General Science
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This year marks the official end of World War II.
What is 1945?
A word that means the opposite of another word is called this.
What is an antonym?
An athlete runs 150 meters in 15 seconds. What is their average speed in meters per second?
What is 10 meters per second?
This concept describes the value of the next best alternative that is given up when a decision is made.
What is opportunity cost?
This scale is used to measure how acidic or basic a substance is.
What is the pH scale?
This lake borders the city of Ithaca and is the longest of New York’s Finger Lakes.
What is Cayuga Lake?
A study finds that people who sleep more tend to have higher GPAs. This relationship is best described as this.
What is correlation? (not causation)
What is 30 percent of 250?
What is 75?
This hospitality metric measures the average revenue earned per available room.
What is RevPAR?
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This ancient Chinese philosopher emphasized ethics, proper conduct, and respect for social hierarchy, shaping East Asian thought for centuries.
Who is Confucius?
A word that starts with an “A” that describes something that is open to more than one interpretation is this.
What is ambiguous?
If 3x − 9 = 15, what is x2 + 3?
What is 67?
This U.S. law guarantees workers the right to organize, bargain collectively, and engage in concerted activity.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This Canadian educator is credited with inventing the sport of basketball in 1891.
Who is James Naismith?
This type of reasoning uses logic and evidence rather than emotion to form conclusions.
What is rational reasoning?
A team wins 18 out of 24 games. What percentage of games did they win?
What is 75 percent?
This term refers to the interpretation and analysis of texts, artworks, or cultural artifacts.
What is criticism?
This type of electromagnetic radiation has a shorter wavelength than visible light and is responsible for sunburns.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
This West African empire became extremely wealthy through trade and is often associated with the reign of Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
What is a philistine?
What is a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
If the probability of winning a match is 0.6, what is the probability of losing two matches in a row?
What is 0.16?
This design principle emphasizes simplicity and removing unnecessary elements to improve clarity and function.
What is minimalism?