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DAILY DOUBLE
What is moose?
The country from which Mexico gained its independence in the 19th century
What is Spain?
This is the number of face cards in a standard deck of playing cards.
What is 12? (Jack, Queen, and King times 4 suits)
The most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Mixing an equal amount of red and yellow paint results in this color.
What is orange?
This is the term for a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution called
What is “The Bill of Rights”?
This is the numeric value of the Roman Numeral XVI.
What is 16?
Inventor of bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
French horns, trombones, trumpets, and tubas are instruments found in this section of an orchestra.
What is the brass section?
This literary classic tells a story of friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte.
What is Charlotte’s Web?
The first fireworks were invented in the 7th century in this country.
Where was China?
If a shopping cart contains 1 banana, 2 oranges, 3 apples, and 4 frozen cheese pizzas, then this is the percentage of fruit items to total items in the cart.
What is 60% (6/10 items)
The half of the world containing the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
The following Spanish sentence translates to this in English: “¿donde está la biblioteca?”
What is, “Where is the library?”
In the book title, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the comma before the word “and” is called this.
What is an Oxford Comma?
The ancient civilization that built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru
Who were the Incas?
If a train leaves a station and travels at 60 kilometers per hour, this much time will have passed when it arrives at another station 300 kilometers away.
What is 5 hours or 300 minutes? (300km/(60km/1hr) = 5hr *60min/1hr = 300 min)
The type of rock produced by a volcano.
What is Igneous?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Vitamin A?
She is the author of the 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
The modern day city of Istanbul was known by this name in the 13th century…
What was Constantinople?
If you collect 48 pieces of candy on Halloween and your parents only let you to eat 2 pieces per day plus an extra piece on Saturday and Sunday, it will take you this long to eat all of your candy.
What is 3 weeks or 21 days? ((2 pieces*5 days)+(3 pieces*2 days) = 16 pieces/1 week. 48 pieces/(16 pieces/1 week) = 3 weeks * 7 days/week = 21 days)
Number of minutes in a day.
What is 1440?
In 1787, he composed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, or “A Little Night Music.”
Who is Woflgang Amadeus Mozart?