Science
This instrument is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This president appears on the $20 bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This is the number of inches in a yard.
What is 36?
This punctuation mark shows possession or a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
This Dutch painter created "The Starry Night."
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
These tall, towering clouds bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This Scottish inventor is credited with the first working telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This is 20% of 150.
What is 30?
This is the term for a word that has the same meaning as another.
What is a synonym?
Art made from small colored tiles or glass pieces is called this.
What is a mosaic?
This instrument measures air pressure and helps predict storms.
What is a barometer?
This city is considered holy by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
This is the volume of a cube with sides of 4.
What is 64?
This is the part of speech that describes a verb, often ending in "-ly."
What is an adverb?
This Spanish artist helped invent Cubism.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
A hurricane that forms in the western Pacific goes by this name instead.
What is a typhoon?
Velcro was inspired by this: tiny hooks on a plant that stuck to a dog's fur.
What are burrs?
This term describes the number that appears most often in a data set.
What is the mode?
This literary device repeats the same beginning sound, as in "Peter Piper picked."
What is alliteration?
This external stone support, used in Gothic cathedrals like Notre-Dame, arcs away from the wall to hold it up and allow for huge stained-glass windows.
What is a flying buttress?
This is the term for the boundary where two air masses of different temperatures meet.
What is a front?
Invented in 1907, this was the first fully synthetic plastic.
What is Bakelite?
A rectangle has a perimeter of 24 and a length of 8. This is its width.
What is 4?
This term describes the time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
This Paris museum is the most visited in the world.
What is the Louvre?