Words From A Hat
The slope is a value that tells us the _ and _ of a line.
What are direction and steepness?
Alternately: What is rise and run?
What is the standard form?
Find the slope of a line that crosses the points (1, 1) and (3, 2).
What is m = 1/2?
"Glen Coco? Four for you, Glen Coco! You go, Glen Coco!"
This 2004 American teen-comedy film was written by SNL veteran and 30 Rock star, Tina Fey.
What is Mean Girls (2004)?
An intercept is where the graph crosses either the x or y-axis. Therefore, which of the following must be true?
(A) An x-intercept must have an x-coordinate of 0 and a y-intercept must have a y-coordinate of 0.
(B) An x-intercept must have a y-coordinate of 0 and a y-intercept must have an x-coordinate of 0.
What is (B)?
Which of the following lines are in slope-intercept form?
(A) y - 3 = x
(B) y = x
(C) 2x - 3 = y
(D) 3y = 4 - x
What are (B) and (C)?
Give an equation of a line which includes the point (0, -1) and has a slope of 3.
What is y = 3x - 1?
Identify the character who appears mid-credits during Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) declaring, "Fine, I'll do it myself."
This quote has seen recent traction as a TikTok trend audio.
Who is Thanos?
Describe the difference between a point and a line.
Any explanation variation of "a point is a specific location in space and a line is a straight object made up an infinite number of points."
Which of the following lines have a slope of -3?
(A) y = 2x - 3
(B) y = -3x + 2
(C) y = 3(x - 2)
(D) y - 2 = -3(x + 1)
What are (B) and (D)?
Give an equation of a line which includes the point (1, 4) and has a slope of 4.
What is y = 4x?
For 150 points, accept "What is y - 4 = 4(x - 1)?"
"If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff."
This 2007 Disney/Pixar film was the subject of a fully crowdsourced TikTok musical of the same name.
What is Ratatouille (2007)?
How does the sign on the slope change the appearance of the line?
What is the direction?
Any variation of: positive slope shows an increase over time (upward movement), negative slope shows a decrease of time (downward movement).
The x-axis is an example of a _ line, which are known to have a slope of 0.
What is a horizontal line?
Give an equation of a line which includes the points (2, 4) and (3, 7).
What is y = 3x - 2?
Double Jeopardy! For 800 points,
"I'm having an old friend over for dinner."
This 1991 film is the only horror movie Academy Award Best Picture winner and only one of six of that genre nominated in that category.
What is The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
Half-credit (400 points) for any iteration of Hannibal the Cannibal.
Which point on the coordinate plane (xy-plane) is both the x and y-intercept?
What is the origin? What is (0, 0)?
What is x = (any constant value here)?
Give an example of a line that has a slope of 1/3.
What is y = (1/3)x + (any constant value)?
Name the original or tribute source of the following quote: "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe."
Both characters from the original and the tribute source were portrayed by New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison who gained international recognition for those roles and is also known to recent audiences as the voice of Chief Tui, the father of Disney's Moana, and his portrayal of Thomas Curry, the father of Aquaman.
What is Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2005)? Temuera Morrison as Jango Fett.
Or, What is The Mandalorian (S02E06)? "I'm a simple man making his way through the galaxy, like my father before me" Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett.