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100

A balloon is placed in a freezer, and it shrinks in size. Using your knowledge of particles and states of matter, explain why this happens.

What is - when the balloon is placed in the freezer, the air particles inside lose energy and move more slowly. This causes them to take up less space, so the volume of the balloon decreases.

100

The amount of minutes you should boil pasta before tasting it.

What is 7-10 minutes, depending on the type?

100

What "DM" stands for.

What is direct message?

100

True or False: Octopuses have three hearts.

What is true?

100

A kitchen utensil perforated with holes used to strain foods such as pasta or to rinse vegetables.

What is a colander?
200

The formula for area of a triangle.

1/2 x base x height?

200

The safest way to clean a phone screen.

What is use a microfiber cloth and a little bit of water or screen-safe cleaner?

200

The social media company that has a ghost in its logo.

What is Snapchat?

200

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Holds its breath the longest - human, whale, or sloth.

What is sloth?

200

The name of the Wizard in Lord of the Rings?

What is Gandalf?

300

The three branches of U.S. government.

What is executive, legislative, and judicial?

300

The first thing you should do if someone gets a minor burn on their hand.

What is - run cool (not cold) water over the burn for several minutes to reduce the heat and swelling?

300

The difference between a meme and a gif.

What is - a meme is an image/text joke; gif = short, looping animation?

300

A fruit with seeds on the outside.

What is a strawberry?

300

The famous painting with a mysterious smile.

What is the Mona Lisa?

400

The difference between a simile and a metaphor.

What is - a simile uses "like" or "as"; a metaphor says one thing is another?
400

The meaning of "APR" on a credit card.

What is Annual Percentage Rate?

400

The company that owns Instagram.

What is Meta?

400

What Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of.

What is long words?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!

This Tony Award-winning actor played both King George in Hamilton and voiced Kristoff in the Frozen movies. 

Who is Jonathan Groff?

500

A rectangle has a perimeter of 48 cm. If the length is twice the width, what are the length and width?

What is Width = 8 cm. Length = 16 cm.

Explanation:

Perimeter = 2(length + width)

48 = 2(2w + w) - 48 = 6w - w = 8 - length = 16

500

The meaning of a laundry tag symbol with a triangle and a big "X" through it.

What is do not bleach?

500

What the acronym "html" stands for.

What is hypertext markup language?

500

The planet that rains diamonds.

What is Neptune or Uranus?

500

A mythical creature that is half horse, half man.

What is a centaur?

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