Math
Pencils and paper ready! If using the area method to multiply 79 x 63, what number goes into the top left corner of the large rectangle because it equals 70 x 60 ?
answer: 4,200
Dentists number the 12 of these teeth 1 to 3, 13 to 19 and 30 to32, with 1, 16, 17 and 32 being the "third" type of these teeth that are commonly called "wisdom teeth." Name this type of flat tooth in the back of your mouth, used for chewing and grinding food.
answer: molars
His 17 years living in Hartford, Connecticut saw the writing of his non-fiction work Roughing It. Name this native of Missouri whose fiction written during his years in Hartford included The Prince and the Pauper and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)
The Virginia museum that discusses this time period considers the Berlin Airlift to have been sometime after its beginning and the reunification of Germany to have been shortly before its end. Identify this time period that ended with the fall of the former Soviet Union without any official gunfire between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
answer: Cold War
Characters in this show include Melena (the mother of its main character), Fiyero, Nessarose and Boq the Munchkin. Name this hit Broadway musical, said to be “The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz,” in which Kristin Chenoweth played Glinda the Good Witch.
answer: Wicked
Goldbach’s Conjecture states that all even integers greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two of these numbers. Identify this set whose members include 109, 73, 31 and 5.
answer: prime numbers (both words needed)
Identify the type of storm, common in America's Midwest, that results from a condensation funnel touching the ground and causes damage by the rotation of air at high speed.
answer: tornado
answer: tornado
This character's exploits include meeting the Spelling Bee, the Terrible Trivium and the princesses Rhyme and Reason, as well as visiting the Word Market and Digitopolis [didge-it-OP-a luss]. Name this main character of Norton Juster's novel The Phantom Tollbooth.
answer: Milo
Written to make the Anti-Federalists happy, only five-sixths of the part of it passed by both houses of Congress was also ratified by individual states to become law, with Virginia being the last state to ratify it in 1791. Give this collective name for the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
answer: Bill of Rights
He played the secretary named Kevin in the female version of the movie Ghostbusters and the title character in The Huntsman: Winter's War. Name this Australian actor, more famous for appearing in several Marvel Comics movies as Thor.
answer: Chris Hemsworth
Pencils and paper ready! What is the fourth interior angle of a quadrilateral whose other three angles are 55o, 115o and 130o if the sum of all four is 360o?
answer: 60o [360 – 55 – 115 – 130]
These vehicles were first launched to search for water on other planets. Give the term for these NASA “robot geologists” whose examples include Curiosity and Opportunity that have both explored Mars.
answer: rovers
The second line of Ezra Pound's poem that says “petals on a black, wet bough” contains 7 syllables and was inspired by other works in this form that were popularized by Japanese poets. Name this poetic form whose first and last lines each contain 5 syllables.
answer: haiku
The Parks Highway in this state connects two of its biggest cities and includes places to see an Athabascan Indian settlement and learn about gold mining as you drive between Fairbanks and Anchorage. Name this state where the Parks Highway offers excellent views of the former Mount McKinley.
answer: Alaska
Singer Karen Carpenter died from this illness whose warning signs include stressing out about your weight and telling people you're not hungry even if you haven't eaten all day. Identify this eating disorder that is actually a mental illness telling you that you're too fat even when you're too thin to be healthy.
answer: anorexia nervosa
Pencils and paper ready! A triangle has sides of length 20, 30 and X. A larger similar triangle has sides of (in the same order as the smaller triangle) 50, 75 and 100. How long is side X ?
answer: 40 [100/2.5 ]
SCIENCE A blood lime, a tangelo [tan-JELL-o] and a plumcot are examples of this type of organism that can be improved to produce bigger and better fruit. Name this manmade result of purposely cross-pollinating two different plants to create a third, different plant.
answer: a hybrid
Give the relative pronoun that best fills in the blank: "When Rachelle got home, she saw trash all over the driveway from a torn trash bag and began asking everyone in the family [blank] fault it was."
answer: whose
In 2016, this city's airport was renamed for astronaut John
Glenn, who loved to watch airplanes there as a child and later served 4 terms as a U.S. Senator from the state where this city is the largest by population. Name this home of The Ohio State University and capital city of Ohio.
answer: Columbus, Ohio
ARTS The opera La Bohème has four of them, while Broadway shows often only have two and Shakespeare's plays usually have five. Identify this most common large division of a dramatic production, often separated by an intermission and divided into scenes.
answer: act
Mark has 11 times as many crayons as Janelle has. If Janelle has 28 crayons, what expression ill tell how many crayons Mark has ?
answer: 11 x 28
Farm animals create this substance as "biogas" as part of its namesake "cycle" that also includes its creation from plant decay, landfills and fossil fuels. Identify this main component of natural gas whose chemical formula is CH4.
answer: methane (accept CH4 before it is read)
In this work's Chapter 3, titled "The Dominant Primordial Beast", nearly 100 starving dogs attack the sled-dog team led by Perrault and Francois; the main character then kills his arch-enemy, a dog named Spitz. Identify this Jack London novel about a brave dog named Buck.
answer: The Call of the Wild