Prisoners, blacksmiths, orchard workers, and goldsmiths were among the motley company who, on April 26, 1607, first established the permanent English colony called this.
What is Jamestown
100
What figure of speech is illustrated by the following sentences? He hit the ball a mile. I was scared to death. He laughed his head off.
What is a hyperbole
100
Find the largest of five consecutive even integers whose sum is 60.
What is 16
100
What word completes this passage? By the time Bohr reached New York, an historic cablegram was waiting for him. Just as Einstein himself had predicted in 1905, the disintegration of matter was accompanied by a colossal release of...
What is energy
100
Name the ballet about a young girl's broken Christmas present?
What is the Nutcracker
200
The Civil War Battle of Vicksburg was fought in what state?
What is Mississippi
200
What kind of comparison is the following? Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art.
What is analogy
200
Raise the number 3 to the fourth power
What is 81
200
Which type of simple machine is essential if you are to "row,row,row your boat, gently down the stream"?
What is lever
200
The 'cancan' originated in what European country?
What is France
300
What ancient civilization produced the Obelisk of Thutmose I at Karnak?
What is Egyptian
300
Plutarch wrote "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans". This book is what form of literature?
What is biography
300
What is the greater number of circles the can be drawn through exactly two given points?
What is infinite
300
The half-life of a radioactive substance is 100 years. What fraction of this substance will still be radioactive after six centuries?
What is 1/64
300
Hit popular songs from earlier years, especially the 1950s, are called the golden what?
What is oldies
400
New York did not accept it until July 9th and that vote was not announced to the Congress until the 15th. It was signed by some on July 19th but most signatures were added on August 2nd. Name this document from 1776.
What is Declaration of Independence
400
Edward Stratemeyer, and later his daughter writing under the pseudonym, Carolyn Keene, created what eternally eighteen-year-old super sleuth who never fails to solve a mystery?
What is Nancy Drew
400
One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. In pounds, what is the weight of the water in a container that measures 5 feet by 10 feet by 2 feet?
What is 6240 pounds
400
What would be the weight of a 100 pound object if it could be placed at the Earth's center?
What is zero
400
To attach a handle to the body of a pot, potters use a watery clay called this.
What is slip
500
Which U.S. president was assassinated only a few weeks after his second inauguration?
What is Abraham Lincoln
500
What figure of speech is used repetitively in this Snoopy speech? The curtain of night enveloped the fleeing lovers. Oceans longing had kept them together. Now a new icicle of terror stabbed at the embroidery of their existence.
What is metaphor (mixed)
500
What is the perimeter of a rectangle 68 feet long and 33 feet wide?
What is 202 feet
500
While tension is a pulling force, compression is what kind of force?
What is pushing force
500
Name the year to which Longfellow is referring in this line. "Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year".