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100

This type of volcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a tall, cone-shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash and other volcanic materials

What is a stratovolcano?

100

These type of twins develop from separate zygotes and therefore differ genotypically and phenotypically. 

What are fraternal?

100

One king of this name had his ministers Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More executed. The seventh king of this name founded the Tudor dynasty after he won the Battle of Bosworth Field. His son of this name left the Catholic Church so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Give this name of several English kings, the eighth of whom had six wives

Who is Henry?

100

Giving your answer in inches and in simplest radical form, if the hypotenuse of a 45-45-90º triangle is 10 inches, find the length of the other sides:

What is 5 radical(2)?

100

This play about star-crossed lovers has famously been adapted onto the screen many times, including the films West Side Story and High School Musical. 

What is Romeo and Juliet?

200

This is the coolest star classification under the Morgan–Keenan (MK) system. 

What are type M stars? 

200

This term is given to enzymes whose action is modulated by binding of a molecule to a site other than the active site. 

What are allosteric enzymes?

200

Bill Clinton is the United Nations special envoy to this nation. Toussaint L'Ouverture National Airport was used as the base of operations for its president, René Préval (“ruh-NAY pray-VAHL”), after a 2010 disaster that provoked mass migration to the neighboring Dominican Republic. 

What is Haiti?

200

Divide the following and give your answer in scientific notation: 8×107/ (4×104)1/2

What is 4 x 105?

200

This eminent Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be" and "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." 


Who is Langston Hughes?

300

Lightning is most likely to occur at this time of the day (morning, afternoon, evening, or night?)

What is the afternoon?

300

This is DNA present in a structural gene that does not seem to have a specific coding function 

What is an intron?

300

The summer of 1967 was known as the "Summer of THIS," where tons of hippies and free-spirited people converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.

What is Love (the Summer of Love)?

300

Identify the type of conic section represented by the equation, x2-16y2=64

What is a hyperbola?

300

Jonathan Swift defined this genre as "a glass wherein beholders discover everybody's face but their own." and his famous "A Modest Proposal" is an example of it. 

What is satire? 

400

This polymorph of graphite is formed in Earth's mantle

What are diamonds?

400

Name the gelatin-like structure which is prepared from various species of red algae growing in Asiatic waters. The prepared product appears in the form of cakes, coarse granules, long shreds, or in thin sheets. It is used extensively alone or in combination with various nutritive substances, as a medium for culturing bacteria and various fungi. 

What is agar-agar, or agar?

400

This state's popular dueling site, Weehawken, was where both Philip and Alexander Hamilton were fatally shot. Hessian forces were attacked on (*) Christmas Day in this state, after George Washington crossed the Delaware into this state to start the Battle of Trenton. 

What is New Jersey?

400

In a normal distribution, approximately this percentage of the cases, to the nearest whole number, falls within 4 standard deviations of the mean

What is 100%?

400

“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land

What is Terabithia?

500

This type of fracture in minerals like Quartz or Flint, results in a smooth rounded surface resembling the shape of a scallop shell type 

What is a conchoidal fracture? 

500

Myosin is one of two proteins that make up the myofibrils of striated muscles. Name the other protein

What is actin?

500

This man in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?

Who is Jack Ruby?

500

In 1700 AD, this person showed that a series of 0's and 1's could be used to denote a number:

Who is Gottfried Liebniz?

500

This 20th Century American poet and novelist, known for books such as "The Bell Jar" and poems like "Lady Lazarus" died in her home in January 1963. 

Who is Sylvia Plath?

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