Colleges of Famous Athletes
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Fruits
Math (from actual Jeopardy)
Math (written by Ed)
100
Tom Brady
What is the University of Michigan?
100
A smooth, lustrous, variously colored mass, chiefly of calcium carbonate, formed around a grain of sand or other foreign matter inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks and valued as a gem.
What is a pearl?
100
Don't let the language fool you! This fruit is called "limón" in Latin America.
What is a lime?
100
This is the absolute value of -143
What is 143?
100
Famous for his book, Elements, he is known as the Father of Geometry
Who is Euclid?
200
Michael Jordan
What is the University of North Carolina?
200
The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement
What is a hearth?
200
Known as Brazilian Wandering Spiders, they are often found hiding in the plants of this fruit - its other namesake
What is a banana (spider)?
200
A sexagesimal system is based on this number
What is 60?
200
Shown here, it's a rectangular array or table of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns: an important structure in linear algebra
What is a matrix?
300
Tiger Woods
What is Stanford University?
300
of or relating to a length - it is also a classification of 1st degree mathematical equations
What is linear?
300
On average, these fruits have around 200 seeds. They are sometimes known as the devil's fruit due to the labor-intensive spraying and picking process
What are strawberries?
300
Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the form:
f(x) = ax2 + bx + c
What is quadratic?
300
The "calculus controversy" exploded around the turn of the 18th century as a disagreement as to who invented Calculus - Gottfried Leibniz or this man
Who is Issac Newton?
400
Lamar Jackson
What is the University of Louisville?
400
The ability to see objects at close range, rather than at a distance
What is near-sighted(ness)?
400
Pictured here - this fruit is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. It is often described as a cross between a pear and strawberry
What is a guava?
400
The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these 2 measures
What are base and height?
400
This algebraic structure is the combination of a set and binary operation, which follow a set of 3 special axioms. In Las Vegas, a "Blue Man" might be a member
What is a group?
500
Shaquille O'Neal
What is Louisiana State University (LSU)?
500
Exhibiting or feeling little interest, enthusiasm; uninspired
What is half-hearted?
500
Originating from Old French, this type of fruit consists of a central "core" containing multiple small seeds, enveloped by a tough membrane, and surrounded by an edible layer of flesh (e.g. apples, pears)
What is a pome?
500
This is defined as the angle subtended from the center of a circle which intercepts an arc equal in length to the radius of the circle.
What is a radian?
500
Similar to the degree and radian, this is a unit of angle measurement - it is defined as 1-100th of a right angle. Therefore, there are 400 of them in one full turn of a circle.
What is a gradian (grad)?