Geography
History
Literature
Science
Math
100
Which country has the most lakes in the world?
Canada
100
What treaty ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
100
Who is the titular Lord of the Flies in William Golding's famous story?
A severed pig head (Beelzebub)
100
What is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion?
Inertia
100
What are the orders of operation (in order)?
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, & Subtraction
200
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra (Kanbarra)
200
What is considered the largest empire in human history?
The Mongol Empire
200
What is the real name of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist?
Jack Dawkins
200
What does D.N.A stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
200
True or False:
A whole number multiplied by a fraction will always be smaller than the whole number.
False
300
What is the longest river in the United States?
Missouri River
300
What is the world's oldest recorded civilization?
Sumeria (Mesopotamia)
300
What does Tolkien primarily refer to orcs by in The Hobbit?
Goblins or Hobgoblins
300
What is the process, or formula of Photosynthesis?
Water + Carbon Dioxide + Light Energy creates Sugar & Oxygen
(6CO2 + 6H2O + Light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2)
300
What is the equation to find the slope of a line?
Rise over Run
400
What is the largest desert in the world?
The Antarctic Polar Desert
400
Which US President served the shortest term in office of 31 days?
William Henry Harrison
400
During which literary period did John Milton publish Paradise Lost?
The Restoration Period (Neoclassical)
400
What are the layers of the Earth's atmosphere in order from the bottom to the top most layer?
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, & Exosphere
400
Rebecca drives her car 20 miles northeast from her home to reach her friend Sam's house. After hanging out there for 2 hours and 30 minutes, they head 12 miles west to play tennis at the park for an additional 1 hour and 15 minutes. How many miles is Rebecca now from her house?
16 miles
a2+b2=c2
122+b2=202
144+b2=400
-144 -144
b2=256 <-square root both sides
b=16
500
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
500
Who managed to defeat the notorious "Sea People" around the end of the Bronze Age?
Ramesses III (Egypt)
500
The 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker is a loose adaptation of what 1971 science fiction novel by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky?
Roadside Picnic
500
What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?
Oxygen
500
What is the pattern in this sequence of numbers, and what is the next number in the sequence?
17, 19, 16, 21, 14, 25...
Alternating, adding a prime number, then subtract a prime number in order from the smallest to highest prime numbers. The next number is 12.
17+2=19
19-3=16
16+5=21
21-7=14
14+11=25
25-13=12