Mind Blowers

ELA

100

Easy One! Question: What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"?

A metaphor

200

Question: Which of the following sentences contains a pronoun-antecedent agreement error?

• A) Every student must bring his or her laptop to class.
• B) The basketball team won its final game of the season.
• C) Somebody left their car keys on the cafeteria table.
• D) If a person wants to pass the test, they need to study.

C

300

Question: In the sentence, "The exhausted runners crossed the finish line," what grammatical term describes the word "exhausted", which is a verb form ending in "-ed" that is acting as an adjective?

Participle

400

Lucky You: 

• Question: What is the term for a sentence error that occurs when a writer puts two or more independent clauses together without any punctuation or conjunctions at all?

Run-on-Sentence

500

Hard one! 

• Question: In reading and writing, what is the term for the literal, exact dictionary definition of a word, as opposed to its emotional or cultural meanings?

Denotation

History and Geography

100

Boom!

• Question: What imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere?

The Equator

200

Skills to the test! 

• Question: What major geographic feature, consisting of a vast desert, acted as a natural barrier that protected Ancient Egypt from invaders to its west?

The Sahara Desert

300

Easy Geography: 

• Question: In geography, what type of map uses contour lines to show the elevation and physical shape of the land's surface?

Topographic Map

400

Tricky it is! 

• Question: What ancient Mesopotamia civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is credited with inventing the world's earliest writing system, cuneiform?

Sumer(Sumerians)

500

Confused! Question: What is the specific geographical term for a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and has water on both sides? Hint: 

Hint: It starts with "I", and Panama is a famous example that connects North and South America.

An isthmus

Science

100

Proud of Ms.Revanker? 

• Question: What is the center part of an atom that contains protons and neutrons?

A nucleus

200

Kept in deep memory. 

• Question: What type of rock is formed when magma or lava cools and solidifies?

The Igneous Rock

300

• Question: What are the tiny, specialized structures inside a cell, like mitochondria or vacuoles, that perform specific jobs? Hint: Read again

Organelles

400

You're kidding. 

• Question: What property of matter describes a substance's mass per unit of volume, determining whether it will sink or float in water?

Density

500

Remember? 

• Question: What is the scientific term for the gradual movement of the Earth's continents across the planet's surface over geological time?

Continental Drift

Math

100

Question: What is the value of the expression:    (-2)⁴ - 3 * (-5)

31

200

Question: A jacket normally costs x dollars. It is on sale for 25% off, and you must pay an additional 6% sales tax on the sale price. What single algebraic expression represents the final total cost? Hint:Decimal but not able to be entirely solved. 

(0.795x)

300

Question: If the ratio of x to y is 3:4, and the ratio of y to z is 5:6, what is the ratio of x to z in simplest form.

5:8

400

Solve for x in the inequality: -3(x-4)>18

x < -2

500

Question: A specific dataset has a mean of 14 and a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 2. If a new data point of 24 is added to the set, what happens to the mean absolute deviation? Wild Guess?

It increases

Riddles

100

Question: What disappers the second you say its name?

Silence

200

• Question: I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?

A map

300

Question: A man pushes his car to a hotel and immediately tells the owner that he is bankrupt. Why?

Because he is playing monopoly.

400

Question: Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?

Fire

500

Question: I am a word of five letters. If you remove my first letter, I sound exactly the same. If you remove my middle letter, I still sound exactly the same. What word am I?

Empty