MATH
What is the value of x in: 2x + 6 = 14?
What is x = 4?
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or to form contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This wall, built to separate East and West Germany, fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 6 cm.
What is 30 cm²?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere and is represented by the symbol N₂.
What is Nitrogen?
Shakespeare wrote this famous play about a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father's murder.
What is Hamlet?
This ancient wonder, built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu, is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This South American country is home to the Amazon Rainforest and has Brasília as its capital.
What is Brazil?
Solve for x: x² - 5x + 6 = 0. Give both solutions.
What is x = 2 and x = 3?
Newton's second law: Force equals this quantity multiplied by acceleration (F = ma).
What is mass?
This literary device gives human qualities to non-human objects or ideas (e.g., "The wind whispered through the trees").
What is personification?
This 1215 document, signed by King John of England, is considered a cornerstone of democracy and limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This imaginary line at 0° longitude running through Greenwich, England, divides Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Find the derivative of f(x) = 3x³ + 5x² - 2x + 7.
What is f'(x) = 9x² + 10x - 2?
In genetics, this type of inheritance occurs when neither allele is completely dominant, resulting in a blended phenotype in the heterozygote.
What is incomplete dominance?
In George Orwell's "1984," this is the name of the all-controlling government entity that watches citizens constantly.
Who/What is Big Brother?
This 1919 treaty formally ended World War I and imposed harsh reparations on Germany, contributing to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This geological process occurs when tectonic plates collide and one plate is forced beneath the other into the mantle.
What is subduction?
Evaluate the definite integral: ∫₀² (3x² + 2x) dx
What is 12?
This law of thermodynamics states that total entropy of an isolated system always increases, and is called the "arrow of time."
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," pilgrims travel to Canterbury to visit the shrine of this martyred Archbishop.
Who is Thomas Becket?
This Cold War foreign policy doctrine, articulated by President Truman in 1947, pledged U.S. support to nations threatened by communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Halford Mackinder's 1904 geopolitical theory argued that whoever controlled this central region of Eurasia could dominate the world.
What is the Heartland (or the Pivot Area)?