History
Who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
What scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes?
The Richter scale
What is the name of a bubbling sound in lungs?
Rales
Which part of speech is “quickly”?
Adverb
Is Earth's rotation gradually slowing or getting faster?
Slowing
This spanish colonizer made contact with the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés
What is the theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion stops?
Absolute 0
The carpals are located in the
Wrist
What is the term for the position of words in a sentence (subject, verb, object)?
Syntax
What is the oldest college in the US?
Harvard
Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
Hippocrates
Which enzyme unzips DNA during replication?
Helicase
The right atrium sends blood to the
Right Ventricle
What is an idiom in the English language?
A phrase whose meaning is different from the literal interpretation (e.g.kick the bucket)
Who was a crucial interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Sacagawea
This name was given to the congress that re-shaped Europe after the Napoleonic wars
Congress of Vienna
What is the term for the programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms?
Apoptosis
The bone on the thumb-side of the forearm is the:
Radius
What does “subject-verb agreement” mean in English?
It means that the subject and verb in a sentence must agree in number. (e.g.The dog barks' is correct because "dog" is singular and "barks" is the singular verb form)
Were playing cards invented in Europe, Asia, or Africa?
Asia
This U.S. state was created during the U.S. civil war
West Virginia
What molecule carries amino acids to the ribosome during protein synthesis?
tRNA
The prefix phlebo means?
Vein
What is an example of a coordinating conjunction?
And, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
What do you call a baby owl?
Owlet