Science
Answer these about medical tests: This test that looks at your heartbeat can detect whether you've had a heart attack.
answer: electrocardiogram (or EKG)
The novels where she appears cover her life from age 4 to age 10, beginning with her appearance in the first story of Henry Huggins. Give the first name of this Beverly Cleary character who has an older sister named Beezus Quimby.
answer: Ramona
Its northern border is shared by Vermont and New Hampshire. Name this state, bordered by New York on its west and Connecticut and Rhode Island on its south, whose town of Cape Cod on its southeastern "tail" is only 70 miles from its capital city of Boston.
answer: Massachusetts
Name the men who won these gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics: This American swimmer won the 200-meter butterfly, one of his more than 20 gold medals.
answer: Michael Phelps
Pencils and paper ready! Give the perimeter of this combined figure: An equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 30 inches, sitting on top of a rectangle with a length of 10 inches and a height of 7 inches.
answer: 44 inches (10 + 10 + 7 + 10 + 7)
Its types include "spring", "torsion" and "top-loading", as well as the "equal arm" variety developed in ancient Egypt. Name this laboratory tool, similar to a scale, that measures the mass of an object, often by comparing it with known masses.
answer: balance (prompt on "scale" before it is read)
Answer this about mice in literature: In a Julia Donaldson story, a mouse tells of this imaginary creature—but then meets one.
answer: The Gruffalo
It is usually supported by a rectangular or cylindrical base piece called a "plinth." Give this art term for a sculpture that shows only the head, neck and chest of a famous person.
answer: bust
Its tip can reach a temperature of several hundred degrees when in use, but that's the only way to turn metal into liquid. Name this tool that, when very hot, melts one piece of metal in a way that allows two other pieces of metal to be joined together.
answer: soldering iron [SOD-a-ring] (or soldering gun)
Give this geometry terms: The equation y = x2 creates this shape when graphed.
answer: parabola
Its common "soda-lime" type does not do well in high temperatures that make it melt or in sudden changes of temperature that may cause it to shatter. Name this clear breakable substance, usually made of quartz.
answer: glass
This E.B. White mouse is the son of two humans.
answer: Stuart Little
Considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, this body of water contains the island nations of Aruba and Jamaica. Name this body of water, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, that also borders Panama, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
answer: Caribbean Sea
It's easy to make one of these art projects from recycled materials because pieces of almost anything commonly recycled are easy to stick onto cardboard. What art form from the French for "to glue" is created by gluing together pieces of other materials like newspapers or magazines?
answer: collage [co-LAAZH]
Pencils and paper ready! What is the fourth interior angle of a quadrilateral whose other three angles are 57º, 108º and 93º ?
answer: 102º [360 – 57 – 108 – 93]
Australian animals like the kangaroo, wombat, koala bear and wallaby all belong to—what class of mammals whose babies are born extremely tiny and grow to maturity in their mother's pouch ?
answer: marsupials
The English words "biathlon", "bicuspid", "bicameral", "binoculars", "bicep", "bipolar" and "bicycle" all begin with the Latin prefix "bi" that means—what number in English ?
answer: two (prompt on "bi" before it is read)
It is the largest of the Great Lakes by both surface area and volume. Identify this lake.
answer: Lake Superior
Answer these about playing a D-major scale on a piano, beginning at the D above middle C: The scale uses this number of black keys.
answer: two
Pencils and paper ready! In baseball, home plate is a pentagon—or a rectangle with an isosceles triangle on top. The base of the rectangle is 17 inches; the height is half that length, or this long.
answer: 8½ in.
Name the man credited with inventing this, according to american-inventor.com: The moving assembly line
answer: Henry Ford
These start with G: A cow's quietly eating grass
answer: graze or grazing
Lake Superior is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by this man-made body of water.
answer: St. Lawrence Seaway
Answer these about classic video games: Donkey Kong throws barrels at this little man.
answer: Mario
Pencils and paper ready! A set of 5 squares are on top of each other. Each square has sides 2 feet shorter than the sides of the square below it. Give the combined area of all 5 squares if the bottom square has sides 10 feet long.
answer: 220 ft2(100 + 64 + 36 + 16 + 4)