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Archaeology
100
How many bones are in the Human body?
DAILY DOUBLE:
How many bones does a baby have?
206
about 300!
100
Perform the function:
24 + 32
25
100
What is the part of a sentence that describes a noun?
an Adjective
100
The “shot heard round the world” describes the beginning of which battles in the American Revolution?
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
100
Archaeology is the study of...
PAST peoples and cultures
200
What is the study of tree rings to determine age of a tree at death called?
Dendrochronology
200
A train travels at a constant speed of 60 km/h. A man is walking along the train track at 6 km/h. When the train approaches from behind, it takes 10 seconds to overtake him completely. If the man turns around and walks toward the train at the same speed (6 km/h), how long will the train take to pass him completely?
Question: How long will it take the train to pass him completely?
8 seconds
200
What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Venus
200
What country did the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team defeat in the semifinals of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, a game commonly known as the Miracle on Ice?
The Soviet Union
200
Which of the Seven Wonders of the World is still standing today?
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
300
What is the only planet that spins clockwise?
Venus
300
What number sequence often appears in nature and was discovered in 1202 AD, and is often depicted as an increasingly bigger spiral?
The Fibonacci Sequence
300
In the metric system, what unit is used to measure capacity?
Liters
300
What was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II?
Operation Barbarossa
300
The oldest known temple complex in the world, the site of Göbekli Tepe (meaning "Belly Hill"), is located in what modern day country?
DAILY DOUBLE: What country/society would it have been a part of during its existence?
Turkey, and Mesopotamia!
400
What is shell made out from the ocean? (chemicals)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCo3)
400
what is this? DOUBLE: What function does it perform?
Integral symbol, used for finding areas under curves and essentially reverse differentiation (dx)
400
Which country has the most pyramids in the world?
Sudan
400
What is the first commercial jet airliner?
The de Havilland Comet
400
Up to how many years is Carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating) still viable? (in tens of thousands)
40,000 years
500
What is the term for the immediate transition of a solid element to a gas?
Sublimation
500
What is Avogadro's Number? (hint: you only need the first part of the equation. The rest is "_" x 1023
6.02214076
500
Which Thanksgiving favorite did Marcus L. Urann invent?
Cranberry Sauce!
500
What is the name of the poem on the base of the statue of liberty?
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
DAILY DOUBLE: Who wrote the poem?
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
500
What is Gigi doing for her Thesis and her internship in the spring?
Accepted answers:
Dietary Reconstruction
Subsistence Research
Light Fractions