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100

a.  A pizza is divided in 12 equal parts and you eat 3 pieces.  Expressing this in the lowest possible denominator would give you this answer.

b.  You have 3 pizzas and you need to feed 25 people. In order to ensure each person receives an equal piece, how many parts do you cut in each pizza.

a.  What is 1/4?

b.  What is 9?

100

a.  The year was the Declaration of Independence signed?


b.  Name one man who walked on the moon...July 1969.



a. What is 1776? 


b.  Who is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin.

100


a. Two states that touch to border of California.

b.  What 3 countries touch the border of the US or is within 100 miles?

a.  What are Oregon, Nevada, Arizona

b.  What are Mexico, Canada. Russia?

100


a.  In an official basketball game, this is the number of players allowed on the court at one time.

b.  This is the largest mammal in the world.


a. What is 5?

b.  What is the blue whale?

100


a.  The number of colors in a rainbow.

b. When you go into space, this happens to your height.


a. 7    ROYGBIV

b. What is...be taller?

200

a.  You decide to carpet your bedroom and need to buy a carpet.  The length of your room is 10 ft, the width is 9 ft..This is the size of the carpet you will purchase in square feet.

b.  Carpets are sold by the roll.  You have two rooms to carpet.  This carpet roll is 12 feet wide.  The rooms are 10 x 6 feet.  You ask the clerk to cut the carpet this size.  

a.  What is 90 square feet?


b.  What is 10 feet?

200

a.  The name of the US president that was assassinated in 1963

b. This is the country where the first Olympics were held.

a.  Who is JFK--John Fitzgerald Kennedy?


b. What is Greece?

200


a.  The largest and smallest states are...

b. Traveling due east of Aptos...these are the first three states you will encounter.


a.  What are Alaska and Rhode Island.

b.  What is Nevada, Utah, Colorado.

200


a.  The fast food chain known for its Golden Arches.

b.  The national bird of the US.


a.  What is McDonald's?

b.  What is the bald eagle?

200


a.  The part of the body that helps us maintain balance.  Starts with e....


b.  Chalk is made of what creatures....


a.  What are ears?

b.  What is limestone...formerly tiny marine animals?

300

a.  Volume is L x W x H. You decide to fill your brother's bedroom with marshmallows.  The length of the room is 10 feet.  The width is 10 feet and the height is 10 feet.  This is the volume.

b.  

I have to build a box for my scouting project with a volume of 1728 cubic inches.

The base of the box is 12" long and 12" wide.

This is the height of the box.

 


a.  What is 1000 cu feet?


b. What is 12"?

300

a. The founding father who is said to have "discovered" electricity by flying a kite in stormy weather.

b.  The name of the founding father who started the first public library.

a.  Who is Benjamin Franklin.

b. Who is Benjamin Franklin.

300


a. One of the great lakes is....

b. The 5 Great Lakes are...


a. HOMES...Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

b.  See a 

300

 


a. The names of Harry Potter's best friends are...


b.  How many bones do sharks have? (To the nearest 10,000)


a. What is.... Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger?

b. What is zero?

300


a.  Oxygen is one part of of water...the other part is ...

b.  This metal is the best conductor of electricity.


a.  What is hydrogen?

b.  What is silver

400

a. The Hernandez family has 4 cars.  There are 7 liters of gasoline.  To divide this equally, this is how much gasoline each car receives.


b. This is the Pythagorean theorem:  a 2 + b 2 = ?

a. What is 1 3/4 liters.



b.  What is c 2?

400

a.  The first explorer to sail around the world.


b. The name of the woman who discovered radium and receive the Nobel Prize.

a.  Who is Magellan?


b. Who is Madame Currie?

400

a.  Gold was discovered in California at this famous mill.

b.  The Egyptians used this plant to make paper.


a.  What is Sutter's Mill?

b.  What is papyrus?

400


a. The state that has the world's tallest trees.

b.  This is the number of stars in our solar system.  Within 10,000.


a.  What is California

b.  What is one...the sun?

400


a. Animals that only eat plants.

b.  The smallest bone in the body is found here.


a.  What is an herbivour?

b.  What is the ear?

500


a.  Each time we go one place value to the left, we multiply the place value by 10...

With decimals, each time we go one place value to the right (as is .10--.010) we ________by 10.  So one tenth become one ____________.

 

b. Santos walks  3 kilometers south and then 4 kilometers east. He ends___kilometers away from his starting position.  

a2 + b2 = c2 



a. What is multipy and hundreth?


b.  What is 5 kilometers

a2 + b2 = c2

3 squared + 4 squared =x squared

9 + 16=25

square root of 25 is 5


500

a.  The country the US bought Alaska from.

b.  The name of the era when the US switched from being mainly based in agricultural practices to industrial practices.

a.  What is Russia?

b.  What is the Industrial Revolution?

500


a.  When traveling west of Aptos, across the Pacific Ocean, you would arrive at this continent.


b.  This is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres...west, east, north and south.

a.  What is Asia?


b.  What is Africa?

500

a. The world's largest island.

b.  1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I? 

a.  What is Greenland?


b.  What is an echo?

500

a. The American terrestrial rodent that has a spiny covering.

b. The invention in 1450 a.d. that changed the way we communicate and revolutionized the world.


a.  What is a porcupine?


b. What is the printing press?

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