English
This part of speech can modify a verb or an adjective.
What is an adverb?
This characteristic of a linear function could be described as "rise over run."
What is the slope?
In 1492, this country funded Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas.
What is Spain?
This is the biological process of keeping internal conditions stable.
What is homeostasis?
Since 1953, this legendary trophy has been awarded to the winner of the Michigan State vs. Michigan rivalry football game.
What is the Paul Bunyan Trophy?
The main message or underlying idea that the author of a work wants you to think about, often about important topics such as human nature, life, or society.
What is the theme of a story?
The name of the geometric relationship a2 + b2 = c2.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
These two US presidents have each served non-consecutive terms in office.
Who are Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump?
Using rules for naming covalent compounds, this is the proper chemical name of water (H2O).
What is dihydrogen monoxide?
This is how long you can keep a book from the high school library before you need to renew.
What is two weeks?
This punctuation mark can separate two independent clauses without the use of a conjunction in a sentence.
What is a semicolon?
This is the shape formed by the graph of a quadratic equation.
What is a parabola?
Thomas Jefferson popularized this dish in the United States after encountering it in Europe. He wrote a recipe for it that still exists today.
What is macaroni and cheese?
This gland found in the brain regulates hormones throughout the entire body.
What is the pituitary gland?
These are the three secondary colors on a color wheel.
What are orange, green, and purple?
Often used to avoid ambiguity, this is the optional comma preceding the "and" in a list.
What is the Oxford comma?
The name for a polynomial with three terms.
What is a trinomial?
This person proposed the plan that would help to rebuild Europe post-WWII.
Who is US Secretary of State George C. Marshall?
This is the phase change where a gas turns directly into a solid.
What is sublimation?
This is how you ask "How are you?" in Spanish.
What is "Como Esta?"
This novel starts out with the famous line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
This is the total sum of the EXTERIOR angles of any polygon, in degrees.
What is 360 degrees?
This Louisiana governor and US senator didn't think FDR went far enough to meet the needs of Americans during the Great Depression. In 1935, he was assassinated while still a member of Congress.
Who is Huey Long?
The human eye can see the most shades of this color.
What is the color green?
This is what happens when you throw a piano down a mine shaft.
What is A flat minor? (It's a musical scale)