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• Geography: AdvancedAbout 250 questions Senior high school and first-year college geography: plate tectonics, landforms, climate systems, biomes, oceans, human geography, map skills and time zones, countries and regions, straits and islands, Canada and the US.
• Geography: BasicAbout 100 questions The world map we learned in school: continents, oceans, countries and capitals, famous landmarks, map skills and climate zones.
• Geography: ExpertAbout 250 questions Hard geography for keen learners and quiz players: lesser-known capitals, enclaves, straits and canals, island groups, rivers, lakes, peaks, deserts, extremes, old place names, geology terms and map-making.
• Geography: IntermediateAbout 100 questions High school geography: capitals and their rivers, mountain ranges, deserts, borders, population and area, time zones, and Canada and the US.
• Grammar: AdvancedAbout 37 questions The finer points: who and whom, lie and lay, I and me, tricky agreement, the subjunctive, dangling modifiers, parallel structure, and naming the tenses.
• Grammar: BasicAbout 130 questions The building blocks: nouns, verbs and adjectives, plurals, past tenses, a or an, and making the subject and verb agree.
• Grammar: ExpertAbout 39 questions Grammar for word nerds: old rules that aren't really rules, words that are often misused, tricky verb forms, and the terms grammarians use.
• Grammar: IntermediateAbout 120 questions The mix ups everyone makes: there, their and they're, your and you're, its and it's, then and than, affect and effect, fewer and less, good and well, and comparing things.
• Idioms and ExpressionsAbout 250 questions Practice with common idioms, proverbs, similes and figures of speech, plus idioms about food, animals, weather, the body and money. Also covers documented expression origins and Shakespeare and Bible phrases in everyday speech.
• Math: AdvancedAbout 56 questions Exponents and square roots, two step equations, percent change, interest, circles, the Pythagorean theorem, averages and probability.
• Math: BasicAbout 160 questions Everyday arithmetic: adding, subtracting, times tables, simple division, money, time and quick word problems.
• Math: ExpertAbout 60 questions For the math lovers: quadratics, logarithms, factorials and combinations, sequences and series, simple calculus, trig values, number theory and famous math facts.
• Math: IntermediateAbout 170 questions Fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers, the order of operations, simple equations, and the area and perimeter of shapes.
• Punctuation: AdvancedAbout 28 questions The Oxford comma, which versus that, comma splices, semicolons in lists, tricky possessives, ellipses and brackets, and how to write titles.
• Punctuation: BasicAbout 120 questions The basics: periods, question marks and exclamation marks, capital letters, commas in lists, apostrophes in short forms like don't, and quotation marks for speech.
• Punctuation: ExpertAbout 34 questions Marks you rarely see and their names, where punctuation came from, how other languages punctuate, and the fine print that editors argue about.
• Punctuation: IntermediateAbout 110 questions Apostrophes that show ownership, commas that save lives, colons and semicolons, punctuation inside quotes, and hyphens in describing words.
• Reading and Literature TermsAbout 250 questions Literary devices, story parts, genres, poetry terms, figurative language, reading skills, parts of a book, and the classic books, authors and myths students meet from elementary school through senior high.
• Science: AdvancedAbout 250 questions Senior high school and first-year college science: bonding, reactions, acids and bases, organic chemistry, genetics, evolution, cell processes, physiology, ecology, mechanics, waves, electricity, modern physics, earth science and astronomy.
• Science: BasicAbout 110 questions Elementary school science: the human body, plants and animals, states of matter, weather, the solar system, forces and energy, and simple chemistry.
• Science: ExpertAbout 250 questions Hard science for keen learners and quiz players: scientists and discoveries, named laws and effects, elements, cell biology, genetics, quantum and relativity, astronomy, geology, units, famous experiments, and the history of science.
• Science: IntermediateAbout 110 questions High school science: cells, genetics basics, the periodic table, physics units and laws, ecosystems, earth science, and light and sound.
• Spelling: AdvancedAbout 51 questions Double letters and odd endings: accommodate, embarrass, millennium, supersede and other words that trip up good spellers.
• Spelling: BasicAbout 140 questions Everyday words that are easy to mix up: silent letters, tricky vowel pairs and words that sound one way and look another.
• Spelling: ExpertAbout 46 questions Spelling bee territory: words from Greek, French and other languages, like onomatopoeia, connoisseur and ophthalmologist.
• Spelling: IntermediateAbout 140 questions The words people misspell all the time, like separate, definitely and necessary, with a memory trick for each.
• Vocabulary: AdvancedAbout 250 questions Senior high school and college entrance level words: meanings, synonyms and antonyms, commonly confused words, Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes, borrowed words, formal and literary vocabulary, and word forms.
• Vocabulary: BasicAbout 100 questions Everyday word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and figuring out words from the sentence around them.
• Vocabulary: ExpertAbout 250 questions Rare but real words for well-read adults: uncommon meanings, collective nouns, phobias, collectors and specialists, rhetorical and grammatical terms, eponyms, loanwords, obsolete words and Latin phrases.
• Vocabulary: IntermediateAbout 110 questions Less common but useful words, prefixes and suffixes, commonly confused words, and the Latin and Greek roots inside everyday English.