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100
What is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, completely free of emotional associations.
What is denotation?
100
Who is the tallest president in U.S. history?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Responsible for the body's primary stress response, what hormone is produced and released by the cortex of the adrenal glands?
What is cortisol?
100
If Jamir threw his paper plane 134 inches, Isabella threw hers 4 yards, and Chloe threw hers 10 feet; who threw their plane the farthest?
Who is Isabella?
100
According to the U.S. Constitution, the president is part of which of the three branches of government?
What is the executive?
200
What is a common phrase or expression with a hidden meaning that cannot be understood literally from the individual words (e.g., "bite the bullet").
What is an idiom?
200
Triggered by a severe global economic downturn, what period of financial hardship lasted between 1929 and 1939?
What is The Great Depression?
200
What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?
What is oxygen?
200
Dan takes 2/5 of the total books on a shelf. Then, Ann takes 1/2 of the remaining books. Finally, Tim takes the last 6 books. How many total books were on the shelf to start with?
What is 20 books?
200
What is the name of the following painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch?
What is the scream?
300
Name 3 Shakespeare plays.
Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Casar, A Midsummer Night's Dream... etc.
300
What U.S. president has ever personally led military troops into potential battle, marching a militia toward Pennsylvania in 1794?
Who is George Washington?
300
What scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals?
What is the Moh's scale?
300
One bucket has twenty-eight more golf balls than the other bucket. If the total number of golf balls in both buckets is 96, how many golf balls are in each bucket?
What is there are 34 golf balls in the first bucket and 62 golf balls in the second bucket.
300
Name three types of clouds.
Ex. cirrus
Cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratus, statrocumulus, cumulus, cumulonimbus
400
A word, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward and backward is called what?
What is a palindrome?
400
Who came to power 34 days before Franklin D. Roosevelt and left it 19 days after him?
Who is Adolf Hilter?
400
How long is a human’s large intestine?
What is about 5 feet long?
400
What is 1 and 2?
400
What is the capitol of Oregon?
What is Salem?
500
In the sentence "Although it was raining heavily, we decided to go for a hike," what grammatical role does the word "Although" play?
A. Subordinating conjunction
B. Preposition
C. Coordinating conjunction
D. Adverb
What is subordinating conjunction?
500
Founded in 1874, what political party advocated printing more money to help farmers?
What is the Greenback party?
500
What is it called when you make light change direction by passing it through a lens?
What is refraction?
500
There were some people on a train.
19 people get off the train at the first stop.
17 people get on the train.
Now there are 63 people on the train.
How many people were originally on the train?
What is 65 people?
500
What is the 22nd amendment?
What is limits a president to two terms in office?