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100
Words that have opposite meanings are referred to as being this.
What is an antonym?
100
This is the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
What is geometry?
100
This creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney, Australia.
What is the kangaroo?
100
This is the name of UWM's mascot.
Who is Pounce?
100
Hg, which is used on the periodic table, is the official abbreviation for this element.
What is mercury?
200
Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but with different meanings. [ex. bear (the animal) and bear (to carry) ]
What is a homonym?
200
The term used for an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees.
What is obtuse?
200
A trichina worm is most likely to make a home in this uncooked meat.
What is pork?
200
This degree program offered here at UW-Milwaukee is one of two in the whole state of Wisconsin.
What is the architecture program?
200
Havana is the capital city of what island country in the Caribbean?
What is Cuba?
300
This dramatic Charles Dickens story based in Paris and London during the Reign of Terror contains some of Dickens’ most memorable characters—Madame Defarge with her knitting and the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton.
What is "A Tale of Two Cities"?
300
This is the official name for the top number of a fraction.
What is the numerator?
300
This animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land.
What is a penguin?
300
There are approximately this many students who attend UW-Milwaukee. a. 20,000 b. 30,000 c. 40,000 d. 50,000
What is b. 30,000?
300
This 2000 film starring Denzel Washington as coach Herman Boone and Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier centers on the American football team of the newly integrated T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
What is "Remember the Titans"?
400
First published in Russian in 1866, this masterful psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky shows the horror and remorse of Raskolnikoff, a student, after he killed an old woman for her money.
What is "Crime and Punishment"?
400
This Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same in 530 B.C..
Who is Pythagoras?
400
This planet is the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon.
What is Venus?
400
The Golda Meir Library holds approximately ______ cataloged items. a. 2.5 million b. 3 million c. 4.5 million d. 6 million
What is c. 4.5 million ?
400
This major California city endorsed Ebonics as being it's own language.
What is Los Angeles?
500
This anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States -- even to go as far as to intensify the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
500
This mathematical symbol used by math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann was determined to be a transcendental number in 1882.
What is Pi (∏)?
500
This sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns
What is honey?
500
UW-Milwaukee was founded in this year when Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee joined together.
What is 1956?
500
This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?