples include he, she, it, and they.
What is a pronoun?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing north through northeastern Africa and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
These are the three primary colors on the color wheel that cannot be created by mixing any other colors together.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
This 10-letter word is the specific term for the fear of long words—ironically making it one of the longest words in the dictionary.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
This state of matter has a definite volume but takes the shape of whatever container it is poured into.
What is a liquid?
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without using a conjunction like and or but.
What is a semicolon?
This famous American colonist and silversmith made a midnight ride in 1775 to warn the Massachusetts militia that the British were coming.
Who was Paul Revere?
Invented in America in the 19th century, this sport is traditionally played with nine players on a field, four bases, and is often called "America's Pastime."
What is baseball?
Named after a 19th-century mathematician, this visual paradox features a single continuous strip of paper with only one side and one edge.
What is a Möbius strip?
In the water cycle, this is the process where liquid water heats up and changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings—like their, there, and they're—are called this.
What are homophones?
This creed was written at the Council of Nicaea.
What is the Nicaean Creed?
In Spanish, this punctuation mark must be placed at the very beginning of a question, a rule that doesn't exist in English.
What is an upside-down (or inverted) question mark? (¿)
In the popular indie game Minecraft, you need to combine lava and a water source block to create this dark, blast-resistant volcanic glass.
What is obsidian? (Geologists know it as cooled lava, but middle schoolers know it as the block used to build a Nether Portal).
In a food web, these organisms, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead organic matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
In a story's plot structure, this is the turning point or the moment of highest tension and drama.
What is a climax?
This is a trip people will take to religious places.
What is a pilgrimage?
This famous 16th-century Italian artist and inventor spent four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back on scaffolding. He is not a turtle from the sewer.
Who was Michelangelo?
This is the specific biological name for the immortal "water bears"—microscopic, eight-legged animals famous for surviving the vacuum of outer space.
What are tardigrades?
Marcus is 4 years older than twice his little brother's age. If Marcus is 14 years old, this is his little brother's age.
What is 5 years old? (Setting up the equation $2x + 4 = 14$ gives $2x = 10$, so $x = 5$)
Elijah's parents and neighbors frequently use this hyphenated word to describe him because he is sensitive and easily scared.
What is "fra-gile"?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, helping to spark the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Rosa Parks?
This is the English translation of the common Spanish infinitive verb hablar.
What is "to speak" (or "to talk")?
If you are visiting the ocean floor, you might run into this incredibly deep-dwelling cephalopod named after a Disney elephant due to its ear-like fins.
What is the Dumbo octopus?