Geography
Science
History
Math
Trivia
100
Outside this city, British Army Officer Mark Cubbon built a complex of summer homes in the Nandi Hills. Tipu Sultan finished this city’s Lal Bagh, a botanical garden that is home to non-native species like the African Baobab and American Cypress. The waning Mughal Empire sold this city for 300,000 rupees to Mysore’s ruler, Chikka Devaraja. The cultural center of Kannada speakers is this capital of Karnataka. For the point, name this so-called “Silicon Valley of India.”
Bangalore [or Bengaluru]
100
These constructs are unrolled during compilation, and vectorization obviates the need for these constructs. Retry statements can be used to exit these structures using the break command. For, white, and do are keywords that declare these constructs, which can run infinitely if left unsatisfied. For the point, name these blocks of code that are executed repeatedly until a particular condition is met.
Loops
100
The Siege of Vicksburg ended on this date after the surrender of Confederate forces under John Pemberton. George Washington was posthumously appointed General of the Armies of the United States on this date as part of a nationwide bicentennial celebration. For the point, identify this date on which the Declaration of Independence was ratified.
July 4th (or Fourth of July)
100
A bag contains three blue and four red marbles. How many blue marbles must be added to the bag for it to contain 50% blue ones?
1
100
Who is often credited with creating the world's first car?
Karl Benz
200
This island's FDR Boardwalk stretches from Fort Wadsworth to New Dorp. Todt Hill is the highest point of this island and the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain. Synonymous with Richmond County, this island receives the busiest ferry route in the U.S. at St. George Terminal, and this island is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. For the point, name this southernmost borough of New York City.
Staten Island
200
A project called Breakthrough Starshot aims to send many miniature spacecraft to this system using solar sails to explore this star system, the brightest object in the constellation Centaurus. Comprised of three stars, this is, for the point, what closest stellar system to our Sun which contains a star known as Proxima?
Alpha Centauri
200
This person led the 2nd South Carolina Infantry during a Raid on Combahee Ferry and gathered support for John Brown. This person was born Araminta Ross and became known as "Moses" for her actions. For the point, identify this woman who led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
200
At Marquette High School, 3/5 of the students are old enough to drive. Of these students, ⅓ drive their own cars to school each day. What percents of the students at Marquette High drive their own car to school each day?
20%
200
Demolition of the Berlin wall separating East and West Germany began in what year?
1989
300
The Blue Mountains and Snowy Mountains pass through this state and make up part of its country's Great Dividing Range. This state, that contains Hawkesbury and the Harbour Bridge, also hosts a performing arts venue with concrete shell-like features that was created by Danish architect Jorn Utzon. For the point, name this Australian state, home to the Sydney Opera House.
New South Wales (NSW)
300
In standard procedures, a sterile loop is spread over one of these objects containing solid nutrient agar or another growth medium. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming from a type of mold growing in one of these objects. Cells can be cultured on, for the point, what shallow dishes named for a German microbiologist?
Petri Dishes
300
DIn one election, this politician won the greatest number of electoral votes for a Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt. This president successfully ran against Barry Goldwater, but did not seek re-election in 1968 due to his escalation of the Vietnam War. Jacqueline Onassis attended the inauguration of, for the point, what president who succeeded JFK?
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
300
What is the formula to find slope?
y = mx + b
300
Who was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
400
In 1968, National Park Service director George Hartzog put an end to this national park's annual Firefall event at Glacier Point. This national park's O'Shaughnessy Dam supplies water and electricity to over two million people in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Ansel Adams photographed this national park's rock formations, including El Capitan and Half Dome. For the point, name this national park located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
Yosemite National Park
400
The alpine form of this biome can be identified by the presence of stunted forests called Krummholz. Short growing seasons affect this biome where the Sami people of Finland reside. Animals native to this biome include the ptarmigan and lemming. For the point, identify this biome characterized by low temperatures and limited tree growth that contains permafrost in its Arctic example.
Tundra
400
Naval officer Robert FitzRoy enlisted this person to serve as his gentlemancompanion on a four-year expedition around South America. This person studied finches in the Galapagos Islands while serving aboard the HMS Beagle. For the point, name this scientist who published On the Origin of Species and theorized natural selection.
Charles Robert Darwin
400
What is the largest two-digit prime number that can be written using any two different digits from the given digits of 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8?
83
400
When did Facebook first launch?
2004
500
This U.S. state's Wind River Range contains the highest peak of the Rockies outside Colorado. Oil near this state's Teapot Dome was sold via the bribery of the Harding Cabinet, and this state's Fort Laramie was the site of two treaties between the U.S. and Native American tribes. The ski resort Jackson Hole is a gateway to Grand Teton National Park in, for the point, what rectangular U.S. state that is home to Cheyenne?
Wyoming
500
This substance’s electron temperature, density, and potential can be measured with a Langmuir probe. This substance is confined by a magnetic field in devices called tokamaks. This substance’s occurrences on Earth include auroras and lightning. This substance is created through ionization of gas. For the point, name this substance, commonly described as “the fourth state of matter,” which occurs at high temperatures.
Plasma
500
King John II commissioned one explorer from this country to lead a naval expedition to search for Prester John. One expedition led by an explorer from this country ventured to the "Cape of Storms," which is now referred to as the Cape of Good Hope. Bartolomeu Dias was an explorer born in, for the point, what seafaring Iberian country and home of Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan?
Portugal
500
A two-digit number is chosen at random (10, 11, 12, ........, 99). What is the probability that the number has two different digits? Express as a fraction.
9/10
500
What is the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis?
Venus
