GLOBAL LORE
*The assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, intensified existing tensions, setting off a chain reaction among competing alliances that erupted into this global conflict.
What is World War I?
*Carved by the Colorado River over millions of years, this massive natural landmark stretches for hundreds of miles through northern Arizona and is now protected as a U.S. national park.
What is the Grand Canyon?
*A bag contains 4 red, 3 blue, and 3 green marbles. One is chosen at random. What is the probability it is not red? Simplify.
What is 3/5?
*This force causes objects near Earth to accelerate toward its center while also governing the motion of planets.
What is gravity?
*This winged prehistoric creature is known for flying through the skies during the age of dinosaurs.
What is P-T-E-R-O-D-A-C-T-Y-L ?
In the ancient Greek world, rival city-states periodically sent representatives to Olympia for a festival dedicated to Zeus. Centuries after the original tradition disappeared, it was revived and continues worldwide today.
What are the Olympic Games / Olympics?
This U.S. state is the largest by land area, spanning enough territory to fit California within its borders more than three and a half times.
What is Alaska?
*A restaurant bill is $300 and the tip is 25%. How much was the tip.
What is $75?
*This region of the brain is heavily involved in decision-making, planning, personality, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
An individual who creates and develops a business venture while assuming much of its financial risk.
What is E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R ?
For centuries, merchants during the Han dynasty traveled this network carrying goods such as porcelain and spices, while ideas, religions, and inventions spread between distant civilizations.
What is the Silk Road?
This geographic region holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth: 134°F, measured in 1913.
What is Death Valley?
*2, 4, 12, 48, 240, ___. What is the missing number.
What is 1,440?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
*Starting closest to the Sun, name all eight planets in our solar system in order.
What is Mercury → Venus → Earth → Mars → Jupiter → Saturn → Uranus → Neptune ?
*The literary term for a word that imitates the sound it describes.
What is O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A ?
*Meaning “rebirth,” this European period renewed interest in the art, literature, and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is the Renaissance?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Together, the HOMES of five bodies of water form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total surface area. Name all five Great Lakes.
What is Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
If 2x + 3y = 23 and x - y = 4, what is x and what is y.
What is x = 7 and y = 3?
Earthquakes and volcanic activity at the surface are influenced by the slow movement of material within this enormous layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
The term for a system of administration characterized by numerous departments, officials, rules, and procedures, often associated with government.
What is B-U-R-E-A-U-C-R-A-C-Y ?
This animal has been swimming Earth's oceans for more than 400 million years, making it older than the first trees.
This empire used an extensive system of knotted cords called quipus to record information despite having no known conventional written language.
What is the Inca Empire?
Find the Sum. 6 + 2 [5^2 - (3+4)] / 3 x 2 - 8.
What is 22?
Found inside red blood cells, this iron-containing protein binds to oxygen and carries it throughout the body.
What is hemoglobin?
The social class traditionally associated with property ownership and the middle or upper-middle class.
What is B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-I-E ?