Outdoors
Name this substance made of organic matter and sand, silt, or clay, in which plants can grow.
Soil
What causes an earthquake?
Plate tectonics slowing down and causing friction..
What is the name of the purple conqueror of the galaxy from Marvel's "Infinity War"
Thanos
What is Kentucky's national bird?
Cardinal
What is the difference between biography and autobiography?
Auto- person writes about themselves
Bib- person writes about someone else
Any number or numerical value being multiplied to a variable.
In the equation y=4x+3 it would be 4
Coefficient
The best time to hunt for these (in our area) is early April to late May. Found on dry forest floor often near the base of trees, this is the more common name of fungus.
Mushrooms
What is our biggest muscle?
Gluteus maximus - aka the toosh to the knee cap.
Who refused to move her seat on a Montgomery bus-this act started a movement (bus boycott, lawsuit against segregated public transportation!)
Rosa Parks
What is the capital of Washington
Olympia
This word is the Japanese equivalent of comics.
Manga
What does PEMDAS stand for?
Parentheses, exponent, multiply/divide, add/subtract
Climate change has caused members of a northern species of this animal to drown while swimming between ice floes, and thousands of its Kodiak subspecies are attracted to annual salmon runs. Name this omnivorous mammal with “grizzly” and “polar” species.
bears
What is the hottest place in the United States?
Death Valley, California
What two people made history as the first father/son duo to play in the NBA simultaneously when the latter joined the LA Lakers in 2024?
LeBron James and his son, LeBron James Jr. (Bronny)
In this type of government, voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
Representative government
What musical features the characters Elphaba, Galinda, and Fiyero?
Wicked
What is 78 x 220?
17, 160
Name this carbon-based sedimentary rock that also serves as a major fossil fuel. It is burned in power plants that supply forty percent of the world’s electricity.
Coal
If you kick a soccer ball it will not stop until there is something in its path to stop it. Newton's First law is the law of this.
Inertia
In a short story, this author describes a frightening ebony clock owned by Prince Prospero, who hosts a lavish party in a set of colorful rooms during a plague. In another story by this author, Montressor gets revenge on Fortunato by bricking him into a cellar wall. Name this American author of macabre short stories like “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Cask of Amontillado.”
Edgar Allan Poe
This refers to an area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
Colony
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry in which the Younger family move to an all-white neighborhood in Chicago is the name of this type of literary work.
Play
Subtraction can be considered an application of this operation on negative numbers. Zero is the identity element of what mathematical operation that, when repeated, is multiplication?
Addition
This animal is known for planting thousands of trees across the world.
Squirrels
Name this astronomical object that can experience namesake “spots,” dark regions on its surface caused by magnetic activity.
Sun
This politician created America’s first volunteer fire department, and served as the first Postmaster General in the presidential cabinet. Name this founding father whose portrait appears on the one-hundred dollar bill.
Benjamin Franklin
An intermittent river of this name runs mostly underground for one hundred miles in southern California. This river flows under, and shares its name with, the hottest desert in America.
Mojave
How many teeth do most humans have?
32
The “two” in “y equals x squared” indicates this mathematical operation that is written above and to the right of a number.
exponentiation
expo
Name the lowest region of Earth’s atmosphere, where all weather occurs.
Troposphere
What is it called when dolphins swim together in a group?
Pod
Who was the president that helped the US get out of the Great Depression
FDR
The Spanish founded this city in Florida in 1565, making it America’s oldest city.
Saint Augustine
Which Kardashian sister owns a denim brand called Good American?
Khloé Kardashian
How many hours are in a week?
168 hours
With organs similar in size to humans these animals have been domesticated for over 6,000 years. They can get sunburned and lack the ability to sweat. Name this animal which in a group is called a drift.
Pigs
This element with symbol Si is used in the production of components like transistors and microchips.
Silicon
Wade Wilson is an example of this type of central character in a story who lacks the traditional traits of a hero but is still liked by the audience. This type of character might even say, "It's me, hi I'm the problem, its me."
Antihero
Name the allied and axis powers in WW2
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied: US, UK, France, USSR
This 102-story building in New York City is hit by lightning about twenty-five times per year and was ranked tallest in its city from 1931 to 1970, and again from 2001 to 2012.
Empire State Building
Give this term for an expression that includes coefficients and variables that are combined by addition and multiplication.
polynomials