Mixed Knowledge
This term refers to a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homophone?
This type of number system uses only 0s and 1s.
What is binary?
This U.S. document begins with “We the People.”
What is the Constitution?
This term refers to animals that eat both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
This movie features a park filled with cloned dinosaurs.
What is Jurassic Park?
The smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties.
What is an atom?
The unit used to measure electrical current.
What is an ampere?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States but raised constitutional concerns for Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the shedding of antlers by deer.
What is casting?
This character says, “I am Iron Man.”
Who is Tony Stark?
This math term describes a number that can only be divided by 1 and itself.
What is a prime number?
This law states that voltage equals current times resistance.
What is Ohm’s Law?
This 1863 battle is widely considered the turning point of the American Civil War and resulted in the largest number of casualties in the conflict.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This survival rule suggests you can survive about 3 days without this.
What is water?
This director is known for films like Inception and The Dark Knight.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This branch of math deals with shapes, sizes, and properties of space.
What is geometry?
This simple machine consists of a wheel with a groove for a rope.
What is a pulley?
This explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth (expedition).
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Animals most active at dawn and dusk are called this.
What is crepuscular?
This is the fictional metal bonded to Wolverine’s skeleton.
What is adamantium?
This is the term for a number written as the product of its prime factors.
What is prime factorization?
This principle states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is the term for animals that chew cud and have a four-chambered stomach.
What are ruminants?
This is the highest-grossing film of all time (not adjusted for inflation).
What is Avatar?