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100

This is what the letters JMG stand for.

What is Jobs for Maine's Graduates?

100

This is the largest city in Maine.

What is Portland?

100

I have keys but can't open a single lock.

What is a piano?

100

This is the largest country in the world by land area.

What is Russia?

100

This is the largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

200

This is the total number of credentials that JMG offers.

What is 8?

200

Maine is the only U.S. state that borders just one other state. This is that state.

What is New Hampshire?

200

I’m odd, but take away one letter and I become even.

What is seven?

200

This country is shaped somewhat like a boot.

What is Italy?

200

This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.

What is Q?

300

This is the total number of microcredentials available through JMG.

What is 30?

300

This is the easternmost point in the continental United States, located in Maine.

What is West Quoddy Head? (or just Lubec)

300

You go at red and stop at green.

What is a watermelon?

300

This is the world's largest island that is not considered a continent.

What is Greenland?

300

An adult human typically has this many bones.

What is 206?

400

This is the total number of skills students can work toward through JMG.

What is 75?

400

This is the largest lake in Maine, covering approximately 117 square miles.

What is Moosehead Lake?

400

Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. 

What is corn on the cob?

400

This country has more lakes than any other country in the world. 

Bonus points if you can guess approximately how many lakes it has.

What is Canada?

Approximately 880,000

400

This is the name for a polygon with 12 sides.

What is a dodecagon?

500

JMG's Maine Career Exploration Model uses this process to validate that students have actually demonstrated mastery before earning a skill/micro-credential.

What is Evidence of Learning?

500

Covering roughly 3.5 million acres, this privately owned forest region is one of the largest undeveloped areas in the eastern United States.

What is the North Maine Woods?

500

A farmer needs to cross a river with a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. His boat can only carry the farmer and one of the three at a time.

He can't leave the fox alone with the chicken, and he can't leave the chicken alone with the grain.

What order should he take them across the river?

  • What is....?
  • Take the chicken across. 
  • Return alone.
  • Take the fox across. 
  • Bring the chicken back. 
  • Take the grain across. 
  • Return alone.
  • Take the chicken across again. 
500

These are the seven continents of the world.

What are 

Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia?

500

A lily pad doubles in size every day. If it takes 30 days to completely cover a pond, on what day was the pond half covered?

What is Day 29?

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