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100

This planet is known as the Red Planet.

What is Mars?

100

What is 15 × 12?

What is 180?

100

This common kitchen ingredient is often used to neutralize odors in refrigerators.

 What is baking soda?

100

Alexander Graham Bell is traditionally credited with inventing this device.

What is the telephone?

100

He was the first president of the United States.

Who is George Washington?

200

This gas makes up approximately 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.

What is nitrogen?

200

: If a $100 item is discounted by 25%, this is the sale price.

What is $75?

200

This acidic household liquid is commonly used to remove mineral deposits and clean glass.

What is vinegar?

200

Thomas Edison famously worked on improving this invention, which transformed indoor lighting.

What is the incandescent light bulb?

200

This document begins with the famous words “We the People.”

What is the U.S. Constitution?

300

 The human body has approximately this many bones in adulthood.

What is 206?

300

What is 15% of 200?

What is 30?

300

These tiny organisms are a major reason food should not be left at room temperature for extended periods.

What are bacteria?

300

Johannes Gutenberg’s famous invention revolutionized the mass production of books.

What is the printing press?

300

This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

This scientist developed the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.

Who is Isaac Newton?

400

A triangle has angles of 45° and 65°. This is the measurement of its third angle.

What is 70°?


400

This laundry symbol, represented by a triangle, generally relates to this aspect of clothing care.

What is bleaching?

400

 Eli Whitney’s machine dramatically sped up the separation of seeds from cotton fibers.

What is the cotton gin?

400

The 19th Amendment gave women this constitutional right.

What is the right to vote?

500

This organelle is often called the “powerhouse of the cell.”

What is the mitochondrion?

500

 A train travels 60 miles per hour for 2½ hours. This is the distance it travels.

What is 150 miles?

500

The process of removing visible dirt, followed by disinfecting surfaces to reduce microorganisms, involves these two distinct cleaning steps.

What are cleaning and disinfecting?


500

This Scottish engineer is credited with developing practical improvements to the steam engine that helped launch the Industrial Revolution.

Who is James Watt?

500

This 1803 transaction nearly doubled the size of the United States.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

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